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Isabel Meirelles

Isabel Meirelles is a designer and educator. She has worked for more than 15 years developing internationally recognised print and interactive design projects. Since 2003 she has been teaching classes in information design and motion…
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Chiara Diana

Chiara Diana is a Creative Director at frog, Milan, focusing on multi-touch point solutions that span complex product-service systems. She works on digital solutions for media and healthcare companies, bringing together print-based services with…
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Claudine Jaenichen

Claudine is an information designer specialising in the relationship between design and cognition. She is an Associate Research Fellow of the Communication Research Institute, and a member of the International Institute of Information…
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Santiago Ortiz

Santiago Ortiz is an infoviz researcher and inventor. He uses his background in mathematics and complexity sciences to push the boundaries of information visualisation and data-based storytelling. He began creating images out of code, aged…
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Ken Garland

Ken Garland studied design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London in the early 1950s, and for six years was art editor of Design magazine, the official mouthpiece of the Council of Industrial Design. In 1962, he set up his own…
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Tingyi S. Lin

Tingyi S. Lin is an Associate Professor at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, teaching strategic visual planning and visual information design. Her creative art/design interests include graphic design, video production, and…
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Tom Lloyd

Tom Lloyd founded PearsonLloyd with Luke Pearson in 1997. Their studio offers design knowledge and strategic thinking in industries with demanding spatial, ergonomic and social needs, such as healthcare, airlines, the workplace and the public…
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Robert Hempsall

Robert has been an information designer all his working life: an employed one, then a freelance one, and now a partner in an information design business.

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Roberta Tassi

Roberta Tassi is a Senior Design Researcher at frog, Milan. She has established standards for the visual synthesis of complex information and the crafting of collaborative research tools, and led global in-field design research and…
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Katherine Gillieson

Katherine Gillieson is a designer, writer and researcher based in Vancouver, Canada. She is an Associate Professor in Communication Design at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She is interested in cross-disciplinary practice and…
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Michael Blastland

Michael Blastland is a writer and broadcaster. Before turning freelance, he was at the BBC, where he created the More or Less programme on Radio 4. He continues to present The Human Zoo (about behavioural science) and recently wrote and…
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Hanni Rützler

The field of nutrition defines and reflects future developments like no other. The basic passion (and necessity) of eating mirrors evolutionary, hygienic, social, economic and value-driven trends, and recognizing these can shed valuable light…
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Veronika Egger

Veronika Egger is an information designer who has long been interested in how the design of information, products and environments contribute towards people's quality of life. She started with product graphics at Philips Design and went on to…
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Will Stahl-Timmins

Will Stahl-Timmins' research focus is the visual presentation of data and information. His interests are in the use of information graphics, interactive media, and visual communication to promote understanding of scientific data.…
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Malcolm Garrett

Malcolm Garrett is a world-renowned designer whose work ranges from record sleeves to motion graphics, and from information environments to all forms of digital design. His work for clients such as the Buzzcocks, Simple Minds, Duran Duran,…
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Anne Miltenburg

Anne Miltenburg is an independent designer and writer, and co-editor of WorksThatWork, a magazine about unexpected creativity from all corners of the world.
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David Gibson

David Gibson is an internationally-renowned wayfinding and information designer, and the co-founder and managing principal of Two Twelve in New York City. He is a past President and Board Member of the SEGD (experiential graphic design), and…
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Stefania Passera

Stefania Passera is a doctoral researcher at Aalto University and MIND Research Group. Her work explores how design can contribute to new multidisciplinary innovation endeavours. She particularly focuses on applying visualisation and…
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Žiga Kropivšek

Žiga is a graphic designer in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He graduated in 2013 from the University of Reading where he explored representations of journeys in online journey planners as part of his MA dissertation in information design. He is…
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Yosune Chamizo Alberro

Yosune Chamizo Alberro is studying for a master’s degree in Design, Information, and Communication from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Cuajimalpa, prompting her interest in social studies and migrants in transit through…
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Jonas Lundberg

Jonas Lundberg is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Science and Technology, in the Media and Information Technology group at Linköping University. He has a PhD in Computer Science, in the area of Human–Computer Interaction and an…
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Ole E. Wattne

Ole teaches the theory of information graphics, information architecture and wayfinding for Bachelors and Masters students at Gjøvik University College, Norway, where he is head of the study programme for the BA in Media Design. He has an MA in…
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Mandar Rane

