Vision Plus 11 - Speakers

Ursula Arztmann

Founder of innovation factory, a center focussed on simultanous visualization in working teams. Bringing in a background of mathematics and natural sciences, Ursula Arztmann today trains people on the use of Visual Language by teaching them an easily learnable drawing technique. By mixing the basics of graphic design with a self-developed set of characters representing a broad variety of body gestures and techniques from animation design, participants of her training are able to communicate even complex information faster and more efficient. She consults large, often international companies on methodologies to empower teamwork, meetings, workshops and the general flow of information in practical working environments. Graphic facilitation and Graphic Recording are part of her main toolbox.

Giuseppe Attoma

Born in 1957 in Italy, Giuseppe Attoma studied communications science and architecture, and has been working in the design field for more than 20 years. He created Attoma in Paris in 1997 and is passionate about the value of design for institutions, particularly the importance of preserving information quality in highly constrained situations. His information design practice is centered on the interactions between an organization and its audiences.
http://www.attoma-design.com/

Prof. Konrad Baumann

Professor in user-centred design and usability engineering at FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences' School of Information Design in Graz, Austria. He is co-leader of the major Media and Interaction Design. Furthermore he is an external lecturer at Donau University's department of Telematics Management in Krems, Austria.

Oswald Bazant

Prof. Madeleine Bujatti

Dean of Faculty of Gestaltung Design at Fachhochschule Augsburg, also teaching and lecturing graphic design and typography there. Board member of Bayern-Design, active as graphic designer throughout all the time in own atelier in Graz, advisor of the European Commission for the Art+Design+Education and Training Initiative. Publications on architectural topics, symbols, public information for communal institutions.

Prof. Jill Dacey

Jill Dacey is a professor in the Department of Art and Design, University of Idaho, USA, where she teaches a university capstone course in information design. She is the US lead partner in the EC-US Cooperation Program in Higher Education and Vocational Education and Training Grant: Development of International Core Competencies and Student and Faculty Exchange in Information Design.

Charles Wes Ervin

Wes Ervin is currently Director of Customer Communications Strategy for Art Plus Technology. In his 25-year career in information design he has developed award-winning solutions for industry leaders in the financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare sectors. Wes has a BA, MA, and PhD from the University of Chicago and was Assistant Professor at New York University's graduate business school from 1985 to 1990. He works in Boca Raton, Florida.
http://www.artplustechnology.com/

Kelley Gottschang

Kelley is currently a full-time faculty member in the Internet Professional/Web Development department at Washtenaw Community College where she teaches usability, visual design and information design. As a Front-End Web Designer, her interests lie at the intersection of technology and design and how one informs the other. Kelley is researching how technology influences visual standards and how "users" determine the media. She is also interested in looking at how the reliance on traditional methods of creativity has not allowed visual designers to claim the Web. With degrees in Graphic Design and Anthropology, Kelley has also focused her research on the use of design as a subversive activity in Latin America history.

Prof. Regina Henze

Professor at HBK-Braunschweig for communication design (environmental + exhibition design, themed environments - focus on science communication), founder of echo GbR - a design studio for exhibitions and themed environments and Regina Henze Visual Communication, a design studio for Corporate identity, corporate design; visualisation of scientific / technical content. Diplomas in product design / graphic design and education.

Elzbieta Kazmierczak

Born and formally trained in semiotics in Poland, holds an M.F.A. in Graphic Design and an M.A. in Art Education from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Elzbieta is a designer, illustrator, and an independent researcher. For seven years, she was Head of the Illustration Program at State University of New York at Buffalo. During twenty years of scholarship in cognitive semiotics on meaning construction, she published a book on geometric and cultural origins of human symbolic systems, two book chapters, and 19 research papers in peer-reviewed journals in the United States and Europe. Her research articles were published in Information Design Journal, Visual Sociology, Semiotics, The American Journal of Semiotics, ZED, and Semiotische Berichte, Austria. Her current research is in cognitive aspects of representation, meaning construction, and diagrammatic modeling. Her recent article "Design as Meaning Making: From Making Things to the Design of Thinking", was published in Design Issues, Spring 2003, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 45-59.
Elzbieta is co-chair of the Expert Forum for Knowledge Presentation and co-creator of the Knowledge Presentation website.
http://www.elkadesigns.com/

