Hi everyone, welcome to the Semiosis 101 reading lists of books on Peircean semiotic theory, general semiotic theory and design.
In this thread will be three annotated reading lists of 50+ for paid subscribers to help their further reading on semiotics.
Free Subscribers For those of you who are supporting Semiosis 101 in kind with a free subscription you can also access these books, a few at a time, via each week’s free Semiosis 101 video’s description.
Paid Subscribers As a benefit for paid subscribers I have collated these books into three comprehensive interactive further reading book lists:
Annotated Pragmatic Theory Book List - Underpinning theoretical reading
Annotated Design Book List - Design books referenced in Semiosis 101 videos
What are in the annotated booklists? Paid subscribers get access to these booklists which feature a short annotated paragraph describing each book in the context of designing semiotics, an Amazon link, PLUS a Harvard citation reference for each book (to help any researchers out there!)
Students can get a 24 hour free trial subscription access here with a university email…
Introduction to Peircean Visual Semiotics by Tony Jappy
This incredibly important book was crucial to my understanding of Peirce during my PhD. Jappy helps disseminate, in a more agreeable way, Peircean semiotic theory to non-semioticians. It is still a philosophical book, but it is a great interface between Peirce and everyone else. Tony Jappy has kindly referred other design academics to me as he is aware of my Semiotic Rosetta Stone research.
Jappy, T. (2013) Introduction to Peircean Visual Semiotics. London: Bloomsbury.
Annotated Pragmatic Theory Book List Example
Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art by Richard Shusterman
Pragmatic Aesthetics is an important book on understanding aesthetics as experience. Rooted in Pragmatism, this philosophical book builds on John Dewey’s theory of Art as Experience, and it certainly helps designers and illustrators to see their practice as experience thus giving an aesthetic Pragmatic alignment with Peirce’s Semiosis.
Shusterman, R. (1992) Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art (2nd Edition). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Annotated Design Book List Example
Designing Audiences by AIGA New York Chapter
In Semiosis 101 I frame Peirce’s Semiosis theory as a way for Visual Communication Designers to connect their work with their target audiences. Through the triadic nature of Semiosis involving the interpretation in the sign-action, books like this from a designer-centric perspective offers semioticians with clues on how design and semiotics can be synthesised. This book by the New Your chapter of AIGA is a good reference book to do that.
AIGA New York Chapter (2008) Designing Audiences. New York. Princeton Architectural Press.
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Hi everyone, welcome to the Semiosis 101 reading lists of books on Peircean semiotic theory, general semiotic theory and design.
In this thread will be three annotated reading lists of 50+ for paid subscribers to help their further reading on semiotics.
Free Subscribers
For those of you who are supporting Semiosis 101 in kind with a free subscription you can also access these books, a few at a time, via each week’s free Semiosis 101 video’s description.
Paid Subscribers
As a benefit for paid subscribers I have collated these books into three comprehensive interactive further reading book lists:
Annotated Pragmatic Theory Book List - Underpinning theoretical reading
Annotated Design Book List - Design books referenced in Semiosis 101 videos
What are in the annotated booklists?
Paid subscribers get access to these booklists which feature a short annotated paragraph describing each book in the context of designing semiotics, an Amazon link, PLUS a Harvard citation reference for each book (to help any researchers out there!)
Students can get a 24 hour free trial subscription access here with a university email…
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Annotated Semiotic Booklist Example
Introduction to Peircean Visual Semiotics by Tony Jappy
This incredibly important book was crucial to my understanding of Peirce during my PhD. Jappy helps disseminate, in a more agreeable way, Peircean semiotic theory to non-semioticians. It is still a philosophical book, but it is a great interface between Peirce and everyone else. Tony Jappy has kindly referred other design academics to me as he is aware of my Semiotic Rosetta Stone research.
https://amzn.to/3UpWDlx
Jappy, T. (2013) Introduction to Peircean Visual Semiotics. London: Bloomsbury.
Annotated Pragmatic Theory Book List Example
Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art by Richard Shusterman
Pragmatic Aesthetics is an important book on understanding aesthetics as experience. Rooted in Pragmatism, this philosophical book builds on John Dewey’s theory of Art as Experience, and it certainly helps designers and illustrators to see their practice as experience thus giving an aesthetic Pragmatic alignment with Peirce’s Semiosis.
https://amzn.to/3DCGJxw
Shusterman, R. (1992) Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art (2nd Edition). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Annotated Design Book List Example
Designing Audiences by AIGA New York Chapter
In Semiosis 101 I frame Peirce’s Semiosis theory as a way for Visual Communication Designers to connect their work with their target audiences. Through the triadic nature of Semiosis involving the interpretation in the sign-action, books like this from a designer-centric perspective offers semioticians with clues on how design and semiotics can be synthesised. This book by the New Your chapter of AIGA is a good reference book to do that.
https://amzn.to/3G502lO
AIGA New York Chapter (2008) Designing Audiences. New York. Princeton Architectural Press.
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