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Moving At The Speed Of Trust, Sun Ho Lee

Masters Theses

Moving at the Speed of Trust is a workbook of strategies — practices, definitions, and techniques — to nurture community-building in support of inbetweeners who live between power structures and cultures and are often left out. Inbetweeners are those individuals whose lives are in transition through recent immigration or forced translocation from Asia to America.

These strategies revolve around threads of trust: kin, giggles, vulnerability, and shared experience. With these threads, we can question power. We can preserve stories, expand the ways we connect, shift perspectives on what is “standard,” and cultivate a community rooted in understanding. To understand each …

Liquid Border, Yingfan Jia

Masters Theses

A River is a mighty and constantly-evolving force, leaving behind an intricately designed and constantly changing system. Not just a river, the Rio Grande stretches all the way from Colorado before intersecting with the US-Mexico Border in southern Texas - a point where the powerful forces of nature now merge with a clearly-defined political boundary. The outcome of this is a unique ecological niche, which may often go unnoticed despite its distinctiveness.

Texas is famous for its farms and ranches, and the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas was once an agricultural hub. However, urbanization and the depletion of water …

Extended Reality And The Graphic Design Curriculum, Tina Korani, Meghan Saas, Samantha Tan

Frameless

VXR technology has seen significant growth in recent years across all commercial industries and is poised to continue that trend. The graphic design industry is embracing XR as a new medium, and XR skills are in high demand within the field. Institutions of higher education must adopt XR—and particularly AR—into the graphic design curriculum to keep pace with the industry. Several barriers are slowing this curricular adoption but can be overcome. Advances in AR technology have created an opportunity for its use as both a pedagogical tool and a creative medium. Integrating AR with traditional graphic design elements and principles …

Material Encounters: Making Memory Beyond The Mind, Ariel Wills

Masters Theses

Can acts of making carry the memories of our embeddedness within the world? This thesis explores how making things can nurture a sense of kinship that cuts across the organic and inorganic, erasing the distinction between living and dead, material and spiritual. Through handwork such as art-making, sewing, knitting, cooking, woodworking, and beyond, the burden of remembering and of archiving is shared across human and non-human bodies, cultivated through practices of making, and through the materials themselves. By recounting the stories of my family’s experience as Jewish immigrants in the United States, I aim to reveal how their domestic practices …

Playing At The Crossroads Of Religion And Law: Historical Milieu, Context And Curriculum Hooks In Lost & Found, Owen Gottlieb

Articles

This chapter presents the use of Lost & Found – a purpose-built tabletop to mobile game series – to teach medieval religious legal systems. The series aims to broaden the discourse around religious legal systems and to counter popular depiction of these systems which often promote prejudice and misnomers. A central element is the importance of contextualizing religion in period and locale. The Lost & Found series uses period accurate depictions of material culture to set the stage for play around relevant topics – specifically how the law promoted collaboration and sustainable governance practices in Fustat (Old Cairo) in twelfth-century …

Kofifi/Covfefe: How The Costumes Of "Sophiatown" Bring 1950s South Africa To Western Massachusetts In 2020, Emma Hollows

Masters Theses

This thesis paper reflects upon the costume design process taken by Emma Hollows to produce a realist production of the Junction Avenue Theatre Company’s musical Sophiatown at the Augusta Savage Gallery at the University of Massachusetts in May 2020. Sophiatown follows a household forcibly removed from their homes by the Native Resettlement Act of 1954 amid apartheid in South Africa. The paper discusses her attempts as a costume designer to strike a balance between replicating history and making artistic changes for theatre, while always striving to create believable characters.

Original, Nicole Donisi, Skyler Hayes, Ash Horn, Naomi Likayi, Trudy Chin, Fahad Al-Meraikhi, Matt Davidson, Wolfgang Schildmeyer, Nicola Cheadle, Melissa Delzio, Olivia Ridgley, Portland Design History

Student Work

This magazine showcases some of the people, brands and organizations of significance from Portland’s design scene with a focus on the 1960s & 1970s.

Arts Et Métiers Photo-Graphiques: The Quest For Identity In French Photography Between The Two World Wars, Yusuke Isotani

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation examines the evolution of photography in France between the two World Wars by analyzing the seminal graphic art magazine Arts et métiers graphiques (1927-1939). This bi-monthly periodical was founded by Charles Peignot (1897-1983), the artistic director of the largest manufacturer of typefaces in interwar France, Deberny et Peignot. Arts et métiers graphiques has been recognized in previous literature as one of the principal vehicles for the modernization of photography in France, primarily because it functioned as an essential conduit for the radical practices developed outside the country. The interwar period is regarded as the watershed in the history …

The Importance Of Frankfurt Printing Before 1550. Sebald Beham Moves From Nuremberg To Frankfurt, Alison Stewart

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Faculty Publications and Creative Activity

