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100 1 0 _aBerthou, Benoît
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245 0 0 _aThe road: A graphic approach
260 _c2018.
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520 _aIs it possible to design a road without any form of markings? It seems that the ambitions of allowing circulation and creating a route can only be fulfilled through the establishment of signage that uses lines, strips (zebra or linear), or typographies. In a way, they represent the essence of the road. We propose to approach these markings with the hypothesis that the road denies any form of drawing creativity and is never defined as a graphic object. We will first “hit the road” by way of a singular enterprise: the construction of a code that graphically establishes information and banishes any form of ambiguity. Comparing transport-specific graphic systems (rail and air), we will then ask ourselves whether or not the road defines a certain attitude toward information: to the “semantic” and “aesthetic” points of view defined by Abraham Moles, we should add a “signaling” approach.
690 _asignage
690 _aterritory
690 _agraphic design
690 _alandscape
690 _ainformation
786 0 _nCommunication & langages | o 195 | 1 | 2018-01-19 | p. 109-118 | 0336-1500
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-communication-et-langages-2018-1-page-109?lang=en
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