Category: Event
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VisionPlus ’26 videos published
23 videos of IIID VisionPlus presentations are now available. See the Playlist on the IIID Youtube channel.
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VisionPlus ’26 conference book published
Information design and civic administration: trust, tradition and toxicity. The publication revisits the programme, speakers and topics of the 2026 VisionPlus conference. 27 speakers from four continents shared their projects, experneinces and knowledge with an equally international audience. Presentations highlighted the role of information design in government interactions, the responsibility of information design when working…
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MoMA: Full Disclosure – The Edge of Information Design
Information design / data visualisziation exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, running from 7 September 2026 to 13 June 2027. Please see the website of MoMA for further details.
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New book by Paul Kahn: Mapping Knowledge Across Time
Paul Kahn, Information Design and Data Visualization pioneer, speaker at several IIID VisionPlus conferences, information design historian presentas ” …. a tour of the information design patterns from Modernist diagrams of evolution to medieval Islamic maps, from Chinese representations of rivers to Jewish diagrams of astrological cycles.” (Routledge)
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Information design and civic administration: trust, tradition and toxicity
Speakers fom Europe, Asia and the Americas share their experience, expertise and research that interrogate the role of information design in government interactions. How do documents shape citizens’ experience of a government? When does clarity empower—and when does it conceal? How might information designers resist harmful administrative systems? What responsibilities do information designers bear when…
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AGRAFA’26 – Cycles in design
IIID is very pleased to announce that weare a partner of the AGRAFA’26 conference. It reaches out to people from outside the design industry, fosters networking, and creates platforms for sharing experiences. One particular aspect links the IIID VisionPlus’26 and AGRAFA’26 conference themes: investigating the role of the designer as a conscious agent in the…
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New book and tutorial at HCII26: Aaron Marcus, Bridging Art, Design and Technology
After eight years of development, the new book by Aaron Marcus about his life’s work in design/art will be released by Springer UK in February 2026. Part autobiography, part designer monograph, the book tells the story of the early days of computer-based graphic design, supported with compelling images and backstories behind Marcus’s innovative HCI/user-experience designs…
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IIID Conversation, Asia-Pacific Time Zone: Tue, 9 December 2025
For our community in the Asia-Pacific region, Rob Waller will give a morning edition of this conversation, hosted by Alex Tyers in Melbourne.
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IIID VisionPlus conference: Call for papers now open
Information design and civic administration: trust, tradition and toxicity. Civic administration is built on documents to guide and support public life. Examples of these documents are licenses (driving, hunting, fishing), forms, governmental websites, regulations (parking signs, local trash disposal), anything with taxes, labelling (food, chemicals, medicines), passport applications, visa and residence permits, immigration processes, and…
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IIID Conversation with Rob Waller: Towards a new document design standard
Towards a document design standard: Rob Waller will talk about the evolution of plain language standards and the development of a new ISO document-design supplement and pattern library to support clearer, more user-focused communication.