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Signs & Symbols: History, Communication, and Design

Course resources for FYS 107, Prof. Jen Bracy

EBooks

Signs, symbols and icons by Rosemary Sassoon; Albertine Gaur
Call Number: Ebook
Literacy Through Symbols: Improving Access for Children and Adults (2nd ed) by Tina Detheridge; Mike Detheridge
"This is a book about pictorial symbols which are used to help children, young people and adults who have difficulty using standard text" (p. 20)
Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
A scholarly study of visual representations in the early Christian and political spheres.
Decoding design: understanding and using symbols in visual communication : discover the hidden meanings inside common corporate logos and designs by Maggie Macnab

Print Books

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The Illustrated book of signs and symbols by Miranda Bruce Mitford
Call Number: AZ108 .B78 1996
Symbols & their meaning by Rolf Myller
Call Number: AZ108 .M99 1978 in the Juvenile Nonfiction section
Symbols, signs and signets by Ernst Lehner
Call Number: AZ108 .L4
Sign, image, symbol. by Gyorgy Kepes
Call Number: N7430 .K47 1966
The Book of signs, which contains all manner of symbols used from the earliest times to the Middle Ages by primitive peoples and early Christians, by Rudolf Koch; Vyvyan Holland (Translator)
Call Number: AZ108 .K62 1955
The Picture book of symbols by Ernst Lehner
Call Number: AZ108 .L38
The Dictionary of symbols by Carl G. Liungman
Call Number: BL603 .L5413 1991 in the Reference collection
Signs and emblems: A collection of international examples by Erhardt D. Stiebner; Dieter Urban
Call Number: T324 .Z4413 1984
Symbol sourcebook: An authoritative guide to international graphic symbols by Henry Dreyfuss
Call Number: AZ108 .D74
An illustrated encyclopedia of traditional symbols by J. C. Cooper
Call Number: BL603 .C66
Dominant symbols in popular culture by Ray B. Browne; Marshall W. Fishwick ; Kevin O. Browne
Call Number: E169.12 .D59 1990
Give me a sign!: what pictograms tell us without words by Tiphaine Samoyault
Call Number: P53.7 .S2613 1997 in the Juvenile Nonfiction collection

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