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DES480/481 GRAPHIC DESIGN THESIS offers senior graphic design students opportunity to engage in a year-long investigation into a guided, but self-directed research project. Students initiate and frame a complex design project, clarifying individual interests and strengths as they relate to professional aspirations. Applying knowledge and skills acquired in previous courses, students determine the final form of their thesis project, which may involve multimedia implementation. The senior thesis is exhibited in the Year End Show.

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CDGD-403 Graphic Design Senior Thesis Project

The Senior Thesis course is the capstone of the Communications Design senior year. It provides students with the opportunity to apply the full range of skills and knowledge they have obtained and cultivated at Pratt in the execution of a single, self-initiated project tied to the student’s Area of Emphasis. In collaboration with their professor, students write a design or research oriented project proposal which may involve revising or extending existing work or creating new work with an eye to the future. The emphasis is on communication the design process, documenting research and experimentation phases and articulation a critical, reflective analysis of a body of work. Senior Thesis projects are the culmination of a program of studies, and therefore allow students to reflect critically on their own work and clearly identify their interests in the larger context of the communications design profession.

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Graphic design senior thesis project teaches about microaggressions

Gyona Rice '20 creates Mind Your Speech Campaign

By Julie Carle

Gyona Rice, a 2020 Bowling Green State University graphic design  graduate, used her senior thesis project to address an issue that she learned more about during her time at BGSU.

She created the Mind Your Speech Campaign, which was selected as the best Graphic Design thesis for the 2019-2020 academic year - to address “microaggressions.” Initially, Rice was unfamiliar with the term; however, when she learned the meaning - an indirect or subtle discrimination against a marginalized group or person - she recognized it from her own life experiences as a Black person.

She admits she had probably experienced microaggressions many times throughout her life, but it was during a critique of her work that it struck a chord for her.

“I was told that there was ‘too much Black work in it,’” Rice said.

She was immediately annoyed and later angered by the comment. “I don’t think they really thought about what was said. In the program, we are taught to think about what influences us. They ask, ‘Who influences you, who do you listen to, what music do you like?’” she said. “I’m Black. My influences and my outlook come from my lived experiences.

“For whatever reason, because the comment rubbed me the wrong way, I went on a path of finding out why I was feeling that way,” Rice said. “During a SMART training with Ana Brown (director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs ), she talked about microaggressions and instantly, it was like, ‘Oh! That’s what it was.’”

Rice decided to explore the topic more and to find out why that behavior was normalized by others when they justified it by saying, “They didn’t mean it that way; there’s no harm done.”

“As I thought about it more, the idea that as a Black person that’s what you have to go through just felt completely wrong,” Rice said.

The topic became the focus of, not only her graphic design thesis project, but also her McNair Scholars Program  project and a Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship (CURS)  grant project.

The project became “my baby,” she said. “All my energy, love and thoughts went into that project.”

Throughout her senior year, she researched, wrote and designed almost exclusively about microaggressions. The McNair/CURS project was presented as a written/oral project. For the graphic design project, she needed to think about representing the topic visually.

The last three months of her senior year became even more intense, not only because the projects were due, but also because COVID-19 shut down in-person classes and everything moved to 100% online.

“So, it was nonstop,” Rice said. “I was a researching, studying, putting it on the website, which meant I also had to teach myself to code, so now I know how to do coding for a website.”

The collateral for the project included posters, video scenarios and a game to help people learn about microaggressions and related definitions, a test for implicit bias, and a variety of resources to discover and reflect on the topic. (See associated images on this page)

“The power of microaggressions lies in their invisibility to the perpetrator,” Rice said.

Among the goals of her senior projects was to help educate others, including faculty and staff “because sometimes in the classrooms, students of color do not feel welcomed and included, or they are expected to represent their race.

“I know you can’t change everybody, but I hope maybe this helps somebody to speak up or put a bug in someone’s ear about what they are saying, how that sounds and what that actually makes it look like,” she said.

Rice is currently working as a freelance graphic designer. After graduating in May, she returned to her native Michigan where she could be closer to her family, including her older sister Dajaniere Rice, also a BGSU graphic design alumna. 

“It’s not often that we have two siblings in a program,” said Jenn Stucker, chair and associate professor of graphic design at BGSU. “They’re both incredibly talented and I learned a lot from them, personally.”

