Visual Identity for Gong Production Malang

Amidst of nowadays hustle and bustle society, organizing and managing an event is such a tiresome work. Not everyone are able to organize and manage their own events. Then there comes an event organizer service. But the event organizer services are also increasingly widespread, so there must be a identity as differentiator in order to be known in the public. An example is a visual Identity. Gong Production Malang as agency that recently established an event organizer service from traditional dance studio requires visual identity. These visual identities are logo, stationery kits, publication media in the such as banner, x-banner and Instagram feeds, uniform t-shirts and key chain accessories. Aside from being a differentiator, the existence of a visual identity also makes Gong production Malang looks professional and considerable by most people.. It was proven by validation results that shows percentage of 82,58%, which means it was quite successful.


INTRODUCTION
Gong Production Malang is a small institution that provides dance studios, event organizer services, wedding organizer services, and also costume costumes for carnival needs.
Currently, Gong Production Malang has penetrated into event organizer services, carnival costume providers and rentals, and wedding organizer services.
Unfortunately for event organizer and wedding organizer services still.
When going to hold an event and need help from an event organizer, an event organizer is always looking for a professional and trusted event organizer.For example, people will be more trusting of event organizer companies whose employees Visual Communication Design Journal, Vol.08 No. 01 (Juli2023): 90-112 91 wear uniforms when meeting the head of the company that will organize the event and give them cards.
Both uniforms and business cards are part of a company's visual identity.An effective visual identity can express a business's brand personality and differentiate it from competitors.There are many other elements, namely logos, stationery kits, promotional media (Banners, X-Banners and Instagram feeds) merchandise (key chains), and others.All of that is supporting the existence of an identity that can distinguish it from other places.

RESEARCH METHODS
Before designing a visual identity, a literature study is carried out to look for relevant theories sourced from books and also visual references from several sources on the internet.To find out the character and characteristics of Gong Production Malang, observations and interviews were conducted with the owner and also other studios as a comparison.
In the post-production stage, testing is carried out by showing the finished results of Gong Production Malang's visual identity products As well as distributing questionnaires containing several questions addressed to a predetermined target audience.Calculation of questionnaire data using the Guttman scale.

Product Description
Product description is an identification stage that contains the type of product to be designed, size, media and quantity produced.The design style chosen is Javanese decorative to maintain the characteristics of traditional art as one of the images highlighted by Gong Production.The description is described in table 1.

STP Analysis
STP (Segmentasi, Targeting, Positioning) used to position a brand or product into the minds of consumers in such a way, so that the brand has a sustainable competitive advantage.
A. Segmentation

Geographic
Segmentation based on geography event organizer services and wedding organizer Gong Production Malang, namely urban communities in the Greater Malang area.

Demographic
Segmentation based on demographics, namely people who are mature (20-60 years) and have middle to upper income.

Psychographics
Segmentation based on psychographics is people with lifestyles with a high level of busyness, for example due to work demands.

Behavioral
Segmentation based on behavioral (behavior) is people who are busy and do not have time to manage an event.

B. Targeting
The targeted target audience is business leaders/owners, both commercial and non-commercial, who hold events with the theme of art elements.

C. Positioning
Gong Production positions itself as a professional event organizer who helps preserve Indonesia's traditional art culture.
The concept used to design Gong Production's visual identity is based on the results of research and literature studies.From these results, brainstorming is then carried out.

Typography
The selection of typography for Gong Production Malang's visual identity is based on the suitability of the letter characters and also the readability of the text.The fonts used are slab serif and sans serif.

Slab serif
This typeface has thick (serif) hooks.The typeface used is Suez One.
This typeface was chosen because it can represent the impression of ethnic culture through its unique anatomical shape.In use, Typeface is used for the title (Header) to give special emphasis to the title text.
Picture 4 Suez One, Typeface with selected serif slab type Source: Author's's documentation

Sans-serif
This typeface has no hooks (serifs).The typeface used is Fira Sans.This typeface was chosen because it has an anatomical shape that is almost the same as the header and also the shape of the logotype.In use, this font is used for body text.
Picture 5 Fira Sans, Typeface with selected Sans Serif type.
Source: Author's's documentation

Illustrations
Illustrations in this visual identity are used as decorations or decorations in visual identity media to enrich traditional Javanese nuances.
In this visual identity, the type of illustration used is pattern.Pattern or pattern is a form that has looping so as to form a complete unity.The pattern here is likened to a batik motif in a simple form.Batik was chosen because batik itself comes from Java.
Picture 6 Design patterns in Gong Production's visual identity Source: Author's's documentation The shape of the pattern used was inspired by Sogan Batik from those from Solo, Central Java.This batik is in the form of waves that meet each other in each segment.

Pre Production Process
At this stage there is a process of visualizing ideas to determine what kind of design will be made.The pre-production process uses a manual method, which is in the form of sketches to be digitized.
In designing a visual identity consisting of logos, patterns, stationery kits, banners, t-shirts, Instagram feeds and key chains, a visualization of ideas from the results of brainstorming is needed.The next step is to choose the most suitable thumbnail sketch and then redraw it in more detail.From the results of the rough layout, it will be chosen which one is the best to be used as the final design.

A. Logo
There are 2 kinds of logos, namely logogram and logotype.Logogram is a logo in the form of an image or symbol that can be applied in many media, even though it is small in size because it does not contain writing.While the logotype is a logo in the form of writing from the brand name.Closed questions consist of several questions with 2 (two) answer choices, yes or no.So that respondents only need to choose answers according to their respective opinions.

