The international jury is composed of experts from their respective fields. Each jury member and its team will review all the entries in their category and select the top five shortlisted submissions. The shortlisted submissions will be evaluated by the entire jury to determine the category winner and honourable mentions.

Submissions to the IIID award will be judged on the following criteria:
1) Quality of the employed problem solving procedure:
- identifying the information needs of users
- making needed information available, accessible, understandable/usable
- assessing the effectiveness s of the provided information, it at all possible
2) Attractiveness and elegance of the designed information

The IIID award will recognize outstanding work done in the field. The breadth of information design has led us to develop 15 categories of awards, focused on specific topic areas. They include:

Information design that makes physical, social and mental well-being possible.

Prof. Claudine Jaenichen / Chapman University, USA
Claudine Jaenichen
 Assistant Professor of Art, Graphic Design

 Professor Jaenichen’s design and research projects focus on cross-cultural understanding and sensitivity towards inclusive design. Her work has been published in the GD USA Design Annual, Applications of Information Design, Journal of Applied Global Research, Rockport's Visual Language for Designers: Principles for Creating Graphics That People Understand and peer-reviewed Graphic Design: Purpose to Practice. She is an Associate Research Fellow for Communication Research Institute, a member of the International Institute of Information Design, the Sign Design Society in London and American Institute of Graphic Arts. She continues her professional practice in information design, book design, exhibition and museum design.

Submissions should focus on money matters including: economics, personal financial management, banking and investments.


Claude-Henri Meledo, Aldecis Conseil en mesure de performance, France
A partner at Aldecis consulting, Claude-Henri Meledo has 20 years of experience in Performance Management (KPI, Dashboards and innovative charts) and Finance (Controlling and Audit).  Large IT firms such as Microsoft use him as a Business Data Visualization expert. He has even created new types of graphics for their customers. Former Senior Manager at Deloitte and consultant at Oracle (Hyperion) and SAP (Business Objects), he has built or redesigned more than one hundred reporting applications for major companies. He has a deep knowledge of Decision Support Systems and Data graphics.
Since 2010 he has been leading the expertise in the french "Data Visualization" Think Tank (a non-profit organization conducting monthly research in Information Graphics). In July 2011, Claude-Henri has created the first French event about Business Data Visualization: "Visual Decision Forum" with journalist Philippe Nieuwbourg. This 2011 edition was a success with 170 attendees. He is also a seventies design collector, piling vintage furniture in his office.

Navigation in unfamiliar environments.

David Gibson / TwoTwelve, USA
David Gibson is cofounder and managing principal of Two Twelve, a graphic design firm founded in 1980 that seeks sustainable solutions to problems of information, wayfinding and visioning. Mr. Gibson’s dedication to delivering thoughtful, user-centered design established the firm’s reputation as the first advocate of “public information design,” the planning and presentation of complex information to diverse audiences. Mr. Gibson recently lectured at Icograda Design Conferences in Daegu, Korea and Doha, Qatar; the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, China; the AIGA National Design Conference in Memphis, Tennessee; and to other peer audiences elsewhere in the United States and Europe. David is author of The Wayfinding Handbook: Information Design for Public Places, an acclaimed introduction to the discipline published by Princeton Architectural Press in early 2009.

Ensuring people get where they need to go by foot, underground, bike, car, bus, airplane, boat...


Yo Kaminagai / RATP France and President of the UITP Design & Culture Platform

Graduate Ecole nationale des Ponts et Chaussées 1980 (Civil Engineer)
Since October 2001: Delegation for Transport environments and inter-modality / Head of Design and Cultural Projects Unit (Design manager)
(function created as Head of the Design Unit in the Projects Departments from 1995 to 2001)
- co-ordination of RATP design management
- co-ordination of RATP cultural development policy
- supervision of design studies and cultural development projects

Projects that make a positive, tangible, impact on a specific population.

Prof. Karen Cheng, University of Washington, USA
Associate Professor Karen Cheng received her Master's Degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Washington in 1997, she worked in Brand Management at the Procter and Gamble Company and studied Chemical Engineering at Penn State University. Her work has been published by Communication Arts, the American Center for Design, Critique, the Society for Publication Designers, the University + College Designers Association, How Magazine and PIE Tokyo. She is active in the Seattle chapter of the AIGA, where she has been a board member and chair of the education committee. Her book, Designing Type, was published by Yale University Press in Spring 2006. She is currently Chair of the Visual Communication Design program, and Chair of the Division of Design.

Ensuring hazards are properly identified and avoided, and the consequences when they're not.

Prof. Ryozo Takeyama, University of Toyama, Japan
Ryozo Takeyama has been teaching in the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Toyama, Japan, since 205. He specializes in sign design, environmental design and information design and social design technology - technologies that support mechanisms for makign design truly function in society. 
After graduation from Kyoto City University of Arts, he held a number of different positions at Nihon Sign corporation and Stroget Inc before beginning to lecture. He is an executive board member of the Japan Sign Design Associaiton and the Japan Society of Science of Signs as well as being a member of: the Japanese Society for the Science of Design; Color Science Association of Japan and the British Sign Design Association.

Helping companies/businesses to fully and completely express themselves and what they have to offer.

