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Background to IDC 2007
IDC 2007 is being organised by members of the
Information Design Association in the UK.
About the IDA
The idea of setting up the IDA came out of the original
Information Design Conference series, organized by the
Information Design Journal during the 1980s. In 1990,
a group of design practitioners, teachers and researchers
thought it would be good to form an Association, both as
a talking-shop and to promote the benefits of Information
Design to a wider audience.
For some years the IDA held well-attended meetings in London,
and also got involved in running the Information Design Conferences;
then, energies waned, and the IDA became dormant in the UK.
Until a year ago!
A group of us have come together, using the IDA as our
organisational framework, to run this conference.
We are already delighted with the international interest
that has been shown in this event, and following the conference
the IDA will continue with regular meetings.
The conferences
For two and a half decades, the Information Design
conferences have fruitfully brought together designers,
users and owners of information, as well as researchers
and teachers in the field. The most recent events were
held in collaboration with the
Information Design Network, an alliance of higher
education institutions in the UK where information design
and technical communication are taught:
- InfoDesign 97, 14–15 July 1997, Cambridge
- InfoDesign 98, 20–21 April 1998, Cambridge
- InfoDesign 2000, 10–11 July 2000, Coventry
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