AbstrakBuku dapat menjadi media pendidikan karakter pada anak usia dini karena efektif dan efisien. Di sinilah pendidikan karakter dapat diajarkan secara halus dan mudah diterima oleh anak usia dini. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan dan menjelaskan kesesuaian konteks dan ilustrasi buku pendidikan karakter untuk anak usia dini berdasarkan teori desain; dan pendapat ahli tentang buku pendidikan karakter yang sesuai dengan konteks anak usia dini. Metode penelitian adalah metode kualitatif-studi kasus. Observasi dan wawancara digunakan untuk pengambilan data dan validasi menggunakan teknik triangulasi teori. Analisis menggunakan teknik analisis isi. Hasil penelitian menjelaskan bahwa (1) kesesuaian konteks dan ilustrasi buku pendidikan karakter untuk anak usia dini yang ditemukan meliputi konteks linguistik, konteks emotif, konteks situasional, ilustrasi tokoh yang memberi contoh kebaikan, warna yang cerah; dan (2) jenis buku cerita “Zayn Belajar Disiplin, buku “Aktivitas Pendikar, dan buku aktivitas-komparasi “Aku Anak Baik di Sekolah” merupakan  buku pendidikan karakter yang sesuai dengan konteks anak usia dini sehingga layak digunakan sebagai media untuk mengajarkan karakter bagi anak usia dini. Kata Kunci: konteks-ilustrasi, buku bergambar, pendidikan, karakter  AbstractBooks can be a medium of character education in early childhood because it is effective and efficient. This is where character education can be taught smoothly and easily accepted by young children. The aims of this research were describe and explain the suitability of contexts and illustrations of character education books for early childhood based on design theory; And expert opinion on character education books that fit the context of early childhood. The research method is qualitative method-case study. Observations and interviews are used for data retrieval and validation using triangulation theory techniques. Data analysis using content analysis techniques. The results of the study explain that (1) the suitability of contexts and illustrations of character education books for early childhood were found to include linguistic context, emotive context, situational context, illustration of figures that give examples of goodness, bright colors; and (2) the type of storybook "Zayn Belajar Disiplin, the book"Aktivitas Pendikar”, and the comparative activity book "Aku Anak Baik di Sekolah" are character education book appropriate to the context of early childhood so it is worthy to be used as a medium to teach character to early childhood.Keywords: Context-illustration, picture book, education, character

This research aims to describe and explain: (1) the difference of influence in disciplinal behavior of the early ages in learning using character education books containing congeniality between context and illustration in the form of story, activity, and activity-comparative; (2) the strongest influence between story, activity, and activity-comparative books containing congeniality between context and illustration to disciplinal behavior of the early age. This research was conducted in TK Kristen Kalam Kudus Surakarta. This research was done with experimental quantitative method. Before the experiment was carried out, early analysis of character education books containing congeniality between context in illustration was done, continued by determining books that fit the criteria in congeniality between context and illustration based on the early analysis and experts’ opinions. The experts including book authors who are proficient in the psychological development of the early age, and teachers of kindergartens. Data retrieval was done using instruments. Instruments and data have been validated theoretically and contextually. The results conclude that there is a significant influence of congeniality between context and illustration to disciplinal behavior of the early age in kindergartens. The strongest influence among the books containing congeniality between context in illustration is activity-comparative books.

, not only related to the genre and music grup, but also various media (print and radio) and independent album. The infrastructure subsequently became raw model and developed in more complex system in accordance with the underground music trend in Bandung.

Bandung has already become a melting pot of migrant population who come from rural areas, including street vendors society. One distinguishing feature of Bandung's street vendors is its local lettering art, known as vernacular typography. Besides its economic function as a sign to convey information about street vendor's goods, vernacular typography also has a social function to represent the collective identity of street vendors society in Bandung. Collective identity resides in an abstract concept that forms harmony within the diversity in vernacular typography. The aim of this study is to reveal the harmony within diversity in vernacular typography of street vendors in Bandung by systematically assessing its visual characteristics. This study is structured by two continuous steps. The first is synthesizing a mapping method that would be relevant to be applied on vernacular typography. It results in a set of visual aspects with meaning potentials synthesized from van Leeuwen's distinctive features of typography, Machin's inventory of typographical meaning potentials, and Haswanto's morphology of vernacular typography. The second step is assessing vernacular typography samples through content analysis to reveal its visual characteristics. The result suggests that some characteristics are formed by its limited space, materials and processes. Several characteristics tend to create a typical communication system of urban sector informal society in using vernacular typography.

AbstrakBidang seni rupa dan desain tidak hanya sebatas pada aspek estetik, bila digali lebih dalam sebuah karya seni rupa dan desain memiliki manfaat pada aspek psikologis. Filsuf Alain de Botton mengatakan bahwa seni memiliki efek terapeutik dengan memanfaatkan kelemahan psikologis manusia dan menjadikannya sebagai kekuatan, yaitu remembering, hope, sorrow, rebalancing, self-understanding, growth, dan appreciation yang memiliki manfaat pada kesehatan mental. Buku ‘Nanti Kita Cerita Tentang Hari Ini’ atau disingkat ‘NKCTHI’ dijadikan studi kasus dalam menganalisis buku pengembangan diri bergambar sebagai media art as therapy. Pendekatan deskriptif kualitatif digunakan sebagai metode dalam membedah buku tersebut. Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan studi literatur terkait dan observasi baik offline maupun online. Studi literatur yang digunakan beracuan pada teori Art as Therapy oleh Alain de Botton (2013). Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk Membuktikan apakah teori tersebut dapat diterapkan pada buku NKCTHI. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa hasil observasi pembaca buku NKCTHI memenuhi aspek-aspek terapeutik sebagai media art as therapy.Kata kunci : art as therapy, buku pengembangan diri, desain visual