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Semiotics: A way of thinking & approaching information design
Edited by Priscila Lena Farias and João Queiroz
[Information Design Journal 23:2] 2017
► pp. 184–193

Inexplicable in the last resort

A critique of Theo van Leeuwen’s identification of typography as a ‘mode’

| Trinity College Dublin
Published online: 3 November 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/idj.23.2.07mor
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