Gyona’s project earned the top honor for senior graphic design thesis projects in 2020. Dajaniere, whose senior project was the use of art to fight depression, received the Medici Circle Cup Best of Show Award for the 2017 BFA thesis show.

“They’re both artistically talented. They see design as an opportunity to utilize their artistic talent because graphic design is communication for the masses. They recognize the opportunity and the platform that design gives them, using their skill set as artists and designers,” Stucker said.

Regarding Gyona’s senior thesis, Stucker said, “She was mindful of the work she was creating. She often selected work that focused on Black-based businesses or topics. I’m sure that was a heavy burden on her to bring that content forward, but she never complained and handled everything with grace. She brought that content to us, and it was amazing.”

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by Evie Hemphill | Apr 4, 2017

Eleven graduating graphic design students showcased their projects before a large audience on campus March 24. Along with formal 15-minute presentations given on stage, crowd members enjoyed close-up views of the students’ work – which ranged from campaigns to apps to furniture – during a reception and intermission. (Photo by Evie Hemphill)

“Isn’t graphic design just making art on a computer?” No, not quite.

But that’s a frequent question Brett Kessinger gets asked – and part of the inspiration for the project he shared earlier this spring during a standing-room-only event at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center .

“A lot of beginners have no clue what they’re doing and why they’re doing it,” Kessinger said to the audience as he discussed the goals of Pathfinder , an online resource he’s developed to help young graphic designers find their niche. In fact, it’s something he wishes had been available when he was first starting out.

“This year’s presentations were outstanding,” Gretchen Schisla, professor of graphic design , said afterward. “Students brought their amazing topics to life through print, web and app design, motion, video and animation – plus social media.”

She and fellow faculty member Jennifer McKnight worked closely with the cohort of soon-to-be UMSL graduates over the past year as each student brought a senior thesis to fruition. The March 24 event marked the culmination of many ambitious efforts, with the projects ranging from extensive websites and awareness campaigns, to educational programming, to furniture.

“UMSL graphic design majors are highly regarded and sought after by agencies,” she said, “because of their broad skill sets, talent and motivation.”

Following Kessinger’s presentation was one by Katlyn Sansone, whose project is titled Critical Linking . It puts a focus on internet literacy and aims to help people be more responsible online when it comes to sharing information.

“Instead of offering you salvation, [these tracts] prompt you to think before sharing,” Sansone said. “If everyone makes a small effort, our online homes become a nicer, more accurate place to live.”

“Data can be beautiful,” Reller told those gathered at the Lee Theater. “And designers can reveal the beauty of processing.”

Reller’s site includes resources for others interested in learning processing as well as striking examples of the visuals he was able to create using processing himself.

“I realized that saving needed to be gamified,” said Sinasky.

Inspired by his frugal grandfather who paid for most everything in cash, Sinasky went about developing a fun approach to budgeting, creating money-saving challenges and game-like rewards for would-be users of Cache.

Lauren Talavera’s thesis went in a different direction. Her Peer to Peer project sets forth all the elements of a sweeping campaign focused on preventing sexual violence and assault on college and high school campuses.

Having experienced a situation where a friend intervened and helped a potentially bad scenario not become one, Talavera said the topic is important to her on a personal level.

She’s also convinced that student involvement and awareness surrounding date rape, assault, consensual sex and related topics must be at the center of prevention efforts. With that in mind, Talavera’s campaign includes a student-ambassador toolkit, social-media-friendly memes and hashtags and an overall site design geared to engage young people in conversation.

Following Talavera was Matthew Marchini, whose proof of concept was in fact an actual, three-dimensional object on display at the Touhill that night: a work desk.

While Marchini said he has no immediate plans to open a furniture business after graduation, he relished the opportunity to take his idea through all the processes required to bring a concrete product to market.

Graphic designers are frequently creating, and they “regularly get to take an idea and bring it into reality,” but this one was particularly gratifying, he added.

Carley Fite’s project attempted to answer a question she asked months ago: How could she motivate people to venture into new parks in the St. Louis region? Meander is the result of her musings and research.

Users are encouraged to go for a “meander hunt,” taking photos of various nature “finds” and sharing them on social media. Fite’s video provides a preview of how it would all work.

