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Bakeneko: A Look Into The Origins Of Japan's Supernatural Cats, Cedar Taulbee Feb 2021

Bakeneko: A Look Into The Origins Of Japan's Supernatural Cats, Cedar Taulbee

University Honors Theses

Cats are strange and mysterious creatures. Cultures all around the world have created myths and legends surrounding house cats, stories laden with superstition and usually a touch of fear. In most of the West we have black cats and their association with witches and black magic. In Ancient Egypt, as most of us know, cats were worshipped as sacred animals. And in Japan there are bakeneko.

I use bakeneko as a general term, but what I am really referring to is kaibyo, which is a Japanese word used to describe supernatural or "strange" cats. And Japan has a …


Introduction To Volume Xiii, Laura Golobish, Andrea Quijada, Amy C. Hulshoff, Eleanor Kane, Breanna Reiss, Jeannette Martinez Oct 2020

Introduction To Volume Xiii, Laura Golobish, Andrea Quijada, Amy C. Hulshoff, Eleanor Kane, Breanna Reiss, Jeannette Martinez

Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas

No abstract provided.


Women's Suffrage Mural, Mitchell Coleman Apr 2020

Women's Suffrage Mural, Mitchell Coleman

Graphic Design

Research and experiment with the images necessary to communicate the historic event of 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote.


Idiom Ad, Danielle Pinckert Apr 2020

Idiom Ad, Danielle Pinckert

Graphic Design

Using the meaning of the headline (idiom), develop an ad layout for a specific product or service.


Brand Ad, Madison Thomson Apr 2020

Brand Ad, Madison Thomson

Graphic Design

Selected a client that is listed in the top 2000 brands in the world. Research the product and its history. Select an audience and develop a marketing strategy that you believe will be effective for this brand. Write a creative brief that describes your research as well as the proposed development of your ad campaign. You will produce a single page ad for your client.


Ad Campaign Ouai, Danielle Pinckert Apr 2020

Ad Campaign Ouai, Danielle Pinckert

Graphic Design

Select a client that is listed in the top 2000 brands in the world. Research the product and its history. Select an audience and develop a marketing strategy that will be effective for promoting the benefit's of this brand. Produce a campaign of 3 ads for your client.


Brand Ad, Hannah Hagans Apr 2020

Brand Ad, Hannah Hagans

Graphic Design

Select a client that is listed in the top 2000 brands in the world. Research the product and its history. Select an audience and develop a marketing strategy that you believe will be effective for this brand. Write a creative brief that describes your research as well as the proposed development of your ad campaign. You will produce a single page ad for your client.


Legible/Illegible, Charlie Dickerson Apr 2020

Legible/Illegible, Charlie Dickerson

Graphic Design

Select a five letter word. Render the word onto a sheet of paper. On a second sheet “cut” out as much of each letter form as possible while still communicating the legibility. On a third sheet, trace the word again in the same size, but this time “cut” out as little of each letter form as possible while obliterating the legibility.


Good Dye Young Ad Campaign, Jordan Zinn Apr 2020

Good Dye Young Ad Campaign, Jordan Zinn

Graphic Design

Select a client that is listed in the top 2000 brands in the world. Research the product and its history. Select an audience and develop a marketing strategy that will be effective for promoting the benefits of this brand. Produce a campaign of 3 ads for your client.


Espoma Ad Campaign, Gilberto Acosta Oct 2019

Espoma Ad Campaign, Gilberto Acosta

Graphic Design

No abstract provided.


Stand With Trans Women Of Color, Jordan Zinn Oct 2019

Stand With Trans Women Of Color, Jordan Zinn

Graphic Design

No abstract provided.


Flip Of A Switch, Kate-Lyn Rogers Oct 2019

Flip Of A Switch, Kate-Lyn Rogers

Graphic Design

No abstract provided.


Drag, Madison Thomson Oct 2019

Drag, Madison Thomson

Graphic Design

A typology booklet about the different forms of drag performance and art.


Teavana Ad Campaign, Danielle Long Oct 2019

Teavana Ad Campaign, Danielle Long

Graphic Design

Original artwork for an ad series.


