InfoD: Two events: London ISOTYPE - Vienna SIGN 09

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         1. Isotype revisited. 18 November 2009. St Bride, London, UK.
         2. Sign09. 3 - 11 December 2009, Vienna, Austria.

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1) Isotype revisited

Three short talks about lesser-known aspects of Isotype, a method
for showing facts and connections in pictorial form. The talks draw
on new research from the 'Isotype revisited' project at the
University of Reading.


WEBSITE:
http://stbride.org/events/isotyperevisited
& http://www.isotyperevisited.org/

DATE:
Wednesday 18 November 2009 at 7pm

LOCATION:
In the Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation
Admission =A37 - concessions =A35 - Friends of St Bride =A33
Pay on the door


Matthew Eve: From hieroglyphics to Isotype
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Between 1942 and 1945, Otto Neurath drafted a 'visual autobiography',
an innovative attempt to document his life and work through its visual
influences, and culminating in Isotype. This talk describes the shape
and content of Neurath's text, his intentions for its publication =AD not
realized at the time =AD and work now underway to give it published form
as From hieroglyphics to Isotype.

Sue Walker: 'They are wizard books'
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Graphic explanation for children is one way to describe the children's
books designed by the Isotype Institute from the 1940s to the late
1960s. This talk will offer an account of the making of these books
and show how the Neurath=B9s brought a child-centred approach to book
design, and how Isotype principles were used to enhance accessibility.

Eric Kindel: 'Isotype in Africa'
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In the mid 1950s, some ten years after Otto Neurath's death,
Marie Neurath, director of the Isotype Institute, travelled to
West Africa to consult on public information initiatives in several
countries emerging from British colonial rule to full independence.
This talk will review Marie Neurath=B9s trips to Nigeria, Gold Coast
and Sierra Leone in 1954 and 1955, before looking in detail at
Isotype work produced in support of social democracy in the
Western Region of Nigeria.



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2) Sign 09

9 days of Exhibition and Seminars on Signage and Wayshowing in Vienna


WEBSITE:
http://www.sign09.net/

DATES:
3 - 11 December 2009.

ORGANISATION:
- Martin Foessleitner, IIIDspace Director,
   High-Performance Vienna GmbH
- Lucie Jagu, IIIDspace, High-Performance Vienna GmbH
(A joint event on signage and wayfinding by IIID and The Sign Design Societ=
y)



PROGRAMMES (subject to change)
3 December: Opening of the exhibition

4 December: British Embassy: City identity & wayfinding
- HMA Simon Smith: Welcome by the Ambassador
- Matt Butters (Pascall and Watson, UK): Intuative wayfinding at
   Heathrow Airport Terminal 5
- Stefan Egger & Erik Spiekermann (IIID, Austria): 'Tern' A new
   traffic typefacefor the Trans European Road Network (TERN)
- Barry Gray (Designer, UK): An update from Geneva. Latest developments
   in the standardisation of graphical symbols and signs
- Helmut Ness (Fuenfwerken Design AG, Germany) New concepts of
   wayfinding in public environments. Messe Frankfurt
- Khanna Raman (Design For Use, India): Reading the city of Delhi:
   wayfinding strategies for international tourism
- Zeynep Aran (Hacettepe University, Turkey) & Halime Fisenk
   (Baskent University, Turkey) Environmental sign systems as a
   visual language matter in Turkey
- Jim Northover (Lloyd Northover, UK): Global Cities, Local Places:
   the challenge of identity and information in urban environments
- G=F6khan Numanoglu (Designer, Turkey): Pictogram as an international
   pictorial sign
- Tommie Nystr=F6m (Stuttgart Media University, Germany): Experiences
   from teaching Wayshowing at Stuttgart Media University
- Jay Rutherford (Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany): Signage project
   in India
- Tony Howard (Transport Design Cons., UK): New concepts of wayfinding
   in public environments / Metro Dubai
- David Gibson (Two Twelve Associates, USA): Finding the hidden Logic
- Nic Banks (Atelier Pacific Ltd, Hong Kong): Signing public transport
   systems
- Cliff Seibert (Selbert Perkins Design, USA): Finding your way while
   enhancing your brand

