clareta milena
Hi! I’m Clareta Milena born on 9th March 2000 living in BSD, South Tangerang, Indonesia a Textile Craft undergraduates of Bandung Institute of Technology keen in exploring and learning natural dyes, alternative materials, sustainable design, and resist dyes.
Indonesia native
English intermediate contact
bernadeta.clareta.milena@gmail.com
+62-821-1460-7690
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2018 - 2023
Undergraduate Program in Textile Craft, Faculty of Visual Art and Design, Bandung Institute of Technology (GPA 3.97/4.00)
2015 - 2018
Santa Ursula BSD High School majoring Social Studies
2022
Finalist of Lomba Perancangan Aksesori, Jakarta Fashion Week 2023 2021
Most Outstanding Student of Craft Program, Bandung Institute of Technology 2020
3rd Place for National Digital Poster Competition
2019
Most Outstanding First Year Student of Visual Art and Design Faculty Batch 2018, Bandung Institute of Technology
2021 - 2022
General Secretary of Craft Student Organization TERIKAT ITB
2020 - 2021
Media and Marketing Head Department of International AIChE Indonesia Student Conference (AISC) 2021
2020 - 2021
Publication Head Division of Craft Student Organization TERIKAT ITB
2019 – 2021
Media, Communication, and Information Head Department of Bandung Institute of Technology Tennis Club
2022
SMARTEX: Erasmus+ Trainee at Centre for Textile Science and Engineering, Gent University, Belgium
2021
Head of Design Division for Today I Learn About (TILA) Microblog 2021
Research Assistant of Community Development: Designing Teaching Material Based on Indonesian Traditional and Contemporary Stitch Resist Technique
2021
Creative Intern of IMAJI Studio
2021
Biomaterial Exhibition on Sparc Campus by Playo Material Labrary, supported by Smesco Indonesia
2021
Binar Exhibition 2021: Explorative Craft by Himpunan Mahasiswa TERIKAT ITB
Tangrenjie is a collection from image analysis project. Image analysis itself is a course with the goal to be able to concepting art or design with systematic approach. The systematic approach including making moodboard, lifestyle board, patterns, product, and exhibition. This course is a kickstarter to other courses.
Tangernjie as a concept inspired by the life of Chinatown, which resembles the richness of Chinese descendant born ethic group. Wherever it is, Chinatown always be centre of culture, from foods, spiritual tradition, to lively and festive nights decorated with red and yellow ornaments which depicting hapiness and wealth.
First version of Cravo:
Cravo is an collection of pattern exploration from form analysis class at second year of Textile Craft program. It gets its inspiration from the North Maluku native flower Clove and traditional ornament “Matahari” which can be find in their traditional house.
The final concept of Cravo inspired by the Portuguese traditional clothing and tile visual. Since the spices trading in Maluku attracted Portuguese and this interaction had resulted culture acculturation.
The second concept has vibrant colors, symmetric composition, and geometric form. The final patterns are applied in both interior and fashion products.
A 50x75 cm tapestry from digitalized pattern of endemic animals all around Indonesia. It is printed on baby canvas and embroidered with cotton yarns. The product itself is targeted for children’s education of Indonesia’s animals from Sabang to Merauke.
A A4-sized book with the aesthetic of Wabi Sabi, a philosophy from Japanese Zen Buddhism which tells about the beauty of unperfection. The process including branding, composing pictures and text, choosing paper type,
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Resist dye project using three techniques: tie dye, resist stitch, and katazome and dyed with Remasol on 40x100 cm cotton fabric. Inspired by the 70’s era of peace, love, and war,
A fashion collection for fashion forecasting for 2021 fashion trend. Dualism telling the story of the intercultural world where identity and opinion are expressed in ready to wear woman collection. The silhouette and colors are translated from moodboard’s keywords.
Conflict pattern clashing
Expressive pattern clashing Frenetic pattern clashing
Confuse dull colors
Collective layering Unclear doesn't show curves
Cemar is a top made from single use plastic waste and straws. It is inspired by the shape of fish and water movement.
Surface design techniques exploration with print, boiling, foiling, flocking, puff, lino, marbling, and stitching bringing up thetheme of swamp and swamp creatures.
Collection of works during 3 months internship period. Working as a creative intern and handling the jobs of social media designer, textile designer, and product designer.
The social media designs including composition making from photos that have been taken, coloring and editing photos and videos, and making social media (Instagram) posts planning
The end result of the main project in this internship is textile surface design for a collection of leisurewear named Jenggala Vol.II: Ruang Hidup inspired by the beauty and biodiversity of RER (Riau Ecosystem Restoration) in Kampar Peninsula and Padang Island. The project itself was collaborationg with Asia Pacific Rayon (APR) by using APR Rayon as material.
Pictures from top to bottom: Kingfisher, Pangolin, Kampar Peninsula. ( pictures captured by RIOP for IMAJI Studio)
Sappanwood on sisal fiber exploration is a part of natural fiber and natural dye class. The exploration itself including preparation steps (scouring and bleaching), dyeing process using different kinds of modifier (pH level) and metalic mordant (Al and Fe), and structure exploration for final product which is 50x150 cm textile.
