Publications and Presentations
(academic and professional)
1986-present

Glowne choremy w semiografii: kolo, kwadrat, trojkat. Zarys historyczny (Principal Choremes in Semiography: Circle, Square, and Triangle. Historical Outline.) Warszawa, Poland: Institute for Industrial Design, two editions, 1986 & 1990, 2nd edition extended and fully revised, 128 pages, 243 illustrations. (in Polish, chapters available in English.) pdf

Chapters in Books

Poster as an Art Form, in Digital Designer: 101 Graphic Design Projects for Print, the Web, Multimedia, and Motion Graphics, ed. Stephen Pite, OnWord Press, the Graphic Imprint of Delmar/Thomson Learning, 2002, (essay and 5 illustrations), pp. 76-79, illustrations pp. 52, 53, 54, 55.

Why Do We Want Tricksters? in Trickster and Ambivalence: The Dance of Differentiation, ed. C.W. Spinks, Madison, WI: Atwood Publishing, 2001, pp. 143-151. pdf

Special Issues of Journals, (invitational)

Triangle as the Trickster Redeemer of Human Sensitivity, Imagination, and Improvisation: The Tao of J.J., in Trickster: Cultural Boundaries and Semiosis, Special Issue of The American Journal of Semiotics, Guest Editor C.W. Spinks, Winter 1997 [1998], Vol. 14, No. 1 to 4, pp. 190–207.

Itroduction to Semiography, or Approaching the Visual Language, in Semiotics: Pedagogy and Practice, Special Issue of Zed: A Journal of the Center for Design Studies, Communication Arts and Design Department, Guest Editors Katie Salen and Steven Skaggs, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1997, No. 4, pp. 10-21. pdf

Universals in Visual Codification, in Bildsprache – Visualisierung – Diagrammatik, Special Issue of Semiotische Berichte, Editor Jeff Bernard, Vienna: Institute for Socio-Semiotic Studies, 1995, No. 19, Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, pp. 131-152.

Refereed Journals

(guest editor)

Design as Meaning Making: From Making Things to the Design of Thinking, in Design Issues: History, Theory, Criticism, Richard Buchanan, ed., Carnegie Mellon University, Spring 2003, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 45-59. pdf

Iconicity, Diagrammatics, and Aesthetic Preferences: A Semiotic Perspective on Visual Literacy and Information Design, in Visual Sociology: The Journal of the International Visual Sociology Association, Jon Prosser, ed., Leeds University, UK, 2001, Vol. 16, No.1, pp. 89-99. pdf

Glowne choremy w semiografii (Principal Choremes in Semiography), in Poligrafika: Journal of the Printing Industry, Warsaw, Poland, 1988, 7/88, pp. 160-168.

Shortcuts to Meaning, or Diagrams and Making Sense Out of Image-text De-signs, in Semiotics 2000: Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America, Eds.: Scott Simpkins, John Deely, and C.W. Spinks, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2001, pp.142–159. pdf

In the Beginning was the Circle: Longing for Perfection as a Semiotic Paradigm, in Selected Papers–6th Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Guadalajara 1997, Adrián Gimate-Welsh, ed., Mexico City: Grupo Editorial Miguel Angel Porrua, 2000, pp. 629-640. pdf

Portrait of a Woman or Diagrammatic Modeling in Art, in Semiotics 1999: Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America, Eds.: Scott Simpkins, John Deely, and C.W. Spinks, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2000, pp. 360–373.

In the Vicious Circle of Codependency: The Artist as Trickster, in Semiotics 1998: Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America, Eds.: John Deely, and C.W. Spinks, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999, pp. 82–94.

Embodiment and Image Design, the International Congress of the German Association for Semiotic Studies: Body, Embodiment, Disembodiment, Kassel University Press, Germany, 2004,
ISBN 3-89958-045-1 (with honorarium). html

In the Beginning was the Circle: Longing for Perfection as a Semiotic Paradigm, in La Semiotica. Interseccióón entre la naturalenza y la Cultura (Semiotics Bridging Nature and Culture. Proceedings of the 6th Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies), Guadalajara, Mexico, 1997, Adrián Gimate-Welsh, ed., CD-ROM.

Art of Survival: A Model for Collaboration and Educational Outreach, Strengthening Communities, Ending Sexual Violence, Florida Council Against Sexual Violence, St. Petersburg, June 12-17, 2006

Mental Models versus Graphic Diagrams: What we Know is What we See, the International Congress of the German Association for Semiotic Studies: Body, Embodiment, Disembodiment, Kassel, Germany, July, 2002 pdf

Information Design curriculum: 5-year Master Degree Program, the International Institute for Information Design Conference: Education in Information Design, Reading University, Reading, UK, September, 2002, (poster presentation and conference discussant)

Iconicity, Diagrammatics, and Aesthetic Preferences: A Semiotic Perspective on Visual Literacy, International Congress of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies: Models, Maps, Schemata: Semiotics and Cognitive Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, November, 2000

In a Vicious Circle of Codependency: Artist as Trickster, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Toronto, 1998