PERANCANGAN VISUAL BOOK SEJARAH POS DI INDONESIA MASA PRA-REPUBLIK HINGGA KEMERDEKAAN REPUBLIK INDONESIA

Abstract

One thing that is very important in the struggle to liberate Indonesia from the hands of the invaders is a Telecommunication service. At that time the Bureau of Post, Telegraph and Telephone (PTT) has a great role to provide these facilities. Pos Indonesia is already 268 years devoted to telecommunications services, starting from the first post office was established by the Governor General GW Baron van Imhoff on August 26, 1746 in Batavia.

Because it has particularly high historical value and has a great contribution to the independence of the Indonesian nation, the postal history is very important to be re-introduced. One way to re-introduce the historical event is to provide a source of reference in the form of books, remembering that a book talking about the history of Indonesian Postal in a practical and informative way still rare.

In order to design practical and easy to understand book, visual book such as a media of visual communication chosen to deliver the history of of Indonesian Postal information. In order to make visual book visually attractive and easy to understand,  the chosen is vector art illustration in the style of flat design. Data about the history of Indonesian Postal which will be used as a history source of visual book in advance filtered by how important and interesting the historical events and re-ordered according timeline. Then the collected data are illustrated with the vector art style and  lay-outed to produce a simple and informative visual book.