The best result for scouring is 15 minutes scouring time, while for the best result for bleaching is 30 minutes. While the dyeing with sappanwood aqueous extract gives us wide color ranges yellow-orange-red-pink-purple.
Scouring and beaching result
Dyeing results using pre-post mordanting method. From left to right: fibers pre-treated with chalk as modifier, pre-treated with vinegar as modifier, and fibers pre-treated with aluminium salt as modifier.
Final product of sappanwood on sisal fiber explorations.
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category : natural dye, alternative material, bioplastic, jewelry
Alumarekah is a collection of jewelry about the cycle of life “everything that blooms will die eventually” as a final result of thesis project and research about bioplastic as alternative textile. Alumarekah has two subcollection called “Rekah” which represents bloom and “Alum” which represents deterioration.
Alumarekah was started with the realization on how damaging the textile industry nowadays and came up with the idea to make more sustainable alternative textile from the polymers that can be found around us in Indonesia, the goals are to create shorter and simpler making process compared to conservative textile, create diversities of materials in textile industries especially for textile craft, and locally made material .
The experiment and exploration parted into 3 groups:
Classification of Biodegradable Polymers (John dan Thomas, 2008)
The material experiment based on John and Thomas (2008) Classification of Biodegradable Polymers. The aim of the experiment is to make a formula based on visual uniqueness, success rate, and finding the best additive to increase its performance. There are 3 types of biomass polymer experimented and data is shown on chart.
Collage of medium sized bioplastic scraps
Put together by heat and adhesives from the bioplastic formula
Material: biomass material, recyclable, dan renewable (Trend vision, The Jewellery Trendbook 2023).
Colors: milky white transparent and lived in colors (WGSN, Color Forecast: Advanced Color 2025).
Visual: layering and hyperrealist flowers and butterflies visual element (WGSN, 2023).
TARGET
Woman, 24-29 years old, Jabodetabek and Bandung, top income, loves sustainability, alternative product, and party
Keywords “Rekah”: brightly colored, grand, symmetrical, blooming
Keywords “Alum”: darkly colored, imperfect, asymmetrical, deforming, dan withered
Alum (2022) by Clareta Milena on Jakarta Fashion Week 2023
Red is a pretty common color in Indonesian culture. This trend is inspired by the legendary “Batik Tiga Negeri”, that’s dominantly colored red. Red is a depiction of courage, persistence, and alertness.
accessories in frame: headpiece, necklace
Represent the reconsole of human and earth which related with human’s effort to restore the environment with sustainable campaign. The whole idea is depicted with earth tone colors.
accessories in frame: earrings, rings, bracelet
Rekah (2022) by Clareta Milena on Reka Warna Tekstil Indonesia Trend Forecast 2023-2024 by Asosiasi Produsen Serat dan Benang Filamen Indonesia (APSyFI) and Trend Color Lab, Bandung Institute of Technology
freelancing practicing
TILA (Today I Learn About) Project is an online-based project to build inclusiveness and community in learning for Indonesia's millennials and generation Z with Instagram as the main platform. The idea is to present colorful and eye catching colors and characters based on their interests for categorization to draw attention in social media yet easy to design and compose for quite fast moving contents twice every week.
Against Drug Abuse Day June 2021
Dunning-Kruger Effect August 2021
OCEAN Personalities August 2021
Polymerase Chain Reaction August 2021
category : logo making, branding, social media, marketing
AIChe International Student Conference (AISC) 2021 was the first AISC held by the ITB AIChE student organization for engineering students in Southeast Asia. I made branding, responsible for social media contents and campaigns planning, and every visual content (poster, video, book, certificate, presentation, and background). The Instagram itself was gaining 2800+ followers in 6 month, gather 4662 AISChat Webinars registrants, 102 competition registrants, and 207 delegates registrants.
AISC 2021 branding is an easy to make design with simple, futuristic lines, based on AIChE ITB colors.
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Dear John Doe
I arranged strong visual branding towards the Tennis Club as Head of Media, Communication, and Information. The 2019 and 2020 branding idea was to make classic and timeless visual branding like the tennis itself known as a classic sport.
Title: Mermaid
Body: Mermaid
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Ulmus L. aqueous extract - July 2022
Persea americana aqueous extract - July 2021
Ecoprint on Cotton April 2021
original recipe of casein casein dyed with sappanwood CaCO3 additives on casein
alcohol treated casein
Casein is a biopolymer derived from milk’s protein. It has been used by human for decades due to its adhesive ability, and its milky white color. The objective of the exploration is to utilise milk waste (the expired one, yes).
Every 100ml of milk will result about 10gr of casein. There are two types of result from this exploration, clay-like material and gel.
The exploration of clay-like material itself exploring kinds of acid used in deriving casein (from vinegar to lemon juice) and additives such as alcohol, glycerin, and calcium carbonate to modify its visual and texture.
aqueous extract - July 2021
Plastronaut (2020) poster color, pencil color on watercolor paper
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