Character building is usually being applied in everyday life at school and at home. It is expected that the character education is not only derived only from the teacher but also will be more attractive when it is included into the textbooks. In this literature study, the data were collected by analysing some research papers which relate to primary students' visual knowledge and character building theory. The results show that character buildings could be included in the illustrations in elementary school textbooks using the students' interest in illustrations. The illustration is drawn in the form of an overview of the positive values which touch children's affective aspects. Hopefully, by cultivating the positive values, it will gradually form good character of the primary students.

Dutch Batik is the referent of batik which is made by European-Indo woman industry. It can be identified by the European pattern which is a bouquet. This research is aimed to describe the correlation between the development of Dutch Batik with the role of the Dutch government and the Dutch merchant. The library research was used during analyzing the role of the government and the merchant using the Talcott Parsons' functional structure theory. The batik Dutch companies were commercial oriented. It is different from real Javanese batik which had a purpose to be worn by themselves. Dutch Batik was the expression of the idea and behavior of the Dutch who lived in Indonesia. They expressed their western by using the patterns that were shown in their batik.

Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian pengembangan, yakni dalam proses penelitianmenggunakan alur dan prosedur penelitian pengembangan. Prosedur penelitian tersebut adalah;mengumpulkan data, analisis kebutuhan, merumuskan tujuan, mengembangkan desain. Hasil yangdiharapkan merupakan hasil penerapan desain melalui kegiatan mencetak dengan menerapkandesain yang telah dirancang dalam media kaos dengan teknik cetak saring/sablon. Pengkategoriankarya sablon kaos yang dianalisis dengan tema: seni pertunjukkan tradisional, seni rupa tradisional,mainan tradisional, upacara adat dan makanan tradisional. Seni Pertunjukkan tradisional diwakilioleh Reog Ponorogo, Seni Rupa Tradisional diwakili dengan topeng Tari Kelana, Mainan Tradisionaldiwakili dengan permainan Gasing, Sedangkan upacara adat diwujudkan dengan tumpeng.

Iklan rokok Djarum 76 yang beredar antara tahun 2009 hingga sekarang menampilkan sosok Jinberbusana adat Jawa lengkap dengan blangkonnya, Bahasa Indonesia yang lekat dengan logatJawa serta gaya tubuh orang Jawa. Dalam menganlisis iklan Djarum 76 ini menggunakan prosestahapan dan langkah-langkah seperti meninjau sebuah karya desain. Empat tahapan tersebutadalah: Tahap Deskriptif, Analisis Formal, Interpretasi dan EvaluasiHumor menjadi dayatarik/pikat tersendiri iklan tersebut. Dimana target audiens iklan Djarum 76 adalah kalanganmenengah kebawah sesuai dengan target pembeli produknya. Kelucuan yang ditampilkan dalamiklan sebagai daya tariknya,

In the 70s era one of the people's entertainment was to watch film in the theaters. Film posters is the main media for promotion of the movies that time. Movie posters were painted manually and done by the team. Movie posters were made to promote the film that would be shown in the movie theater. This study was limited in drama film that children main cast. The qualitative method is used to describe the design of 70s era Drama movie posters involving children as the cast. The results of this study are 1) in terms of visual drama movie posters in the '70s, the illustrations were in realist style, the main character was drawn bigger than the supporting cast. The realist style expressed the mood of the cast which were sad, crying, surprised, happy etc. There were no scenes in the film shown in the illustration. 2) Typography used in posters varies. The title uses serif letters and scripts depicting that the drama film depicts conditions according to reality of the film lead the feelings of the audience softly. The cast in the film was written in san serif letters that had high legibility. The background was depicted in colors with a brush stroking technique.