{"id":1339,"date":"2015-04-07T15:50:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T15:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2015\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2019-07-15T11:21:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T11:21:01","slug":"grant-venner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2015\/2015\/04\/07\/grant-venner\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Venner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1339\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1339-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1339-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><div id=\"pgc-1339-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1339-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p><strong>Grant will present <em>\"Towards an Eco-Semiotics (or 'Semiotics goes Gardening')\" 5th June<\/em><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grant Venner is the founder of Brand Semiotics Limited. Based in London, he has been providing insight for brands since the year 2000.<\/p>\n<p>A brand manager for ten years prior to retraining in semiotics, he describes his approach to the dark arts as being grounded and practical, not a pure academic product.<\/p>\n<p>He works across a broad range of sectors including FMCG, Pharmaceutical, Retail, Electrical\/ Electronic, Financial Services, Government and Corporate\/Consultancy.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of work he enjoys open water swimming and recently swam to France and back in a 4-person relay team. A keen environmentalist, he writes regularly for the Transition Network and grows a lot of his own food.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Grant loves to present at Semiofest because\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would love to present my ideas at Semiofest because I have found that there is great energy between two of the things I love - applied semiotics and environmentalism - and I want to share what I have found with you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>   ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant will present &#8220;Towards an Eco-Semiotics (or &#8216;Semiotics goes Gardening&#8217;)&#8221; 5th JuneGrant Venner is the founder of Brand Semiotics Limited. Based in London, he has been providing insight for brands since the year 2000.A brand manager for ten years prior to retraining in semiotics, he describes his approach to the dark arts as being grounded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,44],"tags":[110,166,171,177],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-programme","category-speakers","tag-green","tag-semiotics","tag-sustainability","tag-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}