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Graduate Thesis Collection
Collection of theses from 2010 and later
This database houses the graduate thesis work completed at all SCAD locations from fall 2010 forward. It is keyword searchable and includes both written and visual components, giving the user a broader understanding of both product (digitized studio work) and its underlying concept (the written thesis). The goal of the database is to provide both aspiring MFA candidates timely models of what a graduate thesis should address, and the larger public a sense of the richness of graduate work done at SCAD. Questions regarding this database should be directed to the Visual Resources Center (vrc@scad.edu)
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It has been said that Portugal is a nation of immigrants and emigrants - a country that is at once nowhere and everywhere. Its capital city of Lisbon fits this description, which makes it a unique context for contemporary cultural discourse. The most compelling public realm in Lisbon is the underground Metro, opened in 1959 (and expanded since), where decorative ceramic tiles known specifically in Iberia as azulejos cover its interior surfaces. The iconographic program of each of the Metro’s forty¬six stations is different and oftentimes multiple programs adorn one station. Ten stations will serve as case studies that transcribe Portuguese history through ceramic tile patterns, figures, and vignettes, to represent a new type of public art - one that is rooted in historical allusions yet enables subjective encounters. The experience of riding the Metro is one of entangled decorative encounters and moving through the network is actually a continual process of reading, feeling, and sorting the past. The fragmentary nature of this experience aptly reflects the postmodern urban condition and contrasts with dominant single narrative and monuments representing collective values to which former the pedestrian-based public was subjected. Traveling by Metro in the twenty-first century is like reading spatial stories about Portuguese national narratives that are constantly under revision. Therefore, this thesis aims to go beyond the ceramic surfaces of underground Lisbon and confront the legacy of modern space and postmodern planarity as well as the philosophical underpinnings of spatial and aesthetic encounters.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 62)
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Within this thesis, I examine the influences that have shaped my current approach to illustration, the aesthetic qualities of my work, and the process I follow in the creation of my illustrations. I then identify the markets that are most appropriate for my illustration style, and investigate the steps necessary to enter these markets. A simple business plan is then presented wherein I examine several facets of starting a freelance illustration career, including costs and benefits of the various choices that will need to be made. Both short- and long-term goals are presented for every aspect.
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Works cited: pages 26-27
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 72-73).
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Artists have been interested in animal locomotion since the dawn of time. From the cavemen to the most successful animation studios today. Prior to the invention of the image capturing devices such as the camera, artist estimated the details of animal locomotion. It was against this backdrop that Muybridge photographic studies continue to intrigue and inform.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 43).
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This thesis will involve the study of selected animated projects (films and television shows) whose humanoid character designs involve abstract skin tones. In order to facilitate case studies, they should focus on design choices made during particular productions. As well, specific interviews were constructed for this thesis topic concentrating on character designers already working in the industry. The study argues that designing an animated character with a non-realistic or abstract skin tone has the initial ability to try and mask direct connection towards negative racial stereotyping, thus resulting in advantages and disadvantages of the actual choice towards an audience reception.
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Bibliography: page 59
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Visual communicators should have a true understanding of the culture surrounding them and engage in experiencing and associating themselves with that culture. Meaningful style is a natural by-product of this connection. Currently, through the use of dissociated style, designers are destroying the connections between style and cultural meaning. We are becoming a profession that mimics past styles, out of context, instead of creating associated styles designed for meanings held in contemporary culture. Stylistic and formal ideologies play an important role in communicating a message, but if approached with disregard they can result in a loss of communication. I will be concerned with establishing a protocol for the use of associated style, and examining style as an approach to evoking meaning.
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Includes bibliographical references: pages 32-33
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This thesis aims to explore develop and incorporate new concepts for research and development for the Pharmaceutical Industry using the aid of digital space planning by the application of procedural techniques of usage of project specific parameters and constraints. This data will be interpreted to generate design objectives to convert it to become generative, which will provide better accuracy and control on the result. The model will be tested and refined for energy efficiency to make the structure an optimized, functional and comprehensive energy efficient facility.
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Works cited: pages 70-72.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 26-27)
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Includes bibliographical references (p.101-102).
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"The Summer of the Frogs is a middle grade historical middle grade fiction novel that explores a small all black community in Central Alabama before the Civil Rights Era. This is a coming of age story that follows ten-year-old Harris and his family during the summer of 1956 and the single act of revenge that he and his oldest brother commit that implodes his childhood and introduces him to the broader racial conflict in the South. This novel explores the dynamic between racism and black masculinity while illustrating the devastating impact that generational violence has on the family unit. While fiction, this project also serves to preserve a real place that time and gentrification has all but erased. The community in the novel, Zion City, was a thriving middle-class black community in Birmingham, Alabama whose history and stories are eroding with each decaying brick and fading memory."
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The aim of this thesis is to use extensive preproduction research to create a comprehensive set of style and genre goals for the short film, “The Sun’s Leggings.” Five successful scenes from well-respected films will act as a template in the establishment of a unique aesthetic best suited to visually deliver the story. This thesis paper will demonstrate an exceptional understanding and application of the elements of film language. The production of the thesis film will showcase a cohesive application of cinematic grammar, specifically the elements of mise-en-scène. A postproduction evaluation will reveal strengths and weaknesses, lessons learned and successes and failures in the creation of a powerful and original short film, “The Sun’s Leggings.”
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The Superblock Killed China’s Streetlife: A Design for Human-scale Streetlife for Jiaomei, Zhangzhou
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Bibliography: page 37
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-137)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-67). Filmography: p. 68.
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Bibliography: pages 47-51
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Richard Wagner’s opera "Tannhäuser" and Ridley Scott’s film "Blade Runner" are ageless myths deconstructed in Joseph Campbell’s "Hero with a Thousand Faces." This is the legend of a hero’s journey, or monomyth, from the physical world’s limitations to absolute awareness of the Jungian “Self,” the totality of the conscious and unconscious mind. Referencing both the film and the opera, my thesis "The Tannhauser Gate" examines the image, commencing with the 1986 televised explosion of the Challenger shuttle, as the catalyst in an ontological search of the Self. By highlighting the slowly vanishing boundary between images and our reality this thesis will uncover the fundamental consequences of image consumption, which results in a compromised identity and a distorted reality. The Tannhauser Gate will represent a personal path to enlightenment from the hero’s initial call to adventure from the ordinary world of reality to the supernatural/mythological world of the image and back again.
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This thesis explores the relationship of art and architecture to the notion of Self as defined by Objectivist ethics. It does this through the fictional language of a utopia, setting the stage for an exploration of spatial relationships conducive to self discovery. The focus of the study is one main building central to the City of Self: the Temple of Self. The Temple, a place where neither form follows function nor function follows form, attempts one arrangement of space that is responsive to the needs of a new, twenty first century architecture. The spatial arrangement uses a mediated nonlinear immersive narrative to allow for a plurality of spatial interpretations. By doing so, the space captures the ephemerality of emotion and the participant is able to rationalize that which is fleeting and apply it to developing a sense of life. The fantasy utopia will promote Self discovery and a sense of life by way of the Temple of Self, which embodies the philosophy of Objectivism and defines the role of art in developing an individualized ethical foundation.
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