PENERAPAN LAMINASI KULIT SALAK PADA DESAIN PRODUK SEBAGAI SOUVENIR DINAS KABUPATEN SLEMAN

Abstract

Sleman regency is the largest producer of salak fruit in Indonesia. According to Sleman regency regulation number 20 (2001), salak fruit (Salacca edulis Reinw) or snake fruit has been a flora or plant which is identically from Sleman Regency. A lot of farmer in Sleman are not only work as a salak fruit farmers, but also processes salak fruit to be various food products such as sweets, chips, jam, porridge and syrup. In the other hand, the utilization of salak bark becoming a commercial product is not easy because it can be rot easily after peeling. Through research and development, salak bark has been enabled to become raw material of souvenir product with lamination technique. This experimental research used hot lamination technique (about 75°C) to flatten the skin of salak fruit, then it cut into 2 dimensional geometric shapes. Salak bark fragments are arranged into regular patterns like wooden mesh technique. The goal of souvenirs design development are to apply the result of the explorations of lamination technique into functional and commercial products correctly. Ornamentation of salak bark lamination on the products areal so iconic with Sleman Regency. This research used ‘form follow material’ as design methods which consist of three steps, identification, visualisation and materialisation. The results of this study show that the correct application of salak bark lamination on product needs more time to produce raw material. Good salak bark products also need to preserved with natrium benzoat and preferably with laser cutter technology.
Keywords : bark, salak, lamiantion, souvenir