Browsing Dept. of Graphic Design - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Issue Date
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The digital fulcrum: consequences of computer technology on graphic design
(Bilkent University, 1998)Departing from prevalent use and visible influence of computers on graphic design field, this study basically endeavours to elucidate the current problematics of the digital design process. In this context, with an ... -
Encounter, mimesis, play: theatricality in spatial arts
(Bilkent University, 1999)On the basis of the experience of four works from Turkey, this study attempts to reveal that actual experience of spatial arts (traditionally called visual arts) is also theatrical. During the study, it is observed that ... -
A design model for the space planning of child care centers
(Bilkent University, 1999)Since the activities that children involve provide the attainment of abilities in the developmental fields of the early childhood period, the organization of the space through the activity centers influences the improvements ... -
Visual literacy, metafiction, and horror movies : an account of self-reflexivity in the new stalker film
(Bilkent University, 2001)This study investigates the significance of metafiction, game, and visual literacy as they relate to today's changing practices of spectatorship. These concepts are elaborated in relation to the rebirth of the eighties' ... -
Opera functioning as narrative in films : Apocalypse Now - Godfather, part III - Philadelphia
(Bilkent University, 2001)This thesis examines the opera-film-music relationship from various points of view. With all the technical advances in the film industry, music for the films is still composed in the late nineteenth century, romantic ... -
Reading material culture: An analysis of design as cultural form
(Bilkent University, 2001)The aim of this study is to explore the possibilities of how the product form conveys meaning, and then how this meaning can be the bearer of any kind of cultural information or inscription upon the object. The reading ... -
Putting genealogy into perspective : for a genealogical critique of design and designers
(Bilkent University, 2001)In this work, genealogy, as a form of historical critique inaugurated by Friedrich Nietzsche and later taken up, refined and consolidated by Michel Foucault, has been extensively studied. Since Foucault was responsible ... -
Yeşilçam in letters : a "cinema event" in 1960s Turkey from the perspective of an audience discourse
(Bilkent University, 2002)This study examines “Ye§il9am event” in Turkish cinema from the perspective of an audience discourse that is reconstituted from the audience letters published in popular cinema magazines Sinema and Perde. Through a study ... -
Spaces of boredom : imagination and the ambivalence of limits
(Bilkent University, 2005)This study aims to contribute readings of arguments pertaining to and conceptualizations of the experience of boredom to discussions of art, philosophy and culture. Relevant histories and readings of philosophical accounts ... -
Undoing recognition : a critical approach to pose in photography
(Bilkent University, 2006)This study aims to give an account of the act of posing in photography in terms of the self/image relationship in order to foreground an unexplored aspect of the pose that is its potential to question (self-)recognition ... -
The ultrasound fetal image : the event of birth, female body and medical discourse
(Bilkent University, 2008)The use of ultrasound fetal image has become common in medical practice. The ultrasound is a contemporary result of a long medical and technological history, in which the human body and its pathologies are known and ... -
An evolutionary basic design tool
(Bilkent University, 2010)As a creative act, design aims at achieving innovative solutions to fulfill the requirements provided in the problem definition. In recent years, computational methods began to be used not only in design presentation but ... -
Temporality and belief : time of the political from the perspective of an ethics of immanence in the philosophy of Deleuze
(Bilkent University, 2012)The political as object of philosophy is conventionally caught up, vis-à-vis philosophy, in its status as object. They are together but held apart in that the relation between the political and the philosophical tasks ... -
Masculinities in Yılmaz Güney's star image in the 1960s and 1970s
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Interpreting glitch
(Bilkent University, 2012)the manifestation of digital culture : a study on the association between contemporary sound design and digital typography -
Exploring vertical navigation within a virtual environment : a staircase experience
(Bilkent University, 2012)Architectural cues are configured by architects in the initial phase of design process. Local architectural cues within an environment can aid individuals during navigation and influence their spatial orientation. ...
