David Lemm

I looked into the work of David Lemm's, because I felt that the abstract and symbolic nature of his illustrations would correlate well with the semiotic theories I have been researching in relation to visual communication. 

"Recently I’ve been exploring ideas relating to knowledge communication, specifically maps/diagrams, and our assumptions of truth based on abstract, symbolic representations of reality."

"I was interested in exploring the idea that maps fundamentally describe how we navigate the world through graphic abstraction and also how markings in the land can influence graphic notation or vice versa."

The use of symbolism in these illustrations, is very abstracted and simplified, and therefore according to Pierce and Saussure would be 'unmotivated' (Crow, 2016). The communication of Lemm's illustration would therefore ‘rely exclusively on the reader’s having learned the connection between the sign and its meaning’ (Crow, 2016). This is true of what Lemm comments of his own work, stating that he aims to explore 'knowledge communication' (Mathias, 2015.) and 'symbolic representations of reality' (Mathias, 2015). 

Mathias. (2015). Navigating the World through graphic abstraction : David Lemm. Available: https://intoshallowdepths.com/2015/08/05/navigating-the-world-through-graphic-abstraction-david-lemm/. Last accessed 19/04/17.