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Introduction

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Reading

Main reading

‘Safety, Speed and Commerce’ p146—153 David Crow (2006) Left to Right / the cultural shift from words to pictures. Lausanne: AVA Publishing.

other Resources

‘Speech Fixing Signs’ p111—150 Adrian Frutiger (1989). Signs and Symbols. London: Studio Edition

Skittish Skirts and Scanty Silouhettes: The Tribulations of Gender in Modern Signage Pedro Bessa (2008) Universidade de Aveiro Visible Language 42.2 Bessa, 119-141 .


 

Workshop

This workshop is designed to take 2-3 hours.

In the first few years we ran these workshops, students worked by hand working with printed images, a scalpel and magic tape.

In the pandemic, we adapted the workshop. You can find the Adobe Illustrator files for the workshop below. Use the knife tool like a scalpel to do the workshop activities.

Workshop downloads

Workshop Video (Coming soon)
Workshop slides (PDF)
Workshop Warmup (Adobe Illustrator)
Workshop Grid (Adobe Illustrator)

Development

development task

Taking inspiration from the Pictolution project by Marije de Haas, we'd like you to use the process from the workshop to create your own visual language.

  1. Download the files below

  2. Choose 5 pictograms from the given set

  3. Use the artboards to collide the pictograms in different ways

  4. Choose the most successful experiments and add to this final grid

  5. Write 50 words of reflection on the process