Browsing Design by Title
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Bridging the Gap: An Exploration of Visual Design Criteria Found in the "Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005" (AODA)
(2019-07-02)Information and communication technology such as World Wide Web have gradually become implanted in every aspect of individuals life such as education and training, employment, government, health care, and more. Web provides ... -
Conceptual Constraints and the Graphic Design Process: An Investigation into Creativity and How Self-imposed Conceptual Constraints Can Affect Banal Information
(2015-12-16)The discipline of graphic design has an important role to play in developing how information is conveyed and consumed. This thesis has focused on uncovering how including self-imposed conceptual constraints in the design ... -
Damn Right Design: A Proposal of a Creative Platform to Facilitate Socially Responsible Graphic Design
(2017-07-27)This thesis argues that the discipline of graphic design still lacks awareness of the significant role it plays in addressing social problems. In social (graphic) design projects, designers move away from the more conventional ... -
Empowering Airbrush Design for Social Innovation: Building a Micro-Community Based Creative Platform
(2019-07-02)Airbrush is a mechanical painting tool using compressed air to spray paint onto various surfaces. Since its introduction with the first patent in 1876, commercial artists and illustrators applied its seamless color blending ... -
Encouraging Ethical Behaviour through Design
(2016-11-25)The phrase social responsibility appears with the word design because of the visual power of design to publicize information and knowledge. Design and social responsibility is a controversial topic in the filed of graphic ... -
Exploring Materiality in Graphic Design Through Creative Play
(2015-08-28)Graphic design can be investigated through the process of creative play where thinking and making are connected through materiality. This thesis explores three different methods of creative play that can be used by designers ... -
Handcraft as a Rhetorical Prop: An Investigation into What Handcraft Techniques Offer the Discipline of Graphic Design
(2014-07-28)This 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 ... -
Investigating the "Blurry" Territory of Graphic Design: A Look at the Simultaneous Realities of Illusions Within the Moire Effect
(2016-09-20)This thesis examines how designed artifacts can present two simultaneous realities within static and motion typography through an investigation of motion and depth perceptual phenomena. The deceptive nature of optical ... -
Learning from Toronto: An Experiment in Participatory Urban Data Visualization
(2019-07-02)Despite the unprecedented amount of data about the world that is collected and produced in our increasingly information-dependent societies, the possibilities for significant differences between human perception and actual ... -
Listen to your Body: Designing for Type 2 Diabetes Management
(2015-08-28)This study informed the design of several components of a digital application to support education and strategies for the management of type 2 diabetes. This tool allows individuals to track food intake, activities, and ... -
Negotiations in the Third Space: Visualization of the Complexity of an Iranian Woman's Identity
(2015-08-29)Iranian female identity is typically represented as static and fixed, either portraying women as ‘modern’ or ‘victims’ (from the Western perspective) or ‘Westoxified’ or ‘modest’ (from the Islamic state’s perspective). ... -
On Virtual Becoming and Belonging: Visualizing the Performativity of Sudanese Cultural Identity and Resistance
(2019-07-02)A contested history with turbulent political narratives has played a leading role in the formation of Sudanese identity. It is situated firmly in a romanticized past as it is in a troubled present. For the diaspora, social ... -
Pedal off the Metal: An Investigation into Global Design and the Politics of Consumption
(2015-08-28)The research presented in this thesis is an investigation into global design and the politics of consumption. The aim of the research is to provide a survey of seventy-nine key global design events held in 2014 and present ... -
Re-envisioning Graphic Design as a Dialogic Practice: An Investigation into the Constructive Potential of Disruption within Aesthetic Practices
(2014-07-28)The aesthetic dimension of graphic design is often considered an “added-value” to the content, which determines the importance of the piece. As a result, the critical potential of form is often overlooked and involvement ... -
Reviving Craft in a Context of Design: Physical Practice in a Digital Culture
(2017-07-27)In the pursuit of speed and efficiency, contemporary visual communication eradicates the essence of the individual in favour of certainty. Mass production and the rational thought processes that steer Western Culture have ... -
Seeking the Magic in Design: An Inquiry into Defamiliarizing the Everyday
(2015-08-28)This thesis project explores the application of the artistic and literary genre of magical realism to graphic design. The goal is to use the genre’s ability to defamiliarize everyday Indian cultural objects in order to ... -
Speculative Design for Ecological Literacy: Envisioning a Food Carbon Emissions Labeling System
(2019-11-22)This thesis identifies one of the most significant causes of carbon emissions (CO2e) which is the production and transportation of animal products from producers to consumers. To envision a speculative ecological future ... -
Strange Encounters: An Investigation of Graphic Design-Produced Artifacts that Discuss Hybrid Embodiment of Indo-Canadian Identity
(2015-08-28)Postmodernism has been important in acknowledging the many forms of “otherness” that emerge from differences in subjectivity, gender, race, class, temporal and spatial geographic location and dislocation. This has become ... -
Studying the Cultural Duality of Young Iranian Women Through Semantic Differential and Visual Representation
(2016-09-20)A study of the daily lives of todays young Iranian women shows significant difference between their public and private lives. According to a number of studies on modern and contemporary Iranian history, this can be attributed ... -
Systematizing Studio Practice: Working with the Known to Generate the Unknown
(2019-07-02)The following investigation examines the use of systematized methods to experiment with new ways of graphic design production. The research is informed by research through design (RtD), multiples as variation, conditional ...