Tag: Community

  • MoMA: Full Disclosure – The Edge of Information Design

    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.

  • New book by Paul Kahn: Mapping Knowledge Across Time

    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)

  • Information design and civic administration: trust, tradition and toxicity

    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…

  • AGRAFA’26 – Cycles in design

    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…

  • ISO’s new document design standard – we want your comments!

    ISO’s new document design standard – we want your comments!

    Part 1 of the standard is for general guidance, and various additional parts provide guidelines for specific contexts. IIID representatives have been drafting Part 5: Document Design. It doesn’t cover all information design – just when it’s applied to documents that are mostly text. In parallel to the standard, we have also written a pattern…

  • IIID Conversation, Asia-Pacific Time Zone: Tue, 9 December 2025

    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.

  • IIID VisionPlus conference: Call for papers now open

    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…

  • IIID Conversation with Rob Waller: Towards a new document design standard

    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.

  • IIID Studio

    IIID Studio

    The International Institute for Information Design (IIID) has been leading a new initiative to inspire students to become more involved with information design. Enyoy a brief summary of the first event with five universities in Brazil, Canada, Greece, and the USA.

  • ISO Plain Language Standard Part 2 published

    ISO Plain Language Standard Part 2 published

    The standard provides a clear understanding of what plain language legal communication is and how you can achieve it.  An international team of experts in law and plain language wrote the standard. They are from different countries, different legal systems, and different legal fields. They identified common criteria for plain legal language.