Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

Inform or A to Z

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2016-January-01
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Designed to call attention to itself and the network of ideologies that create it, INFORM is a typeface that intentionally disrupts the process of reading in order to display the ways in which gender norms and typefaces structure one another...

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NET/STALGIA: Nostalgia-Tripping on the Internet Aesthetic

Publication Date
2014-January-01
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As the Internet drifts away from being a novel technology, people have increasingly become fascinated by the sometimes-garish, comparatively rudimentary aesthetics of the early web. Using Walter Benjamin's reflections on the Parisian arcades as a framework, I propose that this...

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