No. 16 (2025): Drawing as Language

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Published: 2025-06-30

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Editorial

Editorial

Francesca Fatta

5-6
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Cover

Drawing as Language

Enrico Cicalò, Valeria Menchetelli

7-13
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Image

Les mots et les images

René Magritte

14
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Les mots et les images. Ambiguity and Disorientation in Language

Michele Valentino

15-18
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Theory

Furrows. Undermining the Limits of Our Language

Edoardo Dotto

23-34
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The Songe, the Kanagawa’s Great Wave and ISOTYPE. Notes on Drawing as a Natural, Cultural and Universal Language

Alessandro Luigini

35-48
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Drawing and the Language of Creativity

Gaia Leandri

49-58
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Is Architectural Drawing a Language? Symbols, Signs, Pictograms, Ideograms and Drawings

Angel Allepuz, Carlos L. Marcos

59-68
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Giovanni Anceschi and the Theory of Schematic Representation. Drawing as a Graphic Language

Andrea Lancia

69-76
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Drawing as a Language in the Design Process: a Cognitive Bridge Between Thinking and Representation

Saime Gümüştaş Babalı, N. Ömer Erem

77-88
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History

The Graphic Language as a Hybridization of Art, Thought, and Technique

Manuela Piscitelli

91-100
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Drawing as Language in Panoramic Sketches Created During the Spanish Civil War

Santiago Elía-García, Ana Ruiz-Varona, Rafael Temes-Cordovez

101-114
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Graphic Design as a Universal Language: Symbols and Codes in the Vision of Gio Ponti

Alessandro Spennato

115-126
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Ambiguous Representations: Drawing and Its Potential Misinterpretations

Felice Romano

127-142
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Project

Thinking Images. Linguistic Hybridizations in Ideational Design

Enrica Bistagnino

145-148
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Representation Systems and Theoretical Design Frameworks

Maria Pompeiana Iarossi, Cecilia Santacroce

149-162
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The Manual Graphic Language as a Propaedeutic and Research Tool. The Drawing of Construction Details as a Singular Case Study

Antonio Estepa Rubio, Jesús Estepa Rubio

163-174
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Perspective and Spatial Illusion as Language and Technique in Urban Art of JR

Alessandra Coppola

175-186
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The Drawing of Objects with a High Aesthetic Function. Bruno Munari’s Travel Sculptures, a Restless Lexicon

Valentina Castagnolo, Christiana Maiorano

187-198
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Micro Relation Decodes: Movement, Boundaries and Materiality in Drawing

Şebnem Çakaloğulları

199-208
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Experiences

To Anyone with Eyes in Their Head

Elena Ippoliti

211-226
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Rhetorical Imagery between Word and Sign. Olivetti Advertising and Communication

Michela Rossi, Sara Conte, Greta Milino

227-240
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Curves and Colors: a Journey into Hundertwasser’s Visual Language

Cristiana Bartolomei, Caterina Morganti

241-254
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Anatomy of a Prompt: a Semiotic System of Text-to-Image Gen AI

Hoa Vo

255-264
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Bruno Munari: Communicating through Graphic Language

Barbara Messina, Stefano Chiarenza

265-276
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Readings/Rereadings

Vedere con il disegno, or Art is Made With the Eyes

Daniele Colistra

281-286
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Reviews

Valeria Menchetelli (2024). Forma immagine. Pratiche dello sguardo. Alghero: Publica

Alessandra Cirafici

289-290
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Alfonso Giancotti (2025). Nuovi Mondi. Il potere assoluto dell’immaginazione. Siracusa: Lettera Ventidue

Fabio Colonnese

291-293
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Laura Carlevaris (2024). L'Ottica di Claudio Tolomeo nella storia della prospettiva. Roma: Quasar

Edoardo Dotto

294-296
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Adriana Arena (2024). I disegni di Francesco Valenti. Elementi espressivi e caratteristiche tecniche. San Giuliano Milanese: FrancoAngeli

Assunta Pelliccio

297-298
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Events

EVA Conference Berlin 2025. Electronic Media and Visual Arts

Dominik Lengyel

301-302
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PNRR Mask

Sonia Mollica

303-305
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FORTMED 2025. International Conference on Modern Age Fortifications of the Mediterranean coast

Andrea Pirinu

306-307
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URBAN / NOMADIC. Research Innovation and Internationalisation, Comparing National and International Experiences

Martina Suppa

308-310
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The UID Library

The UID Library

313-314
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