International Advisory Board
Yo Kaminagai, Environments Design and Identity Unit manager, RATP/Régie autonome des transports Parisiens, Paris, France
Prof. Dr. Hermann Knoflacher, Research center of Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering, Institute of Transportation, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Prof. h.c. Helmut Langer, currently Professor at DJ Academy of Design, Coimbatore, India, Ecosign Academy, Cologne, Germany, and Hebei University Institute of Communication, Shijiazhuang, RP China; ICOGRADA Past-President; Koeln/Cologne, Germany
Prof. Dr. Tech. Per Mollerup, author of Wayshowing / A Guide to Environmental Signage / Principles and Practices; Professor of Communication Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia; Managing Director of Designlab A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr. David Quarmby CBE , Chairman of the RAC Foundation, Chairman of the English Tourism Intelligence Partnership, London, UK
Prof. Clive Richards, PhD, Visiting Professor at the University of Brighton, UK; former Professor of Information Design at Coventry University, UK; IIID President; Coventry, UK
Prof. Dr. h.c. Erik Spiekermann, Partner of Edenspiekermann, Amsterdam,The Netherlands, and Berlin, Germany; Professor at the University of the Arts Bremen, Germany; IIID Past-President; Berlin, Germany
Prof. Robert O. Swinehart, Professor Emeritus of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; IIID Past-President; Allison Park, PA, USA
Prof. Kirti Trivedi, Professor at the Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
Robert Waller, PhD, Founder of the Information Design Journal; Director of the Simplification Centre, London; Reading, UK
Dr. Mihaela Williams, Project Officer, Transport Directorate, European Commission - DG Research and Innovation, Brussels, Belgium
Mike Wolff, Chairman at the Sign Design Society, London, UK; past Head of Wayfinding at BAA Airports Limited; London, UK
Dr. Richard S. Wurman, Author of seminal books like Information Anxiety; Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council; Newport, RI, USA
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 Yo Kaminagai
Environments Design and Identity Unit manager, RATP / Régie autonome des transports Parisiens, Paris, France
Yo Kaminagai graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chausées in 1980. He went on to launch a career at RATP, Paris' local transport operator. By 1990 he had made it up to Head of Transport Environments. Yo Kaminagai is in charge of RATP’s design management and the cultural development policy at the base of its branding. He manages design studies into street furniture, railway carriages, information systems and spatial planning. In 1998, he was awarded the Prix Montgolfier in the Construction and Fine Arts Category by the Société pour l'Encouragement de l'Industrie Nationale. Yo Kaminagai is a visiting lecturer in the Master of Design Management program at the European Institute for Brand Management and has presented twice at the IIID Expert Fora Traffic & Transport Information Systems: 2007 with "A design strategy for our transport interchanges" and 2008 with "Navigation in complex spaces".
Yo Kaminagai is president of the UITP Design & Culture Platform (UITP is the international organisation for public transport authorities and operators, policy decision-makers, scientific institutes and the public transport supply and service industry with 3200 members from 90 countries). He also serves on the Editorial Board of IDJ / Information Design Journal, published by John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
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 Prof. Dr. Hermann Knoflacher
Research center of Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering, Institute of Transportation, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Prof. Knoflacher has been a researcher and practitioner for 40 years. He has taught at the University of Technology in Vienna since 1975 and was Guest Professor at Universities in the USA, Japan, India, China and various European countries. Prof. Knoflacher was recently a speaker and guest professor in Japan at Nissan, University of Tokyo, University of Kyoto, Japan for Sustainability, as well giving the Keynote speech at the IIID Expert Forum Traffic & Transport Information Systems 2008.
He has served as chairman of many international research groups, also serving as chairman of the Austrian Federal Railways Kundenforum and chairman of the Fahrgastbeirat Wiener Linien. Prof. Knoflacher contributed in more than 500 publications and many of his proposals have been introduced in practice and successfully implemented.