Mandar Rane is an Associate Professor at the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), IIT Bombay. He teaches in the discipline of visual communication, specialising in graphic design, information design, book design, visual identity, and the design of…
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Joan Zalacain

With ten years’ experience in maps, wayfinding and graphic design, Joan likes to bring clarity to what some call our era of information obesity. His approach aims to improve the user’s experience by simplifying processes and delivering…
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Mark Barratt

Mark Barratt is an information designer and co-founder of Text Matters, a long-established information design practice based in Reading, UK. Mark's background is variously in journalism, design, film-making and electronic publishing. For the…
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David Wrenne

David Wrenne is a graphic designer and full-time lecturer on the BA Visual Communication course at the Arts University Bournemouth. David has taught in numerous institutions and, for the past seven years, has worked and collaborated within the…
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Valentina D'Efilippo

Valentina D’Efilippo is a multi-disciplinary designer with an appetite for creativity and innovation – across all formats and media. After studying industrial design in Italy, she moved to London and gained a postgraduate degree in…
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María González de Cossío

María González de Cossío is a lecturer and researcher at Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Cuajimalpa in Mexico, and a consultant at Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Diseño in Puebla, Mexico. She studied for a PhD at the University…
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Paolo Ciuccarelli

Paolo Ciuccarelli is Associate Professor and Scientific Director at DensityDesign, a Research Lab in the Design Department at Politecnico di Milano. The focus is on exploiting the potential of data visualization and information design to…
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Gillian Harvey

Gillian Harvey is an information design instructor at the Department of Art and Design, University of Alberta. A project-based art director, her core capabilities include clear language, data visualisation, standards and procedural…
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Marek Kultys

Marek Kultys is an interdisciplinary information and communication designer at Science Practice, a design studio that collaborates with scientists to connect their research to the world outside the lab. Their aim is to build an explicit role for…
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Brian Dixon

Brian is a researcher and practising designer with a background in visual communications. Through postgraduate study undertaken from 2009–11 he developed an interest in, and a visual practice based on, walking maps. At present, through PhD study…
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Rob Waller

Rob Waller is an information designer, with many years' experience in research, education and practice. He is director of the Simplification Centre (London, UK), an educational charity that advocates and demonstrates clearer communications. He was…
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Maria da Gandra

Maria da Gandra studied Graphic Design at the University of Glamorgan in Cardiff. She undertook her MA in Communication Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2004, where she also taught for five years. Maria currently…
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Barbara Predan

Dr Barbara Predan and Dr Petra Černe Oven are designers, teachers and authors of texts on service and information design, design theory and history, typography, and design policy. They have co-authored exhibitions, organised conferences and…
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Petra Černe Oven

Dr Petra Černe Oven and Dr Barbara Predan are designers, teachers and authors of texts on service and information design, design theory and history, typography, and design policy. They have co-authored exhibitions, organised conferences and…
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Tim Fendley

Tim is a partner and creative director at Applied, a consultancy he founded to push the boundaries of information design. Tim has designed legible city projects in Bristol, Glasgow, Brighton, Dublin, Vancouver and New York. Tim has had a…

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Alison Black

Alison Black is a cognitive psychologist. She has worked with designers in industry and academia for over 25 years. She is Professor of User Centred Design and Director of the Centre for Information Design Research, Department of Typography &…
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Eric Kindel

Eric Kindel is a designer, writer, editor, and Associate Professor in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading. Between 2007 and 2011 he served as Principal Investigator for the ‘Isotype revisited’ project,…
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Maaike van Neck

Maaike van Neck studied Communication Design at the University of Portsmouth. She obtained an MA in Communication Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2004. Maaike spent 7 years as Senior Lecturer at the University of…
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Giorgio Uboldi

Giorgio Uboldi is a research fellow at DensityDesign, a Research Lab in the Design Department at Politecnico di Milano. The focus is on exploiting the potential of data visualization and information design to foster understanding and to…
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Sue Walker

Sue Walker is Professor of Typography at the University of Reading. Her research interests are in the relationship between typography and language, and in information design history, theory and practice. She is co-editor of the Gower Handbook of…
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Andrew Boag

Andrew Boag is an information design and communications consultant. He graduated in Typography from the University of Reading, and from 1985–1990 he taught and researched in that department. From 1990–1993 he was Special Projects Manager at…
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