Semiotics as explained by a five year old
Written by Cameron on March 26th, 2009Chris is doing some TA stuff, she lectures with 5 sections from the Intro to Communications class. She’s liking it, which is handy because she’d like to be a full time academic one day… hating class would be a bit of a drag on that.
Anyway, as if to provide an example of their current subject matter Lucas asked a question the other day.
A bit of context: Twang Town is a really good guitar (base/uke/etc) store here in Dunedin and Hyam who owns it is a really interesting character. He has a illuminated sign in his window to tell you if he’s open or not.
So we were walking by and Lucas asked “Why is the ‘Open’ sign red and the ‘Closed’ green? It doesn’t make any sense.”
Our boy. Already criticizing other’s designs.