BFA THESIS

I took a class in print making called Pixels to Ink, because my beliefs of Print making and Graphic Design are that the computer is a tool to help aid the printing process. My passion has been making T-shirts and posters, so screen printing was a dream come true. Print making in my opinion ads more quality of the hand to the Design work.

I believe that mass production is what print making was designed to do. For my thesis I intend on exploring print making, and how Print making has shaped Graphic Design. I plan on studying and exploring the combination of Graphic Design work and Print making through, Screen printing and Woodblock prints the art of T-shirt design, while also exploring Phenomenology.

I have been looking at a brief history of political and social awareness in posters, looking at the history of symbols in poster design, most of the symbols were used during World War I for identifying enemy air crafts and vehicles.

"A building like the White House, or the Capital, or the Kremlin, these buildings intimidate people to bow down. And there's very interesting balance between beauty and respect and intimidation, and the wielding of symbols to dominate. One of the things I've always tried to do with my work was to use symbols but also toy with the meaning of symbols so that people start to question how they are manipulated by symbols." -Shepard Fairey

The symbols or shapes were given to people originally to inform people of planes and tanks. People now use symbols for everyday life, people associate a swastika's with Nazi's, dollar signs with money or capitalism, a skull and crossbones with death or poison, possibly even pirates. One of the more popular symbol these days is a simple ribbon in a specific color can mean so many things. A pink ribbon means you support breast cancer awareness, yellow for our troops, black for P.O.W's, red for aids. The list goes on, you can see these symbols everywhere you look.

People can also associate buildings as symbols, terrorists attacked a building that was a symbol of America's economic wealth, the World Trade Center. This was one of the largest acts of iconoclasm that America has seen in a long time. Foreigners viewed the Trade Center towers as a sign of wealth. People, meaning the