Question Yes No
Have you ever used the services of an event organizer / wedding organizer?Does the existence of a visual identity (logo, publication media, stationery kit and uniform can make an agency event organizer / wedding organizer look professional?Do you think Gong Production Malang's current visual identity design is interesting?By looking at Gong Production Malang's current publication media, does it seem professional?Can the current logo represent the image of Gong Production Malang?Is the information in the publication media clear enough?Tingkat Keberhasilan If you want to hold an event, are you interested in choosing Gong Production Malang as your event organizer?In this test, specifically question number 1 does not count as a percentage, Just as an opening question to find out how many respondents have used the services of an event organizer. Among all respondents, only 10 out of 31 respondents (32.2%) had ever used the services of an event organizer, while the rest claimed to have never used it.Here are the answers from 31 respondents.To get the percentage of answers "Yes", the calculation is carried out as follows: (

CONCLUSION
Based on the research that has been done, it can be concluded that designing a visual identity requires a long process.Research and exploration of various creative ideas are needed.In addition, there are many inputs that also need to be considered to be poured into this visual identity.From the results of the tests that have been carried out, Gong Production Malang's visual identity can be well received by the target audience which can be proven by the percentage of "Yes" answers from respondents of 82.58%.
Malang's visual identity include color selection, typography and illustration.The visual aesthetic elements used are as follows: 1. Color In making Gong Production Malang's visual identity, the colors chosen are brown derivatives and yellow derivatives.The brown and yellow colors were chosen because most of Gong Production's costumes and props are taken from puppet stories that have dominant colors, namely brown and yellow.Also added is olive yellow color used in ornaments to create classic Javanese nuances.a. Brown This color can give the impression of comfort, simplicity and also a sense of local wisdom.In some visual identity elements, different colors are needed, so that colors derived from brown are chosen that have different color mixing.Picture 1 Brown derivative Source: Author's's documentation b.Yellow The yellow color symbolizes glory and splendor because it is often associated with the color gold.The yellow color here represents the jargon of Gong Production Malang, namely "Jaya, Jaya, Extraordinary".In its use, a variety of different yellow colors are needed, so it is lowered again to several yellow colors with a mixture of different colors.Picture 2 Yellow derivatie Source: Author's's documentation c.Olive yellow The olive yellow color (olive) when combined with brown and pale yellow colors will create classic Javanese nuances in a light color scheme.There are 3 olive yellow derivatives used, each of which has a different level of light darkness.Picture 3 Derived olive-yellow color Source: Author's's documentation

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Thumbnail and rough layout of Gong Production Malang logo Source: Author's's documentation B. Banner The banner is used as one of the promotional media installed in front of Gong Production's studio house so that it can be seen by passers-by.The banner is made horizontally elongated and measures 3x1 meters.Picture 9 Thumbnail and rough layout banner Source: Author's's documentation C. X-banner Visual Communication Design Journal, Vol.08 No. 01 (Juli2023): 90-112 99 X-banners are used as promotional media and information that can be placed on the terrace of the studio house or at the location of the event being organized by Gong Production.The X-banner measures 60x160 cm.Picture 10 Thumbnail and rough layout x-banner Source: Author's's documentation D. Feed Instagram The Instagram feed is used as a promotional medium for Gong Production Malang.The feed in question is a collection of content posted on Gong Production's Instagram account.This set of content when viewed as a whole will look neat and organized.Designed feed consists of Picture 11 Thumbnail and rough layout feed Instagram Source: Author's documentation E. Uniform T-shirt T-shirts are used as Gong Production crew uniforms that are worn when meeting prospective clients and also when on duty in the field so that the crew can easily recognize each other.C:0 M:31 Y:98 K:0 (FFB81C) C:0 M:0 Y:0 K:100 (231F20) Picture 12 Thumbnail and rough layout uniform t-shirt Source: Author's's documentation 1. Visualization a. Logo The logo digitization process is carried out by importing the scanned rough layout of the selected logo and logotype into the Affinity Designer software, Then traced (redrawn) using the pen tool.Picture 14 Gong Production Malang logo tracing process Source: Author's documentation b.Banner Based on 2 rough layout sketches that have been made, one is chosen to be used as a final design.The Rough Layout chosen is rough layout 1.This rough layout is then scanned and imported into the Affinity Designer software to be traced using the pen tool.Picture 15 Gong Production Malang banner tracing process Source: Author's's documentation c.X-Banner Based on the results of the sketch of 2 rough layouts that have been made, one of the most suitable is chosen which is rough layout 1. Picture 16 Gong Production Malang X-banner tracing process Source: Author's documentation d.Instagram feed Instagram feed is used as one of the online promotional media on social media Instagram Feed for Gong Production is made interconnected so that it looks attractive when viewed from the profile page.Picture 17 Gong Production Malang Instagram Feed tracing process Source: Author's's documentation e. Uniform T-shirt There are 2 types of uniform shirts, namely shirts for the crew (official) that can be worn while on duty and shirts for dancers.T-Shirts are printed using Final Design 1. Logo The logo consists of 3 versions.The first version is a colored logo that can be used on a black or white background.The color version of the logo is not suitable for placing on a crowded background.Picture 20 Final logo design Source: Author's documentation 2. Banner 2. Testing the effectiveness of visual identity products This stage is carried out to find out how effective the visual identity of Gong Production Malang has been designed.The test was carried out by showing the finished results of Gong Production Malang's visual identity product as well as distributing a questionnaire containing several questions addressed to the target audience.The questions given are closed-ended questions.

Table 2
List of questionnaire questions Source: Author's's documentation Table 6 Percentage of respondents' answers Source: Author's's documentation