Author Archives: Alison Black

Information design research at Loddon Observatory showcase

Posted on September 28, 2018 by Alison Black

This week, postgraduate researcher, Josefina Bravo, gave a rapid presentation of part of her PhD research to members of the Loddon Observatory. The session featured a wealth of environmental research on farming, water quality and sustainable agriculture. Josefina’s research into … Continue reading →

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Recent research presentation roundup

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Alison Black

Sue Walker gave a keynote talk at the Design4Health conference organised by Sheffield Hallam University, 3–6 September 2018 entitled ‘Getting the message across: communication design and healthcare’. Here she discussed the role of communication design in explaining the science behind … Continue reading →

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New publication

Posted on August 19, 2018 by Alison Black

CIDR authors, Sue Walker and Alison Black, and colleagues from the School of Arts at University of Hasselt, Belgium, and information design consultancy Text Matters have co-authored a chapter in a new publication Learning to Read in a Digital World, … Continue reading →

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UROP 2018: Investigating how food packaging influences perceptions

Posted on July 27, 2018 by Alison Black

We have been joined this summer by Part 2 student, Lauren Quinn, who, with funding from the University’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP), has been working on an exploratory study to investigate how the broad context of food packaging influences … Continue reading →

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Following from Understanding Risk 2018

Posted on July 4, 2018 by Alison Black

In follow up to our post on the Understanding Risk Forum in Mexico, where Matthew Lickiss was part of the organising team for a Pressure Cooker  workshop to develop new ways of communicating about risk of and response to natural … Continue reading →

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Understanding Risk Forum – Mexico City

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Alison Black

  Snaps from Matthew Lickiss, from the ice-breaker event for the Risk communication pressure cooker at the World Bank 2018 Understanding Risk Forum in Mexico City. Matthew is a Senior Tutor at the pressure cooker – an interdisciplinary event examining how scientific … Continue reading →

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Parliamentary event – Designing information for public understanding

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Alison Black

We were delighted by the enthusiastic, capacity attendance on 5 February at a parliamentary event to raise awareness of the importance of designing information for public understanding, and to celebrate our book Information design research and practice. The evening, co-organised … Continue reading →

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How far has information design infiltrated parliamentary discourse?

Posted on January 8, 2018 by Alison Black

Information design researcher, Karel van der Waarde, whose work has influenced European legislation regarding the design of information communicated in patient information leaflets for packaged medicines, has recently carried out an informal search for references to information design in Hansard, … Continue reading →

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Forms design and the history of forms

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Alison Black

We are delighted to be able to point you to a video of one of a series of seminars for masters students and postgraduate researchers in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication. The seminars, covering a range of topics, … Continue reading →

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Designing for Europe

Posted on September 18, 2017 by Alison Black

Information designers, typographers, type designers, and europhiles will be interested in Paul Luna’s talk at ATypI in Montréal last week in which he presented materials from Reading’s archive of the graphic designers, Banks & Miles, whose work included communication design … Continue reading →

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