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 Prof. h.c. Helmut Langer
currently Professor at DJ Academy of Design, Coimbatore, India, Ecosign Academy, Cologne, Germany, and Hebei University Institute of Communication, Shijiazhuang, RP China; ICOGRADA Past-President; Koeln/Cologne, Germany
Helmut Langer, 1987-1993 President and Board member of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations - ICOGRADA, focuses on complex and global conceptual projects and creation of visual design – sustainable, creative, cheerful, and powerful, easy to identify, and good to remember, for European institutions and international organizations, e.g. the European Parliament, the European Commission, the UN, UNEP, UNESCO ...
He spoke at innumerous conferences, acted as jury member of many international design competitions, received several international awards, is a renowned lecturer at universities in Europe, the Americas and Asia (currently at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing and Hebei University Institute of Communication, Shijiazhuang, China) and reputed advisor (currently to the Design Institute of India).
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 Prof. Dr. Tech. Per Mollerup
author of Wayshowing / A Guide to Environmental Signage / Principles and Practices; Professor of Communication Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia; Managing Director of Designlab A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark
Per Mollerup, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia;
Doctor of Technology, Lund University, Sweden, 1997 Master of Business Administration, Aarhus School of Busienss, Denmark, 1968;
Professor of Communcation Design, at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne since 2009;
Managing Director of Designlab A/S, a Copenhagen based graphic design office specialized in branding and information design. Wayshowing commissions included airports in Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm and railways/metros in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
Per Mollerup is an honorary member of the Estonian Association of Designers, a Board Member of IIID. His contributions to IIID conferences include How people find their way (Vision Plus 9, London 2003), Wayshowing (Vision Plus 11, Vienna 2005), Domesticating Data – Functional Simplicity in information design (Vision Plus 13, DD4D / Data Designed for Decisions, Paris 2009). Per Mollerup has chaired five IIID Expert Forums on Traffic & Transport Information Systems, Vienna 2006-2010.
Per Mollerup is author of several books on design including Wayshowing: A Guide to Environmental Signage, Baden 2005, and PowerNotes: Slide presentations reconsidered, Vienna and Melbourne, 2011 (downloadable at http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/191214).
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 Dr. David Quarmby CBE
Chairman of the RAC Foundation, Chairman of the English Tourism Intelligence Partnership, London, UK
David Quarmby is chairman of the RAC Foundation (a transport and roads research charity), a non-executive director of Abellio (the international subsidiary of Netherlands Railways), a consultant with Colin Buchanan (transport and planning consultants), and chairman of the English Tourism Intelligence Partnership. He is a Trustee of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, and a board member of the Greenwich Waterfront Regeneration Agency.
In April he was appointed by the Transport Secretary to lead an Independent Review on the winter resilience of England’s transport systems; the Interim Report was published in July and the Final Report in October. He has since carried out for the government and published a short Audit of the response to the severe winter weather in December.
In March 2011 David stepped down as chairman of the Transport Research Institute at Edinburgh Napier University. Since 1996 David has been a board member and chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority, chairman of the Docklands Light Railway, a board member of Transport for London, chairman of the British Tourist Authority, chairman of the English Tourist Board, and a board member, deputy chairman and chairman of the New Millennium Experience Company (The Dome). He was a non-executive member of the Department for Transport’s management board. In 2008 David was a member of the A12 Commission of Inquiry appointed by Essex County Council.
Prior to 1996 David was for 12 years a main board director of Sainsburys, first as Logistics Director and then as Joint Managing Director responsible for company operations. From 1975 to 1984 he was a board member and then Managing Director (Buses) at London Transport. Earlier in his career he was an Economic Adviser at the Ministry of Transport. He completed his PhD on Modal Choice in 1967 while lecturing at Leeds University.
David was appointed CBE in 2003, and has honorary degrees from Edinburgh Napier University and Huddersfield University.
David has presented at Vision Plus 9, Designs and Destinations / Integrated Information for Urban Transport in London, UK and Vision Plus 10 in Lech/Arlberg, Austria - Tourist Information de Luxe.
