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IIID Conversation with David Sless: Between ritual and reality, 5 December 2024, 09:00 UTC 2024-11-20 Rituals may be awesome and reassuring, but they don’t make the world safer. Today information design is playing an ever-increasing role in trying to make real life safer and easier for people. But we need to distinguish between the rituals…
IIID Conversation: Visualizing Public Broadcast News, 17 Oct 2024, 17:00 UTC 2024-10-01 The daily flow of breaking news is channelled according to television’s editorial principles. These principles determine the order and duration of the news. Identifying simple patterns could bring important value, as public television reaches large numbers of the population.
IIID Conversation: Legibility of pictograms for healthcare, 12 Sep 2024, 15:00 UTC 2024-08-29 Pharmaceutical pictograms and other graphic symbols are increasingly used to convey critical health information, but their design can be challenging due to the complexity and small size required. This time, Pia Pedersen will share her insights into the legible use…
Book: A New Semiotics 2024-07-19 An introductory guide to the field of semiotics. Assuming no prior knowledge of semiotics, this accessible text takes a fresh look at semiotics and suggests that many of the forebears and many contemporary contributors to semiotics have misconstrued the nature…
IIID VisionPlus conference, 20-21 June 2024, Vienna, Austria 2024-06-11 The VisionPlus conference celebrates its 20th edition this year – a great opportunity to showcase the huge variety of what information design can be. Speakers from 14 countries on 4 continents will be joining us in Vienna this year.
Icons for Society: Past, Present and Future 2024-05-21 2024 sees the 40th anniversary of Susan Kare’s designs for Apple Macintosh’s groundbreaking screen icons and 42 years since Scott Fahlman introduced his joke markers made from punctuation (Emoticons). Few could have predicted how much a part of our everyday…