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Dr. Luiz Antônio Coelho
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro PUC-RJ, Brazil
Luiz Antonio Coelho has a PhD in Social Communication from New York University and a post-doctorate from the University of Reading, UK. He has been an Associate Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - PUC, Brazil, since 1986. He teaches Visual Communication in the Department of Arts & Design and he is a member of the Post-graduate Program in Design. He is author of several articles published in journals and books in design and social communication.
Dr. Maria González de Cosio
Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, Mexico
Lecturer and researcher at Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, in Mexico. She has been Design teacher for 21 years, head of department and coordinator of the Masters Programme at Universidad de las Américas Puebla. Two years ago she founded the Centre for Advanced studies in Design to promote and develop Design as a professional discipline. Maria studied her PhD in the University of Reading, England and her master’s programme in Mexico and in the USA. Her research interests deal with information design issues, readers’ of electronic documents and she is currently working on information design for medicines.
Dr. Patricia Wright
Cardiff University, UK
Patricia Wright is a behavioural scientist interested in how information design can support communication with the general public whether by public or commercial organisations. After leaving University College London in 1966 with a PhD in Psychology, this interest took her to Cambridge, UK to work at the Medical Research Council’s Applied Psychology Unit until 1998 when she moved to a Chair in the School of Psychology at Cardiff University, UK where much of her research has been concerned with health information and multimedia documents. The topics have ranged from personal IT aids for people with memory problems, to a web-based a decision explorer for men thinking about the PSA test for prostate cancer. When she explored interfaces to help people see how changes in their lifestyle could change their health risks, she found that older people differed from young men in the interface they preferred and most successfully used. This led to studies of the information design needs of other sections of the public such as people for whom English was not a first language and adults who considered themselves poor readers. This research suggested that interface designs which offer people choices of how information is presented to them, can accommodate diversity more successfully than trying to find a single solution to fit everyone. She has lots of publications, is a member of the Editorial Board of several journals, is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (UK) and an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication (USA), and in 2005 received the Goldsmith Award for Distinguished Contributions to Engineering Communication from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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Dr. Paul Mijksenaar
Delft University of Technology, Holland
Paul Mijksenaar, principal of Bureau Mijksenaar (Amsterdam and New York) and professor Visual Information Design at Delft University of Technology, Holland. He is best known from his wayfinding projects for Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Airports of New York, Dutch railways but also from his publications ‘Open here; the Art of visual instruction’ and ‘Visual Function’ (both translated in Spanish). http://www.mijksenaar.com/index2.html
Prof. Phil Baines
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, UK
Graduated from St Martin's School of Art in 1985 and the Royal College of Art in 1987, he is noted for his letterpress work, fonts for Neville Brody's Fuse project, and editorial designs for a variety of publishers and arts organisations. He is a freelance designer for Penguin Press whose 'Great Ideas' covers have been nominated for the Design Museum's Designer of the Year Award 2005 (www.designmuseum.org/designeroftheyear/). He has lectured (half f/t) in typography at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design since 1991, and is a frequent contributor to Eye magazine. He has written three books, Type & typography (with Andrew Haslam, Laurence King 2002); Signs: Lettering in the environment (with Catherine Dixon, Laurence King 2003); and Penguin by design: a cover story 1935–2005 (Allen Lane the Penguin Press 2005). < www.myfonts.com/person/baines/phil > < www.publiclettering.org.uk >
Dr. Rune Pettersson
Mälardalen University, Sweden
Rune Pettersson, Ph.D., is Professor of Information Design at the Department of Innovation, Design and Product Development at Mälardalen University, Eskilstuna, Sweden. He is also Chairman Art & Design, Faculty of Science & Technology. Currently Dr Pettersson is Vice President of International Institute for Information Design, IIID. Dr Pettersson has been Vice President of the International Visual Literacy Association, IVLA, six times and President during 2000-2001. He has also been an International Advisor for the International Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. He has published 188 papers and 64 books.
Dr. Rejane Spitz
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro PUC-RJ, Brazil
Rejane Spitz has a considerable academic production on the interfaces between technology, art, design and society. She has a doctorate in Education from the University of California – Berkeley and in Industrial Design from the San Jose State University. She is council member of international institutions such as ACM SIGGRAPH, International Society for the Art, Science and Technology, Digital ART Museum (DAM). Since 1985 she has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Arts & Design of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - PUC, Brazil, where she is also a member of the Post-graduate Program. She was the coordinator of post-graduation and research activities, and presently, she is the head of the department. Rejane is author of several articles published in international journals.
Dr. Solange Coutinho
Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Solange Coutinho is a graphic designer and researcher in the areas of information design and education. She has a Ph.D from the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading [UK]. She is a leacturer and researcher at the Department of Design at the Federal University of Pernambuco, where she supervises the Design course (B.A), the Diploma course in Information Design and the Master course in Design. Currently, she is also Cultural Affairs Director for the University. She is a member of the Centre de Recherche Images et Cognitions (CRIC) at the Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne [France]. She acted as vice-president of the Brazilian Society of Information Design [SBDI] in the period 2002-2004. She is the author of numerous articles concerning information design which have been presented at national and international events.
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