From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0001.htm From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0002.htm From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0003.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment.htm From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0004.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0001.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0005.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0002.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0006.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0003.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0007.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0004.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0008.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0005.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk Tue Oct 7 16:48:21 2008 From: t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk (Tamasin Cole) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:48:21 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help Message-ID: This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming messaged have no problems. I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm not blacklisted anywhere. I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one either I'm going to be in deep trouble. Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be gratefully received.... Tamasin ____________________ Tamasin Cole telephone 020 7485 6074 fax 020 7267 9500 tamasincole.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081007/7421ecee/attachment-0001.htm From alan at alphabyte.co.nz Tue Oct 7 22:18:00 2008 From: alan at alphabyte.co.nz (Alan Litchfield) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tamasin, Sounds like your email address is being held as potential spam/virus/ phishing/etc. The behaviour is not unusual for a spam service and could explain why your alternative email address is getting through. An increasing number of large organisations do not monitor spam internally. They maintain relationships with specialised services who do that for them and so it is not possible for them to see any one email address in the millions they process daily, and therefore it would be unlikely that they would be able to tell you whether your email address is being blocked or not. Assuming your email is on a hosted service, it is possible that your domain has been spoofed at some point and now ranks as a known spam source, or someone else on your IP address has been fingered and this means you are tarred with the same brush. Is there any solution? Probably yes, but the amount of work required to execute it may well be greater than the benefit to be gained. Good luck Alan On 8/10/2008, at 3:48 AM, Tamasin Cole wrote: > This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if > it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out > there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever > grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. > > I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily > for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. > > About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my > emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were > taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming > messaged have no problems. > > I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; > my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in > the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm > not blacklisted anywhere. > > I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing > settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only > way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems > not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one > either I'm going to be in deep trouble. > > Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be > gratefully received.... > Tamasin > -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0009.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0007.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk Tue Oct 7 16:48:21 2008 From: t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk (Tamasin Cole) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:48:21 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help Message-ID: This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming messaged have no problems. I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm not blacklisted anywhere. I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one either I'm going to be in deep trouble. Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be gratefully received.... Tamasin ____________________ Tamasin Cole telephone 020 7485 6074 fax 020 7267 9500 tamasincole.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081007/7421ecee/attachment-0002.htm From alan at alphabyte.co.nz Tue Oct 7 22:18:00 2008 From: alan at alphabyte.co.nz (Alan Litchfield) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tamasin, Sounds like your email address is being held as potential spam/virus/ phishing/etc. The behaviour is not unusual for a spam service and could explain why your alternative email address is getting through. An increasing number of large organisations do not monitor spam internally. They maintain relationships with specialised services who do that for them and so it is not possible for them to see any one email address in the millions they process daily, and therefore it would be unlikely that they would be able to tell you whether your email address is being blocked or not. Assuming your email is on a hosted service, it is possible that your domain has been spoofed at some point and now ranks as a known spam source, or someone else on your IP address has been fingered and this means you are tarred with the same brush. Is there any solution? Probably yes, but the amount of work required to execute it may well be greater than the benefit to be gained. Good luck Alan On 8/10/2008, at 3:48 AM, Tamasin Cole wrote: > This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if > it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out > there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever > grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. > > I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily > for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. > > About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my > emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were > taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming > messaged have no problems. > > I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; > my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in > the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm > not blacklisted anywhere. > > I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing > settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only > way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems > not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one > either I'm going to be in deep trouble. > > Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be > gratefully received.... > Tamasin > -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0010.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0008.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk Tue Oct 7 16:48:21 2008 From: t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk (Tamasin Cole) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:48:21 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help Message-ID: This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming messaged have no problems. I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm not blacklisted anywhere. I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one either I'm going to be in deep trouble. Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be gratefully received.... Tamasin ____________________ Tamasin Cole telephone 020 7485 6074 fax 020 7267 9500 tamasincole.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081007/7421ecee/attachment-0003.htm From alan at alphabyte.co.nz Tue Oct 7 22:18:00 2008 From: alan at alphabyte.co.nz (Alan Litchfield) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tamasin, Sounds like your email address is being held as potential spam/virus/ phishing/etc. The behaviour is not unusual for a spam service and could explain why your alternative email address is getting through. An increasing number of large organisations do not monitor spam internally. They maintain relationships with specialised services who do that for them and so it is not possible for them to see any one email address in the millions they process daily, and therefore it would be unlikely that they would be able to tell you whether your email address is being blocked or not. Assuming your email is on a hosted service, it is possible that your domain has been spoofed at some point and now ranks as a known spam source, or someone else on your IP address has been fingered and this means you are tarred with the same brush. Is there any solution? Probably yes, but the amount of work required to execute it may well be greater than the benefit to be gained. Good luck Alan On 8/10/2008, at 3:48 AM, Tamasin Cole wrote: > This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if > it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out > there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever > grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. > > I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily > for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. > > About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my > emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were > taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming > messaged have no problems. > > I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; > my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in > the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm > not blacklisted anywhere. > > I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing > settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only > way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems > not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one > either I'm going to be in deep trouble. > > Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be > gratefully received.... > Tamasin > -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0011.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0009.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk Tue Oct 7 16:48:21 2008 From: t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk (Tamasin Cole) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:48:21 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help Message-ID: This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming messaged have no problems. I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm not blacklisted anywhere. I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one either I'm going to be in deep trouble. Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be gratefully received.... Tamasin ____________________ Tamasin Cole telephone 020 7485 6074 fax 020 7267 9500 tamasincole.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081007/7421ecee/attachment-0004.htm From alan at alphabyte.co.nz Tue Oct 7 22:18:00 2008 From: alan at alphabyte.co.nz (Alan Litchfield) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tamasin, Sounds like your email address is being held as potential spam/virus/ phishing/etc. The behaviour is not unusual for a spam service and could explain why your alternative email address is getting through. An increasing number of large organisations do not monitor spam internally. They maintain relationships with specialised services who do that for them and so it is not possible for them to see any one email address in the millions they process daily, and therefore it would be unlikely that they would be able to tell you whether your email address is being blocked or not. Assuming your email is on a hosted service, it is possible that your domain has been spoofed at some point and now ranks as a known spam source, or someone else on your IP address has been fingered and this means you are tarred with the same brush. Is there any solution? Probably yes, but the amount of work required to execute it may well be greater than the benefit to be gained. Good luck Alan On 8/10/2008, at 3:48 AM, Tamasin Cole wrote: > This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if > it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out > there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever > grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. > > I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily > for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. > > About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my > emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were > taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming > messaged have no problems. > > I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; > my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in > the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm > not blacklisted anywhere. > > I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing > settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only > way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems > not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one > either I'm going to be in deep trouble. > > Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be > gratefully received.... > Tamasin > -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0012.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0010.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk Tue Oct 7 16:48:21 2008 From: t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk (Tamasin Cole) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:48:21 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help Message-ID: This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming messaged have no problems. I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm not blacklisted anywhere. I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one either I'm going to be in deep trouble. Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be gratefully received.... Tamasin ____________________ Tamasin Cole telephone 020 7485 6074 fax 020 7267 9500 tamasincole.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081007/7421ecee/attachment-0005.htm From alan at alphabyte.co.nz Tue Oct 7 22:18:00 2008 From: alan at alphabyte.co.nz (Alan Litchfield) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tamasin, Sounds like your email address is being held as potential spam/virus/ phishing/etc. The behaviour is not unusual for a spam service and could explain why your alternative email address is getting through. An increasing number of large organisations do not monitor spam internally. They maintain relationships with specialised services who do that for them and so it is not possible for them to see any one email address in the millions they process daily, and therefore it would be unlikely that they would be able to tell you whether your email address is being blocked or not. Assuming your email is on a hosted service, it is possible that your domain has been spoofed at some point and now ranks as a known spam source, or someone else on your IP address has been fingered and this means you are tarred with the same brush. Is there any solution? Probably yes, but the amount of work required to execute it may well be greater than the benefit to be gained. Good luck Alan On 8/10/2008, at 3:48 AM, Tamasin Cole wrote: > This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if > it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out > there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever > grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. > > I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily > for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. > > About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my > emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were > taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming > messaged have no problems. > > I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; > my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in > the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm > not blacklisted anywhere. > > I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing > settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only > way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems > not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one > either I'm going to be in deep trouble. > > Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be > gratefully received.... > Tamasin > -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0013.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0011.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk Tue Oct 7 16:48:21 2008 From: t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk (Tamasin Cole) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:48:21 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help Message-ID: This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming messaged have no problems. I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm not blacklisted anywhere. I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one either I'm going to be in deep trouble. Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be gratefully received.... Tamasin ____________________ Tamasin Cole telephone 020 7485 6074 fax 020 7267 9500 tamasincole.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081007/7421ecee/attachment-0006.htm From alan at alphabyte.co.nz Tue Oct 7 22:18:00 2008 From: alan at alphabyte.co.nz (Alan Litchfield) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tamasin, Sounds like your email address is being held as potential spam/virus/ phishing/etc. The behaviour is not unusual for a spam service and could explain why your alternative email address is getting through. An increasing number of large organisations do not monitor spam internally. They maintain relationships with specialised services who do that for them and so it is not possible for them to see any one email address in the millions they process daily, and therefore it would be unlikely that they would be able to tell you whether your email address is being blocked or not. Assuming your email is on a hosted service, it is possible that your domain has been spoofed at some point and now ranks as a known spam source, or someone else on your IP address has been fingered and this means you are tarred with the same brush. Is there any solution? Probably yes, but the amount of work required to execute it may well be greater than the benefit to be gained. Good luck Alan On 8/10/2008, at 3:48 AM, Tamasin Cole wrote: > This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if > it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out > there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever > grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. > > I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily > for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. > > About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my > emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were > taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming > messaged have no problems. > > I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; > my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in > the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm > not blacklisted anywhere. > > I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing > settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only > way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems > not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one > either I'm going to be in deep trouble. > > Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be > gratefully received.... > Tamasin > -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0014.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0012.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk Tue Oct 7 16:48:21 2008 From: t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk (Tamasin Cole) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:48:21 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help Message-ID: This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming messaged have no problems. I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm not blacklisted anywhere. I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one either I'm going to be in deep trouble. Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be gratefully received.... Tamasin ____________________ Tamasin Cole telephone 020 7485 6074 fax 020 7267 9500 tamasincole.