Gunther Kress is Professor of Semiotics and Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. His interests are in meaning-making and communication in contemporary environments; with an interest in developing a social semiotic theory of multimodal communication.

Some relevant books are Social Semiotics  (1988, with R Hodge); Before Writing: rethinking the paths to literacy (1996); Reading Images: the grammar of graphic design (1996/2006); Multimodal Discourse: the modes and media of contemporary communication (2002) both with T van Leeuwen; Multimodal learning and teaching: the rhetorics of the science classroom (2001); Literacy in the new media age (2003); Multimodality: a social semiotic approach to contemporary communication (2010).