Authors of the world unite! ✊🏻

Prog 86 and this Bolland belter blew me away

My latest semiotic book newsletter is now available to read on Semiosis 101’s Semiotic Resource
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003: My writing process… the initial 'draft' of my new #Semiotics for #Designers and #Illustrators book.

Please have a read of the newsletter (and a repost is always welcome)…

My latest Semiotics for Designers and Illustrators book newsletter is available
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002: I answer the "So What?" question…

I discuss why Charles Sanders Peirce’s #semiotic theory helps #designers and #illustrators to enhance how they visually communicate.

Ian Gibson 🤞🏻

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Semiotics for Designers and Illustrators will be published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts in Spring 2026. I just now need to do all the boring paperwork, diagrams, etc. over Easter and it will all be ready to submit. 2/2

In FOREVER ENCODERS: Why You Have Always Been Working Semiotically we review Semiosis 101’s season 3 to explore what we have discovered about #Peirce's semiotics so far. In youtu.be/5YW4b1JKrsI we go on a deep dive into ways Semiosis can be applied into #design or #illustration
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In SEMIOTIC SIGNS: Think… Design… Semiosis… we reveal the application of semiotic sign-action. A thank you to co-directors Ian Fuggle & Sara Jane Chapman for permission to use Hudson Fuggle’s work as an example on Semiosis 101 youtu.be/oDmYYkyTt6o #design #illustration #Peirce
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In SEMIOTIC SIGN-ACTION-IN-ACTION we wrap up this season’s theme of encoding semiotic signs with sign-action-in-action. In this episode I will illustrate what we have learnt using an example from #illustration produced by myself youtu.be/wqrmNGzhrPc #design #Peirce
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In TEN WAYS TO FRAME MEANING: Encoding Different Levels of Engagement we discuss how to use #Peirce’s 10 semiotic sign classes to frame meaning for different purposes through 3 lenses of Perception, Representation & Delivery youtu.be/Mv9NqGDhMUY #design #illustration #Peirce
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In SIGN-VEHICLES: Semiotically Getting Meaning Into the World we will expand on what #Peirce’s ten semiotic sign classes can mean within contemporary #design or #illustration practice. This will be delivered to you through three semiotic sign-vehicles youtu.be/u1yPGULWGsw
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