Please take your time to look around the site and link to my sister sites. You will soon notice that the work I create is strongly influenced by the communication theories found in Semiotics and Rhetoric.
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Weltanschauung
Defining Style
This can be viewed as a designer's "style." In particular, their intellectual perspectives or approaches to design problems; shifting the focus away from a strict visual determinant. more...
Semiotics and Graphic Design
The Meat of the Message
As a people, we are sign using creatures. We decode meaning from compositions with subconscious ease.* We stop at red octagons, smoke in designated areas, and change our outlooks based on the season. Our desires and even our identities are being shaped and altered by the signs that surround us* more...
Jonathan Hildebrand
The Story Behind the Designer
Jonathan was born and raised in North Carolina and feels strong ties to the land and State that shaped his childhood. An avid draftsman and painter in his youth, Jonathan put down his brush to pursue another passion, language. As an undergraduate at UNC-Chapel Hill he studied Linguistics and Rhetoric. more...