Design is the intermediary between information and understanding. IIID, world leader in information design development, founded 1988

 
  Membership benefits

    
     •  Presentations IIID Vision Plus symposium 11 / 12
     •  Presentations IIID Expert Forum:  Traffic Guiding Systems 2006 / 2007 / 2008
     •  Traffic Guiding Systems Source Material
     •  Research into signage and wayfinding at stations
     •  IDJ Information Design Journal:
Special Offer
     •  IIID Safety Symbol System: Hi-res Index and Font

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 Upcoming IIID Events:


IIID Expert Forum Traffic & Transport Information Systems
The world's leading event in the field
IIID Traffic&Transport 2009
Call for Speakers: closed


 
 Current IIID Projects:

Information Design College/University
Commencing enrolment of students and on-line teaching on the IDC/IDU courses
   
IIIDspace
is a new exhibition, event and project space for IIID in downtown Vienna
www.iiidspace.net
 Recently concluded IIID Projects:
 
SOMS "Substituting/Optimizing (variable) Message Signs
for the Trans European Road Network"

Proposal on unified pictograms, keywords, bilingual verbal messages
and typefaces for VMS in the TERN

 
What information designers know and can do
"Development of International Core Competencies and Student and
Faculty Exchange in Information Design" within the EU/US Cooperation
Programme in Higher Education and Vocational Education and Training

Outcome (PDF 600KB)

barrierefrei unterwegs
Barrierefreie Information im Verkehrssystem

Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Verkehr, Innovation und
Technologie (bm:vit) zur Vorbereitung der Programmlinie ways2go
Free Download (PDF 2MB in German)
 
 
 
IIID Safety Symbol System
in compliance with American National Standard ANS Z535.3
Introduction, Testing material, Index, Font

 FREE Access / Downloads:  
 
    Information Design General Literature
   • In-Safety / SOMS - "Substituting/Optimizing (variable) Message Signs 
        for the Trans European Road Network"
   • idX - What information designers know and can do
    b.unt - Barrierefreie Information im Verkehrssystem
    IIID Safety Symbol System: Introduction, Testing material, Index
 
Rune Pettersson, Ph.D. 
Emeritus Professor of Information Design
Maelardalen University, Eskilstuna, S

PDF versions of books donated by the author
to visitors of the IIID website:
It Depends: ID – Principles and Guidelines (second edition 2007)
Basic ID-concepts (2008)

  
 Recent IIID Events:
 
IIID Vision Plus 13
DD4D / Data Designed for Decisions
Enhancing social, economic and environmental progress

A joint IIID/OECD conference
18-20 June 2009, Paris

Expert Forum Traffic Guiding Systems: Infoconnectivity - Intertwined information for interconnected transport networks
IIID Expert Forum Traffic Guiding Systems
The world's leading event in the field

Infoconnectivity - Intertwined information for interconnected transport networks

International Conference on Applications of Information Design

25 - 28 June 2008, Maelardalen University, Eskilstuna, Sweden


IIID Information Design Colloquium

2nd IN-SAFETY Workshop
Towards a Forgiving and Self-Explanatory Europe
24 October 2007, Brussels, Belgium
Expert Forum Traffic Guiding Systems: Barrierfree Information for Public Transport
IIID Expert Forum Traffic Guiding Systems

Barrierfree Information for Public Transport
IIID Information Design Summer Academy "BASE"
28 July to 10 August 2007, Calheta de São Miguel, Santiago, Cabo Verde (Cape Verde Islands)
Information/Objectives / Presentation of Results (PDF)

Vision Plus 12
Information Design - Achieving Measurable Results
IIID Symposium, 5 - 7 July 2007, Schwarzenberg, Bregenzerwald, Austria
(with links to previous symposia Vision Plus 10 and 11)

Expert Forum Traffic Guiding Systems: Professional Wayshowing for Individual Wayfinding Through Intelligent Signage And Beyond
IIID Expert Forum Traffic Guiding Systems
Professional Wayshowing for Individual Wayfinding Through Intelligent Signage And Beyond

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