“Tell us a story,” Sky Goodman’s new website urges the viewer. Titled Sparks , Goodman’s project takes the form of an online periodical that showcases animated stories – stories everyone is invited to share and submit .

He also discussed the storyboards and many other steps involved, along with the design that went into the website and the Sparks logo, which is a combination of simple and complex shapes.

For Kenna Mangan, settling on her finished Mental Morphosis name and logo was an extensive process. “Nourished Noodle” was a close runner-up.

“My objective was to find a friendly approach to discussing the topic,” Mangan said.

Along with offering information and hope for families with mental illness via the website, Mangan recently put on a free public event at her children’s school to help connect local parents as part of her project. She even screenprinted tote bags with the Mental Morphosis logo for attendees to take home.

Calling his website simply Third Culture , Zhupani’s project had him out and about engaging with others in the local community as he sought to learn more about some of the challenges and experiences third culture kids face.

As part of that further exploration, he interviewed and photographed fellow third culture kids over the course of his project, and their stories and portraits became a centerpiece of the new site.

Closing out the thesis presentations was Matthew Washausen, whose community-driven project put him among a group of high school students for several intensive weeks – and also required countless hours inside UMSL’s printmaking studio.

As several local artists visited the GCAA classroom to perform original songs for the students, Washausen asked the students to express in words and images their individual responses to the music.

Then, after the young people finished their wide-ranging poster designs, Washausen pulled them all together for an art exhibition that took place in December at UMSL’s Gallery FAB – titled Audio Chroma: The Power of Music and Design .

For UMSL professors McKnight and Schisla, the presentation night was a special treat that embodied many great things about the field of graphic design.

“The projects are all very different, but they have the same result,” Schisla said. “They are about each of us making human connections, helping others to learn, explore and become more involved. Graphic design makes all these connections possible – that’s why we love what we do.”

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Today’s graphic designers are collaborative and multidisciplinary information strategists whose work involves communicating complex messages in the most effective way. To that end, the four-year B.F.A. in Graphic Design addresses the steady morphing of the design profession to include interactive and time-based media in addition to the more traditional aspects of the discipline. Students are thoroughly versed in the design process from concept to finished product, developing a growing body of knowledge and expertise in research, conceptualization, composition and layout, typography, and image creation.

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COMM 1101H - Honors: Introduction to Public Speaking (Fall and Spring) GDES 2399V: Design and its Discontents: Design, Society, Economy, and Culture (Fall and Spring)

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GDES 4361V and GDES 4362H

The capstone requirement for Honors students consists of the following two courses taken sequentially in separate semesters: 1.) GDES 4361V: Thesis Studio and Writing, and 2.) GDES 4362H: Senior Thesis and Exhibition.

An Honors thesis is lengthier than a non-Honors thesis, and is considerably more in-depth and more critical in content. The Honors thesis is held to higher writing standards than the non-Honors thesis. Additionally, an Honors thesis student will publicly present his or her thesis during the opening reception for the senior exhibition, and the senior exhibition project will be identified — or labeled — as honors-level work. Summa cum laude students are required to complete a public presentation and/or oral exam with the thesis committee.

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BFA Graphic Design majors seeking to graduate with honors in art must complete Art 4510 Senior Honors Thesis. They will register for ART 4510 Senior Honors Thesis but attend all the activities and fulfill all the requirements for the course ART 4202 Graphic Design Senior Studio.   In addition, BFA Graphic Design majors seeking art honors will be required to complete additional work beyond what is normally expected of students not graduating with art honors.  

Before registering for the Senior Honors Thesis ART 4510, students must complete the Art Department Senior Honors Thesis Registration Form and get all the requisite signatures.  

The senior honors thesis committee will consist of a minimum of two fulltime faculty. The chair of the committee must be a fulltime faculty member of the Art Department. The second reader may be a fulltime Art Department faculty member or a faculty member from another department at ASU. The student has the option to include a third reader from among the fulltime Art Department faculty or fulltime faculty from another department on campus.

Since the kind of honors projects proposed and work completed are so particular to the individual’s creative vision and the many possible uses of media, techniques and studio disciplines, some requirements to successfully complete a BFA Graphic Design honors thesis will have to be decided on a case by case basis.  

