For an approach grounded in communication theory and a critique of semiotics, see:
SLESS D. 1981.
Learning and Visual Communication. Croom Helm.
SLESS D. 1981.
Photographic meaning: an introduction for teachers.
Working Papers on Photography 8: 7-18.
SLESS D. 1986.
In Search of Semiotics.
Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble Books.
SHULMAN A., R. PENMAN & D. SLESS. 1990.
Putting information technology in its place: Organizational communication and the human infrastructure,
in J. Carroll (ed.) Applied social psychology in organisational settings: 155-192.
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Also for a brief commentary on the process of 'reinvention' in design see:
http://communication.org.au/the-reinvention-of-information-design/
I would be interested to read Victor Margolin's view on the meaning of things.
All the best to all for the new year.
David
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