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Exploration In Design, Graphic Communications And The Creative Process, Starla A. Stensaas

Masters Theses

In lieu of the traditional thesis, I have chosen to culminate the Master of Arts in Related Arts program with a creative project and a paper that describes and evaluates the completion of the project. The project involved a personal aesthetic and technical development of the aesthetic in graphic design and communications. Documentation of the creative arts project is presented in a portfolio which includes graphic designs, publications, and news feature stories. The project is interdisciplinary in that it involves skills in art (design) and English (writing) as well as effective interdisciplinary communication skills necessary to produce interdepartmental publications.

Included …

The Illusion Of Mirrored And Reflective Surfaces, Doug Castenson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The study of mirrored and reflective surfaces has been a fascination of mine for several years. It began with a curiosity in the reflected image from the traditional wall mirror and other mirrored and reflective surfaces. My earliest graduate research concentrated on the illustration of reflected images on a two-dimensional surface. As my work progressed, however, the discovery of new media such as mirrored plexiglass and reflective paints allowed me greater flexibility and introduced the possibility of distorting the perceived mirrored image. Experimentation with these materials indicated the possibility of using the entire surface as a reflective mirror, quite unrelated …

Ua68/5/1 Department Update 2, Wku Art Department

WKU Administration Documents

WKU Art Department newsletter regarding exhibitions, commissions, conferences, meetings, workshops, lectures, research and art on campus.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 29, No. 1, Robert Markle Blackson, C. Lee Hopple, Mac E. Barrick, Gideon L. Fisher

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• A Letter from California: John A. Markle in the Gold Rush
• Spatial Organization of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Plain Dutch Group Culture Region to 1975
• Folk Toys
• Farming in the Depression Years
• Aldes un Neies

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, Folk Festival Supplement, Gail Eaby Hartmann, Richard C. Gougler, Marie Gottshall, Theodore W. Jentsch, Robert Doney, Lester Breininger, Joyce Goodhart Zupan, Louise Hyde, James Portlock, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Fifteen Years of Quilting at the Festival
• The Shunning
• Band Boxes
• Cooking for the Lord
• A Harvest of Handicrafted Items from the Craft Stalls
• Festival Focus
• Folk Festival Programs
• Country Auctions: Going, Going, But Not Gone!
• A Look at PA. Dutch Folk Art Through the Eye of a Needle
• Herb Vinegars, Jellies and Salad Dressings
• Modern, Clean Rest Rooms: They are Appreciated!
• Decorative Painting

Nexus, Summer 1979, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

Regional Fellowship Recipients, Fine Arts Gallery Inc., Wright State University

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

This catalog features work from an exhibition of artists that were beneficiaries of a regional fellowship program funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and administered by the Art Department at Wright State University. Artists from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota were invited to submit recent work to apply for the fellowship. The exhibition was held at Wright State University Art Galleries in May of 1979.

Ivy Leaves, 1978-1979, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The 1979 edition of the Anderson College journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were Karen Henderson, Jeff Brown, Harold Rice, Dana Shaw, Kevin Sighter, Roger Turner, Dennis James, Dr. Ray P. Rust, Dave Everett, and Dr. A. Frank Bonner. Cover art was by Sandra Weathers and Mary Shooter.

Forms And Patterns Found In A Natural State, Andrew M. Whitlock

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This creative project deals with the photographic study of forms and patterns found in a natural state. The photographer has covered a wide geographical area including Logan and Cache Valley, Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake, Shoshone Falls in southern Idaho and City of Rocks, also in southern Idaho. The objective of this project was to reveal the visual strength of natural forms, or man-made forms acted upon by natural elements, in black-and-white images. Subjects were studied under all seasonal conditions in order to determine the best possible situation for enhancing the aesthetic qualities of the forms and patterns. …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald Magazine, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

College Heights Herald Magazine, articles in this issue:

• The Marsupial Awards
• Holman, Connie. In Search of … Graduates Should Remember All the Little Things
• Benson, Steve. Pledges’ Allegiance – Omega Psi Phi
• Fish, Tom. Drawing Attention – Roland Gibbons
• A Year in Review

Incorporated Press, Inc. April 6, 1979, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Incorporated Press, Inc. was a student publication released biweekly beginning in 1979. The issue of April 6-May 3, 1979 includes articles about the possibility of a RISD faculty strike, which did not happen. Also mentioned was the problem of information about events being hidden from students. Poems, photographs and drawings are also in this issue.

