Ineffable: Latency In Symbolic Languages,
2017
Virginia Commonwealth University
Ineffable: Latency In Symbolic Languages, Sirah Yoo
Theses and Dissertations
The design process demands comprehensive knowledge of visual signs and symbols with a focus on visual literacy; it is related to visual syntax, semantics, and the pragmatics of contexts. My work is an interdisciplinary investigation into how designers integrate polysemantic signs into their design process for particular and highly individualized audiences. By analyzing the role of signs in specific contexts across the spectrum of arts, society, literature, and semiotics, a designer's understanding of the cyclical nature of interpretation and reinterpretation in complex environments creates an avenue for cultivating a new schema that provides further levels of interpretations and different access …
Recovery From Design,
2017
Virginia Commonwealth University
Recovery From Design, Cassandra J. Ellison
Theses and Dissertations
Through research, inquiry, and an evaluation of Recovery By Design, a ‘design therapy’ program that serves people with mental illness, substance use disorders, and developmental disabilities, it is my assertion that the practice of design has therapeutic potential and can aid in the process of recovery. To the novice, the practices of conception, shaping form, and praxis have empowering benefit especially when guided by Conditional and Transformation Design methods together with an emphasis on materiality and vernacular form.
Good As We Know It: Goodness In Design Discourse Since 1870,
2017
Virginia Commonwealth University
Good As We Know It: Goodness In Design Discourse Since 1870, Garreth C. Blackwell
Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation examines the ways in which design and design practitioners have defined value in the design discourse through the vocabulary and concept of goodness since 1870. These definitions of value have been central to design discourse both past and present and deal with the impact and purpose of design work as well as its role in the creation of the approaching future. Since before the coalescence of graphic design as a separate field of design, these questions have been tied to the form, function or social impact of the objects created by designers. Despite the prevalence of this line …
Positions Of Place: Converging Viewpoints In Visual Communication,
2017
Virginia Commonwealth University
Positions Of Place: Converging Viewpoints In Visual Communication, Gregory J. Schmidt
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis includes a body of work that explores our visual relationship to the physical spaces and places we inhabit in our everyday lives. Today we live in a complex world where we are bombarded with fragments of information and inundated with distractions. As designers, we are equipped with tools and methods that allow us to experience and interpret our environment through multi-faceted perspectives and from different viewpoints. My approach to graphic design adopts techniques and practices from a mix of different disciplines. The work focuses on a design process that alternates between the parallel depiction of first-person and third-person …
The Institute Of New Feelings: Plastic Identities And Imperfect Surfaces,
2017
Virginia Commonwealth University
The Institute Of New Feelings: Plastic Identities And Imperfect Surfaces, Weijian Zhou
Theses and Dissertations
Digital media are moldable spaces where an image is simultaneously a thought. This instance and flexibility enables digital existences to be malleable, transformative, situational, and unstable. They are plastic images. Video games generate digital bodies that are a fusion of subjectivities and cybernetic simulations, in a perceivable and ambiguous process. Such bodies are extensions of ourselves, being girlish, imperfect, unfinished and happening—digesting and emitting clusters of feelings, regardless of our biological gender and age. The performative experience of play is progressively departing from spectacle, gambling and competition, and increasingly shifting towards an emotional journey of alternate realities, spreading subjectivities into …
Open / Close: Assimilating Immersive Spaces In Visual Communication,
2017
Virginia Commonwealth University
Open / Close: Assimilating Immersive Spaces In Visual Communication, Anika Sarin
Theses and Dissertations
I am interested in two spaces obverse to each other: open and closed. An open space develops organically based on how people inhabit it. Interacting with an open space is a dynamic, sporadic, multisensory, immersive, and subjective experience. In such spaces, we are confronted with an alternative aesthetic, one that is in conflict with the seamlessness of a closed space. A closed space is anchored on definite variables like structure, use and boundaries. While interaction between people and space is important, the space is tightly controlled and interaction is designed. Through this thesis project, I present a method that metaphorically …
Designing And Evaluating An Educational Initiative Promoting Condom Use Among Hiv+ Hispanic Men,
2017
Walden University
Designing And Evaluating An Educational Initiative Promoting Condom Use Among Hiv+ Hispanic Men, Gilberto Andino
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
In 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that between 252,000 and 312,000 Hispanic men and women in the United States were unaware of their risk for transmitting HV/AIDS. Guided by the logic model and Leininger's theory, the purpose of this project was to design a culturally sensitive HIV/AIDS educational program for HIV+ Hispanic males and to evaluate the program content with the staff at a medical center in South Florida, with the goal of implementing the program at that center. The educational program content focused on increasing the knowledge of Hispanic HIV+ men on the effectiveness of …
Retirement Reboot: A Website Redesign,
2016
Bowling Green State University
Retirement Reboot: A Website Redesign, Christina Gillen
Honors Projects
A website could be created with the latest technology, but after a few years it will still need to be updated. This is what happened to Swanton Health Care and Retirement Center’s website. This project is designed to remedy the problem by creating an entirely new website with updated content, images, and interactive features to bring Swanton Health Care’s online presence back to life.
