The traditional woodcarving motif: adaptation the heritage on the flash drive design

Rapid advancement of technologies and modern architecture also has imposed a risk overshadowing traditional kinds of learning architecture especially learning heritage including valuable arts and craft, traditional woodcarving. Woodcarving is a significant and valuable craft in Malay vernacular architecture with no architectural elements. Instead of lack of awareness, there is a very little work done in order to document and research the elements of woodcarving namely motifs, pattern, source, decorative manners, incision and philosophy in heritage buildings inasmuch of limited time, money and commitment. Therefore, this project was aimed to designed a cool, stylish, functional and impactful flash drive as one effort to preserving heritage building alongside keeps this traditional woodcarving arts and craft alive from generation to generation. Flash drive is a small electronic device containing flash memory that is used for storing data or transferring it to or from a computer, digital camera. It is a growing trend among people nowadays to utilize this device for storage, supplementary backups and also transferring computer files. Over recent years flash drive usage has gained great popularity and evolved into one of the most essential methods for files storage to minimize the computer drives in order to increase the productivity of the computer. Since this becomes trends among people to have at least one per person, the production of this flash drive has increased and being sold with various types of designs. therefore, this project aims to implement the design of traditional malay woodcarving into the flash drive as one of the effort to highlight these valuable arts. This project will be able to deliver various benefits for instance, preserving this heritage arts, educate community on malay woodcarving, reference for future research regarding this arts, and for the educational purpose about the traditional heritage of Malaysia.