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081007/7421ecee/attachment-0007.htm From alan at alphabyte.co.nz Tue Oct 7 22:18:00 2008 From: alan at alphabyte.co.nz (Alan Litchfield) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tamasin, Sounds like your email address is being held as potential spam/virus/ phishing/etc. The behaviour is not unusual for a spam service and could explain why your alternative email address is getting through. An increasing number of large organisations do not monitor spam internally. They maintain relationships with specialised services who do that for them and so it is not possible for them to see any one email address in the millions they process daily, and therefore it would be unlikely that they would be able to tell you whether your email address is being blocked or not. Assuming your email is on a hosted service, it is possible that your domain has been spoofed at some point and now ranks as a known spam source, or someone else on your IP address has been fingered and this means you are tarred with the same brush. Is there any solution? Probably yes, but the amount of work required to execute it may well be greater than the benefit to be gained. Good luck Alan On 8/10/2008, at 3:48 AM, Tamasin Cole wrote: > This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if > it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out > there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever > grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. > > I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily > for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. > > About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my > emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were > taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming > messaged have no problems. > > I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; > my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in > the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm > not blacklisted anywhere. > > I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing > settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only > way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems > not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one > either I'm going to be in deep trouble. > > Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be > gratefully received.... > Tamasin > -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0015.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0013.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk Tue Oct 7 16:48:21 2008 From: t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk (Tamasin Cole) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:48:21 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help Message-ID: This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming messaged have no problems. I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm not blacklisted anywhere. I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one either I'm going to be in deep trouble. Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be gratefully received.... Tamasin ____________________ Tamasin Cole telephone 020 7485 6074 fax 020 7267 9500 tamasincole.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081007/7421ecee/attachment-0008.htm From alan at alphabyte.co.nz Tue Oct 7 22:18:00 2008 From: alan at alphabyte.co.nz (Alan Litchfield) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tamasin, Sounds like your email address is being held as potential spam/virus/ phishing/etc. The behaviour is not unusual for a spam service and could explain why your alternative email address is getting through. An increasing number of large organisations do not monitor spam internally. They maintain relationships with specialised services who do that for them and so it is not possible for them to see any one email address in the millions they process daily, and therefore it would be unlikely that they would be able to tell you whether your email address is being blocked or not. Assuming your email is on a hosted service, it is possible that your domain has been spoofed at some point and now ranks as a known spam source, or someone else on your IP address has been fingered and this means you are tarred with the same brush. Is there any solution? Probably yes, but the amount of work required to execute it may well be greater than the benefit to be gained. Good luck Alan On 8/10/2008, at 3:48 AM, Tamasin Cole wrote: > This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if > it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out > there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever > grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. > > I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily > for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. > > About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my > emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were > taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming > messaged have no problems. > > I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; > my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in > the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm > not blacklisted anywhere. > > I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing > settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only > way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems > not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one > either I'm going to be in deep trouble. > > Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be > gratefully received.... > Tamasin > -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0016.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0014.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk Tue Oct 7 16:48:21 2008 From: t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk (Tamasin Cole) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:48:21 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help Message-ID: This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming messaged have no problems. I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm not blacklisted anywhere. I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one either I'm going to be in deep trouble. Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be gratefully received.... Tamasin ____________________ Tamasin Cole telephone 020 7485 6074 fax 020 7267 9500 tamasincole.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081007/7421ecee/attachment-0009.htm From alan at alphabyte.co.nz Tue Oct 7 22:18:00 2008 From: alan at alphabyte.co.nz (Alan Litchfield) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tamasin, Sounds like your email address is being held as potential spam/virus/ phishing/etc. The behaviour is not unusual for a spam service and could explain why your alternative email address is getting through. An increasing number of large organisations do not monitor spam internally. They maintain relationships with specialised services who do that for them and so it is not possible for them to see any one email address in the millions they process daily, and therefore it would be unlikely that they would be able to tell you whether your email address is being blocked or not. Assuming your email is on a hosted service, it is possible that your domain has been spoofed at some point and now ranks as a known spam source, or someone else on your IP address has been fingered and this means you are tarred with the same brush. Is there any solution? Probably yes, but the amount of work required to execute it may well be greater than the benefit to be gained. Good luck Alan On 8/10/2008, at 3:48 AM, Tamasin Cole wrote: > This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if > it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out > there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever > grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. > > I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily > for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. > > About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my > emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were > taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming > messaged have no problems. > > I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; > my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in > the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm > not blacklisted anywhere. > > I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing > settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only > way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems > not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one > either I'm going to be in deep trouble. > > Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be > gratefully received.... > Tamasin > -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0017.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0015.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk Tue Oct 7 16:48:21 2008 From: t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk (Tamasin Cole) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:48:21 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help Message-ID: This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming messaged have no problems. I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm not blacklisted anywhere. I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one either I'm going to be in deep trouble. Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be gratefully received.... Tamasin ____________________ Tamasin Cole telephone 020 7485 6074 fax 020 7267 9500 tamasincole.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081007/7421ecee/attachment-0010.htm From alan at alphabyte.co.nz Tue Oct 7 22:18:00 2008 From: alan at alphabyte.co.nz (Alan Litchfield) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tamasin, Sounds like your email address is being held as potential spam/virus/ phishing/etc. The behaviour is not unusual for a spam service and could explain why your alternative email address is getting through. An increasing number of large organisations do not monitor spam internally. They maintain relationships with specialised services who do that for them and so it is not possible for them to see any one email address in the millions they process daily, and therefore it would be unlikely that they would be able to tell you whether your email address is being blocked or not. Assuming your email is on a hosted service, it is possible that your domain has been spoofed at some point and now ranks as a known spam source, or someone else on your IP address has been fingered and this means you are tarred with the same brush. Is there any solution? Probably yes, but the amount of work required to execute it may well be greater than the benefit to be gained. Good luck Alan On 8/10/2008, at 3:48 AM, Tamasin Cole wrote: > This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if > it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out > there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever > grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. > > I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily > for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. > > About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my > emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were > taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming > messaged have no problems. > > I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; > my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in > the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm > not blacklisted anywhere. > > I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing > settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only > way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems > not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one > either I'm going to be in deep trouble. > > Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be > gratefully received.... > Tamasin > -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0018.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0016.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk Tue Oct 7 16:48:21 2008 From: t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk (Tamasin Cole) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:48:21 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help Message-ID: This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming messaged have no problems. I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm not blacklisted anywhere. I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one either I'm going to be in deep trouble. Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be gratefully received.... Tamasin ____________________ Tamasin Cole telephone 020 7485 6074 fax 020 7267 9500 tamasincole.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081007/7421ecee/attachment-0011.htm From alan at alphabyte.co.nz Tue Oct 7 22:18:00 2008 From: alan at alphabyte.co.nz (Alan Litchfield) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tamasin, Sounds like your email address is being held as potential spam/virus/ phishing/etc. The behaviour is not unusual for a spam service and could explain why your alternative email address is getting through. An increasing number of large organisations do not monitor spam internally. They maintain relationships with specialised services who do that for them and so it is not possible for them to see any one email address in the millions they process daily, and therefore it would be unlikely that they would be able to tell you whether your email address is being blocked or not. Assuming your email is on a hosted service, it is possible that your domain has been spoofed at some point and now ranks as a known spam source, or someone else on your IP address has been fingered and this means you are tarred with the same brush. Is there any solution? Probably yes, but the amount of work required to execute it may well be greater than the benefit to be gained. Good luck Alan On 8/10/2008, at 3:48 AM, Tamasin Cole wrote: > This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if > it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out > there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever > grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. > > I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily > for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. > > About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my > emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were > taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming > messaged have no problems. > > I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; > my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in > the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm > not blacklisted anywhere. > > I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing > settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only > way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems > not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one > either I'm going to be in deep trouble. > > Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be > gratefully received.... > Tamasin > -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0019.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0017.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk Tue Oct 7 16:48:21 2008 From: t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk (Tamasin Cole) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:48:21 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help Message-ID: This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming messaged have no problems. I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm not blacklisted anywhere. I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one either I'm going to be in deep trouble. Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be gratefully received.... Tamasin ____________________ Tamasin Cole telephone 020 7485 6074 fax 020 7267 9500 tamasincole.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081007/7421ecee/attachment-0012.htm From alan at alphabyte.co.nz Tue Oct 7 22:18:00 2008 From: alan at alphabyte.co.nz (Alan Litchfield) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tamasin, Sounds like your email address is being held as potential spam/virus/ phishing/etc. The behaviour is not unusual for a spam service and could explain why your alternative email address is getting through. An increasing number of large organisations do not monitor spam internally. They maintain relationships with specialised services who do that for them and so it is not possible for them to see any one email address in the millions they process daily, and therefore it would be unlikely that they would be able to tell you whether your email address is being blocked or not. Assuming your email is on a hosted service, it is possible that your domain has been spoofed at some point and now ranks as a known spam source, or someone else on your IP address has been fingered and this means you are tarred with the same brush. Is there any solution? Probably yes, but the amount of work required to execute it may well be greater than the benefit to be gained. Good luck Alan On 8/10/2008, at 3:48 AM, Tamasin Cole wrote: > This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if > it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out > there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever > grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. > > I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily > for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. > > About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my > emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were > taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming > messaged have no problems. > > I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; > my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in > the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm > not blacklisted anywhere. > > I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing > settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only > way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems > not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one > either I'm going to be in deep trouble. > > Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be > gratefully received.... > Tamasin > -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 13:43:37 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:43:37 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Dear Caf?-persons: At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, Australia, part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org Date: Monday 9th December 2008 If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the next Design to Read workshop. We will: * share experiences about working with our different audiences * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop in Liverpool, September 2008. If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Deadlines: * Position papers due 10th November 2008 * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 More information about Design to Read: http://designtoread.editme.com/ I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone you think might be interested. Best regards Caroline Jarrett From frascara at ualberta.ca Sat Oct 18 15:43:01 2008 From: frascara at ualberta.ca (frascara at ualberta.ca) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:43:01 -0600 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> Dear Caroline, I am interested in the topic, but cannot include Australia in my calendar. have you published or intent to publish something arising from the last meeting? I will appreciate your information. Greetings Jorge Frascara Quoting "Caroline Jarrett" : > Dear Caf?-persons: > > At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about > designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. > > I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, Australia, > part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org > > Date: Monday 9th December 2008 > > If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in > designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the next > Design to Read workshop. > > We will: > > * share experiences about working with our different audiences > * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing > * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop in > Liverpool, September 2008. > > If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: > caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk > > Deadlines: > > * Position papers due 10th November 2008 > * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 > * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 > > More information about Design to Read: http://designtoread.editme.com/ > > I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone you > think might be interested. > > Best regards > Caroline Jarrett > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > > From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 16:24:38 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:24:38 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> Message-ID: <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi Jorge Darn, I forgot to send you the outcome from the last meeting! I knew that I was supposed to do so. Yes, there are details on the wiki: http://www.designtoread.com/2008Liverpool I believe that you are based in Europe now, but I wonder if you'd be able to think about UPA next year? We have proposed a follow-up workshop for UPA in Portland, Oregon (June 8-12 2008 - the workshop would be on 8th or 9th if accepted). In the longer term, I have had some interest from my publisher in a contributed (chapter) book, but I'm waiting to find out if I get enough ongoing interest from the community to get sufficient contributions. Best Caroline > -----Original Message----- > From: infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org > [mailto:infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org] On Behalf > Of frascara at ualberta.ca > Sent: 18 October 2008 14:43 > To: Discussions about information design > Subject: Re: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people > who do not read easily > > Dear Caroline, > I am interested in the topic, but cannot include Australia in my > calendar. have you published or intent to publish something arising > from the last meeting? > > I will appreciate your information. > > Greetings > > Jorge Frascara > > > Quoting "Caroline Jarrett" : > > > Dear Caf?