Handcraft as a Rhetorical Prop: An Investigation into What Handcraft Techniques Offer the Discipline of Graphic Design

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dc.contributor.advisorCabianca, David
dc.creatorVan Kampen, Saskia Gabriella
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-31T14:43:14Z
dc.date.available2014-07-31T14:43:14Z
dc.date.copyright2014-04-22
dc.date.issued2014-07-28
dc.date.updated2014-07-28T16:10:34Z
dc.degree.disciplineDesign
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMDes - Master of Design
dc.description.abstractThis thesis paper examines how handcraft (making an item by analog means using specific materials) can be a compelling rhetorical tool for graphic designers to harness. Contrasting handcraft techniques with computer graphics software “unsettles” rote graphic design practices. The meaning that lies in the physical act of making, the materials that are used and the contexts with which particular handcrafts are associated can support, as well as carry, visual rhetoric in design works. An analysis of the unconventional handcraft work produced by Stefan Sagmeister (USA), Mathias Augustyniak and Michaël Amzalag of M/M (Paris) (France), Marian Bantjes (Canada), and by this author (specifically, a design book produced in tandem with this paper) is used to demonstrate how complex meanings contained within handcrafts can be revealed and used in graphic design. The combination of handcraft and digital techniques enables designers to interweave the disparate social, physical and material qualities of the two processes into their work. In this way the work engages in disciplinary and societal discourse.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/27686
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectDesignen_US
dc.subjectFine artsen_US
dc.subject.keywordsMaterialityen_US
dc.subject.keywordsDesignen_US
dc.subject.keywordsHandcraften_US
dc.subject.keywordsCraften_US
dc.subject.keywordsArten_US
dc.subject.keywordsTypographyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsRhetoricen_US
dc.subject.keywordsFeminismen_US
dc.subject.keywordsNeedleworken_US
dc.subject.keywordsSewingen_US
dc.subject.keywordsGraphic designen_US
dc.titleHandcraft as a Rhetorical Prop: An Investigation into What Handcraft Techniques Offer the Discipline of Graphic Designen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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