College of Imaging Arts and Sciences Papers: Recent submissions
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Design history and the human experience
(2001-05-16)This thesis, Design History and the Human Experience, is a course which offers a new approach to teaching design history by presenting the material through a historical/popular culture lens. The research and content ... -
Green from concept to rebirth
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System design for health information management in rural India
(2011-05)The problem of child mortality in India is one of the biggest that today's developing nation is dealing with. A complex matrix of different societal and behavioral forces is present at the root of this problem. Not only ... -
Graphic design & ubiquitous graphic user interfaces; The Third Wave of Computing
(2001-05)Graphic design is an integral component of user interface design. Ubiquitous computing is the a form of computing that is "everywhere all the time" through technology advances in hardware, software, and communication ... -
Broadcast logo animation
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Careers for women in design
(1999-07-30)Careers for Women in Design is an interactive application created in order to help, guide and support women in their search for professional goals towards a career in design or related field. Although this project was ... -
Graphic design in the urban transportation environment
(2001-03)This thesis focuses on various design problems facing graphic designers who design visual messages for urban transportation environments, specifically bus and subway systems. The urban transit environment poses a unique ... -
Visual syntax and intelligence
(2001-05)This thesis project is concerned with the role that graphic designers have in making learning materials more effective. It is focused on the need for instructional materials to reflect current advances in cognitive ... -
A Study of human office support in the office environment
(2001-02-14)This thesis is about seating, the problems it creates, and a solution to those problems. This chapter will provide an overview of our bodies, a look at our work and an analysis of the problems created. It will explain ... -
The goddess sells: the impact of archetypes in visual communications
(1999-05)Graphic design is the process of connecting with an audience by creating visual communication that appeals to a audience's intellect and aesthetic sensibility. the use of archetypes as a form of connection is a familiar ... -
Hotel Design: Renovation
(1998-02)The purpose of this thesis is to design an urban hotel located in Seoul, the capital city of Korea. I used an existing hotel, named Kims, for this renovation project. The existing hotel consists of forty-eight guest ... -
Jazz as inspiration
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Band space: Promoting local musicians on the web
(2011-01-03)Local Rochester Musicians start off with limited resources to promote their music. One option would be to upload their music for free onto a website. A good example of a free website that introduces new and already familiar ... -
DesignArchive online
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The Rochester Institute of Technology: An Interactive computer disk
(1995-07)The nature of this thesis is to explore the possibilities of interactive animation. An animated, interactive program which shows various activities and programs of the Rochester Institute of Technology, (R.I.T.), is ... -
Effectively targeting older consumers
(2011-05)Marketing strategies are used to convey product or service information and value offerings to a defined and specific audience. The ways in which these strategies are realized through graphic design may greatly impact the ... -
Manual skills
(2011)The process of manual material manipulation is disappearing from daily life. Why is it that we still have an educational and social environment that does not put the same priority on practical and theoretical knowledge ...