Advertising Postcards, Kate-Lyn Rogers Oct 2019

Advertising Postcards, Kate-Lyn Rogers

Graphic Design

No abstract provided.


Advertising Postcards, Madison Thomson Oct 2019

Advertising Postcards, Madison Thomson

Graphic Design

No abstract provided.


Gilda's Club Ad Campaign, Karen Matkosky Oct 2019

Gilda's Club Ad Campaign, Karen Matkosky

Graphic Design

Original artwork for an ad series.


Molotow Markers For Any Surface, Abraham Lara Oct 2019

Molotow Markers For Any Surface, Abraham Lara

Graphic Design

Original artwork for this ad series.


Among : A Series Of Enactments, Joel F. Kern May 2019

Among : A Series Of Enactments, Joel F. Kern

Masters Theses

AMONG captures the practice of a constructionist designer, one who oscillates between the characteristics of typography, multi-materiality, and spatiality yet does not attach solely to the physical or digital. The fundamental principles of this practice include open platforms that foster generative collaboration through modular systems. AMONG straddles the borders of graphic design, environmental design and social sculpture. At its core, this practice encourages new ways of connecting communities.


Interface Philosophy, June Yoon May 2019

Interface Philosophy, June Yoon

Masters Theses

During a Grad Studio II crit in the spring of 2018, I presented my project Measurements of Space and Time (page 132) and right after I finished, someone said, “This is like interface philosophy.” I didn’t even know what that meant, but it just felt right. At that very moment, I knew Interface Philosophy would be the title of my thesis.

Interface Philosophy was built as much as it was written and designed. Its function is to define “interface philosophy.” To describe interface as a meeting point for communication; philosophy as a cognitive reasoning of structural patterns. What I have …


Making Common, Elaine Lopez May 2019

Making Common, Elaine Lopez

Masters Theses

Making Common sets conditions for communication around cultural diversity and inequality. Through my practice, I create new ways to share, honor, and celebrate the stories that have been neglected for too long due to white supremacy, patriarchy, and other forms of structural oppression. I create immersive graphic design experiences that challenge people to question and expand their worldview. This methodology models an alternative way for designers to work towards a more just society


Idiom Ad, Sara Parker Apr 2019

Idiom Ad, Sara Parker

Graphic Design

Working with the meaning of a selected idiom, student then created an ad concept for an existing product, found appropriate visuals, and wrote advertising body copy.


Nashville Public Library Foundation Annual Report, Natalie Briscoe Apr 2019

Nashville Public Library Foundation Annual Report, Natalie Briscoe

Graphic Design

No abstract provided.


World Wildlife Fund Annual Report, Abraham Lara Apr 2019

World Wildlife Fund Annual Report, Abraham Lara

Graphic Design

No abstract provided.


Nana's House, Leslie T. Valenzuela Apr 2019

Nana's House, Leslie T. Valenzuela

Graphic Design

Illustrated series of handprinted postcards based on memories of time spent in grandmother's kitchen.

Product photography by Amy Miller


Blossom Editorial Design, Print Magazine Cover And Spreads, Abraham Lara Apr 2019

Blossom Editorial Design, Print Magazine Cover And Spreads, Abraham Lara

Graphic Design

No abstract provided.


Bitmap Typeface, Madison Thomson Apr 2019

Bitmap Typeface, Madison Thomson

Graphic Design

Student created original typeface, hand rendered each letter of the alphabet and numbers, scanned in final design and submitted a digital print as final.


Leslie Valenzuela: Visual And Creative Communicator, Leslie T. Valenzuela Apr 2019

Leslie Valenzuela: Visual And Creative Communicator, Leslie T. Valenzuela

Graphic Design

Medium Details: Varies

Dimensions: 10 x 10in


Student Addy Call For Entries, Katherine Hansen Apr 2019

Student Addy Call For Entries, Katherine Hansen

Graphic Design

No abstract provided.


Big Girl, Corey Mcdonald Apr 2019

Big Girl, Corey Mcdonald

Graphic Design

Art Licensing, Character Design