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Stop Putting The Hero’S Journey In A Skinner Box, Kelsey Higham

SWITCH

This article describes how goals and reward structures shape player motivation in games, distinguishing between challenge-driven players who enjoy skill development and content-driven players who want narrative and aesthetic experiences. The author argues that while goal-based design is useful for teaching skills and guiding play, it can also limit enjoyment and accessibility.

The Artist Miguel Palma, Luisa Jacinto

SWITCH

This article introduces Miguel Palma, a Lisbon-based multimedia artist who creates large-scale installations and sculptures from industrial, mechanical, and found objects. While in residence at Montalvo Arts Center in 2010, Palma produced In Image We Trust, a rotating disc installation topped with miniature figures, vehicles, and maps, recorded in real time by a camera hidden in a model fighter plane.

The Justice League Unlimited, Zenmondo Wormser

SWITCH

This article explains the mission and operations of the Justice League Unlimited (JLU), a volunteer group in Second Life dedicated to peacekeeping, education, and charity. Acting as a neighborhood watch, JLU members patrol high-risk areas, identify and report violations of the platform’s Terms of Service and Community Standards, and sometimes resolve issues through direct communication.

Keeping Employees Alive And Well, Farman A. Moayed

Department of Built Environment

No abstract provided.

Spontaneity In Stained Glass Work, Robert N. Oddy

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

Stained glass does not lend itself to spontaneity. We design, thinking always about how the glass will be cut and what glass will be available to us. Then, the fabrication is a very slow and meticulous process, requiring accuracy of cutting so that the pieces fit together closely – glass doesn’t bend, stretch or squash. We have to do too much careful planning, and too much engineering! How can we make our subjects come alive, with movement and energy, when we cannot use our bodies to express these things while we are doing the art?

The Illusion Of Depth In Stained Glass: Exposed To The Light, Robert N. Oddy

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

Stained glass artwork often looks flat. Of course, most stained glass panels are flat. What I mean is that the objects depicted look flat. In my own work, I have given a lot of attention to creating the illusion of depth. What is depth? It refers to the spacial dimension that recedes directly away from our eyes into the distance. If a picture has depth, we see some of its elements as solid objects; some appear closer than others; we are aware of foreground, middle distance and background.

Techno File: Glaze Unity Formula, Tina M. Gebhart

Art and Art History Faculty Publications

There are many approaches to modifying a glaze recipe, and different approaches can meet different needs. Some modifications change the colorant level while others change the colorant type altogether. Some may directly replace one material with another add a few weight unit more (or less) of one of the base ingredients in the recipe, or add an amount of an entirely new ingredient. These strategies we use to alter glazes tent to parallel how we cook and modify recipes in the kitchen, but adjustments to the base glaze using the kitchen method do not always give us the results we …

Teaching Evidence-Based Design To The Beginning Design Student: Educator Perceptions About Incorporating Research In Beginning Design Education, Deborah Rushen Dunlap

Interior Design Program: Student Creative Activity

Educators’ perceptions influence academic protocols regarding the level at which evidence-based design is introduced to design students. Evidence-based design, a research methodology based on quantitative and qualitative inquiry that informs design decisions, permeated healthcare design to the point that the two are almost synonymous (Hamilton and Watkins, 2009; Nussbaumer, 2009). As this research based approach spreads throughout the profession, multiple specialty areas in architecture and interior design adopt evidence-based design into their methodologies (Hamilton and Watkins, 2009). These “developments in design practice now impinge directly upon education” (Zuo, Leonard, and MaloneBeach, 2010, p. 269). Teaching evidence-based design to design students …

Blanket Statements, Issue 104, Summer 2011

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 104, Summer 2011

Structural Box Design For High Quality Beverages, Caroline Shyu

Graphic Communication

This study compared two different top designs for a wine box to determine which design gave the structure more durability. The results showed that the Twist ‘N Give, a new corrugated wine box design with a twist top, appeared to be weaker. The Twist ‘N Give is an alternative choice to the existing corrugated wine box with a traditional tuck top style.

The experimental research method was used for this study. Two samples of each style of top, the twist top and the tuck top, were tested on the Lansmont Squeezer Compression Tester for the peak force and the deflection …

That’S The Beauty Of It, Or, Why John Ashbery Is Not A Painter, Clark Lunberry

English Faculty Research and Scholarship

The poet John Ashbery lived in Paris from roughly 1955 to 1965. It was during this period that Ashbery began writing art reviews, often examining the work of various Americans also living in Paris at this time. Among the many painters Ashbery was to review and publish about, one was the Chicago-born, Paris-based abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell and an exhibition of hers at a Paris gallery in 1964. In this essay I examine the early, more ““abstract”” poetry that Ashbery was developing during this period, thinking about it alongside the paintings of Mitchell (and, in particular, his writings about them). …

