Véritable icône bibliophilique, artisan du livre moderne, promoteur de la culture graphique, Geoffroy Tory reste et demeure un inclassable. Imprimeur officiel de François Ier, illustrateur attitré de Du Bellay, créateur de la cédille, de l’apostrophe et des lettres accentuées, ce maître de la mise en page est un père spirituel pour un grand […]
Category Archives: semiotic
Rachel Whiteread
Mike Bruce / Hammer Museum These wood objects were collected by Whiteread’s young son as a substitute for the toy guns he was forbidden to own. via Rachel Whiteread – latimes.com.
Giant penis crop-circle mysteriously erected at Eiffel Tower in Paris
Holy dueling Gallic phallic symbols, Batman! French journalist Aude Baron tells Boing Boing, On Friday, if you were going to the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, you could see a giant penis! It was drawn into the snow covering the grass. A Dutch tourist took a picture and posted it on Twitter. Amazing view! But what […]
Homer – conceptual graffiti
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Sten and Lex’s “Poster Stencils”
Sara and I have been following the work of Sten and Lex in Italy for many years. We’ absolutel love their latest body of work, created for their current solo show at the CO2 GALLERY in Rome. They call this recent series “Poster Stencils” because, in essence, they are both stencils and posters at the […]
Introduction to Communication Studies, John Fiske
“For semiotics, on the other hand, the message is a construction of signs which, through interacting with the receivers, produce meanings. The sender, defined as transmitter of the message, declines in importance. The emphasis shifts to the text and how it is ‘read’. And reading is the process of discovering meanings that occurs when the […]