understand

Yale School of Art,
Graphic Design
Thesis Presentation 2008
Presents:

understand

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Jensen Barnes
Rachel Berger
Yeju Choi
Neil Donnelly
Ian Jamieson
Hyounyoul Joe
E Roon Kang
Hilla Katki
Tara Kelton
Wolasi Konu
Alexander Moulitsas
James Muspratt
Daniella Spinat
Yasser Suratman
Mary Voorhees
Ryan Waller

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NextGEN Gallery
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DS20

This image is entitled “how to find what you’re looking for.” This is the next place I’d like my work to go—in search of missing parts. In relating to my environment, I see the need to constantly fill in the gaps that inevitably appear. This image is a nice reminder that those fill-ins can be messy. Often times, I think they’re more relatable and more immediate if they’re not so tidied up. For me, the pair being completed by a mirror is almost a better completion than finding the other sock, because it reminds me that the pair can be lost again just as easily. I understand my tendency to tie things up and I don’t mind it so much, but I think I need to know where to stop. And also how to set up structures that allow me to keep going. The structure of 2 implies an impending imbalance—that things are constantly shifting in and out of togetherness. I think this cycle can be generative and I hope to use it to keep me going.

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AM03

Anne Frank’s famous diary tracks her time couped up in a secret annex due to the religious holocaust by the Nazis. Her accounts humanized her experience and became vital markers for others to better understand the horrors of bigotry and hate. I believe that the diary is an invaluable tool in human insight.

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AM11

This chart by Tibor Kalman displays the imbalance of material wealth as compared to population across the world.
I am attracted to this sequence of information because the topics of inequality and race are very apparent. By examining how the world is structured, it is easier for me to understand what I want to do with my own work.

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AM09

By Visualizing large data sets through charts and maps we may see patterns develop. Such tracking can aid how we understand a certain issue, topic and at times sway public opinion on a particular matter.
This chart by Mgmt expands the narrative of what is typically reported to American audiences about Iraq. Instead of focusing primarily on U.S. troop casualties, this chart looks at civilian and enemy deaths and at how, when and where the killings took place.
My interest in this type of work is to elicite a reader’s response to act on a greater political good.

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HK25

Lincoln Number Six says, “Lincoln brings out the best in me. He challenges me to love and understand my wife and children. His example encourages me to trust my savior Jesus, when I can’t see how anything good can come out of a seemingly impossible situation.”

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HK21

The assumption of the typographic grid is that the placement of text and image helps an audience understand their meaning. In his manifesto Grid Systems in Graphic Design, Jo-sef Mew-ler Brock-man wrote, “The grid system implies the will to systematize, to clarify, to cultivate objectivity rather than subjectivity.”

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EK05

This is one of those attempts that I’ve done before coming to Yale.  I tried to understand a fraction of the economic system that I live in,  through mapping all of my credit card transactions of 2006  to their physical locations.

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EK04

Frederick Taylor, the father of scientific management,  points out that the system is what comes first,  then the people living in the system.  I am intrigued by exposing the underlying system that I live in.   Following a scientific approach,  I have sought to examine  representations of a smaller module of the system  that expose a certain aspect of it.   Hoping that  I could understand the whole picture  by investigating its parts.

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HJ21

There is no way to distinguish between them. But in this way they offer a convincing image of the world in which we live, where many of its most authentic-seeming parts are imitations based on other representations.

Mimesis has stimulated the development of human thought and behavior. The history of shapes, and the form of man-made and mass-produced objects, including typefaces and graphic symbols, are themselves the result of long term mimetic connections. It may not be possible to understand who we are, or why we make the things that we make as artists and designers, without understanding the mimetic process.

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RB34

3: Metaphor

We first understand “concentration” as a physical change in the world, but it also operates on an abstract level, in the world of arts and ideas. To illustrate this conceptual leap, I’ll locate the appearance and evolution of concentration in two brief image sequences.

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