2017
Mariana Fernandez-Magnou
Title:
Damn Right Design: A Proposal of a Creative Platform to Facilitate Socially Responsible Graphic Design
Wendy Wong, Supervisor
Russ Belk, Advisor
Justine Rudnicki
Title:
The Design of Dissent: Graphic Design for Socio-political Engagement
David Cabianca, Supervisor
Angela Norwood, Advisor
Julia Grzeskowiak
Title:
Reviving Craft In A Context Of Design: Physical Practice in a Digital Culture
David Cabianca, Supervisor
David Scott Armstrong, Advisor
Francis Benoit
Title:
The Web Browser as a Tool: A Programmatic Approach To Graphic Design on the Web
David Gelb, Supervisor
Angela Norwood, Advisor
2016
Trevor Campbell
Title:
Visible Cities: Exploring Local Urban Storytelling Through Public Exhibition Design
Wendy Wong, Supervisor
Rob Gill, Advisor
Christine Chiou
Title:
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
Afarin Nasseri
Title:
Studying the Cultural Duality of Young Iranian Women Through Semantic Differential and Visual Representation
David Scadding, Supervisor
Khatereh Sheibani, Advisor
2015
Krishna Balakrishnan
Title:
Strange Encounters: An Investigation of Graphic Design-produced Artifacts that Discuss Hybrid Embodiment of Indo-Canadian Identity
David Cabianca, Supervisor
Wendy Wong, Advisor
Nicole Beno
Title:
Exploring Materiality in Graphic Design Through Creative Play
David Gelb, Supervisor
Angela Iarocci, Advisor
Philippe Jean
Title:
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
Emmie Tsumura
Title:
Pedal off the Metal: An Investigation into Global Design and Consumption
Wendy Wong, Supervisor
Elizabeth Hobart, Advisor
2014
Michael Fan
Title:
Wanderland: Exploring Experimentation in Design Theory to Find New Ways of Working, Understanding and Interpreting Process and Outcomes
Sandra Gabriele, Supervisor
David Gelb, Advisor
Marie-Noëlle Hébert
Title:
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
Saskia van Kampen
Title:
Handcraft as a Rhetorical Prop: An investigation into What Handcraft Techniques Offer the Discipline of Graphic Design
David Cabianca, Supervisor
Sandra Gabriele, Advisor
Bahar Nasirzadeh
Title:
Negotiations in the Third Space: Visualization of the Complexity of an Iranian Woman’s Identity
Jan Hadlaw, Supervisor
Elizabeth Hobart, Advisor
Malika Soin
Title:
Seeking the Magic in Design: An inquiry into defamiliarizing the everyday
David Cabianca, Supervisor
Angela Norwood, Advisor
Nancy Snow
Title:
Listen to Your Body: Designing For Type 2 Diabetes Management
Sandra Gabriele, Supervisor
David Gelb, Advisor
2013
Jillian Ditner
Title:
Visualizing Bird Migration: Highlighting the Relationship Between Birds and the Toronto Region Through Graphic Design Practice
Angela Norwood, Supervisor
Franziska Erlebach
Title:
The Creative Process in Graphic Design: Breaking Out of Established Work Modes Through Modularity
Angela Norwood, Supervisor
Sandra Gabriele, Advisor
Sepideh Fallahian
Title:
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
2012
Kaila Jacques
Title:
Addressing Executive Functioning Concerns in Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome Through Graphic Design Practice
Sandra Gabriele, Supervisor
Michael Longford, Advisor
Adrienne Perry, Advisor
Monika Krupa
Title:
Secrets of Magic School: Emergent Learning Through the Design Process in a Kindergarten Classroom
Angela Norwood & Carol Anne Wien, Co-Supervisors
James March
Title:
Meditations on the Connections Between Memory and Graphic Design
Paul Sych, Supervisor
Angela Iarocci, Advisor
Angela Noussis
Title:
The Mechaics of Gaming & Learning: Intersecting Paradigms Through Design
Angela Norwood, Supervisor
Jennifer Jenson, Advisor
2011
Hester Barnard
Title:
Readymade Design: A Critical Response to Discourse and Convention
David Cabianca, Supervisor
Bianca DiPietro
Title:
Do You See What I'm Saying?: Investigating the Arbitrariness of Letterforms through Typeface Design
David Cabianca, Supervisor
Kevin Paolozzi
Title:
"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
Hyuna Park
Title:
Remembering the Starry Night (SkyAct): Using Smartphones and Social Networking to Raise Community Awareness to Light Pollution
Michael Longford, Supervisor
Kate Peer
Title:
Making and Thinking: Between the Boundaries of Craft and Design
Paul Sych, Supervisor
Brad Tober
Title:
New Tools of the Trade: An Exploration of Interactive Computational Graphic Design Processes
Wojtek Janczak, Supervisor
2010
Brian Banton
Title:
Hybrid Mythologies: An Investigation of Mixed-Race Representation
David Scadding, Supervisor
Annie Chen
Title:
Lost Then Found: A Personal Journey Exploring Authorship Through Graphic Design
Paul Sych, Supervisor
Abstract
Yeunsil Lee
Title:
The VIisualization of Pro-American Discourse in South Korean Elementary School Textbooks From 1951 to 1955
Jan Hadlaw, Supervisor
Angela Iarocci, Advisor
Oleg Portnoy
Title:
Engaging Stereotypes Through Graphic Commentary
David Scadding, Supervisor
Jan Hadlaw, Advisor