In consultation with the Graphic Design Honors Theses committee, a BFA Graphic Design Senior Honors Thesis could also include, among other possibilities, one or more of the following:

• A solo exhibition  
• Documentation of the senior project beyond what is normally required of all Graphic Design majors
• A larger quantity of work than what is normally required of Graphic Design majors
• A substantial (length to be determined in consultation with the thesis committee) critical and theoretical written analysis of the work created.

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Each student who completes a senior thesis in the Art Department's Honors Program is required to give an oral presentation and defense of the thesis to the committee.  The student will give a twenty-minute presentation of the project, discussing the choice of subject, the research methods, the specific methods of procedure, and a resume of the thesis.  The student will then answer questions posed by members of the thesis committee. The chair of the thesis committee is in charge of the oral examination.

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University Honors “ creative projects must include a written component of at least 10 pages describing the process and project in addition to a copy of the project itself (such as a recording, film, or set of images).”  Please see   https://honors.appstate.edu/academics/thesis  for specifics about the University Honors thesis and the differences between a University Honors thesis and a Departmental Honors thesis.  

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A minimum of two final copies is required, one for the major professor and the thesis committee, the other for the Coordinator of the Art Honors Program.    Please see   https://honors.appstate.edu/academics/thesis/submit  for specifics on submitting your final thesis copies. 

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See   https://honors.appstate.edu/academics/thesis/forms  for the appropriate title page format. All members of the thesis committee will determine the student's final grade for Art 4510.

An abstract, not to exceed two hundred words, is required for senior honors theses.    The purpose of the abstract is to give the reader a concise and accurate synopsis of the significant elements of the manuscript.   Note that University Honors requires some kind of written document if students are doing a creative project.  

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Pangram! Graphic Design Senior Thesis Exhibition

April 17, 2023

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Spring 2023 MSU Graphic Design BFA Senior Exhibition

The Mississippi State University Graphic Design Senior BFA Portfolio Exhibition is open to the public from Monday, April 17th through Friday, April 21st at the Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery - adjacent to Barnes and Noble - and the CAAD Visual Arts Center Gallery on University Drive.

Exhibited work ranges from web & app design, posters, motion graphics, illustrations, packaging, editorial design, advertising design, branding & identity design, self-promotional materials + more. This year’s theme is ‘Pangram.’ A pangram is a sentence or verse that contains all the letters of the alphabet. Similarly, this show is a group of 27 individuals that have come together to create a unique whole. For the exhibit, each student was randomly assigned a letter from the alphabet and then chose a unique typeface to represent who they are as a person and as a designer. Visit the senior portfolio website, www.msstate.design , and Instagram, @msu_gd, to learn more about the students and their show!

The public is invited to a reception honoring these talented students from 5:00pm–7:00pm on Tuesday, April 18th in the Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery and continuing to the VAC Gallery. Letters A–Q are located in the Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery, and letters R–! are located in the VAC Gallery. There will be golf carts available for transportation between locations.

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Mfa thesis show (2024), painting • graphic design • sculpture • print media and photography • visual narrative, april 2 – 20, 2024.

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Boston University College of Fine Arts  School of Visual Arts  (SVA) presented the Class of 2024 Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Thesis Exhibitions, from April 2-20, 2024. The MFA  thesis exhibitions  featured works of graduating students in BU’s MFA programs in  Graphic Design ,  Painting ,  Sculpture ,  Print Media & Photography , and  Visual Narrative . This is the first thesis exhibition for the Print Media & Photography and Visual Narrative programs since their launch in 2022. With 61 participating students, the MFA Class of 2024 represents the largest cohort of graduating MFA students in the BU School of Visual Arts.

Julianne Dao, Walking Shadows. Collagraph, Chiné-colle archival inkjet print.

Sofia Barroso, Exploration of Possibilities. Cyanotype on fabric.

Ella Scheurell, Heavy Shoes, Colored pencil, watercolor sharpie on paper.

Arjun Lakshmanan, The Grand Tour-50 Iterations. Digital media.

Also new for this year, SVA’s thesis exhibitions have expanded beyond BU and the traditional gallery space. The MFA Painting Thesis Exhibition will be on view at  Boston University Art Galleries’  Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery; BU Art Galleries’ 808 Gallery hosts the MFA Print Media & Photography and MFA Graphic Design ( Side B ) Thesis Exhibitions; and the MFA Visual Narrative Thesis Exhibition is taking place at the College of Fine Arts’ Commonwealth Gallery. The MFA Sculpture Thesis Exhibition will be a satellite show off-campus, on view in Allston at 1270 Commonwealth Avenue, an empty space that was once a drugstore and pharmacy.

