SEMIOSIS 101 – Semiotics for Visual Communicators
Welcome to Season Two, video 1 of Semiosis 101.
In this video we discuss the first of five ways people misunderstand what a semiotic sign is.
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!
Which means that I take you all back to basics, Bauhaus style, to rebuild your understanding to see the sign-action power of crafting effective semiotic signs to HOOK your target audience.
So watch the video in full or jump to the parts that really interest you…
00:09 Welcome to Video 2.1
01:10 Video 2.1: Why Semiotic Signs Are Not Signage – But Signage Uses Semiotics!
10:55 Semiosis 101 Information
12:28 Next Week’s Video Preview
Season 1 videos referenced in this video are:
1.9 The Truth About When A Sign Is A Sign
https://youtu.be/Vnt24q0ahzo
1.12 These TINY Semiotic Qualities Change EVERYTHING When Designing!
https://youtu.be/yYcXUFJb8_A
1.14 Why Logos Can’t Work Without Semiosis
https://youtu.be/n6Uis4Z5Nds
1.16 Put Some Firstness Into Your Designing and Illustrating
https://youtu.be/sB9EnlQnOYc
1.18 How Thirdness Mediates EVERYTHING YOU Design or Illustrate!
https://youtu.be/C4JwmHmqMxc
1.20 Semiotically Designing Possibilities Through Resemblances
ttps://youtu.be/tLlSywGK5z4
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Key Reading List:
The Essential Peirce, Volume 1
Nathan Houser and Christian J.W. Kloesel
https://amzn.to/3U5crdS
The Essential Peirce, Volume 2
The Peirce Edition Project
https://amzn.to/3fBItio
Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic by Charles Sanders Peirce
James Hoopes
https://amzn.to/3UjWal7
Semiosis: Semiotics and the History of Culture
Morris Halle, Ladislav Matejka, Boris Uspenskij and Krystyna Pomorska
https://amzn.to/3FZFo6F
Semiotics and Philosophy in Charles Sanders Peirce Rossella Fabbrichesi and Susanna Marietti
https://amzn.to/3fNrR7t
Charles S. Peirce’s Philosophy of Signs
Gérard Deledalle
https://amzn.to/3WQ2UJw
Peirce
Albert Atkin
https://amzn.to/3NPIo7u
Introduction to Peircean Visual Semiotics
Tony Jappy
https://amzn.to/3zCBMUd
Semiotics: The Basics
Daniel Chandler
https://amzn.to/3frhVAz
This Means This, This Means That
Sean Hall
https://amzn.to/3STh9de
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