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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00005
- Thesis Title
- Design: interface of contemporary culture
- Author
- Adriana de Souza e Silva
- E-mail
- silvaad AT ucla.edu
- 2nd Author
- NULL
- 3rd Author
- NULL
- Degree
- Master of Arts (MA)
- Year
- 1999
- Number of Pages
- 182
- University
- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- Thesis Supervisor
- Katia Valeria Maciel Toledo
- Supervisor e-mail
- NULL
- Other Supervisor(s)
- NULL
- Language(s) of Thesis
- Portuguese
- Department / Discipline
- Communication and Image Technology
- Copyright Ownership
- Adriana de Souza e Silva
- Languages Familiar to Author
- Portuguese, English, German, French, Spanish
- URL where full thesis can be found
- www.souzaesilva.com/research/research.html
- Keywords
- graphic design, deconstruction, typography, Internet, multiuser environments
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- This Thesis analyzes graphic design as an interface of contemporary culture. The transition from modern (functional) design to contemporary (deconstructed)design represents a technological change in the process of information transmission and reception. The concept of interface is developed in the light of two different standpoints: first, a historical analysis of graphic design (which includes the history of typography, that is, the basis of the process of visual communication). Second, we study the history of the concept of interface itself. This history focuses on the fact that the change of interfaces has always been related to the way people deal with information. Finally, the last part of this thesis centers on deconstructionism as a characteristic of contemporary graphic interface. The presence of deconstruction is analyzed both in graphic design and on the design of websites and multiuser environments.