Centre for Information Design Research (CIDR)

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Recent news

New publication 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 …

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

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…

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

Forms design and the history of forms Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading Recorded on 20 February 2017 as part of a series of seminars, Looking at documents,…

In Brighton tomorrow morning

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

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, …

Reading to do: 18th–20th century with Professor Michael Twyman 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…

Face Forward in Dublin this past weekend

Face Forward in Dublin 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…

Information design for health: exhibiting history, theory and practice

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…

Welcome to Matthew Lickiss 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…

Workshop on 'Reading to do'

‘Reading to do’ workshop Welcome to visitors Ann Bessemans, Kevin Bormans and Maarten Renckens, from PXL, Belgium, Ann Marcus Quinn from the Depa…