5 December: Hilfsgemeinschaft: Partially Sighted
- Siobonne Brewster (Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), UK):
   Innovations in accessible wayfinding - making a cohesive journey
- Marta Wieckowska (Academy of Fine Art, Institute of Visual Research and
   Interaction, Poland): Understanding space as perceived by blind people
- Peter Barker (The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, UK): How to
   design Wayfinding and Signage System for visually impaired people
- Veronika Egger (IsDesign, Austria)
- Daniele Marano (Relief Organization for Austria=B9s Blind and Visually
   Impaired, Austria)
- Regina Roland (Visual Dialogue San Francisco, USA): World Caf=E9

6 December: Wien Museum: Exhibition signage
Guided Tour at Museum Wien
- Wolfgang Kos (Wien Museum, Autria)
- Erwin K. Bauer (Bauer - konzept & gestaltung gmbh, Autria)

7 December: General Motors
- Dieter Stockinger (General Motors Austria, Austria): Security and
   safety in Production Environment
- Konrad Baumann (FH Joanneum Graz, Austria)
- Nicolai Stickel & Ingo Steibler (Star Cooperation GmbH, Germany):
   Labeling inside a car: challenges, solutions and trends
- Clive Richards (Coventry University, UK): Labeling at Massey Ferguson
- Ralf Herrmann (Designer, Germany): Wayfinding Typefaces

8 December: IIID Space
Exhibition (Public Holiday)

9 December: IIID Space & Danube: Riverside: Water & Signage
- Otto Schwetz (PIANC Austria, Austria): Navigation on Waterways
- Gerhard Skoff (Danube Tourist Commission, Austria): Wayfinding and
   Tourism
- Daniel Thiriet (tbc)(Sea Chefs (Cruise Management GmbH A-rosa,
   Switzerland): Signage on ships
- Reinhard Voderwinkler (BMVIT - Sektion IV, Abt. W2 Schifffahrt -
   Technik und Nautik, Austria): EU-Regulations
End of the Seminar: T42 / Tea for Two

10 December: IIID Space
- Erwin K. Bauer (Bauer - konzept & gestaltung
- Diana Frank (Office for concept and design, Germany): Orientation
   by context, not by text
- Gilles Baudet (Attoma Design, France): Wayfinding in complex
   underground transit places
- Rob Waller (University of Reading, UK): Wayfinding and the Reading
   MA in Information Design
- Florian Koeck & Christoph Rastbichler (D-Licious, Austria): The
   importance of institutional presence in public space
- Lisa Fontaine (Iowa State University, USA), Oscar Fern=E5ndez (University
   of Cincinnati, USA), Kathryn McCormick (California Polytechnic State
   University, USA): Universal Symbol Systems for Cross-Cultural Audiences:
   New Curricular Methods
- Sue Manley (Placemarque Ltd., UK): Celebrating the place =AD communicating
   local identity and character through wayfinding

11 December: IIID Space & onsite
- Peter Barker (The Guide Dogs for the Blind, UK): New Technologies
   for Visual Impared People
- Alexandra Millonig (Vienna University of Technology, Austria): Ubiquitous
   navigation support: Let the environment guide you
- Nicolas Naveau (Ars Electronica Futurelab, Austria): SOURCE.CODE -=A0
   Media Art as Guidance System
- Stefan Rapp (LumEnActive, Germany): Application of LumEnActive for
   signage and route guidance
- Lisa Ehrenstrasser (Inclusive Design, Austria): Evoking the senses
- Per Mollerup (Swinburne University, Australia): Wayfinding,
   Wayshowing, Waylosing

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