Category Archives: Afterword

Reading to do: everyday experiences

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Alison Black

In October last year CIDR hosted an EU funded workshop, Reading to do. As an introduction to the workshop, each participant brought along examples of printed and electronic documents they had used recently in order to carry out a task … Continue reading →

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Face Forward in Dublin

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Alison Black

The Face Forward conference on typography was held at the beautiful campus of the Institute of Technology in Dublin over two days last week. CIDR member Keith Tam presented his work on Chinese–English bilingual document design. Keith gave an overview … Continue reading →

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Our research reaching a professional audience

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Alison Black

Jeanne-Louise Moys’s doctoral research features in Design Week’s recent post on ‘Searching for new perspectives in typography’. Design writer Rick Poyner highlights some of Jeanne-Louise’s early findings and their implications for typographic research and practice. When Jeanne-Louise started her research … Continue reading →

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Information design in transactional communications

Posted on September 19, 2015 by Alison Black

Alison Black gave a talk, yesterday, at a masterclass in customer communications for commercial and public sector organisations. The event, organised by GI Solutions, was held at Royal Mail’s offices (hence the picture above). Alison’s talk introduced the concept of … Continue reading →

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Researchers in information design visit the Department of Typography

Posted on September 8, 2015 by

We were fortunate yesterday to be visited by international information design researchers, Rodrigo Ramirez from the School of Design at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and Rupesh Vyas and Sejal Tiwari from the National Institute for Design, Gujarat. Lunch … Continue reading →

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IIID Vision Plus 2015

Posted on September 8, 2015 by

Some interesting talks at the IIID Vision Plus Conference this year, held at Birmingham City University. The two-day conference provided an engaging discussion of the ways in which information design relates to and improves performance in different areas. Some might … Continue reading →

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Future thinking in a historic setting

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Alison Black

The Houses of Commons provided a very historic and concrete setting for a discussion, yesterday evening, of ‘speculative design’ – the use of images, models or videos of far future scenarios to encourage research participants to give their responses to … Continue reading →

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Planning for Climate Change Conference

Posted on June 30, 2015 by

Spontaneous note-taking during the conference.   The Planning for Climate Change Conference on 25 of June at Southbank University presented a wide-ranging view of the challenges of preparing for, adapting to and mitigating the effects of climate change. There was … Continue reading →

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Donor Day 2015

Posted on May 6, 2015 by

The Department of Typography and Graphic Communication was present for Donor Day 2015, held at Whiteknights campus on Saturday 25 April. Lots of people came and had a chat with Professors Sue Walker and Alison Black about the wide range of the Department’s work. We … Continue reading →

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Half-way outputs of the European Union COST network project ‘E-read’

Posted on April 22, 2015 by

Ljubljana, 9 April 2015 — After a day’s brainstorming, our group of about 30 participants – from neuroscientists, through computer scientists, rhetoricians and literary theorists, to designers, publishers and technical writers – formed into three groups, each taking a specific … Continue reading →

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