Category: Publication
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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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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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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: 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 Conversation: Design for Digital Empowerment, 28 March 2024, 17:00 UTC
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 highlights of the highly interdisciplinary collaboration process, and look at our design decisions in terms…
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Sign design guide 2nd edition now available!
After 20 years as an excellent reference book for inclusive wayfinding information the Sign Design Society decided it was time to update this classic.
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IIID Conversation with Robert Linsky: The Way Communications Should Be, 8 February 2024, 18:00 CET
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.
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IIID Conversation: Design for Emergency Management, 18 January 2024, 17:00 UTC
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.