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 Prof. Clive Richards, PhD
Visiting Professor at the University of Brighton, UK; former Professor of Information Design at Coventry University, UK; IIID President; Coventry, UK
Clive Richards, MPhil PhD(RCA) FCSD FRSA, is a Visiting Professor to the Faculty of Arts and Architecture, University of Brighton. He has worked in a wide range of art and design fields, including commercial practice (technical illustration, information graphics, corporate identity, typography and artists' catalogue design), academic research, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, PhD research supervision, higher education management plus professional body and international committee work. A pioneer in British art school computer animation, he also developed the first computer-aided drafting package for making cutaway and exploded technical illustrations, work carried out in collaboration with the CAD Centre Cambridge.
His doctoral research at the Royal College of Art, London, on diagram design, formed the basis for further theoretical work in diagrammatics. A holder of various grants and listing numerous papers, books and chapters on his research he was Professor of Information Design at Coventry University, plus Associate Dean of Coventry School Art and Design, until 2009. As well as Director of Research for the School he also headed up its international developments team. He was President of the Chartered Society Designers (CSD) from 2007 until 2009 and a member of the art and design sub-panel of the 2008 national UK universities Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
Currently he is the President of the International Institute for Information Design (IIID) based in Vienna, a member of the Double Crown Club and the Art Workers' Guild of London. He runs his own design consultancy practice from his studio in Earlsdon, Coventry.
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 Prof. Dr. h.c. Erik Spiekermann
Partner of Edenspiekermann, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Berlin, Germany; Professor at the University of the Arts Bremen, Germany; IIID Past-President; Berlin, Germany
Erik Spiekermann, born 1947, studied History of Art and English in Berlin. He is an information architect and type designer (FF Meta, FF MetaSerif, ITC Officina, FF Govan, FF Info, FF Unit, LoType, Berliner Grotesk and many corporate typefaces) and author of several books and articles on type and typography. He was founder (1979) of MetaDesign, Germany's largest design firm with offices in Berlin, London and San Francisco. Projects included corporate design programmes for Audi, Skoda, Volkswagen, Lexus, Heidelberg Printing and way finding projects like Berlin Transit, Duesseldorf Airport and many others. In 1988 he started FontShop, a company for the production and distribution of electronic fonts.
In 2001 Erik Spiekermann left MetaDesign and is now Chairman, Managing Partner and Creative Director of Edenspiekermann AG with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin and Stuttgart and partners in London, Bolzano, Stockholm, Vancouver, and San Francisco. He redesigned The Economist magazine in London for its relaunch in 2001. His book for Adobe Press, “Stop Stealing Sheep”, published in German and in Russian, is in its second edition. His corporate font family for Nokia was released in 2002. In 2003 he received the Gerrit Noordzij Award from the Royal Academy in Den Haag. His type system DB Type for Deutsche Bahn was awarded the Federal German Design Prize in gold for 2006. In May 2007 he was the first designer to be elected into the Hall of Fame by the European Design Awards for Communication Design.
Erik is Honorary Professor at the University of the Arts in Bremen. In 2006 he received an honorary doctorship from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. He was made an Honorary Royal Designer for Industry by the RSA in Britain in 2007 and Ambassador for the European Year of Creativity and Innovation by the European Union for 2009. In 2004 he received an "IIID Award for Leadership and Distinctive Achievement in Information Design".
Erik Spiekermann is Board Member of ATypI and the German Design Council and Past President of both the IIID / International Institute for Information Design and the ISTD / International Society of Typographic Designers.
Erik Spiekermann contributed to IIID Vision Plus symposia 1, 4 and 5 with presentations on "Information Design: The Profession", "What you See Is What You Read" and "Open Issues in Information Design for Learning". Moreover, as a consultant to IIID, he designed the new most legible road alphabet "TERN" as part of the IIID lead R&D project "SOMS / Substituting/Optimizing (variable) Message Signs for the Trans European Road Network", merged with "IN-SAFETY / Infrastructure and Safety". Bitmap versions of TERN are already in use on Dutch motorways. The standard versions of this typeface family became law in Austria in 2010, substituting the now obsolete "Breitschrift" and "Engschrift" of the "Strassenverkehrszeichenverordnung".
