Regardless of where we live we are both communicators and readers of a visual language that permeates our day to day lives through branding, wayfinding, iconographic motifs, colour and letter-based graphics. To the inhabitants of a city, these man-made visual elements prove to be as potent and grounding as natural landscapes. This visual discourse can sum up entire regions with colloquialism, precisely pinpoint particular locations, form groups by making broad generalisations, reflect the contents of a space literally or be the means by which we find our way.
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