Your tutors have many decades of experience between them, of teaching, research and professional practice in information design.
Professor Clive Richards
Diagramming, visualisation, design education
Clive is a leading design educator and Emeritus Professor of Information Design at Birmingham City University. He is a former President of the IIID, a former President of the Chartered Society of Designers in the UK. He has a doctorate from the Royal College of Art in London for his influential work on diagrammatics, and he was an early pioneer of computer animation and computer-aided drafting.
Professor Karel van der Waarde
Health and pharmaceutical information, user-testing, regulation of design, design education
Karel is a leading expert on medical communications and user-testing. His clients include many well known names such as Bayer, Procter & Gamble and GSK. With a doctorate on the subject from the University of Reading, he has published numerous papers on information design research and is a frequent conference speaker on information design and pharmaceutical labelling. He teaches visual communication at Basel School of Design and is Vice President for Education and Research of the IIID Executive Committee.
www.graphicdesign-research.com
Professor Rob Waller
Financial design, legal information design, typography, language and design
Rob Waller is an information designer with over forty years experience developing clear information for companies such as Vodafone, BT, Barclays, British Gas and many others. He is Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds School of Design, UK, and a former President of IIID. He has a doctorate from the University of Reading, UK, for work on information design theory, and his research has focused on the relationship of language and design.
Guest lecturers
We regularly invite guest lecturers, and in recent years they have included Veronika Egger, Patricia Wright and Kevin Larson.