Centre for Information Design Research (CIDR)

10/10/2018

To help make it more efficient to find out about information design activities at Reading we are bringing together CIDR's postings with Information Design at Reading. You'll find our future updates there

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10/09/2018

19/08/2018

Recent news

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 …

05/08/2018

http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/cidr/2018/01/17/highlights-from-student-placements

Last year, our graphic communication undergraduate students had the opportunity to undertake some exciting information design placements, including working on an inclusive design research project a…

01/12/2017

Forms design and the history of forms
One of the series of masters and postgraduate seminars in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication

Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading Recorded on 20 February 2017 as part of a series of seminars, Looking at documents,…

29/06/2016

In Brighton tomorrow morning

http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/cidr/2016/06/28/join-us-at-design-research-society-conference-2016/

Alison Black and Sue Walker are chairing a session on Effective information design at the Design Research Society’s 50th anniversary conference in Brighton. The session, on Thursday 30 June, …

25/02/2016

Following the video posted last week, we have now uploaded a recording from another session of the Reading to do workshop hosted by CIDR in October 2015 (more information here). As part of the work…

15/12/2015

Face Forward in Dublin this past weekend

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–Engl…

04/12/2015

Information design for health: exhibiting history, theory and practice

The launch of the University’s Health Research theme yesterday provided an opportunity for CIDR to exhibit two aspects of its work – historical materials, held in the Otto and Marie Neurath I…

03/12/2015

Welcome to Matthew, our new CIDR research and administration assistant. He is currently completing a PhD in document theory, following his MA and BA in the Department of Typography & Graphic Co…

19/11/2015

Workshop on 'Reading to do'

Welcome to visitors Ann Bessemans, Kevin Bormans and Maarten Renckens, from PXL, Belgium, Ann Marcus Quinn from the Depa…