Linguistics

Explains the meanings for more than two thousand symbols from mythology, fairy tales, religion, literature, history, and archaeology.

Explores the language of symbols in art, showing how paintings, drawings, and sculpture express many shades of meaning from simple, everyday hopes and fears to the profoundest philosophical and religious aspirations; explains and interprets symbols from many cultures, and over 600 illustrations clarify and complement the text.

Explores religious themes that have dominated Western painting and sculpture from its beginnings.

Identifies the symbolic meaning of over one thousand numbers, letters, astrological symbols, alchemical terms, plants, animals, places, shapes, images, and designs.

Provides an overview of the research methodologies in visual communication; includes an examination of the theories most common to visual communication, the traditional methodologies used in these theoretical areas, and innovative methodologies that extend the traditional research boundaries.

Offers an essential guide to those working in a range of disciplines including: media and communication studies, sociology, anthropology, education, psychoanalysis, and health studies.

Presents languages and notation systems of ID and the integration of these technologies in education.

Gives designers a design palette, an inspirational showcase, and a grounding in practical principles.

Organized by the building blocks of the graphic design language; provides clear, concise information that will enhance visual literacy, while using dynamic, memorable visual references to inspire and reinforce the skill of seeing.

Illustrates the way type, color, mapmaking, dimensional forms, material selection, and new media are used to create effective wayfinding systems.

Features over 1300 symbols, organized into groups and sub-groups according to their visual characteristics; sections interspersed with short case studies on both classic examples of symbols still in use, and exceptional examples of recently designed symbols.

The first book to look at all the main types of visual icons, doing so via eleven supreme and mega-famous examples, both historical and contemporary, to see how they arose and how they continue to function.

Provides contemporary readers and museum visitors with the tools to read the hidden meanings in works of art; divided thematically into four sections featuring symbols related to time, man, space (earth and sky), and allegories or moral lessons.

Probes the complex connection between perception and linguistics in the use of signs.

Bringing together diverse logos from over 30 countries, organized into chapters by theme, such as socio-political, food and beverage, technology, and consumer products, this book provides a full index at the end, which lists each logo's company, designer, and designer's website.

Revealing how common symbols resonate at a gut level, examines the basic shapes that have found their way into human design since the very earliest times; deconstructs famous logos and designs that use symbols, patterns and shapes to convey meaning.

Carefully structured to build a sequenced, rounded introduction to the subject.

Explains clearly the subtle, complex workings of the medium and its unique way of combining visual, verbal, spatial, and chronological expressions.

Explores the role of the narrator, both verbal and visual, and the particular issues that arise out of narration in autobiographical comics; tackles the question of rhythm in comics; and resets the relationship of comics to contemporary art.

Offers readers a unique look at the intricate and sometimes contradictory storylines that weave their way through comic books, and shares advice for navigating the pages of some of the most popular, longest-running, and best-loved comics and graphic novels out there.