Title & Author:

Die Gesellschaft der Zeichen : Piktogramme, Lebenszeichen, Emojis = The society of signs : pictograms, signs of life, emojis / Herausgeber, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Museum für Neue Kunst, Städitsche Museen, Freiburg ; Autor*innen, Anja Dorn [and six others].

Publication:

Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, [2021]
©2021

Description:

271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 32 x 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
"Sprechende zeichen" : das moderne Piktogramm zwischen Pädagogik, Politik und kulturellem Spiel / Michaela Stoffels -- Literatur = Literature -- "Speaking signs" : the modern pictogram between education, politics and cultural play -- Turn over Signs : die stetige Neuausrichtung der Bildzeichen / Philipp Nielsen & Maxim Weirich -- Literatur = Literature -- Verweisbilder = Reference images -- Turn over signs : the constant realignment of graphic symbols -- Piktogrammatik digital? Emojis zwischen Infantilisierung und internationaler Begriffsschrift / Lukas R.A. Wilde -- Literatur = Literature -- Verweisbilder = Reference images -- Digital pictograms? Emojis between infantilisation and international ideography.
Parallel texts in German and English.

Exhibitions:

On the occasion of an exhibition held at Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, September 24, 2020 - April 11, 2021; Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, May 7 - September 12, 2021.

Summary:

The Pictograms, Signs of Life, Emojis: The Society of Signs catalogue explores the questions: What objectives, and hopes are linked to the development of the modern language of images, including emojis? To which issues of their time are they each reacting to? Do they expand our possibilities of expression or do they limit them by defining stereotypes? The focus of this catalogue is on lexicons and systems of pictorial signs devised by designers and artists like Gerd Arntz, Marie and Otto Neurath, Otl Aicher,Yukio'ta or Wolfgang Schmidt and others. How functional or engaging do the designers consider their pictorial signs to be? Are they interested in universal forms of communication or personal spaces of retreat, rapid transmission of information or complex or poetic forms of language, abstraction or individualisation? Exhibition: Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany (24.09.2020 - 11.04.2021) / Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany (07.05. - 12.09.2021).

ISBN:

9783753300450 (paperback)
3753300454 (paperback)

Subject:

Communication Graphic methods Exhibitions.
Picture-writing Exhibitions.
Signs and symbols Exhibitions.
Emojis Exhibitions.
Information Méthodes graphiques Expositions.
Signes et symboles Expositions.
Émojis Expositions.
Communication Graphic methods
Emojis
Picture-writing
Signs and symbols

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Dorn, Anja, author.
Leopold-Hoesch-Museum der Stadt Düren, editor, host institution.
Museum für Neue Kunst (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany), editor, host institution.

Society of signs : pictograms, signs of life, emojis

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316630
Call No.: 316630
Copy: 1
Status: Available