Category: Community
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Book: Interaction of Symbols
A new, detailed, and profusely illustrated book about the practice and theory of icon design.
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IIID Conversation with David Sless: Between ritual and reality, 5 December 2024, 09:00 UTC
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 that only reassure and the designed information that really helps.
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IIID Conversation: Visualizing Public Broadcast News, 17 Oct 2024, 17:00 UTC
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.
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IIID Conversation: Legibility of pictograms for healthcare, 12 Sep 2024, 15:00 UTC
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 of pictograms in healthcare.
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Book: A New Semiotics
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 of their work.
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IIID VisionPlus conference, 20-21 June 2024, Vienna, Austria
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.
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Icons for Society: Past, Present and Future
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 life that emojis, emoticons, and icons would become.
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IIID Conversation with Wolfe Erikson: The Future of Care, 23 May 2024, 17:00 UTC
Wolfe Erikson will talk about the complexities of what it means to navigate the US medical system as a person with chronic and / or disabling health concerns.
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Japan Sign Design Award 2024
The Japan Sign Design Award, sponsored by the Japan Sign Design Association is now accepting applications. This year marks the 58th year of this award, and it is the only award system for sign design in Japan.
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Workshop: Hospital Design and Care Delivery
Unfortunately this event overlaps with the VisionPlus conference! The 2-day workshop at SCDH will give you a comprehensive understanding of how to design the hospitals of the future by integrating patient safety theory, operational efficiency, simulation techniques, end-user engagement strategies, and developing a compelling business case.