Tag: News
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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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Icons for Society: Past, Present and Future
2024 sees the 40th anniversary of Susan Kare’s designs for Apple Macintosh’s groundbreaking screen icons and 42 years since Scott Fahlman introduced his joke markers made from punctuation (Emoticons). Few could have predicted how much a part of our everyday life that emojis, emoticons, and icons would become.
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Japan Sign Design Award 2024
The Japan Sign Design Award, sponsored by the Japan Sign Design Association is now accepting applications. This year marks the 58th year of this award, and it is the only award system for sign design in Japan.
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Workshop: Hospital Design and Care Delivery
Unfortunately this event overlaps with the VisionPlus conference! The 2-day workshop at SCDH will give you a comprehensive understanding of how to design the hospitals of the future by integrating patient safety theory, operational efficiency, simulation techniques, end-user engagement strategies, and developing a compelling business case.
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Workshop: Visualizing Complexity Science, Vienna, 26-30 August 2024
Liuhuaying Yang and Paul Kahn host a five-day data visualization workshop in Vienna. Participants engage in modelling complexity science problems.
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Visualizing chronic pain
Rita Giordano wrote about the process of developing visualisations about pain. She describes how infographics could be transformed to better reflect patients’ needs.
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New book: ‘Woodcuts as Reading Guides.’
This book applies information design to the understanding of woodcuts. Free download.
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New book: ‘Design for Emergency Management’
A new book about the critical role and relationship between design and emergencies.
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TEDx talk by Karel van der Waarde
Karel’s TEDx talk is published right on time. It highlights some arguments why the European legislation about medicines information in package leaflets needs to be changed.
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Burkey Belser – designer of US- nutrition label – dies at 76
The label was introduced in 1994 in the USA and revised in 2016.