By Any Means of Making

Abstract

This thesis investigates how analog, low-cost making practices-rooted in DIY and punk aesthetics-can serve as effective tools for teaching foundational principles in graphic design, offering an alternative to software-dependent learning environments The following document can be broken into the following activities: Copy & Play, Type Set, and Lock Your Layers, which utilizes the Principles of Art and Design as learning objectives. These principles are then explored by the participants through playful interaction. By using commonly understood principles indesign, we create a baseline that can be used to compare with other design education research.