-persons: > > > > At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about > > designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. > > > > I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, > Australia, > > part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org > > > > Date: Monday 9th December 2008 > > > > If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in > > designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the > next > > Design to Read workshop. > > > > We will: > > > > * share experiences about working with our different audiences > > * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing > > * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop > in > > Liverpool, September 2008. > > > > If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: > > caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk > > > > Deadlines: > > > > * Position papers due 10th November 2008 > > * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 > > * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 > > > > More information about Design to Read: > http://designtoread.editme.com/ > > > > I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone > you > > think might be interested. > > > > Best regards > > Caroline Jarrett > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > > > For all Information Design matters: > > http://InformationDesign.org > > > > Problems? Write to: > > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > This message has been comprehensively scanned for viruses, > please visit http://www.avg.power.net.uk/ for details. From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 16:30:54 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:30:54 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <000d01c9312e$20e6e7f0$62b4b7d0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all Sorry, my personal reply to Jorge went to the whole list. You are all very welcome to visit the Design to Read wiki: www.designtoread.com All comments and contributions gratefully received. Best Caroline > -----Original Message----- > From: infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org > [mailto:infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org] On Behalf > Of Caroline Jarrett > Sent: 18 October 2008 15:25 > To: 'Discussions about information design' > Subject: Re: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people > who do not read easily > > Hi Jorge > From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0020.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0018.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk Tue Oct 7 16:48:21 2008 From: t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk (Tamasin Cole) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:48:21 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help Message-ID: This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming messaged have no problems. I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm not blacklisted anywhere. I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one either I'm going to be in deep trouble. Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be gratefully received.... Tamasin ____________________ Tamasin Cole telephone 020 7485 6074 fax 020 7267 9500 tamasincole.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081007/7421ecee/attachment-0013.htm From alan at alphabyte.co.nz Tue Oct 7 22:18:00 2008 From: alan at alphabyte.co.nz (Alan Litchfield) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tamasin, Sounds like your email address is being held as potential spam/virus/ phishing/etc. The behaviour is not unusual for a spam service and could explain why your alternative email address is getting through. An increasing number of large organisations do not monitor spam internally. They maintain relationships with specialised services who do that for them and so it is not possible for them to see any one email address in the millions they process daily, and therefore it would be unlikely that they would be able to tell you whether your email address is being blocked or not. Assuming your email is on a hosted service, it is possible that your domain has been spoofed at some point and now ranks as a known spam source, or someone else on your IP address has been fingered and this means you are tarred with the same brush. Is there any solution? Probably yes, but the amount of work required to execute it may well be greater than the benefit to be gained. Good luck Alan On 8/10/2008, at 3:48 AM, Tamasin Cole wrote: > This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if > it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out > there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever > grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. > > I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily > for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. > > About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my > emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were > taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming > messaged have no problems. > > I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; > my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in > the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm > not blacklisted anywhere. > > I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing > settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only > way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems > not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one > either I'm going to be in deep trouble. > > Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be > gratefully received.... > Tamasin > -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 13:43:37 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:43:37 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Dear Caf?-persons: At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, Australia, part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org Date: Monday 9th December 2008 If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the next Design to Read workshop. We will: * share experiences about working with our different audiences * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop in Liverpool, September 2008. If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Deadlines: * Position papers due 10th November 2008 * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 More information about Design to Read: http://designtoread.editme.com/ I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone you think might be interested. Best regards Caroline Jarrett From frascara at ualberta.ca Sat Oct 18 15:43:01 2008 From: frascara at ualberta.ca (frascara at ualberta.ca) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:43:01 -0600 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> Dear Caroline, I am interested in the topic, but cannot include Australia in my calendar. have you published or intent to publish something arising from the last meeting? I will appreciate your information. Greetings Jorge Frascara Quoting "Caroline Jarrett" : > Dear Caf?-persons: > > At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about > designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. > > I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, Australia, > part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org > > Date: Monday 9th December 2008 > > If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in > designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the next > Design to Read workshop. > > We will: > > * share experiences about working with our different audiences > * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing > * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop in > Liverpool, September 2008. > > If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: > caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk > > Deadlines: > > * Position papers due 10th November 2008 > * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 > * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 > > More information about Design to Read: http://designtoread.editme.com/ > > I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone you > think might be interested. > > Best regards > Caroline Jarrett > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > > From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 16:24:38 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:24:38 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> Message-ID: <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi Jorge Darn, I forgot to send you the outcome from the last meeting! I knew that I was supposed to do so. Yes, there are details on the wiki: http://www.designtoread.com/2008Liverpool I believe that you are based in Europe now, but I wonder if you'd be able to think about UPA next year? We have proposed a follow-up workshop for UPA in Portland, Oregon (June 8-12 2008 - the workshop would be on 8th or 9th if accepted). In the longer term, I have had some interest from my publisher in a contributed (chapter) book, but I'm waiting to find out if I get enough ongoing interest from the community to get sufficient contributions. Best Caroline > -----Original Message----- > From: infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org > [mailto:infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org] On Behalf > Of frascara at ualberta.ca > Sent: 18 October 2008 14:43 > To: Discussions about information design > Subject: Re: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people > who do not read easily > > Dear Caroline, > I am interested in the topic, but cannot include Australia in my > calendar. have you published or intent to publish something arising > from the last meeting? > > I will appreciate your information. > > Greetings > > Jorge Frascara > > > Quoting "Caroline Jarrett" : > > > Dear Caf?-persons: > > > > At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about > > designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. > > > > I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, > Australia, > > part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org > > > > Date: Monday 9th December 2008 > > > > If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in > > designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the > next > > Design to Read workshop. > > > > We will: > > > > * share experiences about working with our different audiences > > * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing > > * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop > in > > Liverpool, September 2008. > > > > If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: > > caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk > > > > Deadlines: > > > > * Position papers due 10th November 2008 > > * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 > > * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 > > > > More information about Design to Read: > http://designtoread.editme.com/ > > > > I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone > you > > think might be interested. > > > > Best regards > > Caroline Jarrett > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > > > For all Information Design matters: > > http://InformationDesign.org > > > > Problems? Write to: > > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > This message has been comprehensively scanned for viruses, > please visit http://www.avg.power.net.uk/ for details. From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 16:30:54 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:30:54 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <000d01c9312e$20e6e7f0$62b4b7d0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all Sorry, my personal reply to Jorge went to the whole list. You are all very welcome to visit the Design to Read wiki: www.designtoread.com All comments and contributions gratefully received. Best Caroline > -----Original Message----- > From: infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org > [mailto:infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org] On Behalf > Of Caroline Jarrett > Sent: 18 October 2008 15:25 > To: 'Discussions about information design' > Subject: Re: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people > who do not read easily > > Hi Jorge > From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0021.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0019.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk Tue Oct 7 16:48:21 2008 From: t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk (Tamasin Cole) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:48:21 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help Message-ID: This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming messaged have no problems. I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm not blacklisted anywhere. I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one either I'm going to be in deep trouble. Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be gratefully received.... Tamasin ____________________ Tamasin Cole telephone 020 7485 6074 fax 020 7267 9500 tamasincole.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081007/7421ecee/attachment-0014.htm From alan at alphabyte.co.nz Tue Oct 7 22:18:00 2008 From: alan at alphabyte.co.nz (Alan Litchfield) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tamasin, Sounds like your email address is being held as potential spam/virus/ phishing/etc. The behaviour is not unusual for a spam service and could explain why your alternative email address is getting through. An increasing number of large organisations do not monitor spam internally. They maintain relationships with specialised services who do that for them and so it is not possible for them to see any one email address in the millions they process daily, and therefore it would be unlikely that they would be able to tell you whether your email address is being blocked or not. Assuming your email is on a hosted service, it is possible that your domain has been spoofed at some point and now ranks as a known spam source, or someone else on your IP address has been fingered and this means you are tarred with the same brush. Is there any solution? Probably yes, but the amount of work required to execute it may well be greater than the benefit to be gained. Good luck Alan On 8/10/2008, at 3:48 AM, Tamasin Cole wrote: > This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if > it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out > there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever > grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. > > I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily > for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. > > About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my > emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were > taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming > messaged have no problems. > > I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; > my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in > the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm > not blacklisted anywhere. > > I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing > settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only > way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems > not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one > either I'm going to be in deep trouble. > > Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be > gratefully received.... > Tamasin > -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 13:43:37 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:43:37 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Dear Caf?-persons: At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, Australia, part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org Date: Monday 9th December 2008 If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the next Design to Read workshop. We will: * share experiences about working with our different audiences * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop in Liverpool, September 2008. If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Deadlines: * Position papers due 10th November 2008 * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 More information about Design to Read: http://designtoread.editme.com/ I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone you think might be interested. Best regards Caroline Jarrett From frascara at ualberta.ca Sat Oct 18 15:43:01 2008 From: frascara at ualberta.ca (frascara at ualberta.ca) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:43:01 -0600 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> Dear Caroline, I am interested in the topic, but cannot include Australia in my calendar. have you published or intent to publish something arising from the last meeting? I will appreciate your information. Greetings Jorge Frascara Quoting "Caroline Jarrett" : > Dear Caf?-persons: > > At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about > designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. > > I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, Australia, > part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org > > Date: Monday 9th December 2008 > > If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in > designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the next > Design to Read workshop. > > We will: > > * share experiences about working with our different audiences > * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing > * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop in > Liverpool, September 2008. > > If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: > caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk > > Deadlines: > > * Position papers due 10th November 2008 > * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 > * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 > > More information about Design to Read: http://designtoread.editme.com/ > > I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone you > think might be interested. > > Best regards > Caroline Jarrett > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > > From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 16:24:38 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:24:38 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> Message-ID: <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi Jorge Darn, I forgot to send you the outcome from the last meeting! I knew that I was supposed to do so. Yes, there are details on the wiki: http://www.designtoread.com/2008Liverpool I believe that you are based in Europe now, but I wonder if you'd be able to think about UPA next year? We have proposed a follow-up workshop for UPA in Portland, Oregon (June 8-12 2008 - the workshop would be on 8th or 9th if accepted). In the longer term, I have had some interest from my publisher in a contributed (chapter) book, but I'm waiting to find out if I get enough ongoing interest from the community to get sufficient contributions. Best Caroline > -----Original Message----- > From: infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org > [mailto:infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org] On Behalf > Of frascara at ualberta.ca > Sent: 18 October 2008 14:43 > To: Discussions about information design > Subject: Re: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people > who do not read easily > > Dear Caroline, > I am interested in the topic, but cannot include Australia in my > calendar. have you published or intent to publish something arising > from the last meeting? > > I will appreciate your information. > > Greetings > > Jorge Frascara > > > Quoting "Caroline Jarrett" : > > > Dear Caf?