Five hundred years ago, Sebald Beham had reasons enough to leave Nuremberg and more than enough reasons to move to Frankfurt. That town's attraction as a printing center became one of the factors that resulted in Beham's settling permanently in the city on the Main in 1531, leaving behind his home town of Nuremberg, best known as the artistic center of the Renaissance master Albrecht Durer. Despite the high regard the Franconian town and Durer received, the authorities there did not treat other painters in Durer's circle particularlywell. The dubbing of Beham as 'godless painter' in 1525 constituted one of …

The What If Collection, Aisha J. Daniels

Theses and Dissertations

The What If Collection is a visual narrative that confronts white supremacy, the social, economic, and political ideology used to subjugate black civilization via colonial rule and enslavement in history and via structural racism today. Many white people have been socialized into a racial illiteracy that fosters white supremacy. This racial illiteracy fails to realize and understand the destructive effects of Western dominance on the rest of the world, particularly on past and present Africa and her diaspora. In response, utilizing discursive design, the collection constructs a counter-story that depicts a shift in the power structure in which the white …

Modern American Cover Art: The Great Gatsby Through Time, Jessica Harrell

Senior Theses

Book jackets and cover art are, more than anything, an advertising tool used to attract consumers, promote book sales, and establish company identity. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a staple in the canon of American literature whose cover art has drastically transformed in the ninety years since its original publication. This thesis traces these changes over time, focusing specifically on publishing history, art history, American culture, and thematic interpretations. In doing so, I found that the most substantial influences on these covers were publishing house identity, design trends, and available artistic techniques. Ultimately, The Great Gatsby’s cover …

Good Game, Greyory Blake

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis and its corresponding art installation, Lessons from Ziggy, attempts to deconstruct the variables prevalent within several complex systems, analyze their transformations, and propose a methodology for reasserting the soap box within the display pedestal. In this text, there are several key and specific examples of the transformation of various signifiers (i.e. media-bred fear’s transformation into a political tactic of surveillance, contemporary freneticism’s transformation into complacency, and community’s transformation into nationalism as a state weapon). In this essay, all of these concepts are contextualized within the exponential growth of new technologies. That is to say, all of these semiotic …

Lost & Found: Order In The Court -- The Party Game, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber

Presentations and other scholarship

Lost & Found is a strategy card-to-mobile game series that teaches medieval religious legal systems with attention to period accuracy and cultural and historical context.

The Lost & Found games project seeks to expand the discourse around religious legal systems, to enrich public conversations in a variety of communities, and to promote greater understanding of the religious traditions that build the fabric of the United States. Comparative religious literacy can build bridges between and within communities and prepare learners to be responsible citizens in our pluralist democracy.

The second game in the series, Lost & Found: Order in the Court …

Design Research: Typography Within The Israeli Linguistic Landscape, Shayna Tova Blum

Faculty and Staff Publications

A linguistic landscape signifies language used within a physical or virtual public space, in which communication is presented in typographic form, portraying a message to an audience. Within the state of Israel, the linguistic landscape presents a unique situation in which it is common to view municipal and commercial multilingual signs that are designed using Hebrew, English, and Arabic letterforms. By studying the diverse linguistic landscape within Israeli urban environments, the article offers perspectives on the use of multilingual visual language, based on discussions with five Israeli designers in the summer of 2015.

Patrick Scott’S Work For Signa Design Consultants, Mary Ann Bolger

Mary Ann Bolger

This essay examines Patrick Scott’s work as a designer in mid-twentieth century Ireland. It focuses in particular on the work of one of Ireland’s first modern design consultancies, Signa, where Scott was the general design consultant. The paper argues that Signa’s designs provided an early model for a design vocabulary that could be, in the words of the British design critic Herbert Read, both “Irish and contemporary”.

The Star, National Airlines, Dinner Menu Postcard, National Airlines

Airline Menus

No abstract provided.

Horizon House Restaurant, International Airport, Houston, Texas, Houston International Airport

Airline Menus

No abstract provided.

Pan American Airlines "Happy Landings!" Breakfast Menu, Pan American Airlines

Airline Menus

No abstract provided.

American President Lines, Memento, American President Lines

The Brown University Alumnus Travel Menu Collection

American President Lines. Memento. No other items included.

Q.T.E.V. "Queen Of Bermuda," Luncheon Menu, Sunday, March 23, 1952, Furness Bermuda Line

The Brown University Alumnus Travel Menu Collection

Furness Bermuda Line, Q.T.E.V. "Queen of Bermuda." Luncheon menu, Sunday, March 23, 1952.

Study Guide For United In Anger: A History Of Act Up, Matt Brim

Open Educational Resources

The United in Anger Study Guide facilitates classroom and activist engagement with Jim Hubbard’s 2012 documentary, United in Anger: A History of ACT UP. The Study Guide contains discussion sections, projects and exercises, and resources for further research about the activism of the New York chapter of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). The Study Guide is a free, interactive, multimedia resource for understanding the legacy of ACT UP, the film’s role in preserving that legacy, and its meaning for viewers' lives.

