SEMIOSIS 101 on YouTube
This week’s SEMIOSIS 101: Semiotics for Visual Communicators Video…
SEMIOSIS 101 on YouTube - Season 2
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2.0 Season 2 Preview: The Semiotic Rosetta Stone of Design and Illustration?
This is a preview video for Semiosis 101 season 2 discusses the theme of a Semiotic Rosetta Stone and how the application of Semiosis enhances visual communication to our audiences.
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2:1. Why Semiotic Signs Are Not Signage - But Signage Uses Semiotics!
In this episode the main focus is separating signage from semiotic signs, and dispelling the false syllogism that because they are both “signs” they surely must be the same thing!
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2.2. Ideation Vs Autopsy: How Applied Semiotics Can Proactively Enhance Visual Communicating
In this video we focus on Semiosis as proactive ideation, instead of a post-publication analytical autopsy tool, and dispel the thought that semiotics is the “thing you do” after the design.
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2:3. Creativity Was Never The Same After Applying Semiosis Everyday!
In this episode we will explore in more detail how applying sign-action to connect with your target audience every day enhances your visual communication abilities.
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2:4. Why Semiotic Books Don’t Tell You How To: A Designer-centric Semiotic Book Review
This video IS a first for Semiosis 101 - a book review. With a difference. I am keen to share some of the semiotic books that helped me make sense of Peirce’s theory of Semiosis.
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2:5. Forget What You Think You Know, To Semiotically Improve How You Visually Communicate
There is no shortcut to understanding Peirce’s sign-action but Semiosis 101 knows an easier route through his theory. Built on my trial and errors in Designerland so far!
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2.6 What Can Semiotics Do For Me?
In this video we discuss the question What can semiotics do for me? The answer may not be what you expect, as I review two books from different perspectives.
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2:7. Creative Hacks to Semiotically Communicate Anything to AnyoneNew List Item
In this video we continue our discussion from last week about what semiotics can do for ‘me,’ onto encoding richer meaning instead.
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SEMIOSIS 101 on YouTube - Season 1
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1.1: The Elephant in the Design Studio
Season 1, Episode 1: The Elephant in the Design Studio
In this video we define the two forms of semiotic theory. We will see how Semiosis - Peircean semiotics - is relevant in commercial creative practice, by aligning our design processes to Hall’s semiotic journey.
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1.2: Semiosis for Designers & Illustrators
Season 1, Episode 2: Semiosis for Designers & Illustrators
In this 2nd episode we will focus on how Peirce's sign-action (Semiosis) differs from Saussure's Semiology…
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1.3: The Semiotic Journey
Season 1, Episode 3: The Semiotic Journey
This week’s 3rd episode on general Peircean semiotic theory for illustrators and designers, we will focus on revisiting Hall's The Semiotic Journey in the context of Peirce's Semiosis.…
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1.4: The Semiosis Box Of Tricks
Season 1, Episode 4: The Semiosis Box Of Tricks
In this week’s 4th episode we will focus on explaining the sign-action of Semiosis with The Semiosis Box of Tricks using a box metaphor by Roderick Munday…
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1.5: Revealing How Semiosis Enhances Your Creativity
Season 1, Episode 5: Revealing How Semiosis Enhances Your Creativity
This week in our 5th episode we will expand on last week’s video explainer on sign-action (Semiosis) and go a little deeper into how the Determination Flow works…
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1.6: The Truth About How Semiosis Enhances Visual Communication
Season 1, Episode 6: The Truth About How Semiosis Enhances Visual Communication
In this week’s 6th semiotic episode we will focus on how Semiosis aligns itself with another theory that benefits visual communication - Gestalt Theory.
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1.7: I Regret Not Knowing The Creative Power of Semiosis
Season 1, Episode 7: I Regret Not Knowing The Creative Power of Semiosis
In this 7th episode we go a little deeper into Peirce’s language in the context of semiotic sign-action, AND take a sneak peek at Peirce’s ten semiotic sign classifications…
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1.8: 10 Semiotic Signs in Semiosis In 10 Minutes
Season 1, Episode 8: 10 Semiotic Signs in Semiosis In 10 Minutes
In this week’s 8th episode we will begin to explore the basis for Peirce’s ten signs in more depth and why you don’t need to be flummoxed by Peirce’s academic terminology…
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1.9: The Truth About When A Sign Is A Sign…
Season 1, Episode 9: The Truth About When A Sign Is A Sign…
In this week’s 9th episode we will focus on When Is A Sign A Sign? What I mean by that is the fundamental starting point of semiotics… What is an actual semiotic sign?
