The Visual Culture Seminar on ‘Semiotics of Typography in Graphic Communication’ will be held on November 15 at 2.30 pm in the ICS Proceedings Room and online. The guest speaker for this session is Evripides Zantides, founder and director of the Semiotics and Visual Communication Laboratory at the Cyprus University of Technology.
The aim will be to examine the semiotic dimensions of typography as we visualise verbal language, starting from the theoretical framework of Jacques Bertin (1967) and his insights into how graphic variables can be manipulated to control the visual meanings of maps.
This session will also be an open class of the Social Semiotics curricular unit (doctoral programme in Communication Sciences) and a Seminar of the Semiotics Working Group of Sopcom (Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences).
Evripides Zantides is a member of the Passeio team and a lecturer in Graphic and Visual Communication at the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts at the Cyprus University of Technology. His professional activities include presenting research papers in various journals and international conferences on semiotics, graphic design education, typography and visual communication. He has participated, with outstanding work, in art and graphic design biennials and other international exhibitions. He is also involved, as a reviewer for scientific journals, in educational conferences, and on art and design evaluation committees. He is a delegate to the International Typographic Association (ATypI), as well as the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS-AIS). He is the founder and director of the Semiotics and Visual Communication Laboratory at the Cyprus University of Technology.
To access the Zoom session, click here.
The working language of this session will be English.
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