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Book review : David Machin (ed.), Visual Communication
2016
Visual Representa of a Woman in the Semiotic Landscape of the Baltic States
2014
Linguistic landscape (LL) research of nine cities of the Baltic States shows that feminine discourse is of an essential significance in the public space. This is linguistically proved by feminine person’s names in ergonyms, also by female ergonyms and graffiti themes. However, there are multi-modal advertisements reflecting women and female items in the public space, and they are to be viewed from the perspective of the semiotic landscape. There are 294 photos reflecting a woman excerpted from the LL data base to describe visual images of a woman, focusing on the archetypes and concepts on woman’s role in society. There is a semiotic landscape research method, perception of a visual identit…
Matt Kish’s “Every Page of Moby-Dick, Illustrated”: A Multimodal Approach
2016
Abstract The purpose of this essay is to address the multimodal nature of Matt Kish’s project Every Page of Moby-Dick, Illustrated, where Herman Melville’s 1851 masterpiece is set as paratext. Particular focus is set on the portrayals of Captain Achab, specifically “Page 153”, “Page 465” and “Page 469”. The basic theoretical framework has been offered by Alice Gibbons’ theorization of multimodal cognitive poetics and Sigrid Norris’ systematization of multimodal (inter)action. Useful insight has been lent by Sharon Cameron’s work on allegories of the body in Melville’s writing. The given analysis aims to pinpoint the elements of innovation in Kish’s work with respect to the canonical formal …
Restauro e Comunicazione
2022
This study, which takes place in Palermo and is sponsored by the Interreg Italia-Malta programme, reflects on topics that are linked to both physical and cultural accessibility for the historical city, along with the importance of designing spaces of connection. One of this project’s main goals is to elaborate architectural and technolog-ical solutions in the field of accessibility as we contemporarily mean it. This goal can be achieved by linking the stories of the inhabitants to the ones of the monuments and the urban aggregation spaces such as squares and churchyards. Building a shared background between the architectonical restoration work group and the industrial design one has been fu…
Aiap Women in Design Award (AWDA) : Short History and Perspectives
2020
The biennial award organized by Aiap (the Italian Associa- tion of Visual Communication Design) intends to investigate the languages, poetics and different approaches to commu- nication design and explore the conditions in which women designers work. Not to examine a protected area or search for peculiarities characterizing women’s design methodol- ogy (Ferrara, 2018). Nevertheless, to act as a place whence to observe a partly hidden dimension, to use single projects to bring to light the wide-ranging, diverse world of women communication designers (Piscitelli, 2015). The award intends to emphasize the role that women graphic designers have or had in the professional and educational areas, …
AIAP DESIGN PER, INTERNATIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGN WEEK 2017, CULTURE VISIBILI
2017
Aiap Design Per, International Graphic Design Week, organizzata dall’Associazione italiana design della comunicazione visiva, si svolgerà nel 2017 a Roma, nella città che per storia, cultura, estensione, popolazione e ruolo strategico, politico e simbolico ha una assoluta centralità nel panorama nazionale ed è, oltre che capitale d’Italia, per antonomasia la Città, scenario ideale per le Culture visibili di cui ci occuperemo. Roma diventa il territorio sul quale riflettere e dibattere, analizzare e confrontare contesti, dinamiche, linguaggi e pratiche. Un luogo da utilizzare come contesto di riferimento da trasformare in paradigma per altre città; per prefigurare scenari futuri, per immagin…
AWDA Aiap Women in Design Award
2018
Aiap Women in Design Award è un progetto ambizioso che prosegue una linea di ricerca, da molti anni avviata, rivolta a indagare le diverse espressioni del progetto grafico, attenta a ricostruire quei frammenti che raccontano la storia continua, passata e presente del design della comunicazione visiva, nel tentativo ininterrotto di non soffermarsi su aspetti isolati ma di ricomporre quei contesti socio-economici in cui le designer lavorano e costruiscono i loro linguaggi espressivi, per tradurre attraverso il progetto, invisibili contenuti in materia di comunicazione visiva. Aiap Women in Design Award is an ambitious project which develops a line of research that was started several years ag…
“Sicilia”. Una, nessuna, centomila Sicilie / ‘Sicilia’. One, no one and one hundred thousand Sicilies
2013
Sicilia, è una rivista che ancora oggi ha molto da raccontare e insegnare, nella sua assoluta visionarietà così costantemente in bilico tra l’essere un periodico visceralmente siciliana e ancor più palermitana e l’essere una rivista internazionale, contemporanea, poliglotta, sperimentale e proiettata verso nuovi scenari. Sicilia, senza timore di potere essere tacciata di inutile campanilismo, merita di essere studiata in modo ben più approfondito di quanto sia stato fatto sinora, attraverso un’attenta analisi condotta nei diversi ambiti disciplinari coinvolti tra le pieghe delle sue pagine. In questa sede proveremo ad approfondire il suo studio analizzando la rivista, quale complesso artefa…
Rappresentare il cambiamento. Street art e rigenerazione urbana a Palermo
2018
Da qualche anno Palermo è oggetto di attenzione da parte di artisti che, da varie parti del mondo, hanno scelto la città quale luogo delle proprie sperimentazioni. Tale fermento ha visto il proliferare di interventi di street art, spesso strumenti di denuncia sociale, in edifici abbandonati, zone urbane degradate, lottizzazioni abusive o edificazioni a ridosso della linea di costa. Recently Palermo is the subject of attention by artists who, from various parts of the world, have chosen the city as the place of their experimentations.This ferment has seen the proliferation of street art, often instruments of social denunciation, realised in abandoned buildings, degraded urban areas, illegal …
“I am cobalt” Thérèse Moll
2020
Thérèse Moll (1934 - 1961), a little known but by no means secondary figure, is part of the history of visual communication design in which she left a brief but lasting trace. Moll is enrolled at the School of Arts and Crafts in Basel where she meets important designers and teachers including Armin Hoffman, Emil Ruder, Karl Gerstner and Antonio Boggeri. Still very young, she receives an invitation to be a visiting designer at MIT in Boston. At the beginning of 1959, Thérèse Moll arrives in the U.S.A. and during her four-month stay she works with Jacqueline S. Casey and Ralph Coburn at MIT’s Office of Publications, radically modifying the MIT communication, while at the same time introducing…