Contrast, Heidi Stachulak

All Student Theses and Dissertations

This thesis will discuss the importance of contrast within a piece of artwork as well as a history and explanation of the other elements and principles of art. It is important for artists to understand the elements and principles to have a good base in creating artwork. This thesis will explore the history of the elements and principles, review other artists using these principles within their artwork as well as the significance of these elements and principles within my own artwork. Through this exploration an artist will be able to understand as well as utilize these elements and principles within …

Don't Shoot The Messenger, Wayon C. Collins

All Student Theses and Dissertations

My hope is to inform people through my art, thus creating a spark that might motivate people to bring about a change in how corporations do business. My art touches mainly on the issues of corporations polluting the environment, massive layoffs, breaking up unions, controlling the media output and sometimes creating situations that harm people, with no accountability.

Queering Art Before, After And During The Sexual Revolution (1960-1980): A Study Of Aesthetics And Subversion, Gary C. Kilian Mr.

The Macalester Review

Works produced by the queer artists in 1970s America is oftentimes not considered to be an integral part of the sexual revolution’s narrative. Not only is this problematic in that it demonstrates the heteronormative discourse that permeated liberatory pro-sex rhetoric of the time, but this exclusion also makes the LGBTQ struggle for visibility ahistorical. In this paper, I argue that notable artists who self-identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer created art that fostered gradual acceptance of the queer community before, during and after the sexual revolution, explaining that resistance to dominant paradigms were rendered unseen due to the …

Ink Painting Of Orchids Among The Literati In The Qing And Choson Dynasties, Herin Jung

Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective

Genres of cultural products have flowed in and out between China and Korea for thousands of years. It is well known that among these genres, the orchid was one of the most elegant subjects in ink painting. Although research has shown which types and how many works have been exchanged between the two countries, the ideas beneath the works deserve greater attention. The works of Kim Chong-hui (1786-1856) in the late Choson Dynasty are particularly valuable. Well known as a great calligrapher and erudite scholar, Kim profoundly explored art history and theory and was especially knowledgeable about successive painters of …

Website Accessibility For Activity4all, Duyen My Pham

Graphic Communication

The purpose of this study was to create an accessible website for a non-profit
organization called Activity4All. This study was done in collaboration with Professor Kevin Taylor and two students from the Kinesiology department.

The website has physiology and nutritional information for individuals with
disabilities including: Muscular Dystrophy, Multiple Sclerosis, Dysautonomia, and Joint Hypermobility Syndrome. It also includes instructional workout videos that individuals can do at home.

This study includes research about website accessibility and guidelines provided by the World Wide Web Consortium. Checklists were created from research and interviews in order to determine whether or not the website is …

A Taste Of Design: Incorporating Semiotics Into Flavor Of Slo 2011, Michael B. Leibovich

Communication Studies

This paper explores the use of semiotics in designing a logo, brand, and website for Flavor of SLO 2011: a non-profit food, wine, and beer tasting event benefiting United Way of San Luis Obispo County.

Implications Of Thermochromic Ink, Amanda Sarley

Graphic Communication

In a global economy the packaging industry has explored the usage of thermochromic ink to create a visual impact. The purpose of this study was to measure the color intensity of Matsui Chromicolor screen printing ink. The appearance of a product has the ability to attract attention from potential consumers.

For this study both the scientific method and elite and specialized interviews were used to determine the reliability of Matsui Chromicolor ink. Samples of both Brilliant Green Type 27 and Fast Yellow Type 27 ink were heated in a scientific oven according to Matsui specifications. The results indicate that Matsui …

The Impact Of The Internet On Wedding Invitation Ordering, Danielle Dimercurio

Graphic Communication

The purpose of study was to analyze and determine the current trends of wedding invitation ordering based on the priorities of marrying couples and the advancement of technology. Traditionally, wedding invitations were ordered in-person from local, artisan stationers. With the advancement of technology and the Internet Revolution in the last 20 years, modern methods have been introduced, including ordering from online retailers and sending electronic invitations, through e-mail.

This study began by interviewing three professionals in different segments of the wedding industry – a wedding planner, stationer, and online marketing manager. Each provided their expert opinion based on their experience …

Creative Consciousness: Becoming A Reflective Designer, Renessa Ciampa Brewer

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

As a graphic designer, I was drawn to the CCT Program in part because I desired to strengthen my thinking skills as a creative professional. Through being reflective, I aimed to “get more in touch” with my process to better understand it and see how I might improve my approaches. Scholarship on reflective practice in design education and design practice is a growing body of literature, which inspired this synthesis project. This paper looks at Schön’s theories of reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action, models for reflection in the design process provided by Ellmers, Brown, and Bennett, and Reymen, and various reflective practice …