»s/hillusions« zeigt aktuelle Arbeiten von Christoph Rastbichler. Die ausgewählten Sujets sind die grafische Auseinandersetzung mit Körperlichkeit. Zum einen in Bezug auf die zweidimensionale Transformation und somit Reduktion, zum anderen sind sie eine Reaktion auf die sexuelle Ästhetisierung im täglichen Leben. In einer einfachen Formen- und Farbensprache erzählen die Objekte die Geschichte von Adam und Eva – und deren Kostümen. Christoph Rastbichler studierte Grafik Design an der Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Wien und führt mit seinem Partner Florian Köck die d-licious Grafik Design OG.

The exhibition "s/hillusions" shows current works of IIID-member Christoph Rastbichler. The selection deals with physicalness, on the one hand in the transformation and reduction into a two dimensionial presentation and on the other hand as a reaction on the sexual aestheticism in daily life. In simple colours and shapes the objects narrate the story of Adam and Eve – and their costumes. Christoph Rastbichler studied graphics and design at the University for applied arts in Vienna and runs together with his partner Florian Köck the d-licious Grafik Design OG.

Workshop "How to find, win, keep and develop clients"
Auf Einladung von designaustria leitete Shan Preddy einen Workshop zum Thema:
How to find, win, keep and develop clients.

Durch immer enger werdenden Budgets wird es immer wichtiger den Beitrag von Designleistungen deutlich zu machen und sich zu unterscheiden.
Anstatt des reinen Preismarketings gilt es eine intensive und damit nachhaltig tragfähige Kundenbeziehung aufzubauen und bei wachsendem Preisbewusstsein den Wert der eigenen Leistung transparent darzustellen.
Dieses Seminar zeigte Wege auf wie Designer:
- schneller an Termine mit Entscheidern kommen
- potentielle Kunden im Gespräch überzeugen
- auf Einwände richtig reagieren
- Aufträge beim Nachfassen gewinnen
- Einkäufer und Kunden verstehen und überzeugen können
- Neukunden gewinnen

 

A mountain in Iceland and a seminar in Vienna:
We regret that due to the air and resulting train traffic situation Prof Dr Graziella Tonfoni, IIID member from the University of Bologna was not able to appear in Vienna. Nevertheless Peter Simlinger and Martin Foessleitner talked about Professor Tonfoni techniques using architectural metaphors as well as gave a brief review on her work combining linguistics and information design. Graziella Tonfoni had visited, and lectured internally at IIID Space in August 2009 and January 2010.

>> Letter of Prof. Graziella Tonfoni

von der Hilfsgemeinschaft der Blinden und Sehschwachen Österreichs sprach über Gestaltung und die Bedeutung von starken Kontrasten für Sehbehinderte . Der Vortrag beinhaltete auch einen Ausblick auf die Jubiläumsfeiern der Hilfsgemeinschaft im Juni und auf die IIID-Konferenz space-x im Oktober in Wien .

The templates for Catharinas works are digital pictures, taken on several places all over the world of nature, portraits and urban environments. The collages are made of multiple photographs by overlaying, fragmentation and transparency, The outcome reminds us of painted pictures.
Catharina uses details of images as structures, sometimes barely visible but nevertheless essential to the appearance of the artwork, offering details to discover, patterns to detect and places to explore.

>> more of catharina

The Sign Design Awards are organised by the Sign Design Society, based in the UK. The 2009 competition saw a record entry from across the world and presentations to the winners will take place on October 22nd in London.
This was followed by an exhibition of some 40 or more of the best entries at the Building Centre in London between 2nd and 14th November.

In December 2009, the exhibition moved to Vienna where, with the support of the Society, the International Institute for Information Design IIID hold a series of seminars under the banner of ‘Sign 09’.

Sign09 was the first event of its kind to be held.

>> more info at: www.sign09.net

Scenario-based design, information mapping, personas, card sorting, storytelling, graphic facilitation? Which methods and tools are relevant for information design? Which methods do information designers use in their every day work? Are there any white areas in the map of methods in information design? Which methods should lecturers and professors teach their students? The idea of the workshop is to bring together researchers from industry and universities, designers and teachers to discuss methods and tools for information design.

The main goal of the workshop, organized by Prof. Dr. Wibke Weber Hochschule der Medien Stiuttgart and initiated by Peter Simlinger IIID was to take stock of the basic methods in information design. To achieve this goal, this workshop provided a forum for the participants to present, evaluate, reflect, and discuss methods every information designer should know.

In short presentations the participants gave a general view about one or several methods of their discipline and explained why these methods are fundamental for information design.

Proceedings are in preperation.

 

October 2009

Directly following the nuclear meltdown and the explosion at the 4th Block reactor in Chernobyl on April 26, 1986, the former Soviet Union mobilized tens of thousands of reservists – for the most part young soldiers – to contain the fi re and clean up the debris.

These helpers, so-called liquidators, constructed a provisional concrete encasement around the reactor that was intended to prevent additional radioactive material from getting out. Within the fi rst few days, approximately 1,000 of the helpers were exposed to extremely high and often deadly levels of radiation. A cloud of nuclear fallout spread across large parts of Europe, eventually covering the entire Northern hemisphere. Five years later, after the Soviet empire had already collapsed and Ukraine was already on its way to independence, Oleg Veklenko, together with Valerij Sleta, Sergey Mirnij, Viacheslav Olenin and Alexander Bendus organized the fi rst international poster exhibition entitled 4th Block. All of the founding members had been liquidators in Chernobyl and the exhibition was designed to pay tribute to those who had died or who had been crippled by the catastrophe in Chernobyl. After this fi rst exhibition, the International Triennial of Ecoposters (Ukraine) was established, which in 2009 took place for the 7th time.
The best works from this year and from the previous competitions will be shown for the fi rst time in Vienna between September 10 and October 11, 2009. One of the goals of this exhibition is to think about the disaster in Chernobyl but not as a past event or a problem unique to the waning Soviet empire, but rather to understand the global implications of ecological questions for our future.

 

Paris, June 18-20, 2009

"From June 18-20 we attended the DD4D (= Data Designed for Decisions) [dd4d.net] conference at the OECD Conference center in Paris. The conference was organized both by the IIID and the OECD with the goal to bring together statisticians, information designers, visualization researchers, and practitioners (or as the conference stated: "intermediaries between data, knowledge and empowerment"). The conference organizers had invited a number of amazing speakers, including such celebrities as Hans Rosling and Robert Horn.
The overarching question raised by most speakers was how to go from data and information to decisions and actions with a focus on both traditional and emerging deciders such as politicians and executives and also citizens and consumers. To address the challenge of making sense of large data quantities, several speakers discussed the potential of storytelling for communicating complex issues as well as the power of numbers in the form of social indicators and benchmarks."



>> the summary of Petra Isenberg on infostehtics:
>> www.dd4d.net