I heart signs.
I suspect because I love words.
[I also enjoy a good rebus].
Words are pictures of sounds.
Images indelibly embedded with meaning.
[You can't NOT 'read' a word if you 'see' it, if you understand the language and the meaning.]
And signs are pictures of words.
If you see what I mean.
But words are also signs, in a different sense.
Signifiers. Of Signifieds.
I'm doing a little project where I post one interesting or weird or whatever I feel like sign every day for a year.
You can follow it over on This Is Signified on Tumblr.
Or follow @thisissignified on Twitter and have one sign tweeted to your preferred client every day.
And if you see a sign you think is awesome – you can submit it to the project on Tumblr.
2 responses to “This Is Signified”
I think one of the coolest things I ever learned about in philosophy is semiotics. It comes down to how people see and interpret different symbols across cultures. So even if a sign literally means one thing it’s up to every individual to determine what message they get from it.
Ah indeed! Semiotics is fascinating – as you guessed I am a fan of the science of signs.
In that gap between signifier and signified lies beauty, truth, poetry and advertising 😉
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