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TITLE
THESIS
The Echo Theory
In a world where design students are offered a single
survey class focused on all of design history, with
PROJECT
textbooks that are dense and type heavy and only skim
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the surface of the eras, and with the Internet offering
YEAR
Spring 2015
millions of sites and search engines with incomplete
or scattered information of design history—students
of graphic design are left unable to truly understand or
COURSE
retain the history for future application or inspiration.
Thesis
In this fast-paced, technology driven world something
has happened in or rush forward; we have forgotten to
INSTRUCTORS
look back. We have lost site of the story that is design
Phil Hamlett
and the history that has built the world of design that
Jeremy Stout
we know and love today. The goal of The Echo Theory
Carolina de Bartolo
is to reconnect designers and design history for a
Hunter Wimmer
better design future.
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