MDes Thesis Projects Archive

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Damn Right Design: A Proposal of a Creative Platform to Facilitate Socially Responsible Graphic Design

Wendy Wong, Supervisor
Russ Belk, Advisor

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The Design of Dissent: Graphic Design for Socio-political Engagement

David Cabianca, Supervisor
Angela Norwood, Advisor

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Reviving Craft In A Context Of Design: Physical Practice in a Digital Culture

David Cabianca, Supervisor
David Scott Armstrong, Advisor

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The Web Browser as a Tool: A Programmatic Approach To Graphic Design on the Web

David Gelb, Supervisor
Angela Norwood, Advisor

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Visible Cities: Exploring Local Urban Storytelling Through Public Exhibition Design

Wendy Wong, Supervisor
Rob Gill, Advisor

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Investigating the “Blurry” Territory of Graphic Design: A Look at the Simultaneous Realities of Illusions within the Moiré Effect

Angela Norwood, Supervisor
Paul Sych, Advisor

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Studying the Cultural Duality of Young Iranian Women Through Semantic Differential and Visual Representation

David Scadding, Supervisor
Khatereh Sheibani, Advisor

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Strange Encounters: An Investigation of Graphic Design-produced Artifacts that Discuss Hybrid Embodiment of Indo-Canadian Identity

David Cabianca, Supervisor
Wendy Wong, Advisor

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Exploring Materiality in Graphic Design Through Creative Play

David Gelb, Supervisor
Angela Iarocci, Advisor

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Design Constraints and the Graphic Design Process: An Investigation into Creativity and How Self-imposed Design Constraints can Affect Banal Information

Sandra Gabriele, Supervisor
David Gelb, Advisor

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Pedal off the Metal: An Investigation into Global Design and Consumption

Wendy Wong, Supervisor
Elizabeth Hobart, Advisor

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Wanderland: Exploring Experimentation in Design Theory to Find New Ways of Working, Understanding and Interpreting Process and Outcomes

Sandra Gabriele, Supervisor
David Gelb, Advisor

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Re-envisioning Graphic Design as a Dialogic Practice: An Investigation into the Constructive Potential of Disruption within Aesthetic Practices

Sandra Gabriele, Supervisor
David Cabianca, Advisor

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Handcraft as a Rhetorical Prop: An investigation into What Handcraft Techniques Offer the Discipline of Graphic Design

David Cabianca, Supervisor
Sandra Gabriele, Advisor

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Negotiations in the Third Space: Visualization of the Complexity of an Iranian Woman’s Identity

Jan Hadlaw, Supervisor
Elizabeth Hobart, Advisor

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Seeking the Magic in Design: An inquiry into defamiliarizing the everyday

David Cabianca, Supervisor
Angela Norwood, Advisor

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Listen to Your Body: Designing For Type 2 Diabetes Management

Sandra Gabriele, Supervisor
David Gelb, Advisor

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Visualizing Bird Migration: Highlighting the Relationship Between Birds and the Toronto Region Through Graphic Design Practice

Angela Norwood, Supervisor

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The Creative Process in Graphic Design: Breaking Out of Established Work Modes Through Modularity

Angela Norwood, Supervisor
Sandra Gabriele, Advisor

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From Roots to Routes: Exploring Motif Design as Representation of Cultural Adjustment Following Immigration Arranged According to the Visual Language of the Persian Rug

Angela Norwood, Supervisor
Paul Sych, Advisor

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Addressing Executive Functioning Concerns in Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome Through Graphic Design Practice

Sandra Gabriele, Supervisor
Michael Longford, Advisor
Adrienne Perry, Advisor

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Secrets of Magic School: Emergent Learning Through the Design Process in a Kindergarten Classroom

Angela Norwood & Carol Anne Wien, Co-Supervisors

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Meditations on the Connections Between Memory and Graphic Design

Paul Sych, Supervisor
Angela Iarocci, Advisor

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The Mechaics of Gaming & Learning: Intersecting Paradigms Through Design

Angela Norwood, Supervisor
Jennifer Jenson, Advisor

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Readymade Design: A Critical Response to Discourse and Convention

David Cabianca, Supervisor

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Do You See What I'm Saying?: Investigating the Arbitrariness of Letterforms through Typeface Design

David Cabianca, Supervisor

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"What Goes Around, Doesn't Come Back Round": A Look into the Disruptive Influence of Basel School of Design and Cranbrook Academy of Art

David Cabianca, Supervisor

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Remembering the Starry Night (SkyAct): Using Smartphones and Social Networking to Raise Community Awareness to Light Pollution

Michael Longford, Supervisor

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Making and Thinking: Between the Boundaries of Craft and Design

Paul Sych, Supervisor

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New Tools of the Trade: An Exploration of Interactive Computational Graphic Design Processes

Wojtek Janczak, Supervisor

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Hybrid Mythologies: An Investigation of Mixed-Race Representation

David Scadding, Supervisor

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Lost Then Found: A Personal Journey Exploring Authorship Through Graphic Design

Paul Sych, Supervisor

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The VIisualization of Pro-American Discourse in South Korean Elementary School Textbooks From 1951 to 1955

Jan Hadlaw, Supervisor
Angela Iarocci, Advisor

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Engaging Stereotypes Through Graphic Commentary

David Scadding, Supervisor
Jan Hadlaw, Advisor

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