Rangkaian proses rumit yang menghasilkan nilai filosofi tinggi pada batik mulai ditinggalkan oleh masyarakat pembuatnya yakni para perajin batik. Fenomena menurunnya minat generasi muda untuk melanjutkan pembuatan batik tradisi di sentra-sentra batik merupakan masalah yang harus dipecahkan dari berbagai latar belakang, di antaranya secara sosial dan budaya. Solusi dan alternatif pemecahan masalah dengan menggunakan konsep kearifan lokal perlahan diterapkan kembali oleh para perajin batik di Girilayu. Tujuan penelitian ini antara lain: 1) mengetahui penyebab menurunnya pembuatan dan penggunaan batik tradisi dari segi sosial serta budaya, 2) mengetahui peran kearifan lokal masyarakat Jawa dari aspek efektifitasnya untuk melestarikan batik tradisi, dan 3) menguraikan cara penerapan kearifan lokal dalam melestarikan batik tradisi di Girilayu. Metode penelitian yang dipergunakan yakni wawancara mendalam pada para perajin batik di Girilayu sebagai pelaku, tokoh, dan pakar batik; serta studi pustaka referensif. Pendekatan antropologis dipergunakan untuk mengumpulkan dan menganalisis data berdasarkan realitas di masyarakat. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa peran kearifan lokal masyarakat Jawa dalam melestarikan batik tradisi di Girilayu dapat berjalan efektif melalui dukungan pendidikan keluarga dan sekolah secara intensif.

By applying Fourier Transformation, this paper shows that batik has fractal characteristic. This character is shown in batik's fractal dimension between 1 and 2. The isen process in batik is one factor that contributes to create self affine as one of fractal's important characteristic. Anova Test for fractal dimension in this method classifies batik according to patterns and its region. Fractal in batik shows the presence of complexity in traditional art. This complexity arises because the effort the presence of fractal in batik becomes the foundation of this paper to create algorithm which will produce new kind of patterns: Batik Fractal. The method used for creating the pattern used to create pattern, while Fractal Dimension is used as a measurement tool for Batik Fractal to compare with traditional batik. Algorithm to create Batik Fractal has been developed into a software kn becomes a helping tool for batik makers to create new patterns. jBatik v 2.0 has been used as a tool to create new batik patterns in creative industry by involving several batik makers.

Local brand is a fashion creative industry which is favored by young people. There are many local brands in Bandung City. T-shirt is one of local brand products which is related to graphic design. Concept and meaning in graphic design on T-shirt can be researched using The Iconography Theory of Erwin Panofsky. Graphic design on local brands T-shirt in Bandung City leads to simple graphic design trends, display direct branding and variation of color in T-shirts. However, one of brand, Wellborn, features graphic design with its own characteristics on the T-shirt as a creativity, that is surrealistic style graphics design on T-shirt. It is a sub category of T-shirt that can be studied through the meaning of graphic design on T-shirt. It underlies the research on graphic design of Wellborn T-shirt. The research stages are observation, interview, literature study, documentation and analysis which includes pre-iconography, iconography and iconology. The purpose of this study is to know the meaning of Wellborn T-shirt design based on The Iconography Theory of Erwin Panofsky and its association with Wellborn branding. The research method is descriptive qualitative. Objects studied are the surrealistic style graphic designs of Wellborn T-shirts 2017 collection. The samples of data are selected using purposive sampling. The result of the analysis shows that in pre-iconography, there are various objects placed in one graphic design on T-shirt. In iconography, it has a secondary meaning that there are things which are limitless, and in iconology, it has the meaning of freedom of mind/thought because it is related to freedom in imagination, infinity and a difference. They show the characteristics of the Wellborn brand.

The composition of stilative ornaments form and the color of classical batik show a complexity of wise advice; which are able to direct human life from distructive to a more meaningful era. Contradictory problems arise against the efforts of batik artists to traditionally develop Girilayu batik through hand writing process, i.e. the existence of a cloth with classical batik motifs done by a printing process which indirectly obscures its values and philosophical meanings. This study aims to describe the correlation of contemporary batik designs in Girilayu with the character of classic batik from an aesthetic perspective. The method used in this research is hermeunitic approach to find out the essence of contemporary batik designs development in Girilayu. To strengthen the analysis, the researcher conducted interviews with Girilayu batik artists as the reproducers of classical character batik. Documentative data related to Girilayu style batik were collected and reduced to find interpretations which fit the existing problem. The effort done by batik artists to reproduce classical characters in contemporary batik designs in Girilayu is by restoring the distinctive character of batik by reviving the classic character of rural community batik, that describes about diversity in the Javanese community.

This article is aimed at identifying the shift in silhoue! e of Jaipongan costume from its fi rst appearance (in 1980) until thirty years later (2010