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The course combines theoretical grounding with practical design approaches. It examines the historical evolution of museum architecture and the role of exhibitions in constructing cultural narratives, power relations, and systems of representation. At the same time, it emphasizes the translation of curatorial and institutional concepts into spatial experiences through interpretive strategies, narrative sequencing, and visitor-centered design.
A strong focus is placed on the spatial and technical components of exhibition making. Students engage with circulation planning, display systems, object placement, and communication tools such as text, graphics, and media. Core design elements—including lighting, color, materials, and environmental conditions—are studied both in terms of perceptual impact and conservation requirements. The course also introduces professional standards, accessibility principles, and the integration of digital and interactive technologies within coherent conceptual frameworks.
Throughout the semester, students develop the ability to synthesize architectural, curatorial, and interpretive thinking into structured exhibition proposals. The course culminates in a final project in which students design and present a concept-driven exhibition, demonstrating their capacity to integrate research, spatial organization, technical considerations, and communication strategies into a cohesive and meaningful visitor experience.
- Teacher: Erge YurtdaS
This course focuses on fundamental design elements and principles such as harmony, contrast, balance, unity, dilemma, dominance, repetition, rhythm, analogy, metaphor. It also includes the colour theory and its application to design. Students are also introduced to the Euclidean geometry, composition of shapes, forms and shapes with the emphasis on their visual expression such as light, colour, texture, gestalt principles of perception, figure-ground relations, orientation, formal transformations, interdependence and relationships; studies on ordering systems; introduction of abstract/real concepts in a design. The aim of the course is to motivate creativity, hand-eye coordination, and artistic perception by focusing on the basics of design elements and design principles for graphic design students.
- Teacher: Vildan Acan
- Teacher: Vusal Bagirov
- Teacher: Vildan Acan
This course based on wayfinding, symbol, logo, signs and pictogram designs. Students will be able to develop designs regarding to the public places such as museums, libraries, airports, schools etc.
- Teacher: Hakan Dag
Preparing a magazine and a series of book design with using one or all of the media and multimedia techniques such as illustration, photography, and typography. Studies on the realization of graphic projects. Students in this course will tackle advanced-level layout projects that push their design skills to the limit. Students will learn how to build strong foundations for the page design, explore creative applications for lines and shapes, and discover how to break the rules while maintaining the underlying structure of a page. Case studies will analyze carefully selected examples of layout designs considered to be classics of graphic print design.
- Teacher: Vusal Bagirov
- Teacher: Vildan Acan
- Teacher: Gurkan Gokasan
Students of the Department of Graphic Design are expected to present a project in detail by using the knowledge and skills that they had gained through their education and by keeping the basic principles of graphical design in mind. The main goal is to provide a designer identity to the senior students of the department before their approaching graduation. The students focus on local design problems as festivals of Cyprus, museums, social campaigns and so on. After detecting the local issues, campaigns begin to develop in terms of global design criteria. During the course, students develop their project as an advertising campaign. After giving the identity to the project, they run the necessary research. After determining the target audience students organize the campaign.
- Teacher: Vildan Acan
- Teacher: Elif Dag
- Teacher: Hakan Dag
The course includes introducing the graphic designers/other designers on the professional life as a professional portfolio and effective CV. Students will get the important points of preparing portfolio and they will create on digital and also hard copy.
- Teacher: Gurkan Gokasan
Students in Graphic design are required to complete a major graduating project, this course will prepare them to find their area of interest and develop their theoretical premise, the problem / issue, the program and the parameters of their project. Students must complete a draft of the Graduate project proposal by the end of these semester. The proposal should state and define the area of their inquiry, the project’s rationale, objectives, and methods to be followed during the project. In this course, they will learn how to write academically without plagiarism while they will get to know different styles of writings and research. This course will be the base of their graduation project and the graphic design solution.
- Teacher: Vildan Acan
- Teacher: Aycan Yucel