-persons: > > > > At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about > > designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. > > > > I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, > Australia, > > part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org > > > > Date: Monday 9th December 2008 > > > > If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in > > designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the > next > > Design to Read workshop. > > > > We will: > > > > * share experiences about working with our different audiences > > * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing > > * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop > in > > Liverpool, September 2008. > > > > If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: > > caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk > > > > Deadlines: > > > > * Position papers due 10th November 2008 > > * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 > > * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 > > > > More information about Design to Read: > http://designtoread.editme.com/ > > > > I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone > you > > think might be interested. > > > > Best regards > > Caroline Jarrett > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > > > For all Information Design matters: > > http://InformationDesign.org > > > > Problems? Write to: > > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > This message has been comprehensively scanned for viruses, > please visit http://www.avg.power.net.uk/ for details. From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 16:30:54 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:30:54 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <000d01c9312e$20e6e7f0$62b4b7d0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all Sorry, my personal reply to Jorge went to the whole list. You are all very welcome to visit the Design to Read wiki: www.designtoread.com All comments and contributions gratefully received. Best Caroline > -----Original Message----- > From: infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org > [mailto:infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org] On Behalf > Of Caroline Jarrett > Sent: 18 October 2008 15:25 > To: 'Discussions about information design' > Subject: Re: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people > who do not read easily > > Hi Jorge > From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0022.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0020.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk Tue Oct 7 16:48:21 2008 From: t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk (Tamasin Cole) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:48:21 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help Message-ID: This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming messaged have no problems. I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm not blacklisted anywhere. I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one either I'm going to be in deep trouble. Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be gratefully received.... Tamasin ____________________ Tamasin Cole telephone 020 7485 6074 fax 020 7267 9500 tamasincole.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081007/7421ecee/attachment-0015.htm From alan at alphabyte.co.nz Tue Oct 7 22:18:00 2008 From: alan at alphabyte.co.nz (Alan Litchfield) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tamasin, Sounds like your email address is being held as potential spam/virus/ phishing/etc. The behaviour is not unusual for a spam service and could explain why your alternative email address is getting through. An increasing number of large organisations do not monitor spam internally. They maintain relationships with specialised services who do that for them and so it is not possible for them to see any one email address in the millions they process daily, and therefore it would be unlikely that they would be able to tell you whether your email address is being blocked or not. Assuming your email is on a hosted service, it is possible that your domain has been spoofed at some point and now ranks as a known spam source, or someone else on your IP address has been fingered and this means you are tarred with the same brush. Is there any solution? Probably yes, but the amount of work required to execute it may well be greater than the benefit to be gained. Good luck Alan On 8/10/2008, at 3:48 AM, Tamasin Cole wrote: > This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if > it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out > there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever > grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. > > I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily > for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. > > About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my > emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were > taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming > messaged have no problems. > > I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; > my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in > the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm > not blacklisted anywhere. > > I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing > settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only > way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems > not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one > either I'm going to be in deep trouble. > > Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be > gratefully received.... > Tamasin > -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 13:43:37 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:43:37 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Dear Caf?-persons: At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, Australia, part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org Date: Monday 9th December 2008 If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the next Design to Read workshop. We will: * share experiences about working with our different audiences * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop in Liverpool, September 2008. If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Deadlines: * Position papers due 10th November 2008 * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 More information about Design to Read: http://designtoread.editme.com/ I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone you think might be interested. Best regards Caroline Jarrett From frascara at ualberta.ca Sat Oct 18 15:43:01 2008 From: frascara at ualberta.ca (frascara at ualberta.ca) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:43:01 -0600 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> Dear Caroline, I am interested in the topic, but cannot include Australia in my calendar. have you published or intent to publish something arising from the last meeting? I will appreciate your information. Greetings Jorge Frascara Quoting "Caroline Jarrett" : > Dear Caf?-persons: > > At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about > designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. > > I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, Australia, > part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org > > Date: Monday 9th December 2008 > > If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in > designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the next > Design to Read workshop. > > We will: > > * share experiences about working with our different audiences > * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing > * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop in > Liverpool, September 2008. > > If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: > caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk > > Deadlines: > > * Position papers due 10th November 2008 > * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 > * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 > > More information about Design to Read: http://designtoread.editme.com/ > > I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone you > think might be interested. > > Best regards > Caroline Jarrett > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > > From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 16:24:38 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:24:38 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> Message-ID: <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi Jorge Darn, I forgot to send you the outcome from the last meeting! I knew that I was supposed to do so. Yes, there are details on the wiki: http://www.designtoread.com/2008Liverpool I believe that you are based in Europe now, but I wonder if you'd be able to think about UPA next year? We have proposed a follow-up workshop for UPA in Portland, Oregon (June 8-12 2008 - the workshop would be on 8th or 9th if accepted). In the longer term, I have had some interest from my publisher in a contributed (chapter) book, but I'm waiting to find out if I get enough ongoing interest from the community to get sufficient contributions. Best Caroline > -----Original Message----- > From: infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org > [mailto:infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org] On Behalf > Of frascara at ualberta.ca > Sent: 18 October 2008 14:43 > To: Discussions about information design > Subject: Re: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people > who do not read easily > > Dear Caroline, > I am interested in the topic, but cannot include Australia in my > calendar. have you published or intent to publish something arising > from the last meeting? > > I will appreciate your information. > > Greetings > > Jorge Frascara > > > Quoting "Caroline Jarrett" : > > > Dear Caf?-persons: > > > > At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about > > designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. > > > > I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, > Australia, > > part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org > > > > Date: Monday 9th December 2008 > > > > If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in > > designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the > next > > Design to Read workshop. > > > > We will: > > > > * share experiences about working with our different audiences > > * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing > > * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop > in > > Liverpool, September 2008. > > > > If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: > > caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk > > > > Deadlines: > > > > * Position papers due 10th November 2008 > > * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 > > * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 > > > > More information about Design to Read: > http://designtoread.editme.com/ > > > > I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone > you > > think might be interested. > > > > Best regards > > Caroline Jarrett > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > > > For all Information Design matters: > > http://InformationDesign.org > > > > Problems? 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From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 16:30:54 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:30:54 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <000d01c9312e$20e6e7f0$62b4b7d0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all Sorry, my personal reply to Jorge went to the whole list. You are all very welcome to visit the Design to Read wiki: www.designtoread.com All comments and contributions gratefully received. Best Caroline > -----Original Message----- > From: infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org > [mailto:infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org] On Behalf > Of Caroline Jarrett > Sent: 18 October 2008 15:25 > To: 'Discussions about information design' > Subject: Re: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people > who do not read easily > > Hi Jorge > From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Tue Oct 21 08:50:33 2008 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose de Souza) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:50:33 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Technical Communication Conference 2009 - Deadline for proposal expanded: 29 October 2008 Message-ID: Information designers, This is my second attempt to call your attention to this conference. Sorry, for my insistence, but I believed that this is a good opportunity to expand the influence of information designers (with background on graphic and cinematographic language) on the field of technical communication. Jos? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As the current manager of the "Applying Theory and Research to Practice"track, I would like to invite information designers to send a proposal for the Technical Communication Summit 2009. This Summit will be held 3-6 May at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The pre-conference sessions will be held on 2-3 May 2009 and Leadership Day will be 3 May 2009. Among other (click here to see the complete list), we invite innovative proposals in the following areas: - Collaborations between academia and industry, including projects sponsored by the STC - The effectivenes of textual, graphic and cinematographic representations of technical information - Discussion of best practices for measurement and evaluation - Projects about the practice and tools of professional technical communication - Applications of existing and-or new theories - Quantitative or qualitative exploratory investigations that clear the ground for later theoretical work - History of innovation on technical communication - Instructional design practices and related products - Tools and techniques for on-line collaboration and teaching - Descriptions and studies of innovative academic and industrial training programs, including face-to-face, distance, and media-based innovations The STC has officially issued the online Call for Proposals and you may submit more than one proposal, but each must be submitted separately. Proposals may be submitted and updated online until 10:00 AM (GMT -5), Monday, 27 October 2008. Should you have questions about your proposal content or format, contact a Track Manager. For all other inquiries regarding the Call or the system in general, please contact Lloyd Tucker , Director of Education & Membership, STC. For the most complete submission information, please visit the Summit Call for Proposals website: http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2009/. See you there. Jos? -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Paul On 21/10/08 07:50, "Jose de Souza" wrote: > Information designers, > > This is my second attempt to call your attention to this conference. > Sorry, for my insistence, but I believed that this is a good opportunity to > expand the influence of information designers (with background on graphic and > cinematographic language) on the field of technical communication. > > Jos? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ----------------------------------------------- > > As the current manager of the "Applying Theory and Research to Practice" > track, I > would like to invite information designers to send a proposal for the > Technical Communication Summit 2009. > This Summit will be held 3-6 May at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, Atlanta, > Georgia, USA. The pre-conference sessions will be held on 2-3 May 2009 and > Leadership Day will be 3 May 2009. > > Among other (click here to see the complete list) > , we invite > innovative proposals in the following areas: > * Collaborations between academia and industry, including projects sponsored > by the STC > * The effectivenes of textual, graphic and cinematographic representations of > technical information > * Discussion of best practices for measurement and evaluation > * Projects about the practice and tools of professional technical > communication > * Applications of existing and-or new theories > * Quantitative or qualitative exploratory investigations that clear the ground > for later theoretical work > * History of innovation on technical communication > * Instructional design practices and related products > * Tools and techniques for on-line collaboration and teaching > * Descriptions and studies of innovative academic and industrial training > programs, including face-to-face, distance, and media-based innovations > The STC has officially issued the online Call for Proposals and you may submit > more than one proposal, but each must be submitted separately. Proposals may > be submitted and updated online until 10:00 AM (GMT -5), Monday, 27 October > 2008. > > Should you have questions about your proposal content or format, contact a > Track Manager. > For all other inquiries regarding the Call or the system in general, please > contact Lloyd Tucker , Director of Education & > Membership, STC. > > For the most complete submission information, please visit the Summit Call for > Proposals website: http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2009/. > > See you there. > > Jos? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081021/f1125fb4/attachment.htm From brigit at byteryte.nl Tue Oct 21 10:54:04 2008 From: brigit at byteryte.nl (Brigit van Loggem) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:54:04 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Technical Communication Conference 2009 - Deadline for proposal expanded: 29 October 2008 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <200810210857.m9L8vOgb011615@smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl> Hello Jos?, At 08:50 21-10-2008, you wrote: >This is my second attempt to call your attention to this conference. [...] The conference sounds very very interesting indeed! To reach more people, may I suggest the STC contact the other members of INTECOM? I represent one such society, STIC, in the Netherlands, and I know for a fact that STC never contacted us; so I expect none of the other societies for TC was contacted. It's too late now to publish your call for papers on our website and expect any return. But if anyone from STC asks me some time in 2009 I'll be only too happy to advertise the event, and include it in our newsletter. I am certain the same goes for all the other societies that are a member of INTECOM. After all, that's what INTECOM is for. Best, -Brigit van Loggem (STIC secretary) >Sorry, for my insistence, but I believed that this is a good >opportunity to expand the influence of information designers (with >background on graphic and cinematographic language) on the field of >technical communication. > >Jos? > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >As the current manager of the >"Applying >Theory and Research to Practice" track, I would like to invite >information designers to send a proposal for the Technical >Communication Summit 2009. >This Summit will be held 3-6 May at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, >Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The pre-conference sessions will be held on >2-3 May 2009 and Leadership Day will be 3 May 2009. > >Among other (click here to see the >complete >list), we invite innovative proposals in the following areas: > * Collaborations between academia and industry, including > projects sponsored by the STC > * The effectivenes of textual, graphic and cinematographic > representations of technical information > * Discussion of best practices for measurement and evaluation > * Projects about the practice and tools of professional > technical communication > * Applications of existing and-or new theories > * Quantitative or qualitative exploratory investigations that > clear the ground for later theoretical work > * History of innovation on technical communication > * Instructional design practices and related products > * Tools and techniques for on-line collaboration and teaching > * Descriptions and studies of innovative academic and industrial > training programs, including face-to-face, distance, and > media-based innovations >The STC has officially issued the online Call for Proposals and you >may submit more than one proposal, but each must be submitted >separately. Proposals may be submitted and updated online until >10:00 AM (GMT -5), Monday, 27 October 2008. > >Should you have questions about your proposal content or format, >contact a >Track Manager. >For all other inquiries regarding the Call or the system in general, >please contact Lloyd Tucker, Director >of Education & Membership, STC. > >For the most complete submission information, please visit the >Summit Call for Proposals website: >http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2009/. > >See you there. > >Jos? > >-- >Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza >PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The >University of Reading (UK) >Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical >Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta) >___________________________________________________________________ > >Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > >To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > >For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > >Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >___________________________________________________________________ ============================================ www.byteryte.nl View my profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/brigitvanloggem or see who we know in common at www.linkedin.com/e/wwk/24120274/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081021/bb554593/attachment.