Having started in Taipei at the DesignExpo and being part of sign11 in Vienna the IIIDaward will be presented at the Information Design Conference 2012 in Greenwich/London, organised by the Information Design Association (IDA) in partnership with the International Institute for Information Design (IIID) .Information Design Conferences always feature intelligent debate, great networking, a broad set of approaches, and a blend of research and practice. This gives us also the opportunity to present the IIIDaward book in an appropriate atmosphere, knowing, that many IIIDaward winners will be there.

Thursday 12 April 2012, 4:15pm

Next stop will be Stuttgart on July-6 at the Star-Gallery.

>> for more details on the conference

The IIIdaward book, available with April-12 2012 includes all 85 awarded projects and gives an overview on contemporary application of information design in more than 20 countries around the world. You will find here more information on the various formats and ways to get a copy or an e-book.

Thanks for your patience and endurance.

Winner of the GRAND PRIX award

as well as in the category
UNIVERSAL DESIGN
Badalucco Laura / Museums and visual impairment. Team work
Università Iuav di Venezia - Research Department - Research unit “New design vision” and Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities

Iuav team: Laura Badalucco, Enrico Camplani, Medardo Chiapponi, Erika Cunico, Elisabetta Facchinetti, Paola Fortuna, Gianluigi Pescolderung


These are the winner in the other categories:

DIDACTICS
Wen Huei Chou & Kuo Pin / The Cross discipline Design Communication

FUTURE CONCEPTS
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RESEARCH
Egger Veronika / Inclusive Information Environments in Public Transport

HEALTHCARE
Fontaine Lisa / Universal Healthcare Symbol Set

PRODUCTS 6 SERVICES
Jenkins Julian / BT Financial Group

EDITORIAL
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SUSTAINABILITY
Koop Andreas / Wanderzeit – das ganze Jahr

FINANCIAL
Marcus Aaron / The Money Machine

SAFETY & EMERGENCY
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CC&CD
Ness Helmut / Website Winery Leitz

SOCIAL AFFAIRS
Pastor Elizabeth / Measure of America Series

TRAFFIC AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTS
Teychene Armand/Team Attoma / Passenger information system for TCL

WAYSHOWING
Warren Guy / Derby Wayfinding and Public Art Strategy

STUDENT WORK
Vitali Fischbein & Jürgen Röhm /Multitouch Lab Journal


Congratulations to all submitters.

Please see the complete list of awarded submissions in the menue: Winners

For a brief description and PDF download of the awarded projects please switch to the gallery and enjoy.

Information design aims at transforming data into high-quality information. The idX project made us aware that high-quality information must serve a purpose. We condensed our insights to IIID's tag line: Data transformed into high-quality information empower people to attain goals. Thus IIID should welcome submissions ranging from visualizations that help people understand undisputed facts, situations and processes for whatever imaginable purposes to information and information systems facilitating understanding as well as enabling goal oriented action.

Referring to the last of the listed evaluation criteria "Attractiveness and elegance of the designed information" – shouldn't information designers restrict themselves to design well understandable and easily applicable information irrespective of its appeal and aesthetic value? Would the latter be really needed to empower people to attain goals?
I may quote David Hume from his undisputed A Treatise of Human Nature, first published 1739/40: "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions". Thus, let's not forget about passions, which perhaps manifest themselves best through attractiveness and elegance.

DI Peter Simlinger, Director, IIID


In 2011, the International Institute for Information Design is celebrating its 25th anniversary. While many things have changed since its founding, the aim of IIID was, and still is, to promote and expand design knowledge and research. With 25 years of experience, IIID is recognized as the world leader in information design development.
The time is ripe for us to acknowledge the best in what information design has to offer which is why we are presenting the inaugural IIID Awards competition this year. The Awards competition will be held every three years, with the next competition taking place in 2014.

Organizer: IIID International Institute for Information Design 
In cooperation with: Axis Magazine and the Taiwan Design Center.