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Call for papers: VisionPlus conference 2024 2024-03-09 The VisionPlus conference celebrates its 20th edition this year – a great opportunity to showcase the variety of information design and our never-ending fascination. Enter your contribution until 31 March 2024, we will respond by 15 April.
Design for Digital Empowerment: The Community Network Roadmap Project, 28 March 2024, 17:00 UTC 2024-03-09 The Community Network Roadmap (CNR) is a guide for people with no prior background in network technologies to build and maintain their own broadband networks. In this presentation, Katherine and Shradda will share an overview of the CNR project, including…
IIID Conversation with Robert Linsky: The Way Communications Should Be, 8 February 2024, 18:00 CET 2024-01-30 Robert Linsky will talk about the way communications should be – clear, accessible, simple, effective. Organizing, rewriting, and redesigning letters, invoices, statements and other mundane but necessary correspondence.
Visualizing chronic pain 2024-01-08 Rita Giordano wrote about the process of developing visualisations about pain. She describes how infographics could be transformed to better reflect patients’ needs.
IIID Conversation: Design for Emergency Management, 18 January 2024, 17:00 UTC 2023-12-23 This talk will delve into the distinctions between this emerging discipline and traditional design, and showcase how design methods bring innovative evidence-based perspectives to the complex challenges presented by natural hazards such as earthquakes, hurricanes, flooding, and wildfires.
New book: ‘Woodcuts as Reading Guides.’ 2023-12-04 This book applies information design to the understanding of woodcuts. Free download.
AI Unleashed: 27 to 29 November 2023 (hybrid) 2023-11-17 Exploring the Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence: An excellent opportunity for creative professionals to acquire the most up-to-date AI knowledge.
IIID Conversation with Sheila Pontis, 7 December 2023, 16:00 UTC 2023-11-16 Sheila Pontis will introduce and talk about her new book.
New book: ‘Design for Emergency Management’ 2023-10-18 A new book about the critical role and relationship between design and emergencies.
Burkey Belser – designer of US- nutrition label – dies at 76 2023-09-27 The label was introduced in 1994 in the USA and revised in 2016.
IIID Conversation with Gillian Harvey, 5 October 2023, 15:00 UTC 2023-09-21 Gillian Harvey will discuss two projects designed to increase empathy and reduce stigma toward people who experience addiction.