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Tue Oct 21 11:32:34 2008 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose de Souza) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:32:34 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Technical Communication Conference 2009 - Deadline for proposal expanded: 29 October 2008 In-Reply-To: <200810210857.m9L8vOgb011615@smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl> References: <200810210857.m9L8vOgb011615@smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: Brigit van Loggem, Thanks for the feedback. I will do my best to improve our communication. Jos? 2008/10/21 Brigit van Loggem > Hello Jos?, > > At 08:50 21-10-2008, you wrote: > > This is my second attempt to call your attention to this conference. [...] > > > The conference sounds very very interesting indeed! > > To reach more people, may I suggest the STC contact the other members of > INTECOM? I represent one such society, STIC, in the Netherlands, and I know > for a fact that STC never contacted us; so I expect none of the other > societies for TC was contacted. > > It's too late now to publish your call for papers on our website and expect > any return. But if anyone from STC asks me some time in 2009 I'll be only > too happy to advertise the event, and include it in our newsletter. I am > certain the same goes for all the other societies that are a member of > INTECOM. After all, that's what INTECOM is for. > > Best, > -Brigit van Loggem (STIC secretary) > > Sorry, for my insistence, but I believed that this is a good opportunity to > expand the influence of information designers (with background on graphic > and cinematographic language) on the field of technical communication. > > Jos? > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > As the current manager of the "Applying Theory and Research to Practice"track, I would like to invite information designers to send a proposal for > the Technical Communication Summit 2009. > This Summit will be held 3-6 May at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, Atlanta, > Georgia, USA. The pre-conference sessions will be held on 2-3 May 2009 and > Leadership Day will be 3 May 2009. > > Among other (click here to see the complete list), > we invite innovative proposals in the following areas: > > - Collaborations between academia and industry, including projects > sponsored by the STC > - The effectivenes of textual, graphic and cinematographic > representations of technical information > - Discussion of best practices for measurement and evaluation > - Projects about the practice and tools of professional technical > communication > - Applications of existing and-or new theories > - Quantitative or qualitative exploratory investigations that clear the > ground for later theoretical work > - History of innovation on technical communication > - Instructional design practices and related products > - Tools and techniques for on-line collaboration and teaching > - Descriptions and studies of innovative academic and industrial > training programs, including face-to-face, distance, and media-based > innovations > > The STC has officially issued the online Call for Proposals and you may > submit more than one proposal, but each must be submitted separately. > Proposals may be submitted and updated online until 10:00 AM (GMT -5), > Monday, 27 October 2008. > > Should you have questions about your proposal content or format, contact a Track > Manager. > For all other inquiries regarding the Call or the system in general, please > contact Lloyd Tucker , Director of Education & > Membership, STC. > > For the most complete submission information, please visit the Summit Call > for Proposals website: http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2009/. > > See you there. > > Jos? > > -- > Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza > PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of > Reading (UK) > Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication > Conference 2009, Atlanta) > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > > ============================================ > www.byteryte.nl > > View my profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/brigitvanloggem or see who > we know in common at www.linkedin.com/e/wwk/24120274/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > > -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081021/b33c979e/attachment-0001.htm From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0023.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0021.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk Tue Oct 7 16:48:21 2008 From: t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk (Tamasin Cole) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:48:21 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help Message-ID: This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming messaged have no problems. I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm not blacklisted anywhere. I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one either I'm going to be in deep trouble. Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be gratefully received.... Tamasin ____________________ Tamasin Cole telephone 020 7485 6074 fax 020 7267 9500 tamasincole.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081007/7421ecee/attachment-0016.htm From alan at alphabyte.co.nz Tue Oct 7 22:18:00 2008 From: alan at alphabyte.co.nz (Alan Litchfield) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tamasin, Sounds like your email address is being held as potential spam/virus/ phishing/etc. The behaviour is not unusual for a spam service and could explain why your alternative email address is getting through. An increasing number of large organisations do not monitor spam internally. They maintain relationships with specialised services who do that for them and so it is not possible for them to see any one email address in the millions they process daily, and therefore it would be unlikely that they would be able to tell you whether your email address is being blocked or not. Assuming your email is on a hosted service, it is possible that your domain has been spoofed at some point and now ranks as a known spam source, or someone else on your IP address has been fingered and this means you are tarred with the same brush. Is there any solution? Probably yes, but the amount of work required to execute it may well be greater than the benefit to be gained. Good luck Alan On 8/10/2008, at 3:48 AM, Tamasin Cole wrote: > This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if > it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out > there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever > grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. > > I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily > for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. > > About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my > emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were > taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming > messaged have no problems. > > I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; > my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in > the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm > not blacklisted anywhere. > > I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing > settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only > way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems > not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one > either I'm going to be in deep trouble. > > Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be > gratefully received.... > Tamasin > -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 13:43:37 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:43:37 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Dear Caf?-persons: At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, Australia, part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org Date: Monday 9th December 2008 If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the next Design to Read workshop. We will: * share experiences about working with our different audiences * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop in Liverpool, September 2008. If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Deadlines: * Position papers due 10th November 2008 * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 More information about Design to Read: http://designtoread.editme.com/ I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone you think might be interested. Best regards Caroline Jarrett From frascara at ualberta.ca Sat Oct 18 15:43:01 2008 From: frascara at ualberta.ca (frascara at ualberta.ca) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:43:01 -0600 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> Dear Caroline, I am interested in the topic, but cannot include Australia in my calendar. have you published or intent to publish something arising from the last meeting? I will appreciate your information. Greetings Jorge Frascara Quoting "Caroline Jarrett" : > Dear Caf?-persons: > > At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about > designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. > > I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, Australia, > part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org > > Date: Monday 9th December 2008 > > If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in > designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the next > Design to Read workshop. > > We will: > > * share experiences about working with our different audiences > * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing > * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop in > Liverpool, September 2008. > > If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: > caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk > > Deadlines: > > * Position papers due 10th November 2008 > * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 > * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 > > More information about Design to Read: http://designtoread.editme.com/ > > I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone you > think might be interested. > > Best regards > Caroline Jarrett > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > > From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 16:24:38 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:24:38 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> Message-ID: <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi Jorge Darn, I forgot to send you the outcome from the last meeting! I knew that I was supposed to do so. Yes, there are details on the wiki: http://www.designtoread.com/2008Liverpool I believe that you are based in Europe now, but I wonder if you'd be able to think about UPA next year? We have proposed a follow-up workshop for UPA in Portland, Oregon (June 8-12 2008 - the workshop would be on 8th or 9th if accepted). In the longer term, I have had some interest from my publisher in a contributed (chapter) book, but I'm waiting to find out if I get enough ongoing interest from the community to get sufficient contributions. Best Caroline > -----Original Message----- > From: infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org > [mailto:infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org] On Behalf > Of frascara at ualberta.ca > Sent: 18 October 2008 14:43 > To: Discussions about information design > Subject: Re: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people > who do not read easily > > Dear Caroline, > I am interested in the topic, but cannot include Australia in my > calendar. have you published or intent to publish something arising > from the last meeting? > > I will appreciate your information. > > Greetings > > Jorge Frascara > > > Quoting "Caroline Jarrett" : > > > Dear Caf?-persons: > > > > At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about > > designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. > > > > I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, > Australia, > > part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org > > > > Date: Monday 9th December 2008 > > > > If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in > > designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the > next > > Design to Read workshop. > > > > We will: > > > > * share experiences about working with our different audiences > > * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing > > * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop > in > > Liverpool, September 2008. > > > > If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: > > caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk > > > > Deadlines: > > > > * Position papers due 10th November 2008 > > * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 > > * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 > > > > More information about Design to Read: > http://designtoread.editme.com/ > > > > I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone > you > > think might be interested. > > > > Best regards > > Caroline Jarrett > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > > > For all Information Design matters: > > http://InformationDesign.org > > > > Problems? Write to: > > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > This message has been comprehensively scanned for viruses, > please visit http://www.avg.power.net.uk/ for details. From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 16:30:54 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:30:54 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <000d01c9312e$20e6e7f0$62b4b7d0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all Sorry, my personal reply to Jorge went to the whole list. You are all very welcome to visit the Design to Read wiki: www.designtoread.com All comments and contributions gratefully received. Best Caroline > -----Original Message----- > From: infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org > [mailto:infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org] On Behalf > Of Caroline Jarrett > Sent: 18 October 2008 15:25 > To: 'Discussions about information design' > Subject: Re: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people > who do not read easily > > Hi Jorge > From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Tue Oct 21 08:50:33 2008 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose de Souza) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:50:33 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Technical Communication Conference 2009 - Deadline for proposal expanded: 29 October 2008 Message-ID: Information designers, This is my second attempt to call your attention to this conference. Sorry, for my insistence, but I believed that this is a good opportunity to expand the influence of information designers (with background on graphic and cinematographic language) on the field of technical communication. Jos? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As the current manager of the "Applying Theory and Research to Practice"track, I would like to invite information designers to send a proposal for the Technical Communication Summit 2009. This Summit will be held 3-6 May at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The pre-conference sessions will be held on 2-3 May 2009 and Leadership Day will be 3 May 2009. Among other (click here to see the complete list), we invite innovative proposals in the following areas: - Collaborations between academia and industry, including projects sponsored by the STC - The effectivenes of textual, graphic and cinematographic representations of technical information - Discussion of best practices for measurement and evaluation - Projects about the practice and tools of professional technical communication - Applications of existing and-or new theories - Quantitative or qualitative exploratory investigations that clear the ground for later theoretical work - History of innovation on technical communication - Instructional design practices and related products - Tools and techniques for on-line collaboration and teaching - Descriptions and studies of innovative academic and industrial training programs, including face-to-face, distance, and media-based innovations The STC has officially issued the online Call for Proposals and you may submit more than one proposal, but each must be submitted separately. Proposals may be submitted and updated online until 10:00 AM (GMT -5), Monday, 27 October 2008. Should you have questions about your proposal content or format, contact a Track Manager. For all other inquiries regarding the Call or the system in general, please contact Lloyd Tucker , Director of Education & Membership, STC. For the most complete submission information, please visit the Summit Call for Proposals website: http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2009/. See you there. Jos? -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Paul On 21/10/08 07:50, "Jose de Souza" wrote: > Information designers, > > This is my second attempt to call your attention to this conference. > Sorry, for my insistence, but I believed that this is a good opportunity to > expand the influence of information designers (with background on graphic and > cinematographic language) on the field of technical communication. > > Jos? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ----------------------------------------------- > > As the current manager of the "Applying Theory and Research to Practice" > track, I > would like to invite information designers to send a proposal for the > Technical Communication Summit 2009. > This Summit will be held 3-6 May at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, Atlanta, > Georgia, USA. The pre-conference sessions will be held on 2-3 May 2009 and > Leadership Day will be 3 May 2009. > > Among other (click here to see the complete list) > , we invite > innovative proposals in the following areas: > * Collaborations between academia and industry, including projects sponsored > by the STC > * The effectivenes of textual, graphic and cinematographic representations of > technical information > * Discussion of best practices for measurement and evaluation > * Projects about the practice and tools of professional technical > communication > * Applications of existing and-or new theories > * Quantitative or qualitative exploratory investigations that clear the ground > for later theoretical work > * History of innovation on technical communication > * Instructional design practices and related products > * Tools and techniques for on-line collaboration and teaching > * Descriptions and studies of innovative academic and industrial training > programs, including face-to-face, distance, and media-based innovations > The STC has officially issued the online Call for Proposals and you may submit > more than one proposal, but each must be submitted separately. Proposals may > be submitted and updated online until 10:00 AM (GMT -5), Monday, 27 October > 2008. > > Should you have questions about your proposal content or format, contact a > Track Manager. > For all other inquiries regarding the Call or the system in general, please > contact Lloyd Tucker , Director of Education & > Membership, STC. > > For the most complete submission information, please visit the Summit Call for > Proposals website: http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2009/. > > See you there. > > Jos? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081021/f1125fb4/attachment-0002.htm From brigit at byteryte.nl Tue Oct 21 10:54:04 2008 From: brigit at byteryte.nl (Brigit van Loggem) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:54:04 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Technical Communication Conference 2009 - Deadline for proposal expanded: 29 October 2008 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <200810210857.m9L8vOgb011615@smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl> Hello Jos?, At 08:50 21-10-2008, you wrote: >This is my second attempt to call your attention to this conference. [...] The conference sounds very very interesting indeed! To reach more people, may I suggest the STC contact the other members of INTECOM? I represent one such society, STIC, in the Netherlands, and I know for a fact that STC never contacted us; so I expect none of the other societies for TC was contacted. It's too late now to publish your call for papers on our website and expect any return. But if anyone from STC asks me some time in 2009 I'll be only too happy to advertise the event, and include it in our newsletter. I am certain the same goes for all the other societies that are a member of INTECOM. After all, that's what INTECOM is for. Best, -Brigit van Loggem (STIC secretary) >Sorry, for my insistence, but I believed that this is a good >opportunity to expand the influence of information designers (with >background on graphic and cinematographic language) on the field of >technical communication. > >Jos? > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >As the current manager of the >"Applying >Theory and Research to Practice" track, I would like to invite >information designers to send a proposal for the Technical >Communication Summit 2009. >This Summit will be held 3-6 May at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, >Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The pre-conference sessions will be held on >2-3 May 2009 and Leadership Day will be 3 May 2009. > >Among other (click here to see the >complete >list), we invite innovative proposals in the following areas: > * Collaborations between academia and industry, including > projects sponsored by the STC > * The effectivenes of textual, graphic and cinematographic > representations of technical information > * Discussion of best practices for measurement and evaluation > * Projects about the practice and tools of professional > technical communication > * Applications of existing and-or new theories > * Quantitative or qualitative exploratory investigations that > clear the ground for later theoretical work > * History of innovation on technical communication > * Instructional design practices and related products > * Tools and techniques for on-line collaboration and teaching > * Descriptions and studies of innovative academic and industrial > training programs, including face-to-face, distance, and > media-based innovations >The STC has officially issued the online Call for Proposals and you >may submit more than one proposal, but each must be submitted >separately. Proposals may be submitted and updated online until >10:00 AM (GMT -5), Monday, 27 October 2008. > >Should you have questions about your proposal content or format, >contact a >Track Manager. >For all other inquiries regarding the Call or the system in general, >please contact Lloyd Tucker, Director >of Education & Membership, STC. > >For the most complete submission information, please visit the >Summit Call for Proposals website: >http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2009/. > >See you there. > >Jos? > >-- >Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza >PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The >University of Reading (UK) >Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical >Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta) >___________________________________________________________________ > >Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > >To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > >For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > >Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >___________________________________________________________________ ============================================ www.byteryte.nl View my profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/brigitvanloggem or see who we know in common at www.linkedin.com/e/wwk/24120274/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081021/bb554593/attachment-0002.