Date of Award
Spring 5-22-2026
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Graphic Design
First Advisor
John Caserta
Second Advisor
Anther Kiley
Abstract
Put on a pair of glasses. What do you see? People? Trees? Cars? Buildings? Now focus on the glasses themselves. Can you see the frame? Why is it that you donʼt notice it until now?
Glasses make the world feel clearer, sharper, more accurate. But what youʼre seeing is always a view inside a frame. The glasses give you a frame, and show you the world through it. Once you get used to that frame, you forget that everything you see is already inside one. Most of us forget that the frame of our glasses is always there—at the edge of everything we look at. But now that Iʼve pointed it out, you canʼt unsee it.
Frameworks explores how, as a graphic designer, I create conditions for audiences to recognize the frames through which they see the world—and to become comfortable with the discomfort of having no solid ground beneath them.
Recommended Citation
Lee, Hailey, "Frameworks" (2026). Masters Theses. 1636.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/1636
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