The study aims to explore the essential elements of an idea in designing visual marketing, advertising, or design developments to impose sustainable efforts. The final data is distributed into four categories: Behavior and Attitude in Visual Development, Mechanism in Public Information, Process of Public Understanding, and Public Understanding in Visual Sustainability. The research suggests creators of visual communications consider how their work shapes attitudes and behaviours about sustainability. With awareness around information, public understanding, and connections between visual media and sustainability, designers can promote responsible, eco-conscious messages. This framework proposes the development process should cultivate mindfulness about communicating sustainability effectively.

This study explores the integration routine of daily lifestyle towards practising and producing artworks by managing plastic waste. With the current option of managing plastic waste, pollution has increased on land and across the sea and air. Plastic waste management is not a new trend, implemented extensively through innovations and technological developments. Artists need to fully grasp the concept and understand their role in this sustainable era globally through the reviewed literature. Every individual must know their responsibility and what they can do to make a change. This study has performed participatory research in one of the villages in Malaysia to test the proposed conceptual framework of the study. The study found that artists and communities can collaborate to play a significant role in micro-managing plastic waste and implicating societal awareness by extracting the aesthetic value of plastic waste art. This study further discussed and concluded that the impact of integrating innovative sustainable living into modern art practice has its purpose in developing the human lifestyle. An advanced conceptual framework on art practice toward innovative sustainable living will be proposed in this study as an extension of the previously reviewed literature.

In today’s global design landscape, the blending of diverse artistic traditions has become an exciting and meaningful pursuit – especially in fields like furniture design. This study focuses on the...

This study explores the theoretical feasibility of fusing Chinese New Year illustrations with Malaysian Batik motifs within a cross-cultural framework. Both art forms exhibit profound symbolic, aesthetic, and functional parallels, including auspicious themes, narrative composition, and high-contrast color systems rooted in their respective socio-cultural contexts. Through comparative analysis of motifs, structure, and cultural semantics, this paper constructs a fusion feasibility matrix, highlighting shared decorative principles and visual harmony. The integration not only enriches intercultural dialogue but also revitalizes traditional arts via contemporary design interpretations. This research addresses a scholarly gap and offers a theoretical foundation for cross-cultural artistic innovation.

In Malaysia, technological devices such as computers were introduced as one of the art mediums to be used in the 1980s. New media art in Malaysia is often equated with electronic art, digital art, video, and media art. Thus, the objective of this paper is to identify the curatorial practices in new media art practice by the curators in the Malaysian art scene. This paper aims to construct a conceptual framework of curatorial practices in the new media art. This conceptual framework aims to highlight the main attributes and factors in curating new media art in Malaysia’s art scene. The method used in this research is the Kawakita Jiro which extracts the keywords related to the curatorial practices through the literature reviews. The result shows that the curatorial practices in new media art disciplinary, application, concept, perception, production, integration, and awareness are the curatorial practices in new media in the Malaysian art scene, and the conceptual framework shows that the interrelation between each attribute of curatorial practices has contributed to facilitating the production of new media art.

This paper explores integrating micro materials into Chinese line drawing to enhance decorative qualities and address modern challenges like cultural disinterest and material degradation. Using a mixed-methods with data from 613 respondents and 20 professionals, the paper identifies key decorative elements and assesses micro materials' impact on design and conservation. Findings show that understanding micro materials and artistic preferences significantly influences integration challenges and success perceptions. While micro materials offer creative and conservation benefits, their adoption must balance innovation with tradition. Recommendations include artist experimentation, respect for cultural authenticity, and institutional support.