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World Without Words

Michael Evamy

出版	Laurence King, 2003
主題	Social Science / Body Language & Nonverbal Communication
ISBN	18566931989781856693196
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dtBoAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Leading his readers on a voyage through the visual shorthand of modern life, the author argues that we are relying less on words for navigating the world than on images and graphic devices. This sourcebook shows the attempts of designers to condense words and data down to their simplest equivalents. It illustrates the familiar, the peculiar and the confusing visual language that we are asked to interpret (symbols, graphs and charts, maps) mixed up with the more graphic examples of data storage and identification that are read not by humans but by machines (barcodes, magnetic strips, holograms). Featuring airport signs, road markings, pictograms, maps, diagrams, packaging, logos and symbols, this compendium of visuals shows not only the norms of wordless graphic communication but also how these vary around the world when interpreted by local individuals for different cultures