Mae-Chu Lin O’Connell, Boxmaker (How to build a 36-drawer Wunderkabinett in a week). Plywood, brass knobs, casters, wood screws, wood glue, epoxy, screws, nails, wood putty, and various objects.

Liam Coughlin, r/decks. OSB, dimensional lumber, towels, salvaged floor boards, adhesives and fasteners, plastic bags, garbage bags, Gatorade bottle full of spit, PEZ dispenser, sawhorses, sawdust.

“These MFA graduate students reveal highly individualized practices informed by culture, locale, historical research, texts, the property of materials, and the body’s relationship to the physical world. The studio is a site of transformation where the expansion of learning and the compression of making meet, as Painting MFA candidate James Gold aptly describes it in his catalog statement,” says  Dana Clancy , BU School of Visual Arts Director and Associate Professor of Art, “Our graduate Class of 2024 are artists and designers who have weathered much recent cultural change and flux. A sense of experimentation and attention to community are both fostered through intense studio work, dialogue, and shared social time in and across programs.”

James Gold, Mosaic Excavation with Carpets. Egg tempera, India ink, acrylic gouache, and pigmented gesso on panel.

Abbi Kenny, Atlantic Cranberry Sauce (courtesy of Weight Watchers). Acrylic, molding paste, acrylic gouache, black pepper, glitter, glass beads, muscovite mica, glass flakes, and yupo collage on canvas.

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Cody Robert Hook Bluett • Sarai Bustos • Tea Chai Beer • Huakai Chen • Natalie Conway • James Gold • Abbi Kenny • Yingxue Daisy Li • Julia McGehean • Sayak Mitra • Linda Obobaifo • Stephanie Petet • Jacob Salzer • Sidharth Shah • Sophie Thervil • Ellen Weitkamp

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Helena Abdelnasser • Liam Coughlin • Alyssa Grey • Mae-Chu Lin O’Connell • Yolanda He Yang

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Sandeep Badal • Lafleche Giasson • Camila Kerwin • Ariel Cheng Kohane • Isabelle Rousseau • Sadie Saunders • Ella Scheuerell • Avanji Vaze • Xinhui Wang • Dajia Zhou

MFA Print Media & Photography

Sofia Barroso • Delaney C. Burns • Julianne Dao • Emily Taylor Rice

MFA Graphic Design

Charles Castro • Yidie Chen (Tica) • Qianyue Chen (Rachel) • Kristen Davis • Alexina Federhen • Dhwani Gopal Garg • Ren Lanzi • Liang Yi Lee (Gloria) • Chi Wei Lin (Eric) • Veridiana Monteiro Victorelli • Carolina Izsak • Arjun Lakshmanan • Christine Seungmin Roh • Raquel Rabines • Kristina Shumilina • Weimiao Sun (Davis) • Arfindo Briyan Santoso • Mengqi Tuo (Bella) • Dharshanya Venkataramanan • Lindsay Towle • Mengdi Wang (Cornelia) • Ash Wei • Xin Yue (Cecilia) • Yinxue Zou (Lucy) • Yingchen Zhou (Molly)

Faculty Advisors, Chairs, and Collaborators

Lynne Allen , Professor of Art, Printmaking, Chair of MFA Print Media & Photography •  Kristen Coogan , Associate Professor of Art, Chair of MFA Graphic Design •  Deborah Cornell , Professor of Art, Chair of BFA Printmaking •  Joel Christian Gill , Associate Professor of Art, Chair of MFA Visual Narrative •  Josephine Halvorson , Professor of Art, Chair of MFA Painting •  Toni Pepe , Assistant Professor of Art, Chair of Photography •  Christopher Sleboda , Associate Professor of Art, Chair of BFA Graphic Design •  David Snyder , Assistant Professor of Art, Chair of MFA Sculpture •  Lissa Cramer , Director, Boston University Art Galleries •  Dana Clancy , Director, School of Visual Arts

School of Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibitions Feature Work by 61 Artists

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