ALEC KOZICKI, PHD · DE-SIGNER · SEMIOZIC OÜ

Leather goods and semiotic publications, answering the same kind of question.

The work gathered here is that of a de-signer: a fusion of design (the making of things) and the action of signs (the work of meaning). Each project was made in pursuit of a quality that could not be specified in advance, only navigated toward through the making. It moves across registers, objects, spaces, methods, spoken thought, and written thought, not because it is scattered but because navigating a quality pulls a maker through whatever registers the situation requires. Transdisciplinary by design.

Domains
Design · Semiotics · Urban & techno-living spaces
Disciplines
Objects · Spaces · Methods · Spoken & written thought
Stance
Every project a deliverable and an outcome

Three questions run through the work.

Each project engages one or more of them. Follow a question to see it cross projects that otherwise look nothing alike.

Surfacing

How do we notice the codes we already live inside?

Bridging

How does meaning travel across cultures, contexts, and codes?

Applying

What kind of tools, objects, and encounters help others see and shape meaning themselves?

A working portfolio, not an archive.

Here is what is finished, what is in the making, and what is taking shape.

Active

In the making now.

Completed

Finished work.

Upcoming

Taking shape.

Made objects

Things made by hand or in code.

A recipe app made for daily use at home.

ApplyingSurfacingActive

A local web app for learning Georgian, script first.

BridgingApplyingActive

A dialogue card game for navigating digital platforms with intention.

SurfacingApplyingActive

Images that read the codes of a place.

SurfacingBridgingActive

Hand-crafted leather goods, built to order.

ApplyingSurfacingCompleted

Made spaces & encounters

Designed spaces, events, and encounters.

A walking tour that reads the city as a text.

SurfacingBridgingActive

Improvisations at the piano, including the Sakartvelo Improv.

SurfacingApplyingActive

An exhibition at the Estonian National Museum (ERM).

BridgingSurfacingCompleted

Made methods

Tools, systems, and methods others can use.

Two designed companion systems.

ApplyingSurfacingActive

Bespoke semiotic methods for reading and diagnosis.

ApplyingSurfacingActive

A five-part workshop series for businesses.

ApplyingSurfacingActive

Spoken thought

Lectures, talks, and teaching.

A lecture for the Estonian craft union (ERKL).

SurfacingApplyingCompleted

A Semiofest presentation about the commutation theory and “Lust”.

SurfacingBridgingCompleted

Courses and seminars in semiotics and design.

ApplyingBridgingCompleted

A designed curriculum at Estonian Academy of Arts.

SurfacingApplyingUpcoming

A talk on AI within the human semiosphere.

SurfacingBridgingCompleted

Talks given in academic settings.

SurfacingBridgingCompleted

Talks given in industry and applied settings.

ApplyingBridgingCompleted

Why the world needs semiotic consulting for future societies.

ApplyingSurfacingCompleted

Written thought

Published and written work.

Peer-reviewed and published written work.

SurfacingBridgingCompleted

A biosemiotic study of a rescued beagle’s umwelt.

SurfacingBridgingActive

Alec Kozicki · A De-signer’s Portfolio · Semiozic OÜ · Tartu / Tallinn

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