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CIDI and CONGIC

CIDI

CIDI, the Information Design International Conference, and CONGIC, the National Conference of Undergraduate Research in Information Design, are biennial scientific events organized together by SBDI. They aim to contribute to the development of Information Design by promoting and facilitating cooperation among professionals, lecturers and researchers, and by encouraging students' interest in Information Design, supporting their professional and intellectual education.

To contact the CIDI organizers, write to cidi@sbdi.org.br.

Information Design International Conference

  • To discuss the state of the art of Information Design in Brazil and abroad;
  • To promote exchange and closer ties among researchers working in Information Design in Brazil and abroad;
  • To disseminate Brazilian and international scientific work in Information Design; and
  • To contribute to the consolidation of Information Design in Brazil.

The editions

CIDI has had 12 editions, from 2003 to 2025. Each card links to the edition's website, its proceedings and its papers in the CIDI Observatory. The websites are kept on SBDI's own site, from the Internet Archive copies: navigation works as it did, but forms and registrations do not, and some pages and images were not saved.

Awards

SBDI presents two awards to papers presented at the conferences: the Guilherme Cunha Lima Award, for the best CIDI paper, and the Young Researcher Award, for the three best CONGIC papers.

Winners of each edition

Keynote speakers

The keynote speakers of CIDI, from 2003 to 2025, with their affiliation at the time. The 2007 list was not found.

2025
  • Gillian Harvey, University of Alberta
  • Giselle Beiguelman, Universidade de São Paulo
  • Cláudia Mont’Alvão, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
  • Helena de Barros, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
  • Claudio Pinhanez, Universidade de São Paulo
  • Richard Buchanan, Case Western Reserve University
2023
  • Alberto Cairo, Universidade de Miami
  • Don Norman, Universidade da Califórnia, San Diego
  • Fernanda Martins, Mapinguari Design
  • Isabel Meirelles, OCAD University, Toronto
  • José Duarte, Easydataviz
  • Sara Goldchmit, Universidade de São Paulo
  • Roxana Martinez, Universidad de los Andes
2021
  • Doris Kosminsky, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Ellen Lupton, Maryland Institute College of Art, USA
  • Eric Kindel, Universidade de Reading, United Kingdom
  • Gabriel Gianordoli, The New York Times, USA
  • Johanna Drucker, Universidade da Califórnia, Los Angeles, USA
  • Luciane Maria Fadel, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
  • Maria dos Santos Lonsdale, Universidade de Leeds, United Kingdom
  • Rob Waller, Simplification Centre, United Kingdom
  • Sheila Pontis, Universidade de Princeton, USA
2019
  • Nigel Holmes, Nigel Holmes Explanation Graphics, USA
  • Juan Shakespear, Diseño Shakespear, Argentina
  • Gustavo Soares, Academia Tipográfica, Brazil
2017
  • Carla Spinillo, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
  • Priscila Farias, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
  • Solange Coutinho, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
  • Francisco Providência, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2015
  • Bernard Darras, Universidade de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
  • Marcos Braga, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
  • Teal Triggs, Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
  • Fernanda Viégas, Grupo de pesquisa Big Picture, Google, USA
2013
  • Jorge Frascara, Universidade de Alberta, Canada
  • Richard E. Mayer, Universidade da Califórnia, Santa Barbara, USA
  • Aaron Marcus, Aaron Marcus & Associates, USA
  • Guillermina Noël, Frascara-Noël Communication Design, Canada
  • Peter Simlinger, IIID e Information Design Journal, Austria
  • Sílvio Meira, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
  • Carla Spinillo, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
2011
  • Catherine Dixon, Central Saint Martins/UAL, United Kingdom
  • Karel van der Waarde, Universidade Avans de Ciências Aplicadas, Netherlands
2009
  • Yuri Engelhardt, Universidade de Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Karen Schriver, Center for Plain Language, USA
2005
  • Phil Baines, Central Saint Martins/UAL, United Kingdom
  • María González de Cossío, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
  • Paul Mijksenaar, TU Delft, Netherlands
  • Patricia Wright, Universidade de Cardiff, United Kingdom
2003
  • David Sless, Universidade Nacional Australiana, Australia
  • Michael Twyman, Universidade de Reading, United Kingdom
  • Sue Walker, Universidade de Reading, United Kingdom
  • Bernard Darras, Universidade de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Proceedings

The proceedings of all 12 editions, from the 1st CIDI (2003) to the 12th (2025), are gathered under Publications, together with the Selected Readings, the books that gathered a selection of the best papers from seven editions, from 2003 to 2017. The CIDI Observatory lets you search and explore every paper.

Proceedings and Selected ReadingsObservatório do CIDI (opens in a new tab)

Conference reports

Brazilian Exhibition of Information Design

Held alongside CIDI, the Mostra brings together information design projects.

Mostra DI