M.S. Island Venture, Italian Dinner Menu, Thursday, November 2, 1972, Flagship Cruises Inc.

The Brown University Alumnus Travel Menu Collection

Flagship Cruises, M.S. Island Venture. Italian Dinner menu, Thursday, November 2, 1972.

M.S. Island Venture, Italian Dinner Menu, Thursday, November 2, 1972 (Copy 2), Flagship Cruises Inc.

The Brown University Alumnus Travel Menu Collection

Flagship Cruises, M.S. Island Venture. Italian Dinner menu, Thursday, November 2, 1972.

M.S. Island Venture, Luncheon Menu, Thursday, November 2, 1972, Flagship Cruises Inc.

The Brown University Alumnus Travel Menu Collection

Flagship Cruises, M.S. Island Venture. Luncheon menu, Thursday, November 2, 1972.

Cover illustration: BERMUDA FLOWER STAMPS; APPROVAL FOR THE REPRODUCTION OF THESE STAMPS WAS KINDLY GRANTED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF BERMUDA.

Back cover comments: The SEA HOUND, mounted on prows of ancient Viking longboats, now symbolizes Flagship Cruises Inc. luxury cruise service. FLAGSHIP CRUISES INC. Agents for Flagship Cruises Limited.

M.S. Island Venture, Breakfast Menu, Thursday, November 2, 1972, Flagship Cruises Inc.

The Brown University Alumnus Travel Menu Collection

Flagship Cruises, M.S. Island Venture. Breakfast menu, Thursday, November 2, 1972.

Cover illustration: A MAP OF THE WEST INDIES AND CARIBBEAN SEA by BRUCE E. ROBERTS.

M.S. Island Venture, Captain's Farewell Dinner, Wednesday, November 1, 1972, Flagship Cruises Inc.

The Brown University Alumnus Travel Menu Collection

Flagship Cruises, M.S. Island Venture. Captain's Farewell dinner menu, Wednesday, November 1, 1972.

M.S. Island Venture, Dinner Menu, Tuesday, October 31, 1972, Flagship Cruises Inc.

The Brown University Alumnus Travel Menu Collection

Flagship Cruises, M.S. Island Venture. Dinner menu, Tuesday, October 31, 1972.

Cover illustration:THE "SOLEIL ROYAL," built in 1690, was one of the finest sailing-vessels in the fleet of Louis XIV

Illustration taken from "The Great Age of Sail, devised and published by Edita, Lausanne.

Back cover comments: The SEA HOUND, mounted on prows of ancient Viking longboats, now symbolizes Flagship Cruises Inc. luxury cruise service. FLAGSHIP CRUISES INC. Agents for Flagship Cruises Limited.

M.S. Island Venture, Dinner Menu, Monday, October 30, 1972, Flagship Cruises Inc.

The Brown University Alumnus Travel Menu Collection

Flagship Cruises, M.S. Island Venture. Dinner menu, Monday, October 30, 1972.

Cover illustration: THE "GOLDEN LION," Flagship of the famous Dutch Admiral, Cornelius Tromp, in Amsterdam harbour 1680, painted by van de Velde the Younger.

Illustration taken from "The Great Age of Sail," devised and published by Edita, Lausanne.

Back cover comments: The SEA HOUND, mounted on prows of ancient Viking longboats, now symbolizes Flagship Cruises Inc. luxury cruise service. FLAGSHIP CRUISES INC. Agents for Flagship Cruises Limited.

M.S. Island Venture, Dinner Menu, Monday, October 30, 1972 (Copy 2), Flagship Cruises Inc.

The Brown University Alumnus Travel Menu Collection

Flagship Cruises, M.S. Island Venture. Dinner menu, Monday, October 30, 1972.

Cover illustration: THE "GOLDEN LION," Flagship of the famous Dutch Admiral, Cornelius Tromp, in Amsterdam harbour 1680, painted by van de Velde the Younger.

Illustration taken from "The Great Age of Sail," devised and published by Edita, Lausanne.

Back cover comments: The SEA HOUND, mounted on prows of ancient Viking longboats, now symbolizes Flagship Cruises Inc. luxury cruise service. FLAGSHIP CRUISES INC. Agents for Flagship Cruises Limited.

M.S. Island Venture, Welcome Gala Dinner Menu, Sunday, October 29, 1972, Flagship Cruises Inc.

The Brown University Alumnus Travel Menu Collection

Flagship Cruises, M.S. Island Venture. Welcome Gala Dinner menu, Sunday, October 29, 1972.

Cover illustration: "NAVAL PARADE AT PORTSMOUTH ON JUNE 23cd , 1814," depicts the visit to England of the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia.

Illustration taken from "The Great Age of Sail," devised and published by Edita, Lausanne.

Back cover comments: The SEA HOUND, mounted on prows of ancient Viking longboats, now symbolizes Flagship Cruises Inc. luxury cruise service. FLAGSHIP CRUISES INC. Agents for Flagship Cruises Limited.