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1.10: Illustrating In 10 mins The Power of Semiotic Sign-action
Season 1, Episode 10: Illustrating In 10 mins The Power of Semiotic Sign-action
In this week’s 10th episode we will focus on all three levels of semiotic representation of a concept …Iconic, Indexical and Symbolic in the context of illustration.
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Ep11. This Changed My Designing… Semiosis: Semiotic Sign-action In Action
In this week’s eleventh episode “This Changed My Designing…Semiosis Semiotic Sign-action in Action” we will focus on all three levels of semiotic representation of a concept …Iconic, Indexical and Symbolic n the context of graphic design. Thanks to www.jackrenwickstudio.com for permission to use the Carpenter’s Wharf branding. Watch The Video.
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Ep12. These TINY Semiotic Qualities Change EVERYTHING When Designing!
This week we have a slightly longer than usual 12th video on Iconicity. In it we dig deeper into what Peirce’s Iconicity means for illustrators and designers, by looking at professional sketchbooks. How can illustrators and designers craft better connections with your target audiences? Watch The Video.
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Ep13. This NEW Approach to Semiotic Representation Will Change Your Designing FOREVER!
In this 13th episode we discuss how Indexical #semiotic representation can give a range of new visual communication connotative possibilities to connect with your target audiences. Watch the Video.
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Ep14. Why Logos Can’t Work Without Semiosis
In this 14th video on Symbolic representation we look at how a grouping of ICONIC colours, lines, and shapes, in a particular formation, can Symbolically come to mean a concept. Just think of any brand's logo. Watch This Video.
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Ep15. To the Things Themselves or You’re Designing it Wrong…
This 15th video is the last full weekly video for 2022, and introduces what we will concentrate on in January 2023… using phenomenology to understand how illustrators and designers can improve how to semiotically connect with target audiences. Watch This Video.
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Ep16. Put Some 'Firstness' Into Designing And Illustrating…
In this 16th Semiosis 101 season one episode, we will wrestle with Peirce’s philosophical thinking behind the state of “Firstness” to help illustrators and designers to better understand their audiences. Watch This Video.
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Ep17. Applying Idea Generation Within Secondness Will Change Your Visual Communication FOREVER!
In this 17th Semiosis 101 season one episode, we will put Peirce’s SECOND philosophical category of experience (or consciousness) into the context of visual communication… and audiences. Watch This Video.
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Ep18. How Thirdness Mediates EVERYTHING You Design or Illustrate!!
In this 18th Semiosis 101 season one episode, we we focus in on the final philosophical category of experience - “Thirdness”. in which logos and other outputs of Visual Communication Design operate. Watch This Video.
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Ep19. 3 Noisy Bad Habits Every Designer and Illustrator Should Give Up
In this 19th Semiosis 101 episode we will refocus on our AUDIENCE again …semiotically speaking… and three “noisy” bad habits designers and illustrators should improve by improving your application of Semiosis. Watch This Video.
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Ep20. 3 Semiotic Habits That’ll Change your Designing or Illustrating
This twentieth Semiosis 101 video marks the end of season 1 of Semiosis 101 videos. This week in around 10-minutes, we will look at three pieces of good semiotic sign-action to change how you design or illustrate. Watch The Video.
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Princess Sazzles
…Fearless adventurer, tiger hunter & all round good egg.
A video of the book Princess Sazzles and the Freshfield Tiger I wrote, illustrated and designed for my niece's 21st birthday. (Book not for sale).
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an illustration retrospective 1999-01
by Dave Wood
A retrospective that covers Dave Wood's ten year career as an illustrator. This book has over 100 pages of colour and B&W illustrations, with an introduction that charts the highs and lows of a UK illustration career during the 1990s.