Using our remaining funds

The IDA went dormant with money in the bank. A group of long-standing IDA committee members, including founder members and the most recent chairs, put out a call for projects to fund. We wanted to use the money for projects 

• which have a clear public benefit, 

• which advance the field of information design, and/or

• which benefit the community of information design practitioners, educators and researchers.

The panel was: John Alexander, Andrew Boag, Ruth Miller, Clive Richards, Bethany Shepherd, Conrad Taylor, Jane Teather, Sue Walker, Rob Waller

Some conditions of the funding were that the outcomes should be made available in two ways:

• through participation in a final conference, possibly online.

• any results or reports should be made available under Creative Commons License BY-NC-SA 4.0, and should acknowledge the financial support of the Information Design Association.

What are we funding?

The projects we are funding are:

‘Ageing in a Digitally Connected World: the role of information design in facilitating the transition’ Emilene Zitkus, Loughborough University

‘Evaluating color choices in data graphics: empirical evidence for visual design principles’ Karen Cheng, Kevin Larson & Yeechi Chen, University of Washington

Start-up funds for The Symbol Group, a new association set up on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Henri Dreyfuss’s Symbol Sourcebook. Sue Perks.

Funding to run an Information Design Workshop focused on information needs of refugees, in Lesbos, Greece. Ruth Miller and Rob Waller

Digitising the video record of the 2012 Greenwich IDA conference, to preserve some of the IDA’s legacy. Conrad Taylor and Rob Waller