Design Matters

The IDJ is now published by John Benjamins, under the editorial direction of Piet Westendorp and Karel van der Waarde.

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InformationDesign.org is published as a resource for the information design community. Can you recommend pages on InformationDesign.org? Please leave a comment.

Bob Jacobson publishes the edited volume Information Design. Have you read this book? Please leave a comment.

The STC Information Design SIG is formed. Beth Mazur was the founder and contributed a large part of the information on this site. In 2005 the SIG was rechartered as the Information Design and Architecture SIG. Are you a member? If not, we hope you will join. If so, please leave a comment and tell us what you would like to see on this site and have the SIG do.

Karen Schriver publishes Dynamics in Document Design. Have you read this book? Please leave a comment.

Peter Bogaards begins publishing his InfoDesign weblog. Today you will find his work on InformationDesign.org.

The US-based Information Design Association is formed in a partnership with the International Institute for Information Design (IIID). It is merged into the IIID in 1997.

Many of the 1978 Het Vennenbos attendees reconvene for a conference in Lunteren, the Netherlands. The InfoDesign and InfoDesign-Cafe lists are created by Yuri Engelhardt. Do you subsribe to these lists? Can you report on recent posts of interest? Please leave a comment.

The London-based Information Design Association was formed. This organization no longer has a site.

Richard Saul Wurman publishes Information Anxiety. He follows up with Information Architects (1996), Understanding (1999), and Information Anxiety 2 (2000). Have you read these books? Please leave a comment.