Strange Bodies: Hybrid, Text, And The Human Form. Prints From The Sheldon Museum Of Art,
2016
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Strange Bodies: Hybrid, Text, And The Human Form. Prints From The Sheldon Museum Of Art, Alison G. Stewart , Editor
Zea E-Books Collection
Catalogue for the Sheldon Museum of Art’s exhibition “Strange Bodies: Hybrid, Text, and the Human Form," selected and curated by Professor Alison Stewart’s “History of Prints: New Media of the Renaissance” class during the fall semester of 2016 in the School of Art, Art History, & Design at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Each of the eleven prints offers a different understanding or take on the body. Some are grounded in the physical and social aspects of humanity, while others present the body as a site for fantastic imagination and performance. Still others reference the printed page as a “body.” Whether …
Inner Beauty,
2016
Bellarmine University
Inner Beauty, Kayla Darbyshire
The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal
The artist references images captured by electron microscope photography of Dopamine, DNA, and the process of Mitosis (specifically occurring in the human body). Through the use of photoshop the artist was able to manipulate the images of Dopamine, DNA, and Mitosis to create low polygonal artwork. The artist created 15,000-30,000 individual triangles, piecing them together using photoshop to create the images that they were referencing. The body is an amazing spectacle rarely looked at from within by artists. Many find beauty on the surface of the body, but when explored further, the body has much more to offer. The artist …
Through The Eyes Of The Animator,
2016
Vocational Training Council
Through The Eyes Of The Animator
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Few non-native animators have found international success in America quite like Raman Hui. We speak with the Hong Kong creative about his work in Hollywood and his new-found fame in China.
Infographic,
2016
Watkins College of Art and Design
Logos,
2016
Watkins College of Art and Design
Packaging For Touch Organic Green Tea,
2016
Watkins College of Art and Design
Packaging For Touch Organic Green Tea, Grace Pavlic
Graphic Design
No abstract provided.
Art Licensing Collection,
2016
Watkins College of Art and Design
Art Licensing Collection, Natalie Miles
Graphic Design
Students explored creating art and patterns for licensing- art printed on products for clients such as Anthropologie, Target, and Hallmark. This student decided to do a floral collection, a heavily demanded subject matter in the market. Collections consisted of one main piece of art, 2-3 coordinating pieces of art that were simpler, and an exploration of digital mockups to show what their art would look like on products.
Senior Process Book,
2016
Watkins College of Art and Design
Senior Process Book, Chris Hughes
Graphic Design
Senior Process Book, Book Design, Illustration
Senior Process Book,
2016
Watkins College of Art and Design
Senior Process Book, Annabelle Arnold
Graphic Design
Senior Process Book, Book Design, Illustration
Senior Process Book,
2016
Watkins College of Art and Design
Senior Process Book, Angelique Camacho
Graphic Design
Senior Process Book, Book Design, Illustration
Medley Cd Cover,
2016
Watkins College of Art and Design
Fable: Visualizing The Moral Tales Of Aesop,
2016
Watkins College of Art and Design
Fable: Visualizing The Moral Tales Of Aesop, Emma Lawrence, Grace Pavlic, Xavier Bond, Zie Campbell
Graphic Design
No abstract provided.
