Steven Skaggs
Biographic Data
| ID | 9624920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Skaggs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Skaggs |
| SIGNATURE | SKAGGS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville , Louisville , KY , USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Design Is Intention Made Sign
Yves Zimmermann was one of those rare graphic designers who not only excelled in the doing of design, but also in thinking and writing about design. “Design as a Universal Concept” first appeared as an online three-part essay in 2011. The article's second part is devoted to an extremely detailed analysis of the concept of design and its inherent relation to signs. To our knowledge, this article has never before appeared in English. The following …
The visual gamut and syntactic abstraction
Charles S. Peirce's second trichotomy, which introduces the concepts of iconicity, indexicality, and symbolicity, is probably the only piece of his semiotic that is familiar to visual artists and designers. Although the concepts have found their way into the academy, their utility in the field has been reduced for a couple of reasons. First, as with all of Peirce's philosophy, his second trichotomy is a concept that is subtle, fluid, and difficul…
The highly semic processes of asemic writing
Utilizando a chamada “escrita assêmica” como ponto de partida, este artigo examina três questões relativas à ação semiótica encontrada na caligrafia e tipografia gráficas. Primeiro, examina a fenomenologia experimentada no momento em que um texto ilegível de repente é reconhecido e lido em palavras. Em seguida, voltando-se à noção de Peirce de uma distinção tipo/token, o artigo argumenta que a escrita não-verbal ou quase-verbal mostra que os dois…
The visual gamut and syntactic abstraction
Charles S. Peirce's second trichotomy, which introduces the concepts of iconicity, indexicality, and symbolicity, is probably the only piece of his semiotic that is familiar to visual artists and designers. Although the concepts have found their way into the academy, their utility in the field has been reduced for a couple of reasons. First, as with all of Peirce's philosophy, his second trichotomy is a concept that is subtle, fluid, and difficul…
The highly semic processes of asemic writing
Utilizando a chamada “escrita assêmica” como ponto de partida, este artigo examina três questões relativas à ação semiótica encontrada na caligrafia e tipografia gráficas. Primeiro, examina a fenomenologia experimentada no momento em que um texto ilegível de repente é reconhecido e lido em palavras. Em seguida, voltando-se à noção de Peirce de uma distinção tipo/token, o artigo argumenta que a escrita não-verbal ou quase-verbal mostra que os dois…
The visual gamut and syntactic abstraction
Charles S. Peirce's second trichotomy, which introduces the concepts of iconicity, indexicality, and symbolicity, is probably the only piece of his semiotic that is familiar to visual artists and designers. Although the concepts have found their way into the academy, their utility in the field has been reduced for a couple of reasons. First, as with all of Peirce's philosophy, his second trichotomy is a concept that is subtle, fluid, and difficul…
Design Is Intention Made Sign
Yves Zimmermann was one of those rare graphic designers who not only excelled in the doing of design, but also in thinking and writing about design. “Design as a Universal Concept” first appeared as an online three-part essay in 2011. The article's second part is devoted to an extremely detailed analysis of the concept of design and its inherent relation to signs. To our knowledge, this article has never before appeared in English. The following …
Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (1 work) · Architecture and Computational Design (1 work) · Art Education and Development (1 work) · CLARITY (1 work) · Cognitive science (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Design Education and Practice (1 work) · Design Thinking (1 work)