Browsing Dept. of Graphic Design - Master's degree by Title
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A semiotical approach to analyze connoted values in advertising photography
(Bilkent University, 1994)The aim of this study is to establish a semiotical framework to analyze advertising photographs. In this context, first, the language and signs of advertising photography have been defined. Furthermore, relationships ... -
"Septemvriiche" newspaper as a visual representation of the state-party-art-culture relations in Bulgaria 1946-1993
(Bilkent University, 2002)This study lays in the general fields of “arts and politics” and “arts and state” relationships. These indisputably broad fields are restricted in this work by concentrating on a specific historical period (1946-1993), ... -
The simulacrum surfaced : a study on the nature of the image
(Bilkent University, 2004)This study aims at understanding the nature of the visual image through discussing the notion of 'simulacrum' within the philosophy of Plato, Baudrillard and Deleuze and trying to locate its importance within the ... -
A singular art : a theoretical and artistic survey on miniature and hybrid possibilities of traditional arts in contemporary art
(Bilkent University, 2007)The aim of this study is to point out the problems which are stemmed from the use of traditional arts, particularly miniature, in contemporary art. A theoretical survey on seeing and representation of traditional arts ... -
A sociological study: comics as the sign of popular culture in the 20th century
(Bilkent University, 1993)The intention of this study is to analyze the sociological structure of the comics within its relation to the social phenomena of the 20th century. Therefore, the concept of popular culture is taken as the key word th ... -
Spectral images : "Dispossessed family photographs" circulating in antique markets in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2005)This study is an attempt to make sense of family photographs that are circulating in antique markets in Turkey. The phenomenon of “dispossessed family photographs” is examined on the basis of the critical literature on ... -
Storytelling technique in Turkish rap music : a music video
(Bilkent University, 2012)This thesis analyzes the storytelling technique in Turkish rap music in the context of hip-hop culture’s content and history, argues its narrative background, seeks answer to what are the mainstream components of Turkish ... -
Subvertising versus advertising : a semiotical analysis of the culture jamming act
(Bilkent University, 2005)This study examines the act of Culture Jamming on the basis of semiotic theory mainly by Ferdinand de Saussure and Roland Barthes. Accordingly, the analysis based on the examination of existing Culture Jamming examples. ... -
Technology as prosthesis : A critical account of mankind's involvement with technology
(Bilkent University, 2001)This thesis aims to discuss the prosthetic quality of technology whilst considering prosthesis as a ‘concept’ in debt to a series of problematics that exceed the common definition of the word in the medical context. ... -
Thematization of death in philosophy and art
(Bilkent University, 2000)This study takes the theme of death in philosophy and art as its explidt focus, cancentrating mainly of contemporary French philosopher Maurice Blanchot's literary and philosophical texts. The 'aporias' in the discourses ... -
A theoretical discussion on framing: and the frame through deconstruction
(Bilkent University, 1999)This study aims at investigating deconstruction, and how a theoretical discussion on framing may be arrived at through such an investigation. For this pupose, some of the concepts such as ‘logocentricm’, ‘differance’, ... -
A tool for generating three dimensional animation on computers
(Bilkent University, 1991)In this work, a three dimensional computer animation system has been designed to be employed in schools, for the training of art students on basic three dimensional animation techniques. Puppet Theater, as we have called ... -
Typography and ideology : typeface design as a statement
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The use of visual idea in illustrated entertainment posters and approaches in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 1994)The intention of this study is to examine the formation of the visual idea as a contributor to the communicative function of the illustrated entertainment posters and to evaluate Turkish entertainment posters in terms of ... -
A vanguard of postmodern condition: verbal and visual rhetoric in contemporary advertising
(Bilkent University, 1995)The purpose of this study is to investigate the intersections of rhetoric in advertisements with the postmodern condition and to determine if postmodern condition reflects itself in advertisements. In this context^ ... -
Virtual realities and real virtualities
(Bilkent University, 2002)This study endeavors to explicate different conceptions of virtuality in relation to the concept of technology. Departing from the popular conceptions of virtuality discussed within the framework of digital technologies, ... -
Virtualization of design and production
(Bilkent University, 2006)This study aims to make an analysis on the meaning of products with regards to recent developments in design and production technologies. The notions of the use, exchange and sign values of products are aimed to be ... -
The world in-between : cinematography
(Bilkent University, 2000)And cinema. The importance of saying and... and...and.... Images neither starts nor ends, they occupy the in-between. Cinema and philosophy come together to show the power of the in-between. Images understood as such ...