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Tue Oct 21 11:32:34 2008 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose de Souza) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:32:34 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Technical Communication Conference 2009 - Deadline for proposal expanded: 29 October 2008 In-Reply-To: <200810210857.m9L8vOgb011615@smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl> References: <200810210857.m9L8vOgb011615@smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: Brigit van Loggem, Thanks for the feedback. I will do my best to improve our communication. Jos? 2008/10/21 Brigit van Loggem > Hello Jos?, > > At 08:50 21-10-2008, you wrote: > > This is my second attempt to call your attention to this conference. [...] > > > The conference sounds very very interesting indeed! > > To reach more people, may I suggest the STC contact the other members of > INTECOM? I represent one such society, STIC, in the Netherlands, and I know > for a fact that STC never contacted us; so I expect none of the other > societies for TC was contacted. > > It's too late now to publish your call for papers on our website and expect > any return. But if anyone from STC asks me some time in 2009 I'll be only > too happy to advertise the event, and include it in our newsletter. I am > certain the same goes for all the other societies that are a member of > INTECOM. After all, that's what INTECOM is for. > > Best, > -Brigit van Loggem (STIC secretary) > > Sorry, for my insistence, but I believed that this is a good opportunity to > expand the influence of information designers (with background on graphic > and cinematographic language) on the field of technical communication. > > Jos? > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > As the current manager of the "Applying Theory and Research to Practice"track, I would like to invite information designers to send a proposal for > the Technical Communication Summit 2009. > This Summit will be held 3-6 May at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, Atlanta, > Georgia, USA. The pre-conference sessions will be held on 2-3 May 2009 and > Leadership Day will be 3 May 2009. > > Among other (click here to see the complete list), > we invite innovative proposals in the following areas: > > - Collaborations between academia and industry, including projects > sponsored by the STC > - The effectivenes of textual, graphic and cinematographic > representations of technical information > - Discussion of best practices for measurement and evaluation > - Projects about the practice and tools of professional technical > communication > - Applications of existing and-or new theories > - Quantitative or qualitative exploratory investigations that clear the > ground for later theoretical work > - History of innovation on technical communication > - Instructional design practices and related products > - Tools and techniques for on-line collaboration and teaching > - Descriptions and studies of innovative academic and industrial > training programs, including face-to-face, distance, and media-based > innovations > > The STC has officially issued the online Call for Proposals and you may > submit more than one proposal, but each must be submitted separately. > Proposals may be submitted and updated online until 10:00 AM (GMT -5), > Monday, 27 October 2008. > > Should you have questions about your proposal content or format, contact a Track > Manager. > For all other inquiries regarding the Call or the system in general, please > contact Lloyd Tucker , Director of Education & > Membership, STC. > > For the most complete submission information, please visit the Summit Call > for Proposals website: http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2009/. > > See you there. > > Jos? > > -- > Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza > PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of > Reading (UK) > Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication > Conference 2009, Atlanta) > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > > ============================================ > www.byteryte.nl > > View my profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/brigitvanloggem or see who > we know in common at www.linkedin.com/e/wwk/24120274/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > > -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081021/b33c979e/attachment-0002.htm From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0024.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0022.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk Tue Oct 7 16:48:21 2008 From: t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk (Tamasin Cole) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:48:21 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help Message-ID: This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming messaged have no problems. I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm not blacklisted anywhere. I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one either I'm going to be in deep trouble. Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be gratefully received.... Tamasin ____________________ Tamasin Cole telephone 020 7485 6074 fax 020 7267 9500 tamasincole.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081007/7421ecee/attachment-0017.htm From alan at alphabyte.co.nz Tue Oct 7 22:18:00 2008 From: alan at alphabyte.co.nz (Alan Litchfield) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tamasin, Sounds like your email address is being held as potential spam/virus/ phishing/etc. The behaviour is not unusual for a spam service and could explain why your alternative email address is getting through. An increasing number of large organisations do not monitor spam internally. They maintain relationships with specialised services who do that for them and so it is not possible for them to see any one email address in the millions they process daily, and therefore it would be unlikely that they would be able to tell you whether your email address is being blocked or not. Assuming your email is on a hosted service, it is possible that your domain has been spoofed at some point and now ranks as a known spam source, or someone else on your IP address has been fingered and this means you are tarred with the same brush. Is there any solution? Probably yes, but the amount of work required to execute it may well be greater than the benefit to be gained. Good luck Alan On 8/10/2008, at 3:48 AM, Tamasin Cole wrote: > This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if > it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out > there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever > grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. > > I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily > for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. > > About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my > emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were > taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming > messaged have no problems. > > I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; > my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in > the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm > not blacklisted anywhere. > > I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing > settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only > way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems > not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one > either I'm going to be in deep trouble. > > Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be > gratefully received.... > Tamasin > -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 13:43:37 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:43:37 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Dear Caf?-persons: At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, Australia, part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org Date: Monday 9th December 2008 If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the next Design to Read workshop. We will: * share experiences about working with our different audiences * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop in Liverpool, September 2008. If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Deadlines: * Position papers due 10th November 2008 * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 More information about Design to Read: http://designtoread.editme.com/ I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone you think might be interested. Best regards Caroline Jarrett From frascara at ualberta.ca Sat Oct 18 15:43:01 2008 From: frascara at ualberta.ca (frascara at ualberta.ca) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:43:01 -0600 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> Dear Caroline, I am interested in the topic, but cannot include Australia in my calendar. have you published or intent to publish something arising from the last meeting? I will appreciate your information. Greetings Jorge Frascara Quoting "Caroline Jarrett" : > Dear Caf?-persons: > > At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about > designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. > > I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, Australia, > part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org > > Date: Monday 9th December 2008 > > If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in > designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the next > Design to Read workshop. > > We will: > > * share experiences about working with our different audiences > * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing > * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop in > Liverpool, September 2008. > > If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: > caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk > > Deadlines: > > * Position papers due 10th November 2008 > * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 > * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 > > More information about Design to Read: http://designtoread.editme.com/ > > I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone you > think might be interested. > > Best regards > Caroline Jarrett > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > > From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 16:24:38 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:24:38 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> Message-ID: <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi Jorge Darn, I forgot to send you the outcome from the last meeting! I knew that I was supposed to do so. Yes, there are details on the wiki: http://www.designtoread.com/2008Liverpool I believe that you are based in Europe now, but I wonder if you'd be able to think about UPA next year? We have proposed a follow-up workshop for UPA in Portland, Oregon (June 8-12 2008 - the workshop would be on 8th or 9th if accepted). In the longer term, I have had some interest from my publisher in a contributed (chapter) book, but I'm waiting to find out if I get enough ongoing interest from the community to get sufficient contributions. Best Caroline > -----Original Message----- > From: infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org > [mailto:infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org] On Behalf > Of frascara at ualberta.ca > Sent: 18 October 2008 14:43 > To: Discussions about information design > Subject: Re: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people > who do not read easily > > Dear Caroline, > I am interested in the topic, but cannot include Australia in my > calendar. have you published or intent to publish something arising > from the last meeting? > > I will appreciate your information. > > Greetings > > Jorge Frascara > > > Quoting "Caroline Jarrett" : > > > Dear Caf?-persons: > > > > At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about > > designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. > > > > I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, > Australia, > > part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org > > > > Date: Monday 9th December 2008 > > > > If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in > > designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the > next > > Design to Read workshop. > > > > We will: > > > > * share experiences about working with our different audiences > > * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing > > * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop > in > > Liverpool, September 2008. > > > > If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: > > caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk > > > > Deadlines: > > > > * Position papers due 10th November 2008 > > * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 > > * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 > > > > More information about Design to Read: > http://designtoread.editme.com/ > > > > I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone > you > > think might be interested. > > > > Best regards > > Caroline Jarrett > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > > > For all Information Design matters: > > http://InformationDesign.org > > > > Problems? Write to: > > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > This message has been comprehensively scanned for viruses, > please visit http://www.avg.power.net.uk/ for details. From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 16:30:54 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:30:54 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <000d01c9312e$20e6e7f0$62b4b7d0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all Sorry, my personal reply to Jorge went to the whole list. You are all very welcome to visit the Design to Read wiki: www.designtoread.com All comments and contributions gratefully received. Best Caroline > -----Original Message----- > From: infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org > [mailto:infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org] On Behalf > Of Caroline Jarrett > Sent: 18 October 2008 15:25 > To: 'Discussions about information design' > Subject: Re: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people > who do not read easily > > Hi Jorge > From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Tue Oct 21 08:50:33 2008 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose de Souza) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:50:33 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Technical Communication Conference 2009 - Deadline for proposal expanded: 29 October 2008 Message-ID: Information designers, This is my second attempt to call your attention to this conference. Sorry, for my insistence, but I believed that this is a good opportunity to expand the influence of information designers (with background on graphic and cinematographic language) on the field of technical communication. Jos? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As the current manager of the "Applying Theory and Research to Practice"track, I would like to invite information designers to send a proposal for the Technical Communication Summit 2009. This Summit will be held 3-6 May at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The pre-conference sessions will be held on 2-3 May 2009 and Leadership Day will be 3 May 2009. Among other (click here to see the complete list), we invite innovative proposals in the following areas: - Collaborations between academia and industry, including projects sponsored by the STC - The effectivenes of textual, graphic and cinematographic representations of technical information - Discussion of best practices for measurement and evaluation - Projects about the practice and tools of professional technical communication - Applications of existing and-or new theories - Quantitative or qualitative exploratory investigations that clear the ground for later theoretical work - History of innovation on technical communication - Instructional design practices and related products - Tools and techniques for on-line collaboration and teaching - Descriptions and studies of innovative academic and industrial training programs, including face-to-face, distance, and media-based innovations The STC has officially issued the online Call for Proposals and you may submit more than one proposal, but each must be submitted separately. Proposals may be submitted and updated online until 10:00 AM (GMT -5), Monday, 27 October 2008. Should you have questions about your proposal content or format, contact a Track Manager. For all other inquiries regarding the Call or the system in general, please contact Lloyd Tucker , Director of Education & Membership, STC. For the most complete submission information, please visit the Summit Call for Proposals website: http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2009/. See you there. Jos? -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Paul On 21/10/08 07:50, "Jose de Souza" wrote: > Information designers, > > This is my second attempt to call your attention to this conference. > Sorry, for my insistence, but I believed that this is a good opportunity to > expand the influence of information designers (with background on graphic and > cinematographic language) on the field of technical communication. > > Jos? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ----------------------------------------------- > > As the current manager of the "Applying Theory and Research to Practice" > track, I > would like to invite information designers to send a proposal for the > Technical Communication Summit 2009. > This Summit will be held 3-6 May at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, Atlanta, > Georgia, USA. The pre-conference sessions will be held on 2-3 May 2009 and > Leadership Day will be 3 May 2009. > > Among other (click here to see the complete list) > , we invite > innovative proposals in the following areas: > * Collaborations between academia and industry, including projects sponsored > by the STC > * The effectivenes of textual, graphic and cinematographic representations of > technical information > * Discussion of best practices for measurement and evaluation > * Projects about the practice and tools of professional technical > communication > * Applications of existing and-or new theories > * Quantitative or qualitative exploratory investigations that clear the ground > for later theoretical work > * History of innovation on technical communication > * Instructional design practices and related products > * Tools and techniques for on-line collaboration and teaching > * Descriptions and studies of innovative academic and industrial training > programs, including face-to-face, distance, and media-based innovations > The STC has officially issued the online Call for Proposals and you may submit > more than one proposal, but each must be submitted separately. Proposals may > be submitted and updated online until 10:00 AM (GMT -5), Monday, 27 October > 2008. > > Should you have questions about your proposal content or format, contact a > Track Manager. > For all other inquiries regarding the Call or the system in general, please > contact Lloyd Tucker , Director of Education & > Membership, STC. > > For the most complete submission information, please visit the Summit Call for > Proposals website: http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2009/. > > See you there. > > Jos? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081021/f1125fb4/attachment-0003.htm From brigit at byteryte.nl Tue Oct 21 10:54:04 2008 From: brigit at byteryte.nl (Brigit van Loggem) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:54:04 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Technical Communication Conference 2009 - Deadline for proposal expanded: 29 October 2008 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <200810210857.m9L8vOgb011615@smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl> Hello Jos?, At 08:50 21-10-2008, you wrote: >This is my second attempt to call your attention to this conference. [...] The conference sounds very very interesting indeed! To reach more people, may I suggest the STC contact the other members of INTECOM? I represent one such society, STIC, in the Netherlands, and I know for a fact that STC never contacted us; so I expect none of the other societies for TC was contacted. It's too late now to publish your call for papers on our website and expect any return. But if anyone from STC asks me some time in 2009 I'll be only too happy to advertise the event, and include it in our newsletter. I am certain the same goes for all the other societies that are a member of INTECOM. After all, that's what INTECOM is for. Best, -Brigit van Loggem (STIC secretary) >Sorry, for my insistence, but I believed that this is a good >opportunity to expand the influence of information designers (with >background on graphic and cinematographic language) on the field of >technical communication. > >Jos? > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >As the current manager of the >"Applying >Theory and Research to Practice" track, I would like to invite >information designers to send a proposal for the Technical >Communication Summit 2009. >This Summit will be held 3-6 May at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, >Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The pre-conference sessions will be held on >2-3 May 2009 and Leadership Day will be 3 May 2009. > >Among other (click here to see the >complete >list), we invite innovative proposals in the following areas: > * Collaborations between academia and industry, including > projects sponsored by the STC > * The effectivenes of textual, graphic and cinematographic > representations of technical information > * Discussion of best practices for measurement and evaluation > * Projects about the practice and tools of professional > technical communication > * Applications of existing and-or new theories > * Quantitative or qualitative exploratory investigations that > clear the ground for later theoretical work > * History of innovation on technical communication > * Instructional design practices and related products > * Tools and techniques for on-line collaboration and teaching > * Descriptions and studies of innovative academic and industrial > training programs, including face-to-face, distance, and > media-based innovations >The STC has officially issued the online Call for Proposals and you >may submit more than one proposal, but each must be submitted >separately. Proposals may be submitted and updated online until >10:00 AM (GMT -5), Monday, 27 October 2008. > >Should you have questions about your proposal content or format, >contact a >Track Manager. >For all other inquiries regarding the Call or the system in general, >please contact Lloyd Tucker, Director >of Education & Membership, STC. > >For the most complete submission information, please visit the >Summit Call for Proposals website: >http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2009/. > >See you there. > >Jos? > >-- >Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza >PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The >University of Reading (UK) >Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical >Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta) >___________________________________________________________________ > >Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > >To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > >For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > >Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >___________________________________________________________________ ============================================ www.byteryte.nl View my profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/brigitvanloggem or see who we know in common at www.linkedin.com/e/wwk/24120274/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081021/bb554593/attachment-0003.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Tue Oct 21 11:32:34 2008 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose de Souza) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:32:34 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Technical Communication Conference 2009 - Deadline for proposal expanded: 29 October 2008 In-Reply-To: <200810210857.m9L8vOgb011615@smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl> References: <200810210857.m9L8vOgb011615@smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: Brigit van Loggem, Thanks for the feedback. I will do my best to improve our communication. Jos? 2008/10/21 Brigit van Loggem > Hello Jos?, > > At 08:50 21-10-2008, you wrote: > > This is my second attempt to call your attention to this conference. [...] > > > The conference sounds very very interesting indeed! > > To reach more people, may I suggest the STC contact the other members of > INTECOM? I represent one such society, STIC, in the Netherlands, and I know > for a fact that STC never contacted us; so I expect none of the other > societies for TC was contacted. > > It's too late now to publish your call for papers on our website and expect > any return. But if anyone from STC asks me some time in 2009 I'll be only > too happy to advertise the event, and include it in our newsletter. I am > certain the same goes for all the other societies that are a member of > INTECOM. After all, that's what INTECOM is for. > > Best, > -Brigit van Loggem (STIC secretary) > > Sorry, for my insistence, but I believed that this is a good opportunity to > expand the influence of information designers (with background on graphic > and cinematographic language) on the field of technical communication. > > Jos? > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > As the current manager of the "Applying Theory and Research to Practice"track, I would like to invite information designers to send a proposal for > the Technical Communication Summit 2009. > This Summit will be held 3-6 May at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, Atlanta, > Georgia, USA. The pre-conference sessions will be held on 2-3 May 2009 and > Leadership Day will be 3 May 2009. > > Among other (click here to see the complete list), > we invite innovative proposals in the following areas: > > - Collaborations between academia and industry, including projects > sponsored by the STC > - The effectivenes of textual, graphic and cinematographic > representations of technical information > - Discussion of best practices for measurement and evaluation > - Projects about the practice and tools of professional technical > communication > - Applications of existing and-or new theories > - Quantitative or qualitative exploratory investigations that clear the > ground for later theoretical work > - History of innovation on technical communication > - Instructional design practices and related products > - Tools and techniques for on-line collaboration and teaching > - Descriptions and studies of innovative academic and industrial > training programs, including face-to-face, distance, and media-based > innovations > > The STC has officially issued the online Call for Proposals and you may > submit more than one proposal, but each must be submitted separately. > Proposals may be submitted and updated online until 10:00 AM (GMT -5), > Monday, 27 October 2008. > > Should you have questions about your proposal content or format, contact a Track > Manager. > For all other inquiries regarding the Call or the system in general, please > contact Lloyd Tucker , Director of Education & > Membership, STC. > > For the most complete submission information, please visit the Summit Call > for Proposals website: http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2009/. > > See you there. > > Jos? > > -- > Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza > PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of > Reading (UK) > Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication > Conference 2009, Atlanta) > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > > ============================================ > www.byteryte.nl > > View my profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/brigitvanloggem or see who > we know in common at www.linkedin.com/e/wwk/24120274/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > > -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081021/b33c979e/attachment-0003.htm From julian.k.nicol at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 00:36:45 2008 From: julian.k.nicol at gmail.com (Julian Nicol) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:45 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? Message-ID: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Hi, My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and design. Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to do. Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or negative outcome, these would be great too. The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. Kind Regards Julian Nicol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081001/16d5c0e6/attachment-0025.htm From karol at alphabyte.co.nz Fri Oct 3 00:41:30 2008 From: karol at alphabyte.co.nz (Karol Wilczynska) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:41:30 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2F92F6DB-130A-445D-A422-ADF188D7EBC9@alphabyte.co.nz> Hi Julian, This is you research.... You want to ask about "Ethics in Design" If the focus is related to law, then each country has its own copyright laws. In New Zealand two companies or products cannot be too similar with their branding as this benefits one company due to the reputation of another [simple possibility]. A piece of design or artwork is provided as an item in charity or gift, years later used on a cover of a magazine that makes huge profits, without seeking permission of designer or artist [simple example]. If the focus is related to traditional artworks....if a member of a design team wishes to use a known artefact or traditional pattern from a particular iwi then a request needs to be asked in a particular way. This process is quite substantial requesting that the trust or elders of the iwi discuss the proposition - thus this needs to be submitted in writing or in person or invited to discuss. A hui may be set up for iwi to discuss the option, and for all to be informed of this possible use of their traditional designs, and if this will proceed any further. If the hui is in favour or not, then the person seeking permission will be told. A meeting will be arranged with member of design team and iwi for this to be discussed in full. If positive the use of the work will then be discussed to see if the design, is suitable, what it can and what it cannot be used for etc. This process is necessary, to avoid use of say 'appropriated images' or 'text' or 'custom' put to misuse. An example of this was a company outside of New Zealand naming a brand of cigarette "Maori" or a group of female models performing a haka for an European advert. I am sure there are other 'infodesign-cafe' members that know much more than I, who could weigh in with their knowledge in this area related to their own country. If you are talking about ethics in relation to personal principles or company principles, then this needs to be known: there are companies that will not do work that advertises particular consumer items. There may be companies that only wish to work with clients who agree to pay some of their fee directly to a charity etc... this may be another option to open up. Inviting more people to make a comment on "Ethical design practice" is a broad area.... you may wish to ask specific questions to open this up more. I wish you the all the best and you get answers to what you are seeking. Regards, Karol Wilczynska karol at alphabyte.co.nz designer | educator On 1/10/2008, at 11:36 AM, Julian Nicol wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Julian - I'm a final year Graphic Design student from AUT > university in Auckland, New Zealand (Bachelor Graphic Design). > > For my exhibition project, I am looking into the area of ethics and > design. > Specifically targeting the ideas of ethical responsibility to my > fellow peers the next generation of graphic designers. > > Im looking to form ethical values through narrative. Showing through > example, (positive and negative) rather than telling people what to > do. > > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they > have taken a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral > values, or where they have wished they had in hindsight, or even > just had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong, I'd love to > here from you. Likewise if you have a ever tried to educate your > client on more sustainable ethical practices, with a positive or > negative outcome, these would be great too. > > The idea of ethics is a controversial one, what's your view on > ethical design practice? Does it relate solely to professionalism, > or are we responsible as advocates of our clients message? > > I would be extremely thankful for any feedback. Depending on the > story, I would like to conduct an interview in the form of an > electronic survey (Email) or brief description of the job. These > will be used on a 'offline' website at the exhibition. I will > respect anyones wish to stay anonymous. > > Once again thank-you for helping me spread the idea of responsible > ethical design, I believe it is a very important issue that the next > generation of graphic designers must be made aware of. > > Kind Regards > Julian Nicol > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081003/c44ce89c/attachment-0023.htm From cmariacher at gmx.at Fri Oct 3 10:39:21 2008 From: cmariacher at gmx.at (christian mariacher) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:39:21 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Design ethics story? In-Reply-To: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e0fce9a0809301536j22c5dc49u243c85c16f1ef438@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081003083921.254780@gmx.net> Julian, > Therefore, If anyone has had any experiences on a job where they have > taken > a personal stand in favor of their ethical and moral values, or where they > have wished they had in hindsight, or even just had a feeling that what > they > were doing was wrong, I'd love to here from you. it may be worth your while to look into the work of Otl Aicher. As you may know, he was one of the most influential post-war German designers and renowned for his thoughts on moral responsibility within a designer's work. As you can read in his book "The world as design" (http://www.amazon.de/world-design-writings-design-Menges/dp/3433024049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223022371&sr=1-1), for example, he refused to work on a new Corporate Design for the "BMW" car manufacturers on the grounds that he refused their philosophy of a car which was -- in his perception -- too fast, too strong and therefore not fit for "today's reality of traffic". (mind you, the book was written in 1991) If this is what you were looking for, you may also contact Prof. Markus Rathgeb who works at the "Berufsakademie Ravensburg" and who has written his PhD on Aicher (I can establish the contact if you are interested). Good luck! Christian -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/wasistshortview.php?mc=sv_ext_mf at gmx From waarde at glo.be Fri Oct 3 16:52:13 2008 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:52:13 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for Papers - Visible language - Design Failures Message-ID: Dear all, The Call for Papers might be of interest. Both 'papers about failures' as well as 'examples of failures' could be published. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Special issue Communication Design Failures: Function & interpretation scrutinized A professor of perceptual psychology remarked that it was a pity that there was no journal of negative results or failures in experimentation. Without such a journal we continue to go down blind alleys and make avoidable mistakes. Because communication design encompasses so many variables, to say nothing of the problem of interpretation or communication reception, in a loose similarity, design projects are not unlike experiments. Yet like perceptual psychology and other social science disciplines, discussion of failure is rare. Even less than social science whose research questions form grounding for experimentation, design practice is pragmatic and designers quickly move to the next project with little reflection on degree of success or reasons for failure. Communication design, whether print, screen-based or other media rarely publishes any reflection on projects, but relies on celebratory awards and professional presentations with little critical examination. The aphorism we learn most from our mistakes is at play in this special issue.? Visible Language invites academics, authors, design practitioners and frustrated users who have observed failure in their contact with communication design in its many guises, whether as a designer or as a user, to document and analyze failures. Don't be timid-share your failure or that of another-be critical and analytical and develop positive criticism that might lead to new insights or even a remedy. Guest editors: Dietmar Winkler and Sharon Poggenpohl ???????????????????????????????? Two perspectives will be presented-that of designers and users. Reflection on experience, case studies and research are welcome. Possible themes - experience and reflection on failure - failure as a unique or replicable situation - measurement of failure or success - function in communication design - aesthetic failure and its gestalt - failure in design process - user developed workarounds - interpretation issues - cross-cultural issues Examples of failure You may also submit visual documentation of a vexing failure with brief commentary instead of an article. These examples will be credited to their observer/commentator and will be assembled as a collective portfolio. Submission guidelines for papers - abstracts are 250 words maximum - articles are around 5,000 words and appropriately illustrated - author guarantees that the work is previously unpublished - all textual material has double-line space - all visual material is sent at 300dpi as jpeg or tiff in separate files Submission guidelines for examples - brief description of failure - nature of documentation Schedule January 1, 2009 Abstract deadline January 15 Review of abstracts July 1 Submission of full paper July 15 Review of submissions November 1, 2009 Target publication date, VL 43.3 If you would like to pass an idea to one of the editors for brief comment before proceeding, contact either Dietmar or Sharon. dwinkler at umassd.edu sharon at id.iit.edu From t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk Tue Oct 7 16:48:21 2008 From: t.cole at tamasincole.co.uk (Tamasin Cole) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:48:21 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help Message-ID: This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming messaged have no problems. I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm not blacklisted anywhere. I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one either I'm going to be in deep trouble. Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be gratefully received.... Tamasin ____________________ Tamasin Cole telephone 020 7485 6074 fax 020 7267 9500 tamasincole.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081007/7421ecee/attachment-0018.htm From alan at alphabyte.co.nz Tue Oct 7 22:18:00 2008 From: alan at alphabyte.co.nz (Alan Litchfield) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +1300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: plea for help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tamasin, Sounds like your email address is being held as potential spam/virus/ phishing/etc. The behaviour is not unusual for a spam service and could explain why your alternative email address is getting through. An increasing number of large organisations do not monitor spam internally. They maintain relationships with specialised services who do that for them and so it is not possible for them to see any one email address in the millions they process daily, and therefore it would be unlikely that they would be able to tell you whether your email address is being blocked or not. Assuming your email is on a hosted service, it is possible that your domain has been spoofed at some point and now ranks as a known spam source, or someone else on your IP address has been fingered and this means you are tarred with the same brush. Is there any solution? Probably yes, but the amount of work required to execute it may well be greater than the benefit to be gained. Good luck Alan On 8/10/2008, at 3:48 AM, Tamasin Cole wrote: > This is only a tenuously connected design problem, so I apologise if > it's out of order, but there might just possibly be someone out > there who has experienced the same problems. I'd be forever > grateful if anyone has any suggestions - off list is fine. > > I am a legitimate freelance contractor of the NHS, working primarily > for one Primary Care Trust, but on occasions for others. > > About two months ago I discovered that most (but not all) of my > emails were not getting through to .nhs.uk addresses - and they were > taking three weeks to bounce, if they bounced at all. Incoming > messaged have no problems. > > I have contacted everyone I can think of to try to sort the problem; > my hosting service can't find out what is going on; my contacts in > the NHS can't seem to get anywhere - I'm on their whitelists. I'm > not blacklisted anywhere. > > I have tried using my isp's outgoing server, my domain-name outgoing > settings, another domain name that I own, but with no luck. The only > way I can get emails through is by using my .mac account which seems > not to have problems. When the NHS decides it doesn't like that one > either I'm going to be in deep trouble. > > Anyi deas of forums that might help or specific suggestions would be > gratefully received.... > Tamasin > -- Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 13:43:37 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:43:37 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Dear Caf?