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 Prof. Robert O. Swinehart
Professor Emeritus of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; IIID Past-President; Allison Park, PA, USA
Bob is Professor emeritus of Design and past Head of the Communication Design program at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has been on the faculty since 1974. He has taught courses throughout the entire curriculum, from the freshman to the graduate program. His professional focus is in new forms of digital corporate identity and branding that he calls "Virtual Identity", which he has lectured extensively on in the US and in Europe.
His design work has been exhibited by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the American Center for Design, the Type Directors Club in New York, and the Printing Industries of America among others. Likewise, his work has been shown in the Biennale of Graphic Design in Brno, The Czech Republic, and the 3rd International Design Exhibition (invitational) sponsored by the Japan Design Foundation in Osaka, Japan, as well as being included in the permanent collection of the US Library of Congress. Bob was also featured in an IDEA Magazine Special Issue "Mid-American Graphic Designers".
Bob contributed to IIID Vision Plus symposia 1, 2, 5 and 12 with presentations on "Virtual Identity: The Future is Now", "Having An Experiential Identity", "When Design IS Learning" and "Moving your mail: A case study on the design of the official Mail Forwarding and Change of Address Order for the US Post Office".
Bob is a lifetime honorary member of the American Center for Design, Chicago, the past president of the Graphic Design Education Association, and a past national board member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York. He is the current Past President of the International Institute for Information Design in Vienna, Austria. Finally, Bob is on the editorial board of Design Issues, the journal of history, theory and criticism and the editorial board of the IDJ / Information Design Journal, published by John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
In 2010 Bob Swinehart received "The IIID Award for Distinguished Contribution to the International Institute for Information Design".
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 Prof. Kirti Trivedi
Professor at the Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
Kirti Trivedi (born 1948, Gwalior, India) is a Professor at the Industrial Design Centre, IIT, Bombay. After a first degree in Mechanical Engineering, he did postgraduate studies in Industrial Design at IIT, Bombay and the Royal College of Art, London. In 1981, he worked as a UNESCO Fellow in Japan, under the guidance of Prof. Kohei Sugiura, in the Corporate Design Centre of Sharp Corporation, Osaka, and GK Industrial Design, Tokyo - one of the world’s largest design consultancy organizations.
In 1981 Kirti Trivedi initiated and founded India’s first Master’s Degree Programme in Visual Communication.
Besides teaching and design research, Kirti Trivedi is active as a design consultant in the areas of product design, design management and product planning, graphic design, book design, exhibition and museum design, environmental graphics and signage design; with numerous publications and awards both nationally and internationally. His current research is in universal, language-independent learning and in developing appropriate interaction design solutions for Indian needs based on emerging technology possibilities. His interest in finding appropriate design solutions for the disadvantaged and the disabled has led to product and service ideas for improving the daily life interactions of the visually impaired, the aged and those living below the poverty line.
In 2010 Kirti Trivedi contributed to "Space-X / an Exchange Forum on Information Design for Visually Impaired People" at the IIIDspace in Vienna a presentation on "Making the city accessible for the visually impaired."
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 Robert Waller, PhD
Founder of the Information Design Journal; Director of the Simplification Centre, London; Reading, UK
Rob Waller is an experienced simplification consultant, specialising in information design, service design, and brand experience. He has worked in many sectors, including financial services, government, telecommunications, energy, and retail.
Rob is Director of the Simplification Centre, a not-for-profit social enterprise that helps organisations develop clearer communications as well as serving as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art.
Rob studied and later taught typography and graphic communication at the University of Reading, with a doctorate for work on the relationship between typography and language, his academic career has included founding and editing Information Design Journal, organising many conferences, and chairing the Information Design Association.
In 1988 Rob started Information Design Unit and, with business partner David Lewis, grew it to become the UK's largest information design agency. It was acquired by WPP plc in 2001, and become part of the multidisciplinary branding agency Enterprise IG (now renamed The Brand Union) – one of the world's largest, with over 20 offices.
Rob presented at IIID's first Vision Plus event in Götzis, Austria and he continues to serve on the editorial board of the Information Design Journal.
