Information Design at Reading

10/12/2021

Congratulations to our new graduates – incredibly proud to watch our PhD, MA and BA graduates come up to the stage this week to have their degrees conferred. It wasn't easy being a student during the pandemic and we're so proud of what you've achieved.

Pictured here after today's ceremony are some of our MA Communication Design Graphic Design and Information Design Pathway class of 2021 graduates, with their pathway lead Jeanne-Louise Moys joining them in the second photo.

Wishing you every success in your careers. Keep in touch!

07/12/2021

Amrita Shrilal (MACD class of 2021 and BA class of 2020) shares her experience of collaborating with Bottomline Technologies as part of her MA study experience:

Mock-up of the system highlighting the colour scheme editor section. This is where customers can change the colour scheme of the payment process to match their brand. Designing a brand onboarding system with Bottomline Technologies Amrita Shrilal has been involved in an exciting new collaboration wi...

07/12/2021

Siobhan Bailey (MACD class of 2021 and BA class of 2020) was http://typography.network/2021/12/06/ma-communication-design-and-the-ernest-hoch-scholarship/ awarded an Ernest Hoch Scholarship last year. Read more about her MA work and her reflections on the synergies with Hoch's legacy.

MA Communication Design and the Ernest Hoch Scholarship In 2020, Siobhan Bailey was awarded an Ernest Hoch Scholarship to support her studies on our MA Communication Design programme (Graphic Design pathway). The scholarship was endowed by the Hoch family in memory of Ernest Hoch, pioneer informatio...

22/10/2021

Congratulations to everyone involved in this week's wonderful Congresso Internacional de Design da Informaçao ( ) – 10th International Congress on Information Design – organised by The Brazilian Society of Information Design. A fascinating programme, including contributions from many Reading alumni and our own Prof. Eric Kindel.

Eric gave a keynote address on projects completed by the Institute in Gold Coast (Ghana) and Nigeria in the 1950s and their place in a wider context of design and development in British colonial West Africa.

13/10/2021

Lots of wonderful information design presentations currently available on the Information+ conference website, including Sue Walker and Josefina Bravo presenting their research on "Designing instructions for COVID-19 self-tests: how do people use static and video instructions, and what parts of the test are the most difficult to get right?"

Information+ is an interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers, educators, and practitioners in information design and data visualization to discuss common questions and challenges in these rapidly changing fields. Information+ seeks to foster productive exchanges amongst the varie...

06/10/2021

How do we know to stop at a red light and go on green? When did the uppercase Q come to mean ‘queue’? What is it about application forms that put us off? And why do we read novels but scan maps, peruse contracts, and glance at motorway signs? Information design is both timeless and timely.

In today's Baseline Shift talk "Making the invisible sensible", Arjun Khara talks about how design is not a switch to be flicked on and off, but a dial we turn and tune and constantly adjust until we get a clear signal.

Arjun is one of our doctoral researchers and also teaches across a range of projects on the undergraduate programme.

Keep an eye out for the post-talk blog (written by our students) on http://typography.network/baseline-shift/

23/06/2021

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for our fabulous THINK RETHINK undergraduate degree show live event. Wonderful to see many alumni joining us. If you missed the live event, have a look at the website – some great information design projects in the mix:

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13/04/2021

Congratulations to our postgraduate researcher Yuchan Zhang whose article "Effects of text space of Chinese-English bilingual traffic sign on driver reading performance" has been published in the journal Displays.

26/03/2021

Hello information design alumni and community! Just a quick heads up about the 10th International Congress
of Information Design call for papers – hope to see some of you at the online conference later this year

Seja bem vindo ao 10º Congresso Internacional de Design da Informação – CIDI 2021 e o 10º Congresso Nacional de Iniciação Científica em Design da Informação – CONGIC 2021 estão sendo organizados pela Sociedade Brasileira de Design da Informação – SBDI e pela Universidade Federal do...

29/10/2020

Postgraduate researcher Yuchan Zhang will be presenting here research into "Challenges for the design of bilingual traffic signs in China" at next week's IIID mobility days event: "Navigating the City – Information and mobility design for high-density multilingual environments". Programme details: https://mobility.iiid.net/

16/10/2020

Hello MA alumni – we're wondering if any of you might be interested in this job opportunity in Information Design at Chapman University:

General Information The Art Department, within Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, at Chapman University invites...