The Lantern Vol. 45, No. 2, April 1979, Keith Strunk, Kathy Mcsharry, David Hoag, Jeff Carlow, Lori Reinhart, Karen Sheldon, Jack Rosenfeld, Steve Kratz, Scott Watson, Chris Kile, Teri R. Clemmer, Lisa Ungrady, Robert Pfeiffer, Joanne Mcphillips, Martin Atreides

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• A Runner's Motivation
• For A Little While
• Nameless
• We Must Remain Liberal Minded
• Solstice of Paradise
• Sunset
• One More Love Poem for an Imperiled Society
• A Poor Winter Poem
• A Parody
• State Hospital
• Long Distance Love
• The ID
• Cereal Art
• Stepping Stones
• Message to the Populace
• Therefore Must We Yearn
• Anticipation
• Dregs
• Band of Devils

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, No. 3, William T. Parsons, David H. Rapp, Phyllis Vibbard Parsons, Alfred L. Creager, Alvin F. Kemp

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Lebenslauf of John Nicholas Schaefer
• Philip Jacob Michael: Ecclesiastical Vagabond or "Echt Reformirte" Pastor
• Drum! Drum! Drum!
• Kartz G'dichte (Short Poems)
• More Dialect Stories
• Aldes un Neies

An Analysis Of The Strategies Employed In Recruiting Industrial Arts Majors By Industrial Arts Teacher Education Institutions In The United States, John F. Carr

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The problem of this study was to conduct a national survey to identify and analyze the methods and strategies necessary to recruit students to the industrial arts teacher education program at Old Dominion University.

Pendulum (1979), Pendulum Staff

Pendulum

Pendulum, founded by the friends of the Livingston Stebbins Library, is published once a year and contains prose, verse, photography, and graphic art by the undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, alumni, and friends of Lesley College.

The Work Of Al-Hasan B. Muhammad, Die Engraver At Isbahan And Al-Muhammadiyya, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Four Buyid coins in the collection of t he American Numismatic Society, struck between 358-68 H. /A.D. 968-79 at two mints in Jibal province, illustrate a phenomenon unique in the history of Islamic coinage. They concern the status of a die engraver named al-Hasan b. Muhammad. A silver dirham bearing his signature was first noted by George C. Miles and published in 1938. It was at that time the only Islamic coin known to bear the signature of a die engraver. More recently, four additional coins have been located which shed more light upon the career of this artisan. His …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, No. 2, Nancy K. Wierman, Joyce Demcher Moran, Louis Winkler, Alvin F. Kemp, Judith E. Fryer

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Pennsylvania Dutchman
• Miz Ukraini: "We are From the Ukraine"
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology XVII: German Language Almanacs
• Pennsylvania Dutch Dialect Stories
• Taufscheine: A New Index for People Hunters, Part II
• Aldes un Neies

Triad: Sculpture Projects Doyle/Gourfain/Leicester, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

The project documented in this catalog were first conceived in early 1978 by Ed Levine, then chairman of the Department of Art and Art History at Wright State University, and Betty Collings, then director of the University Gallery at The Ohio State University in Columbus. Both institutions had, for five years, been sponsoring a variety of exhibitions and experimental projects that probed various aspects of contemporary art. The similarity of goals between the two institutions made this collaborative effort possible.

Each of the three artists visited Dayton and Columbus in the spring of 1979 to survey possible contexts for his …

The Photograph As A Model In Painting, Denise Dale Plumlee

Masters Theses

No abstract provided by author.

