Article published in:

Semiotics: A way of thinking & approaching information design
Edited by Priscila Lena Farias and João Queiroz
[Information Design Journal 23:2] 2017
► pp. 173–183

From Semiotics to Choreography

David Sless

Published online: 03 November 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/idj.23.2.06sle

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