-persons: At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, Australia, part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org Date: Monday 9th December 2008 If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the next Design to Read workshop. We will: * share experiences about working with our different audiences * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop in Liverpool, September 2008. If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Deadlines: * Position papers due 10th November 2008 * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 More information about Design to Read: http://designtoread.editme.com/ I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone you think might be interested. Best regards Caroline Jarrett From frascara at ualberta.ca Sat Oct 18 15:43:01 2008 From: frascara at ualberta.ca (frascara at ualberta.ca) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:43:01 -0600 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> Dear Caroline, I am interested in the topic, but cannot include Australia in my calendar. have you published or intent to publish something arising from the last meeting? I will appreciate your information. Greetings Jorge Frascara Quoting "Caroline Jarrett" : > Dear Caf?-persons: > > At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about > designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. > > I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, Australia, > part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org > > Date: Monday 9th December 2008 > > If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in > designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the next > Design to Read workshop. > > We will: > > * share experiences about working with our different audiences > * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing > * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop in > Liverpool, September 2008. > > If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: > caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk > > Deadlines: > > * Position papers due 10th November 2008 > * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 > * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 > > More information about Design to Read: http://designtoread.editme.com/ > > I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone you > think might be interested. > > Best regards > Caroline Jarrett > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > > From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 16:24:38 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:24:38 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> Message-ID: <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi Jorge Darn, I forgot to send you the outcome from the last meeting! I knew that I was supposed to do so. Yes, there are details on the wiki: http://www.designtoread.com/2008Liverpool I believe that you are based in Europe now, but I wonder if you'd be able to think about UPA next year? We have proposed a follow-up workshop for UPA in Portland, Oregon (June 8-12 2008 - the workshop would be on 8th or 9th if accepted). In the longer term, I have had some interest from my publisher in a contributed (chapter) book, but I'm waiting to find out if I get enough ongoing interest from the community to get sufficient contributions. Best Caroline > -----Original Message----- > From: infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org > [mailto:infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org] On Behalf > Of frascara at ualberta.ca > Sent: 18 October 2008 14:43 > To: Discussions about information design > Subject: Re: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people > who do not read easily > > Dear Caroline, > I am interested in the topic, but cannot include Australia in my > calendar. have you published or intent to publish something arising > from the last meeting? > > I will appreciate your information. > > Greetings > > Jorge Frascara > > > Quoting "Caroline Jarrett" : > > > Dear Caf?-persons: > > > > At the beginning of September, we had an interesting workshop about > > designing for people who do not read easily in Liverpool, UK. > > > > I'm now calling for participation at the next workshop in Cairns, > Australia, > > part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org > > > > Date: Monday 9th December 2008 > > > > If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in > > designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the > next > > Design to Read workshop. > > > > We will: > > > > * share experiences about working with our different audiences > > * compare the advice and approaches that we use when designing > > * critique the 'framework' that came out of our previous workshop > in > > Liverpool, September 2008. > > > > If you want to come, please send an expression of interest to me at: > > caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk > > > > Deadlines: > > > > * Position papers due 10th November 2008 > > * Acceptances sent out by 17th November 2008 > > * Final presentations due by 30th November 2008 > > > > More information about Design to Read: > http://designtoread.editme.com/ > > > > I'd also be very grateful if you could forward this email to anyone > you > > think might be interested. > > > > Best regards > > Caroline Jarrett > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > > > For all Information Design matters: > > http://InformationDesign.org > > > > Problems? 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From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Sat Oct 18 16:30:54 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:30:54 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people who do not read easily In-Reply-To: <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <002d01c93116$c2a2a3d0$47e7eb70$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <20081018074301.684941qjb2i3gu80@webmail.ualberta.ca> <000701c9312d$4107cf50$c3176df0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <000d01c9312e$20e6e7f0$62b4b7d0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all Sorry, my personal reply to Jorge went to the whole list. You are all very welcome to visit the Design to Read wiki: www.designtoread.com All comments and contributions gratefully received. Best Caroline > -----Original Message----- > From: infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org > [mailto:infodesign-cafe-bounces at list.informationdesign.org] On Behalf > Of Caroline Jarrett > Sent: 18 October 2008 15:25 > To: 'Discussions about information design' > Subject: Re: InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: Designing for people > who do not read easily > > Hi Jorge > From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Tue Oct 21 08:50:33 2008 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose de Souza) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:50:33 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Technical Communication Conference 2009 - Deadline for proposal expanded: 29 October 2008 Message-ID: Information designers, This is my second attempt to call your attention to this conference. Sorry, for my insistence, but I believed that this is a good opportunity to expand the influence of information designers (with background on graphic and cinematographic language) on the field of technical communication. Jos? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As the current manager of the "Applying Theory and Research to Practice"track, I would like to invite information designers to send a proposal for the Technical Communication Summit 2009. This Summit will be held 3-6 May at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The pre-conference sessions will be held on 2-3 May 2009 and Leadership Day will be 3 May 2009. Among other (click here to see the complete list), we invite innovative proposals in the following areas: - Collaborations between academia and industry, including projects sponsored by the STC - The effectivenes of textual, graphic and cinematographic representations of technical information - Discussion of best practices for measurement and evaluation - Projects about the practice and tools of professional technical communication - Applications of existing and-or new theories - Quantitative or qualitative exploratory investigations that clear the ground for later theoretical work - History of innovation on technical communication - Instructional design practices and related products - Tools and techniques for on-line collaboration and teaching - Descriptions and studies of innovative academic and industrial training programs, including face-to-face, distance, and media-based innovations The STC has officially issued the online Call for Proposals and you may submit more than one proposal, but each must be submitted separately. Proposals may be submitted and updated online until 10:00 AM (GMT -5), Monday, 27 October 2008. Should you have questions about your proposal content or format, contact a Track Manager. For all other inquiries regarding the Call or the system in general, please contact Lloyd Tucker , Director of Education & Membership, STC. For the most complete submission information, please visit the Summit Call for Proposals website: http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2009/. See you there. Jos? -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Paul On 21/10/08 07:50, "Jose de Souza" wrote: > Information designers, > > This is my second attempt to call your attention to this conference. > Sorry, for my insistence, but I believed that this is a good opportunity to > expand the influence of information designers (with background on graphic and > cinematographic language) on the field of technical communication. > > Jos? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ----------------------------------------------- > > As the current manager of the "Applying Theory and Research to Practice" > track, I > would like to invite information designers to send a proposal for the > Technical Communication Summit 2009. > This Summit will be held 3-6 May at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, Atlanta, > Georgia, USA. The pre-conference sessions will be held on 2-3 May 2009 and > Leadership Day will be 3 May 2009. > > Among other (click here to see the complete list) > , we invite > innovative proposals in the following areas: > * Collaborations between academia and industry, including projects sponsored > by the STC > * The effectivenes of textual, graphic and cinematographic representations of > technical information > * Discussion of best practices for measurement and evaluation > * Projects about the practice and tools of professional technical > communication > * Applications of existing and-or new theories > * Quantitative or qualitative exploratory investigations that clear the ground > for later theoretical work > * History of innovation on technical communication > * Instructional design practices and related products > * Tools and techniques for on-line collaboration and teaching > * Descriptions and studies of innovative academic and industrial training > programs, including face-to-face, distance, and media-based innovations > The STC has officially issued the online Call for Proposals and you may submit > more than one proposal, but each must be submitted separately. Proposals may > be submitted and updated online until 10:00 AM (GMT -5), Monday, 27 October > 2008. > > Should you have questions about your proposal content or format, contact a > Track Manager. > For all other inquiries regarding the Call or the system in general, please > contact Lloyd Tucker , Director of Education & > Membership, STC. > > For the most complete submission information, please visit the Summit Call for > Proposals website: http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2009/. > > See you there. > > Jos? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081021/f1125fb4/attachment-0004.htm From brigit at byteryte.nl Tue Oct 21 10:54:04 2008 From: brigit at byteryte.nl (Brigit van Loggem) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:54:04 +0200 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Technical Communication Conference 2009 - Deadline for proposal expanded: 29 October 2008 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <200810210857.m9L8vOgb011615@smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl> Hello Jos?, At 08:50 21-10-2008, you wrote: >This is my second attempt to call your attention to this conference. [...] The conference sounds very very interesting indeed! To reach more people, may I suggest the STC contact the other members of INTECOM? I represent one such society, STIC, in the Netherlands, and I know for a fact that STC never contacted us; so I expect none of the other societies for TC was contacted. It's too late now to publish your call for papers on our website and expect any return. But if anyone from STC asks me some time in 2009 I'll be only too happy to advertise the event, and include it in our newsletter. I am certain the same goes for all the other societies that are a member of INTECOM. After all, that's what INTECOM is for. Best, -Brigit van Loggem (STIC secretary) >Sorry, for my insistence, but I believed that this is a good >opportunity to expand the influence of information designers (with >background on graphic and cinematographic language) on the field of >technical communication. > >Jos? > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >As the current manager of the >"Applying >Theory and Research to Practice" track, I would like to invite >information designers to send a proposal for the Technical >Communication Summit 2009. >This Summit will be held 3-6 May at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, >Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The pre-conference sessions will be held on >2-3 May 2009 and Leadership Day will be 3 May 2009. > >Among other (click here to see the >complete >list), we invite innovative proposals in the following areas: > * Collaborations between academia and industry, including > projects sponsored by the STC > * The effectivenes of textual, graphic and cinematographic > representations of technical information > * Discussion of best practices for measurement and evaluation > * Projects about the practice and tools of professional > technical communication > * Applications of existing and-or new theories > * Quantitative or qualitative exploratory investigations that > clear the ground for later theoretical work > * History of innovation on technical communication > * Instructional design practices and related products > * Tools and techniques for on-line collaboration and teaching > * Descriptions and studies of innovative academic and industrial > training programs, including face-to-face, distance, and > media-based innovations >The STC has officially issued the online Call for Proposals and you >may submit more than one proposal, but each must be submitted >separately. Proposals may be submitted and updated online until >10:00 AM (GMT -5), Monday, 27 October 2008. > >Should you have questions about your proposal content or format, >contact a >Track Manager. >For all other inquiries regarding the Call or the system in general, >please contact Lloyd Tucker, Director >of Education & Membership, STC. > >For the most complete submission information, please visit the >Summit Call for Proposals website: >http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2009/. > >See you there. > >Jos? > >-- >Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza >PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The >University of Reading (UK) >Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical >Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta) >___________________________________________________________________ > >Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > >To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > >For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > >Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >___________________________________________________________________ ============================================ www.byteryte.nl View my profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/brigitvanloggem or see who we know in common at www.linkedin.com/e/wwk/24120274/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081021/bb554593/attachment-0004.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Tue Oct 21 11:32:34 2008 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose de Souza) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:32:34 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Technical Communication Conference 2009 - Deadline for proposal expanded: 29 October 2008 In-Reply-To: <200810210857.m9L8vOgb011615@smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl> References: <200810210857.m9L8vOgb011615@smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: Brigit van Loggem, Thanks for the feedback. I will do my best to improve our communication. Jos? 2008/10/21 Brigit van Loggem > Hello Jos?, > > At 08:50 21-10-2008, you wrote: > > This is my second attempt to call your attention to this conference. [...] > > > The conference sounds very very interesting indeed! > > To reach more people, may I suggest the STC contact the other members of > INTECOM? I represent one such society, STIC, in the Netherlands, and I know > for a fact that STC never contacted us; so I expect none of the other > societies for TC was contacted. > > It's too late now to publish your call for papers on our website and expect > any return. But if anyone from STC asks me some time in 2009 I'll be only > too happy to advertise the event, and include it in our newsletter. I am > certain the same goes for all the other societies that are a member of > INTECOM. After all, that's what INTECOM is for. > > Best, > -Brigit van Loggem (STIC secretary) > > Sorry, for my insistence, but I believed that this is a good opportunity to > expand the influence of information designers (with background on graphic > and cinematographic language) on the field of technical communication. > > Jos? > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > As the current manager of the "Applying Theory and Research to Practice"track, I would like to invite information designers to send a proposal for > the Technical Communication Summit 2009. > This Summit will be held 3-6 May at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, Atlanta, > Georgia, USA. The pre-conference sessions will be held on 2-3 May 2009 and > Leadership Day will be 3 May 2009. > > Among other (click here to see the complete list), > we invite innovative proposals in the following areas: > > - Collaborations between academia and industry, including projects > sponsored by the STC > - The effectivenes of textual, graphic and cinematographic > representations of technical information > - Discussion of best practices for measurement and evaluation > - Projects about the practice and tools of professional technical > communication > - Applications of existing and-or new theories > - Quantitative or qualitative exploratory investigations that clear the > ground for later theoretical work > - History of innovation on technical communication > - Instructional design practices and related products > - Tools and techniques for on-line collaboration and teaching > - Descriptions and studies of innovative academic and industrial > training programs, including face-to-face, distance, and media-based > innovations > > The STC has officially issued the online Call for Proposals and you may > submit more than one proposal, but each must be submitted separately. > Proposals may be submitted and updated online until 10:00 AM (GMT -5), > Monday, 27 October 2008. > > Should you have questions about your proposal content or format, contact a Track > Manager. > For all other inquiries regarding the Call or the system in general, please > contact Lloyd Tucker , Director of Education & > Membership, STC. > > For the most complete submission information, please visit the Summit Call > for Proposals website: http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2009/. > > See you there. > > Jos? > > -- > Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza > PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of > Reading (UK) > Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication > Conference 2009, Atlanta) > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > > ============================================ > www.byteryte.nl > > View my profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/brigitvanloggem or see who > we know in common at www.linkedin.com/e/wwk/24120274/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ > > -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20081021/b33c979e/attachment-0004.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Fri Oct 24 20:57:06 2008 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caro