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Lisa J. Maione 
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©2023 Lisa J. Maione. This work and research involves her collaborators, her students, Kansas City Art Institute and for instance, a design practice.

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Lisa J. Maione
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COURSE NAME
Degree Project (Self-Directed Spring Project)
 DESN 495-01
Kansas City Art Institute

COURSE DESCRIPTION
 The Senior Degree Project will focus on each student’s unique topic and voice, in what will serve as the culmination of the graphic design undergraduate education. The degree project will be addressed both theoretically and practically, through extensive research, writing, visual experimentation, class discussion, personal insight and interest.

KEY OBJECTIVES TO IDENTIFY
 — Who is your audience? What audience(s) do you wish to invest in?
— What is the content you are interested to activate?
— What is/are the context(s) in which an audience would view/interact with this content?
— What is/are the format(s) and the forms of distribution of these ideas? In what way(s) is accessibility a part of the work?

SCOPE OF WORK
0_ Exercises, reading discussions, peer to peer feedback, attendance, use of class time, desk crits.
1_ Project Scope: Minimum of 3 substantive phases/sets/components, in response to the proposed question(s) in your interest/research area
2_ Participate in group crits through listening to feedback and offering perspectives
3_ Final Presentation / Keynote + object/spatial
4_ Project presentation + representation in Senior Show
5_ Final Documentation (project narrative description; primary question and subquestions; lexicon; images of project; components with captions; bibliography / reading list)

SYLLABI FROM EACH ITERATION OF THE COURSE
Spring 2021 ︎︎︎
Spring 2018


Examples of Student Work 

Student Work by Anthony Williams, Spring 2021

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Sample Readings

Guest Critics




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