Dirk Knemeyer

One of the youngest leaders in the design community, Dirk Knemeyer is one of the Founding Principals at Involution Studios LLC, a digital innovation firm located in Silicon Valley and Boston. Before starting Involution Studios, Dirk was the Chief Design Officer at Thread Inc., a regional visual communications company. He transformed Thread into one of the best-known information design firms in the world.
http://www.knemeyer.com/

Aaron Marcus

Founder, president and principal designer/analyst of Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A). A graduate in physics from Princeton University and in graphic design from Yale University, in 1967 he became the world's first graphic designer to be involved fulltime in computer graphics.
For the last decade, Mr. Marcus has turned his attention to the Web and wireless, mobile devices, helping the industry to learn about good user-interface and information-visualization design, providing guidelines for globalization/localization, and focusing on challenges of "baby faces" (small displays for consumer information appliances) of ubiquitous devices and cross-cultural communication.
He is a visionary thinker, designer, and writer, well-respected in international professional communities associated with Web, user interface, human factors, graphic design, publishing, and desktop software application development.
http://www.amanda.com/

Joerg Meixner

Born 1966 in Leoben, Austria, Joerg Meixner is part of technics4users, Austrias leading company in manual design. He is responsible for the strategic development and head of the New Technical Writing Workgroup. Together with Curt Schmidt and Thomas Gehringer he currently works on a book that makes the results of this workgroup public.
He also teaches manual design at the WIFI Austria.

Prof. Judith A. Moldenhauer

Judith A. Moldenhauer is an Associate Professor and the Area Coordinator for the Graphic Design program at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She also serves as Graduate Officer for the Department of Art and Art History there. Her design work lies in the area of "information design" which enables people to easily access and use information by focusing on the organizational and navigational aspects of visual and verbal material. Her design work ranges from exhibition catalogues and posters for the Detroit Institute of Arts to educational materials. She is also a member of the organizing committee for Health Information Design, an international consortium focusing on information design issues in the health care fields.

Per Mollerup

Dr. Tech., Managing Director, Mollerup Designlab A/S, a Copenhagen based graphic design office working primarily with identity and signage.
Per Mollerup has written a number of books on design including: Marks of Excellence, The history and taxonomy of Trademarks, Phaidon, London 1996. Collapsibles, A design album of space saving objects, Thames & Hudson, London 2000.
http://www.mollerup-designlab.com/

Jim Northover

As founder director and chairman of Lloyd Northover, Jim is responsible for our strategic development and liaison with our international partners. Typically, he leads projects that involve significant organisational and cultural change.
Playing a major role in brand and communications strategy, Jim has directed international programmes for leading public and private sector clients. His experience covers most industry sectors including transport, infrastructure, technology, financial services, retail, health and education.
Jim has a first class honours degree in design from the London College of Printing and is a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers and of the Royal Society of Arts. He contributes to publications, seminars and conferences all over the world.
http://www.lloydnorthover.com/

Prof. Rune Pettersson

Professor of Information Design at the Department of Innovation, Design and Product Development, at Mälardalen University in Eskilstuna, Sweden. He is also Chairman Art & Design, Faculty of Science & Technology.
Rune has designed several courses and research projects in Information Design. He has published several books and a large number of papers in Information Design and in Visual Literacy.
Previously Rune has worked in publishing and in Technical Training. Currently Rune is Vice President of the International Institute for Information Design (IIID). He has been Vice President as well as President of the International Visual Literacy Association. He has also been an International Advisor for the International Division of the Association for Educational Communications Technology.
http://www.idp.mdh.se/personal/rpn01/

Bruce Robertson

Together with Bob Chapman, Bruce Robertson founded Diagram Group, a company specialising in visualisation of home, school and library reference material. Since 1960 Diagram Group published more than 500 books in 53 languages.

