Tag: News
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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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Registration for the IIID VisionPlus and Symbol’26 conferences open now!
In the two conferences, speakers fom around the world share their experience, expertise and research. Symbol will revisit Neurath and Isotype, VisionPlus focuses on information design for civic infrastructure, governance, citizenship.
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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…
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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.
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100 years of ISOTYPE – Vienna celebrates with three exhibitions
The opening of the Society and Economy Museum in 1925 and the 80th anniversary of the death of its founder Otto Neurath are fitting occasions for celebratory exhibitions in Vienna: Was wäre Wien? / What would Vienna be? Knowledge for All, ISOTYPE – the Picture Language from Vienna. Society & Economy. Contemporary Positions on Otto…
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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.