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dc.contributor.advisorAndrew, Rick-
dc.contributor.advisorSutherland, Ian-
dc.contributor.authorCarey, Piers Christianen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-31T06:49:57Z
dc.date.available2017-01-31T06:49:57Z
dc.date.issued2004-
dc.identifier.otherDIT107415-
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10321/2197-
dc.descriptionDissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the academic requirements for the Master of Technology Degree: Graphic Design, Durban Institute of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2004.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis project has investigated African graphic systems, both writing systems and systems of symbolic graphics. These systems are commonly used in Graphic Design, but those of African origin have been largely ignored in both the applied discipline, and in its History and Theory. The project has attempted to explain this in historical and theoretical terms: its motivation is described in terms of countering the exclusion of African visual culture in the face of historical and ideological factors such as colonialism and globalisation. The project's research aims were to collect as much information as feasible on these systems; and to classify them according to such criteria as their language or cultural group, their location, and the functional nature of the systems. From this body of information a smaller number of representative systems were selected for further description and discussion, in order to highlight the variety of systems existing in Africa, their historical development, and techniques and materials used. These selected systems were then used as inspiration and raw material for a body of applied Graphic Design work, which is intended to provide a visual introduction to the material, and to promote and advocate the revaluation of this cultural material. Information has mainly been gathered by means of library and internet search, in order to establish approximately the extent of the literature in the public sphere. Because of the obscurity of most of this information, it has been gathered from such other disciplines as Linguistics, Anthropology, or History. The project has established the existence of a large number of graphic symbols and systems, and gathered a body of literature and references about them. Many are poorly documented, if at all, and even those for which extensive literatureen_US
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dc.subject.lcshGraphic arts--Historyen_US
dc.subject.lcshGraphic arts--South Africaen_US
dc.subject.lcshVisual communicationen_US
dc.subject.lcshGraphic arts--Study and teaching--South Africaen_US
dc.titleAfrican graphic systems: a preliminary study, with reference to the history and theory of graphic designen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.description.levelMen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.51415/10321/2197-
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