Category Archives: Comment

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 →

image via Wikimedia Commons   Postgraduate researcher, Andrew McIlwraith, is examining how the design of floorplans can aid  people visiting museums. While conducting his research, Andrew has gained access to the archives of the Victoria & Albert museum and has been able to examine … Continue reading →

  These words appear on the front page of the new ‘Manifesto for Design‘ produced by the All-Party Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group (APDIG) and tie in very much with our approach in the Centre for Information Design Research. We … Continue reading →

Breaks at last week’s Information Design Conference were enlivened by a grandstand view of the film set for Les Miserables. The conference itself needed no enlivening with papers spanning wide-ranging topics such as public communication of the impact of education on social mobility … Continue reading →