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Part 1: Sign Recognition, Sign Formation -- Introduction: Three Themes. 1. Disorder-order -- 2. Remembering A Figure -- 3. Light And Shadow - Black And White -- 1. The Elements Of A Sign -- Ii. The Basic Signs -- Joining Signs Together -- Iv. The Sign In Ornaments -- V. Signs Of Dualism -- Vi. The Solid -- Vii. The Simulation Of Volume -- Viii. The Diversity Of Appearance -- Attempt At A Visual Synthesis -- Part 2: Speech-fixing Signs -- I. From Thought To Picture -- Ii. Speech Fixing -- Iii. The Graphic Wealth Of Pictograms -- Iv. The World's Alphabets -- V. The Abc Of The Western World -- Vi. Development Of Form Through Writing And Printing Techniques -- Vii. Manipulated Letterforms -- Viii. Text Type And Its Legibility -- Ix. Numerical Signs -- X. Punctuation Signs -- Part 3: Sign, Symbol, Emblem, Signal -- Introduction -- I. From Illustration To Symbol -- Ii. The Symbol -- Iii. The Graphic Wealth Of Figurative Symbols -- Iv. Abstract Symbols -- V. Signs Of Pseudoscience And Magic -- Vi. Signature Signs -- Vii. Signs Of Community -- Viii. Trademarks -- Ix. Technical And Scientific Signs -- X. Signal Signs -- Toward A Synthesis -- Epilogue. Adrian Frutiger ; Translated By Andrew

Author

Frutiger, Adrian, 1928-2015.

Publisher

Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989.

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780442239183

Subjects

Sociology, Literary Fiction, Humanities