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 Dr. Mihaela Williams
Project Officer, Transport Directorate, European Commission - DG Research and Innovation, Brussels, Belgium
Dr. Mihaela Williams graduated in fine mechanics from the Politehnica University Bucharest (Romania) and worked as Research Associate at the Darmstadt University of Technology from 01/2000 until 09/2008. She has a doctoral degree in mechanical engineering and was involved in many projects in the field of transportation human factors.
In addition, Dr Williams was invited by the European Commission to act as expert evaluator in the 6th and as well as in the 7th Framework Programme. She joined the Transport Directorate of DG Research and Innovation, European Commission, in October 2008. In her position as Project Officer – EU policies, she is involved in the preparation and implementation of various initiatives and acts as EC Project Officer for various research projects such as IC-IC (Enhancing interconnectivity through infoconnectivity), a collaborative project within the 7th EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, coordinated by IIID.
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 Mike Wolff
Chairman at the Sign Design Society, London, UK; past Head of Wayfinding at BAA Airports Limited, London, UK
Mike is Chairman of the Sign Design Society, based in the UK, and until his retirement in 2008 was Head of Wayfinding for the airport company BAA. He is also involved in the development of International Standards in the field of symbols and wayfinding for ISO.
The Society represents professionals, students and anyone involved or interested in the science of how people navigate through complex environments and the tools available to communicate with and assist them. The Society's purpose is to inform, to provide platforms for dialogue, to promote better understanding of the importance of signing and wayfinding and to encourage greater focus in the design disciplines, in industry and in education.
For many years, Mike has also represented the UK on various ISO committees responsible for the international standardisation of public information symbols and, more recently for the first standards covering the principles of wayfinding.
Mike spent nearly all his paid working life in airports, joining BAA in 1971. His progression into the world of signing however was gradual, emerging from a recognition of the importance of good wayfinding to the success of an airport’s mission, gained from involvement in many operational, planning and development roles.
In 1996 Mike was asked to take it on the newly created role of Head of Wayfinding. Over the following twelve years, he developed the policies, strategies and standards for wayfinding and signing which provided direction for seven UK airports, including Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted in London. He was also heavily involved in numerous major projects including the £4bn Terminal 5 which opened in 2008.
Mike believes that many environments are poorly served with signing, often because the client is insufficiently aware of its importance and lack the knowledge – and thus the training - needed to ensure a system is effectively procured, delivered and, most importantly maintained.
He therefore sees his primary qualification as an ‘educated’ client.
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 Dr. Richard S. Wurman
Author of seminal books like Information Anxiety; Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council; Newport, RI, USA
A B.Arch and M.Arch 1959 graduate with highest honors from the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Wurman's nearly half-century of achievements includes the publication of his best-selling book Information Anxiety and his award winning ACCESS Travel Guides.
With the publication of his first book in 1962 at the age of 26, RSW began the singular passion of his life: making information understandable. He created and chaired both the TED (Technology/Entertainment/
Design) conferences from 1984-2002 and the TEDMED and eg2006 conferences.
Each of his 81 books focus on some subject or idea that he personally had difficulty understanding. His most recent publications include UNDERSTANDING USA, Urban Atlas, Wall Street Journal Access, Information Anxiety2, Diagnostic Tests for Men, Diagnostic Tests for Women, Heart Disease & Cardiovascular Health and Wills, Trusts & Estate Planning, UNDERSTANDING Children and UNDERSTANDING Healthcare (January 2004).
He has been awarded several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Graham Fellowships, two Chandler Fellowships, and the Chrysler Design Award in 1996. In 1991, RSW received the Kevin Lynch Award from MIT and was honored by a retrospective exhibition of his work at the AXIS Design Gallery in Tokyo, Japan on the occasion of their 10th Anniversary. He received a Doctorate of Fine Arts by the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Art Center College of Design and an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Boston.
Considering the notion of “empowerment”, a term referred to in Information Anxiety 2 (p. 191) as “the word of the new century” and the result of inspired instructions, IIID partly owes its tag line "Data transformed into high-quality information empower people to attain goals" to R.S. Wurman.
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