Prof. Regina Schindler Rowland

Professor at City College of San Francisco. Teaches graphic design and graphic facilitation from the frame of critical pedagogy, works with and advocates for marginalized groups and individuals, social activist. In addition engages as independent intercultural consultant, most recently for international dialogues on global issues in Africa, The Middle East, and in Europe.
http://www.ccsf.edu/Resources/Faculty/rrowland/

Bruno Schmidt

Bruno Schmidt is managing director of MetaDesign Suisse in Zurich. Before moving to Switzerland he was responsible for corporate communications and new business development at MetaDesigns Berlin office.
First professional experience as account executive and conceptionist for the German subsidiary of leading Swiss advertising agency Gisler & Gisler.
Studies in German, French and geography followed with five years of teaching experience. For another five years he worked for the largest German schoolbook publisher, Cornelsen, three of these as head of advertising and client of MetaDesign.
Since 1992 he has worked for MetaDesign in Berlin, first as a project manager for clients such as the Berlin transit authority, Audi, and Dusseldorf Airport.
http://www.metadesign.ch/

Andreas Schneider

IAMAS, Institute for Advanced Media Art and Sciences, Gifu (J), co-founder of IIDj, Institute for Information Design Japan, Tokyo.
http://www.iidj.net/IDSB_E/index.html

Veronika Schreyer

Veronika runs her own design consultancy is design in Vienna, Austria, focusing on orientation and wayfinding, communication and instructional design. Her particular interest lies in the accessibility of the physical as well as the information environment. She is a board member of IIID, an associate member of the National Association of Access Consultants, UK, and member of the Include Network, Helen Hamlyn Research Centre, UK.
http://www.isdesign.at/

Wolfgang Skowronek

Prof. David Sless

Director of the Communication Research Institute of Australia. He is frequently invited speaker at international conferences in North America, Europe and Asia, and author of over 180 publications. He is Adjunct Professor in Science Communication at the Australian National University, Visiting Professor of Information Design at the Design Institute at Coventry University, Adjunct Professor of Information Design at the University of Technology in Sydney, and Co-Chairman of the Information Design Association in the UK. In 2003 David established the international Health Information Design Network. His current research is in developing regulations and guidelines for effective communication, particularly in the finance and health area.
http://www.communication.org.au

Prof. Michael Stoll

Teaching and lecturing communication design and media theory at Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, lecturing information graphics for print and web at IFRA and the German Institute for Journalistic Education. He is running his own design office at Tuebingen. Stoll developed a classification for news graphics that is a basic part of the news designer education today. Stoll is German head of the Society for News Design. Together with Prof. Madeleine Bujatti he is responsible for developing manual design as a subject area at Augsburg University of Applied Sciences.
http://www.we-st.de/

Peter Storkerson

Holds a Ph.D. in Communication Design from the Institute of Design, IIT, Chicago, IL. Peter teaches communication design at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL and conducts research in cross mode cognition.
http://www.communicationcognition.com/

Prof. Robert O. Swinehart

Professor of Design and past Head of the Communication Design program at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has been on the faculty since 1974. His professional focus is on new forms of digital corporate identity and branding ("Virtual Identity"), which he has lectured extensively on in the US and in Europe. His work has been exhibited in major shows in the United States, Eastern Europe, and Japan, and is included in the permanent collection of the U.S. Library of Congress.
Bob is a lifetime honorary member of the American Center for Design, Chicago, a past president of GDEA, and a past national board member of AIGA. He is currently the President-Elect of the International Institute for Information Design (IIID). Finally, Bob is on the editorial board of Design Issues and a member of the advisory committee for the journal Information Design Journal+Document Design.
http://www.cmu.edu/cfa/design/

Prof. Lynne Valek

Lynne Valek is a full-time assistant professor in Organizational Leadership at Chapman University College in California, USA. She has a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems. She has published and currently uses graphic facilitation in her classes and as a consulting tool. Before teaching, she was an award-winning art director in broadcast television.

Karel van der Waarde

Karel van der Waarde studied graphic design in the Netherlands (Eindhoven) and in the UK (Leicester, Reading). He received his doctorate in 1994 for a dissertation entitled: 'An investigation into the suitability of the graphic presentation of patient package inserts'. In 1995, he started a design research consultancy in Belgium specializing in the testing of information design. Most of the projects are related to pharmaceutical information. His company develops patient information leaflets, instructions, forms, protocols, and the information architecture for websites. Karel van der Waarde frequently publishes and lectures about visual information. He is moderator of the InfoDesign and InfoDesign-cafe discussion lists and co-owner of the InformationDesign.org website.