#2019青春答卷# The dictionary

Central Saint Martins MA Graphic Communication Design 2019 毕业设计

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讨论语言/定义与重定义/字典编撰/符号学/分类系统/事物边界<br><br>My project explores the concepts of prescriptivism and descriptivism in linguistic theory in the perspective of a graphic designer. My work is a set of moving images of words from the alphabet, This is an ongoing project and presently, I have completed the letters A, B, C, and P(arrow, button, chair and pen). Each of the moving images is an experiment at destabilizing, stretching, and interrogating the boundaries of day-to-day objects the Oxford English dictionary definitions has created, in order to deal with the ambiguity and complexity in words that are either relatively ‘static’ or ‘clear’. My work captures my changes and struggles on positions during research, which is a conversation on prescriptivism and descriptivism.