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Katherine Gillieson

Information Design, interaction and interface design panel

Separate traditions working on essentially the same problem? What can these communities learn from each other?


Katherine Gillieson is a designer, writer and lecturer at the Department of Typography at the University of Reading. Her practice involves work in interface design, diagrammatic representation, and lettering in the built environment. She is active in interdisciplinary collaborations and as a developer and moderator of online communities, and has worked in interaction design for mobile, web, tv and convergence environments with Alcatel, Nortel Networks, Sony, GM, and 3 UK. Her most recent essays on the form of the book can be found in Fully Booked (Die Gestalten, 2008), and she has a series of extended entries appearing in the upcoming Phaidon volume Graphic Classics.

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