Logo Visit Indonesia Year 2008

Branding Concept:

1) The figure of Visit Indonesian Year 2008 branding took the concept of Garuda Pancasila as the Indonesian way of life, but it was performed by perfectly modern approach.
2) The 5 (five) norms draw by 5 different colored lines and symbolized the Indonesian the Unity Diversity.
3) This logo brand formulated into dynamic figure and colors as the implementation of Indonesian Dynamic which is developing.
4) The types of letters of logo brand is driven from the Indonesian elements which perfectly by modern approach.

My Lovely Home

My house is only a twenty minutes from my school.

It is not very big, but very comfortable and quiet. This is the place where we can relax and find our own space. In our home, we really enjoy our relaxing time from the pressure of school and work.

It has a nice and warm living room. There is a beautiful scenery hanging and calligraphy on the wall. My father likes gardening. He puts some plants in garden. On the wall you will see picture of my family.

I am lucky to have a room for myself. I paint the wall light orange. It’s my favorite color. There is a wardrobe. There is the desk I do my homework there. I also put the radio tape there.

The kitchen is my mother’s domain. My mother keeps it clean all day. They is a grey wall cabinet in it. It harmonizes with the white wall tiles.

However, only few will give my home a second glance. We are very proud of it. It may not be a perfect one but, all the same, it is home sweet home.

The Houses of the Toraja

The ethnic groups in the mountain regions of southwest and central Sulawesi (Celebes) are known by the name of Toraja, which has come to mean "those who live upstream" or "those who live in the mountains". Their name is in fact derived from Raja, which in Sanskrit means "king". The society is hierarchically structured: the noblemen are called rengnge, the ordinary people to makaka, and the slaves to kaunan; birth determines which rank a person will occupy.
The distinctive features of the traditional houses (tongkonan) of the Toraja are the "buffalo horns", the roof design and the rich decoration on the walls. The buffalo is a symbol of status, courage, strength and fighting spirit.
Designed as a representation of the universe, the tongkonan is constructed in three parts: the upper world (the roof), the world of humans (the middle of the building), and the underworld (the space under the floor). The highly distinctive roofs constructed by the Toraja have given rise to various ingenious interpretations. Certainly the roof is something of deep significance for the Toraja, and even today they build "modern" (in other words houses built with cement) houses with such roofs.

The Houses of the Minangkabau (Rumah Gadang)

The Minangkabau are the Malaysian people who lives in the Padang highlands of Sumatra (west of Sumatra). Typical of the houses of the Minangkabau are the distinctive roofs, which look like buffalo horns. The word "Minangkabau" can actually be interpreted as a compound of the words menang (win) and kerbau (buffalo). This derives from a local legends that people relates that a buffalo fight was arranged by the locals and the people of the influential kingdom of Majapahit (eastern Java). The loacls'buffalo was the winner and since that time they have called themselves the "buffalo winners", Minangkabau, as a proud testament to their strength and courage. The houses are called rumah gadang (large house) and are not inhabited by differents families, but by three or four generations who come from one ancestor and thus a rumah gadang is also a family unit, and each of the Minangkabau identifies completely with his or her own rumah gadang.
The rumah gadang has three main areas: immediately after the entrance comes a middle ares (rumah tongah), where there is normally a central post; adjoining this the anjuang, and the bedrooms (biliak). Opposite the anjuang is the kitchen and in front of that a large space (pangkalan), where visitors are received. While the long house is a meeting place for all, the rumah gadang is essentially a women's area; none of the men spends much time in the house with his mother or his wife, and the biliak (bedrooms) are seen as room of the house reflects a woman's life cycle, and forms a journey from the central post to the anjuang, then the biliak, and lastly to the kitchen.

Rice store - Minangkabau architecture, Pagaruyung near Bukit Tinggi, Sumatra.