Prof. Per Mollerup, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Professor of Communication Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
The Oslo National Academy of Arts, Oslo
Born 1942
Doctor of Technology, Lund University, Sweden, 1997
Master of Business Administration, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark, 1968
Professor in design at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, 2009–
Professor in design at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, 2006–
Managing Director of Designlab A/S, 1984–
Editor of Tools Design Journal, 1984–1988
Editor of Mobilia Design Magazine, 1974–1984
Selected bibliography
Marks of Excellence, The History and Taxonomy of Trademarks, 1997
Collapsibles, A Design Album of Space-Saving Objects, 2001
Wayshowing, A Guide to Environmental Signage, 2005

Projects that focus on educational or instructional information design.

Alan Chiou, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taiwan
Alan Chiou, Associate Professor, Department of Digital Media Design and Graduate school of Computing Design, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taiwan. Professor Chiou received his Master of Fine Art Degree from the Pratt Institute, Computer Graphics. He has been a professional designer and design educator for over 20 years. His design works have been selected in many international animation festivals, including International Short Film Festival Berlin, I Castelli International Animated Film Festival. And he has been the jury member of several international contests, including Soul International Carton and Animation Festival. He also has involved several digital media project as a supervisor and has been the director of several major education exchange projects of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan.

Projects making products and services accessible, understandable and beneficial for the users.

Prof. Konrad Baumann, FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Konrad Baumann holds a PhD from Vienna University of Technology and a master’s degree in Telematics Engineering from Graz University of Technology. His dissertation "How Designers Teach" focuses on methods of design education. He is a board member at the International Institute for Information Design www.iiid.net and secretary of the IFIP Working Group 13.1 on Human-Computer Interaction Education www.hcieducation.org
At FH Joanneum he is also in charge of helping to promote the international exchange activities and initiating new university partnerships within the departments of Information Design, Exhibition and Museum Design, and Media and Interaction Design. During the years 2006 to 2008 he has co-organised the "Interaction Design Summer School“ (IDSS) in Istanbul together with three partner universities in Sweden, The Netherlands, and Turkey, within an EU-IP funded research project. He has led the research project to build the FH Joanneum’s perception lab "VisionSpace“ during the implementation phase in 2004 to 2005.

Submission related to media, journalism and writing.

Prof. Wibke Weber, Stuttgart Media University, Germany
Wibke Weber, PhD, is Professor for Information Design at Stuttgart Media University (Germany). Her major subjects are professional writing, text design, and convergent media. She worked as a radio journalist and multimedia editor for several German public-broadcasting stations. Wibke Weber is a board member of the International Institute for Information Design (IIID), and editor and
co-author of the book Kompendium Informationsdesign (Springer 2007). Her current research interests comprise information graphics and multimedia storytelling.

Information design that creates an inclusive environment.

Prof. Kirti Trivedi, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Professor at IIT, Bombay, involved in teaching courses in visual design, typography, and design traditions. Currently involved in product development based on emerging technology possibilities and development needs. Research projects include universal, language-independent learning and interactive group learning. Born in 1948, Trivedi obtained a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Indore (1970), and a postgraduate diploma in Industrial Design from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1972). In 1984, he initiated and started India's first Master's degree program in Visual Communication at IDC.

New and innovative projects. Something that makes us wish we had thought of it first!

Katsutoshi Ishibasi, Editor in Chief, AXIS magazine, Japan
Katsutoshi Ishibashi was born in Osaka in 1965 and graduated from the Department of Arabic language, Osaka University of Foreign Studies. He has been editor-in-chief of the AXIS since 1998. AXIS is a bilingual design magazine launched in 1981 that provides information about various phenomena and objects discovered throughout the world, with a particular focus on design. The magazine covers subjects such as products, architecture, cities, interiors, graphics, fashion, and multimedia, as well as cutting-edge science, engineering, and medicine.

Methods and tools for information design.

Prof. Rob Waller, Director, Simplification Center, UK
Rob Waller has been Professor of Information Design at the University of Reading since 2007, and is Director of the Simplification Centre. Before that he was a director of Information Design Unit, one of the UK’s largest information design consultancies, which, following acquisition by WPP, became part of the global design agency Enterprise IG in 2001. Information Design Unit undertook wayfinding projects for public environments such as museums, hospitals and airports. Rob is an experienced conference speaker, and has been involved with a series of information design conferences in the UK from 1982 to the present day. He was founder and first editor of Information Design Journal and has a doctorate in typography from the University of Reading.

Focused on the relevance of ecological issues and impact on natural resources as well as "green" design practices for information design.

Angela Morelli, Graphic and Information Designer, UK
Angela Morelli is an Italian information designer based in London. Her love of mathematics led to an engineering degree from the Politecnico of Milan. Her love of design led to a long journey through industrial, communication and information design. Her love for the planet led to a strong passion for global water issues. Her love for science led to dialogues and collaborations with research and commercial organisations in Europe.
She believes that bringing about change is not an easy task and it can only follow from a true understanding of a problem, from awareness and reflection. Design has a vital, irreplaceable role to play in achieving this understanding through empathic thinking and emotional intelligence.
She speaks regularly at international conferences and enjoys teaching as Associate Lecturer at Central St Martins.

Open to those who are studying to be information designers with no restriction on the theme of the submission.


Mtro. Alejandro Brizuela Garcia, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico
Alejandro Brizuela is Information Designer, discipline from which he has been a fervent promoter since 1997 in Mexico. He is full professor at the University of the Americas Puebla where he coordinates the graduate studies of the School of Arts and Humanities. His consultancy includes organizational communication as well as information interaction. He obtained an MFA from the Royal School of Arts, Antwerp in Belgium and a MA in Design Theory from the University of the Americas, He is actually a PhD candidate from the University of Montreal in the program of Communication studies. His research work deals with the mediating practices in the social construction of cultural identities.