Browsing Dept. of Graphic Design - Master's degree by Title
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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, ... -
Desktop icons : a comparative study of textual and iconic human user interface elements in visual communication
(Bilkent University, 2003)This research examines “Desktop Icons” in correlation to contemporary developments, changes and expanding possibilities in the usage and integration of multimedia into applications and interfaces; outlining how textual ... -
Deterritorialisation of image : mapping out new media
(Bilkent University, 2003)This study endeavours to elaborate the possibilities that new media would have within the practice of art. Diverging from the pre-existing media, new media emerges as being based on the idea of digitisation. Depending ... -
Dogma/Dogme 95 : manifesto for contemporary cinema and realism
(Bilkent University, 2003)This study investigates Dogma/Dogme’95, which is the latest collectivism seen in the history of cinema. Thesis explores this newest movement’s references to past and today’s filmmaking in relation to the concept of realism, ... -
The dynamic interaction between advertising and popular culture : a case study on Ixir TV commercials
(Bilkent University, 2006)In the scope of the thesis, the “advertising” concept--rather than its economic dimension-- is taken as a matter of culture under the form of popular culture, serving as a repository for social and cultural data. How the ... -
Education in interactive media: a survey on the potentials of computers for visual literacy
(Bilkent University, 1996)This study aims at investigating the potentials of multimedia and computers in design. For this purpose, a general survey on the historical development of computers for their use in education and possibilities related to ... -
Encountering a site-specific work of art : concerning the relationship between image and memory in the conceptual framework of Walter Benjamin
(Bilkent University, 2003)This thesis derives from the dual relationship of image and memory in Walter Benjamin’s texts on literature and art criticism. This relationship is conveyed to sitespecific art and analyzed in terms of space and time. ... -
Enforcing creativity in graphic design
(Bilkent University, 2002)Enforcing creativity in basic design is as important as giving students the design principles and elements. During their first year all design students are taking basic design courses in order to learn those principles ... -
Ethics and aesthetics in the philosophy of Alain Badiou
(Bilkent University, 2005)The supposed impossibility of achieving a form of rational agency for action is the prevailing critique against contemporary theories of representaion. Alain Badiou’s philosophy appears to solve this problem by assigning ... -
Experimental typography : reviewing the modernist and the current approaches
(Bilkent University, 1993)The intention of this study is to evaluate the experimental typography within the history of graphic design by taking in consideration of two epochs. The Modernist and The Current. -
Experimental video art : on the borders between theory and practice
(Bilkent University, 2011)The aim of this thesis is to explore the new image and thought in reference to philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Thus, his discussions on art and cinema are studied thoroughly. The revelation of affects, percepts and sensations ... -
F is for film, G is for Greenaway : the cinematic representation in the films of Peter Greenaway
(Bilkent University, 1999)This study aims at investigating the last eight feature films of the British filmmaker, Peter Greenaway, with regard to the cinematic representation. As opposed to the cinematic representation suggested by the principles ... -
Figure and flesh : Francis Bacon's challenge to the figurative tradition in Western art
(Bilkent University, 2002)When figuring the body is at stake within the Western tradition of art, figuration comes up as a question of framing and controlling the mass of body (flesh, bones, body liquids etc…). The apparent obsession of Western ... -
Figuring the orient : a discussion of orientalism within the context of Ferzan Özpetek's films
(Bilkent University, 2004)This study aims to inaugurate a thorough reading of two films by Ferzan Özpetek that employ Orient as their setting and major narrative element, Hamam (1997) and Harem Suare (1999), to examine their complicity with the ... -
Filmic space in Turkish melodrama
(Bilkent University, 1997)This study aims at analyzing filmic space in Turkish melodrama films that were influential between 1960-1975. In order to map the theoretical framework for such a study, different^ approaches to filmic space are reviewed ... -
The fluid experience of space : physical body in virtual spaces over an analysis of Osmose
(Bilkent University, 2003)By the naissance of virtual reality, the body is repressed and transformed into representation in technological virtuality, and the cyberspace has defined as the space experienced by the mind that is separated from the ... -
The formation of Alevi syncretism
(Bilkent University, 2006)The aim of this study is to explore the formation of Alevi syncretism by examining historical facts and religious interactions. By understanding how Alevis adapted various cultural, religious and social phenomena, and ...