Nexus, Winter 1979, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

Felix Vallotton’S Intimites: “Le Cauchemar D’Un Erudit”, Lisa Marie Holst

Honors Papers

At the beginning of the last decade of the nineteenth century, amidst lively experimentation in the graphic arts, there emerged in Paris an artist whose striking woodcuts soon brought him the recognition and the esteem of his contemporaries . Félix Vallotton's woodcuts represented to many a uniquely modern application of the venerable technique of printing from a carved block of wood . Within a year of his first experiments in the medium, Vallotton was highly praised in print by Octave Uzanne in an article entitled "La Renaissance de la gravure sur bois : un néoxylographe" as the progressive figure in …

Woman, A Vehicle Of Visual Expression In Contemporary Times, Tamara C. Bogue

Masters Theses

This paper is a discussion of a woman as a vehicle of visual expression in contemporary times. Certain artists have been selected for the discussion of woman as subject matter and as symbol. An overview is given concerning some trends that have an influence on contemporary society, women in that society, and consequently affect how women have been portrayed. The selected artists were chosen as representatives of "directional types" or "theme types" and some of the implications of their female imagery is discussed. The concept of woman as symbol in her historically recorded debut as fertility figurine ("Willendorf Venus") sets …

Incorporated Press, Inc. December 11, 1978, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Incorporated Press, Inc. was a student publication released biweekly beginning in 1978. This issue from December 11, 1978 featured essays about art exhibitions, departmental news, a student meeting with RISD president Lee Hall, female student safety, and a Francesca Woodman photography exhibition at Woods Gerry. Also included are photos, comic strips, events on the RISD campus and the Providence area.

Nexus, Fall 1978, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, Folk Festival Supplement, Richard Shaner, Tom Ahern, Theodore W. Jentsch, Mary E. Sise, Robert W. Murphy, John E. Stinsmen, Barry Mcfarland, Paul E. Forster, Anne E. Denney, Kristen R. Angstadt, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Hex Signs: A Living Tradition
• Decoys and How to Make Them
• Kutztown's Plain People
• The Old Country Kitchen: Where Food Preparation was an Art
• Wooden Toys, Games and Puzzles: The Delight of All Children
• A Sketch of the Seminar Stage Programs
• Festival Focus
• Folk Festival Programs
• The Furniture-Makers at the Kutztown Festival
• The Muzzle-Loading Gunsmith
• Those Rare Things Called "Antiques!"
• Mouth-Watering Baked Goods, Fresh From the Ovens!
• The Art of the Potter

Leif Brush: Graspable Atmospheres: Sky Filters, Wind Envelopes, And Clear Space From The Terrain Instruments Structure Series, Fine Arts Gallery Inc., Wright State University

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

Catalog for the exhibition of Leif Brush's show Graspable Atmospheres: Sky filters, wind envelopes, and clear space from the Terrain Instruments Structure Series. The exhibit was featured at the Fine Arts Gallery at Wright State University from April 27 through May 18, 2978.

Dmg Journal Vol.12 No.2, Reg Talbot

Design Methods Group DRS Journal (1973-1979)

DESIGN RESEARCH IN THE U.K.

70 EDITORIAL
Reg Talbot

72 VISUAL ANALYSIS : THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF VISUAL DESCRIPTORS
Graeme Aylward and Mark Turnbull

89 AN ADAPTIVE APPROACH TO SOLUTION GENERATION
S.R. Berger, R. Gill and D.C. Hughes.

94 DESIGN PLAY NUMBER ONE: The Problem is ...
Nigel Cross

99 COUNTER DESIGNING COMPANY PRODUCTS :THE LUCAS AEROSPACE WORKERS CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIALLY USEFUL TECHNOLOGY
David Elliott

104 POWER, A NEGLECTED CONCEPT IN OFFICE DESIGN?
Alan Lipman, Ian Cooper, Rita Harris and Robert Tranter

117 FAILURES AND RISK IN DESIGN
David T. Yeomans

123 A DEFINITION OF DESIGN: ORIGINATING USEFUL SYSTEMS …

Nexus, Spring 1978, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

Risd Press February 3, 1978, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

RISD press was a student newspaper published weekly in the early 1970s, a self-described attempt at consolidating all the information outlets of the school, including the previous student newspapers, Montage. The issue of February 3, 1978 includes articles on the need for a student union facility, space usage at RISD, a Student Board meeting, a conversation with Ed Czabolski, memories of deceased faculty member George Sullivan, RISD Museum guards, an Illustration department meeting, the Nads, a trip to the Bronx Developmental Center, and student profiles, along with student creative work, event notices, and other announcements.

Pendulum (1978), Pendulum Staff

Pendulum

Pendulum, founded by the friends of the Livingston Stebbins Library, is published once a year and contains prose, verse, photography, and graphic art by the undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, alumni, and friends of Lesley College.