Browsing Dept. of Graphic Design - Master's degree by Title
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Airbrushing and texture
(Bilkent University, 1994)By the expianing the airbrushing technique, the texture in airbrushig is shown as examples. In this thesis, it is explained that this techniques can be used by a freehand or by using different materials to create new ... -
Alternative photography in the digital age : perfect photographs in an imperfect way
(Bilkent University, 2013)This thesis explores the possibility of an alternative future of photography from the union of digital and chemical domains of the photographic medium. The historical photographic processes known as Cyanotype, Salt print ... -
Ambivalent and shifting codes of fear and desire in Dracula movies
(Bilkent University, 2004)This study, which takes Robin Wood’s methodology to find the answer to the question ‘what does the monster stand for?’ as its base with certain nuances, investigates the ambivalent and shifting sets of connotations ... -
Animator's hell : an animation inspired by Sartre's other
(Bilkent University, 2012)Animation is a form that allows the animator to enter a world of impossibilities. Things that are hard or impossible to show in live action become easier or possible in animation. The animator as a subject animates an ... -
Another approach to cinema : Bergson minus Deleuze
(Bilkent University, 2004)In this work, cinema has been investigated philosophically through the ideas of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze, who uses Bergson’s ideas as a basis in his cinema books The Time-Image and The Movement-Image. To clarify ... -
An approach of mistrust : the representation of 'paranoia' in the films of Terry Gilliam
(Bilkent University, 2001)This study aims at investigating the representation on ‘paranoia’ in the films, 12 Monkeys (1995), Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989), and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), by Terry Gilliam. ... -
The body unmasked : the uncanny and masked acting
(Bilkent University, 2001)The body is not only a natural conglomeration of different internal organs, but it is also the site around/on/through which narratives of subjectivity are constructed and deconstructed. The Freudian unheimlich, translated ... -
Center vs periphery : visual representation of the party scenes in Yeşilçam melodramas
(Bilkent University, 1997)In this study a particular aspect of melodramas (namely, party scenes) in the heyday of the Turkish cinema, especially between the early 1960s and the mid-1970s, is analyzed. In this respect, the visual representation ... -
Cinematic realism and digital special effects in Hollywood cinema
(Bilkent University, 1996)This thesis attempts to understand changing conceptions of realism in entertainment cinema by the emergence of digital special effects as an implication of new modes of production in contemporary Hollywood cinema. It ... -
Composition and the uncanny : a methodological account of composition in visual arts
(Bilkent University, 2001)This study aims at giving an account of composition in visual arts by basing itself on the notion of uncanny. In that respect the works of three different surrealist artists, Max Ernst, Giorgio De Chirico, and Joan Miro, ... -
Conceptual artwork as type : an account of dematerialization in conceptual art
(Bilkent University, 2011)This thesis explores the concept of dematerialization, which was introduced by Lucy Lippard and John Chandler to art context, by the means of a new characterization of word-based Conceptual artworks as types. Concerning ... -
The contemporary Turkish poster and its evolution in parallel with the economic structure
(Bilkent University, 1992)The aim of this tliesis is to analyze the development o f the ‘Turkish poster' in connection with the development o f the economic structure and to take a critical look at its contemporaiy problems. This thesis will ... -
Corporate identity design: a case study and analysis of the visual identity of Yapı Kredi AŞ
(Bilkent University, 1993)The aim of this study is, within a crical look, to determine deficient aspects and to construct a positive suggestive approach to Yapı Kredi A.Ş’s visual identity with corporate design criteria and views of professionals ... -
Corporate image : a study in establishing visual identity and the analysis of an existing trademark
(Bilkent University, 1993)Organizations are most of the time distinguished by their identities and consumers decide on a product or a service according to an organization's identity and structure. An organization may reflect its identity in many ... -
Creating a presentation format of interactive media for innovative products
(Bilkent University, 1994)In this work, an interactive presentation format to give information about an innovative product is developed. Innovation process is also discussed for communication of users and designers. Accessing the original needs ... -
A critical approach to game studies : analysis of Fallout 3® as an example of non-linear gameplay
(Bilkent University, 2010)Contemporary video games are unlike their pioneering counterparts, almost completely changed in all possible ways ranging from, the hardware that the games are run on to their usage of narrative elements and how one ... -
Deconstructionist typography
(Bilkent University, 1995)This thesis probes into how semiotics and deconstructionism on the one hand, technological progress on the other, have challenged typography. It begins with a short historical account of contemporary typography, focusing ... -
Design of an interactive sequential graphic system on cyber-space
(Bilkent University, 2000)The aim of this study is to explore and discuss the possibility of an interactive sequential system on World Wide Web. It is an attempt to formulate a definition for a system, which utilises different mediums like text, ... -
The design of the book as object
(Bilkent University, 1997)The book is an important cultural product that, as well as being a site in which text and image can be found, is first and foremost a physical object. To access a text there must always be a physical support through which ... -
Designing for web and for printed medium: a comparative study
(Bilkent University, 2001)A thesis comparing two methods of design; the web design and design prepared for the printed medium, covering the physical differences between the two, the methods and techniques of content presentation in both cases, ...
