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What Lies Beneath: Decoding messages and Interpreting Information
In 1995, local singer John Bundy won the ‘Ghanja tal-Poplu’
award with his song titled Pajjiz tal-Miki Maws (Mickey Mouse land).
The song is a ...
Mananni – Ta’ Gorg Pisani
I finally got round to completing the font book for the poem I chose last week. In all honesty I could have produced ...
Breaking News 2.0 – TRENDS AND ENVIRONMENTS: LIGHTING UP THE MESSAGE, SYMBOLISM AND SEMIOTICS OF THE NEW – PART 3
I really enjoyed this part of the lecture. It was a tour of the installation named Breaking News 2.0 by Patrick Thomas. It ...
Trends and Environments: Lighting Up the Message, Symbolism and Semiotics of the New – Part 2
Case study: The Olympics Branding Through the Years
Various Olympics logos
This part of the lecture is about comparing a common concept in different cultural ...
Trends and Environments: Lighting Up the Message, Symbolism and Semiotics of the New – Part 1
Symbolism and Semiotics
Symbolism has always been used by humans to represent and communicate what otherwise is abstract. It has played an important role ...
Mananni – Ta’ Gorg Pisani: Work-in-Progress
This week was supposed to be one of my favourite ones, if it
was not for all the stress that I am going through ...
Type and Page – Constructs of Typography, Systems and Theory
People have always felt the need to document all
sorts of information. Prior to the invention of writing systems and books,
people used images and ...
Some self-reflection… in relation to this week’s task…
As this week is all about typography, I think it seems appropriate to share some thoughts about this topic. It is one of ...
Malta is STUFFED…like an egg!
Finally, I managed to find one word that gathers up this
tiny island. Been bouncing around the idea of ‘mix’ for a while, like
‘assorted’, ...
Malta in a Package
This week’s challenge requires us once again to go explore our
city and see what emotion it communicates. Following that we are to interpret
that ...