224 pages Edited by Michel Chenaud Text(s) by Geff Pellet, Linda Kúdrnoovská, Clara Debailly, Sophie Demay, Charlotte Guibert, Simon Renaud, Agathe Hocquet Designed by Léo Pico and Elsa Audouin 25.5 x 20.2 cm Language: French Softcover Publisher: Étapes 2016
Cyrillic, Arabic, scripts adopted by micro-societies, hieroglyphic inscriptions, ideograms, logographs, pictograms, or even ASCII code: how many systems of signs can be identified across the planet?
If some have been known to us for millennia, others have only just been discovered, and one can imagine that the future will reveal still more. From gesture to sign, from stroke to meaning, this issue explores the construction and evolution of linguistic systems within societies, with a particular focus on contemporary uses of the pictogram in communication, design, and architecture.
