Browsing Design and Visual Arts by Title
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He reo, he tikanga e whare nei i a tāua
(2015)TE POU KŌRERO – ABSTRACT This exegesis documents the journey of He reo, he tikanga e whare nei i a tāua, a moving image and sound project, expressing the significance of bicultural experiences in bilingual units within ... -
Horological furniture: An investigation into temporal form
(2011)Research Question: How can temporality be used to develop new strategies for the design of furniture? This exegesis documents the journey through my Masters of Design project Horological Furniture. An artefact’s ... -
How can products adapt to the challenges of the experience economy?
(2007)The basis of my research is an alternative approach to everyday-products design, which instead of catering for quick and clever functionality, comfort and aesthetics, seeks to deepen and augment users or audiences' experience, ... -
How is the ethnic identity of female Māori and Pacific artists constructed? : a study of life stories using vertical layers of discourse
(2018-08)Participants: 6 female artists of Māori and/or Pacific descent • Video ethnography: Audio-visual technology used to record participants engaging in their creative practice • Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis (MIA): ... -
Hunting : connecting hunter, animal and environment
(2012)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can we illustrate the respect the modern hunter conveys for the animal and the environment through containing the meat? Connecting the hunter, the animal and the environment is the basis for ... -
Ideal worlds : an investigation into the role fantasy plays in constructing imagery for visual practitioners within the context of contemporary painting
(2010)This research aims to investigate how archetypal imagery, as seen in the literature of fantasy and mythology, can inform procedures for constructing contemporary painting within the figurative and abstract elements. -
Industrial poetry
(2010-09-15)One of the great opportunities that increased access to technologies and information has brought, is interdisciplinary practice between the fine arts and industrial design.As a student, these two pathways had at first ... -
Interference: the restless drawing
(2012)This paper discusses a running interference that can be created through shifting a drawing from the analogue to the digital in a series of first year student works produced in the Interior Design pathway at the Unitec ... -
An investigation of interiority : beyond the boundaries of subject and into the practIce of painting
(2013)This document charts a painter’s intention to evolve ambiguous and geographically indeterminate spaces that are potentially neither inside nor outside, public or private that are constructed from two dimensional images, ... -
Justmytype: An exploration of documentary filmmaking for New Zealand typographic education
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION How can an online multi-part documentary series on perspectives and approaches to typography be used as an educational resource to enhance the teaching and learning of the subject? ABSTRACT The purpose ... -
Keeping watch : fabricating a space of hesitation
(2018)In 2011 the MV Rena struck the Astrolabe Reef in the Bay of Plenty, Aotearoa New Zealand. Stacks of containers fell from the ship and household goods, industrial items and oil washed into the sea coating beaches and birds. ... -
The knot not and the knot now
(2014)Chapter one discusses the role of craft in my art practice, and the strengths and weaknesses of such an approach. The next chapter centres around the idea that art can be a simple process of stripping away the detritus ... -
[Liberation by desecration]
(2011)This research aims to investigate how pictorial conventions used in a previous generation of expressionist painting (1980’s post avant-garde) can be reconstituted and appropriated to develop a contemporary painting practice. ... -
Looking through the eyes of others : an investigation into methodologies of 360 film making
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: Do the pre-existing methodologies in film and theatre lend themselves for the development of narrative content in first-person point of view Spherical Video? ABSTRACT: This Thesis represents my ... -
Lost in the Translation: the Challenge of Managing New Zealand's Professional Service Organisations
(2006)The world of work is changing in ways that could not have been anticipated 20 years ago, when the theory and practice of management was being developed around concepts of best practice and implementation of a winning ... -
Mansfield and me : intertexuality and the autobiographical impulse in the graphic novel : an exegesis
(2016-05-26)This research explores the practice of intertextuality in graphic memoirs and biographies. As Graham Allen writes, “Meaning becomes something which exists between a text and all the other texts to which it refers and ... -
Mapping Place.
(Loughborough University (Leicestershire, UK), 2014-02)The use of a site-based drawing methodology as a tool to map place was undertaken in the belief that it is possible to think of maps not as representations of an established reality but as a tool to produce new realities, ... -
Memorial Avenue
(2010-09-27)CONTENTS: Local heritage landscapes. Memorial Avenue, Centennial Park. Early images of the site. A brief history of the site. Site analysis through painting and drawing. A landscape sensitive to change. To tell the story. -
The metamorphosis of pictorial space (as experienced in a painting practice)
(2012)This practical and written research investigates abstract painting and its intrinsic relationship to pictorial space throughout the course of Modern Art. Influenced by the spatial and decorative qualities of Eastern art, ... -
Milan 2033 : seeds of the future
(2014-05)In 2013, the Politecnico di Milano celebrates its 150th anniversary. The closing event scheduled is a major exhibition at the Triennale di Milano, entitled Milano 2033. Seeds of the future. On this occasion, the University ...