The International Institute for Information Design (IIID) in Vienna continues its highly successful Expert Forum Traffic & Transport Information Systems into the 5th year. Unsurpassed in its field, this year's event is focused on Real time information in multimodal transport networks. Real time information, enhanced by intelligent information design, can reduce experienced uncertainty, effectively diminishing the main reason why too many people rely only on their car for transportation.

The Expert Forum will focus on technical requirements and user preferences and how real time information can help determine the most convenient journey - which is often a combination of private and public transport.

Preferences of travellers are not only determined by the overall speed of journeys. Other parameters are, in varying degrees: reliability, comfort, safety and cost. Reliability (or the lowest possible uncertainty) intrinsically determines the perception of the overall travel time. To counteract irregularities, effective system management precautions are needed. However, these must be translated into readily available information, which can be understood and utilized by travellers.

The Expert Forum organizers and the event chairman, Prof Dr.Tech. Per Mollerup (Mollerup Designlab A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark; Faculty of Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia; Oslo National Academy of The Arts, Norway), invite exemplary submissions of presentations that focus on the topics of:

• Real time information in multimodal transport systems
• Harmonization of real time information communicated in stations, at stops, on web sites, mobile

phone displays, via loud speakers etc.
• Real time information in case of "Out of Service" or irregularities (e.g. because of an accident)
• Real time information in atypical transport situations (e.g. replacement bus services)
• Combining real time passenger information with real time road traffic information
• Real time information at traffic junctions/hubs to facilitate the speedy transfer/change from one

transport mode to another
• User requirements, preferences and priorities.

In addition to the main conference, Innovations in traffic & transport information is a special session focused on innovative projects and results beyond real time information. The session is geared to the interests of information managers, designers and educators whose professional focus is on traffic and transport information.

More information about the event can be found at www.iiid-expertforum.net.

If you have any further questions, please contact IIID at info@iiid.net.

Following the success of our original walking tour of typographic London we are pleased to announce a new tour for 2010. The London East walk commences outside Old Street Station and runs the last Saturday of each month.

Scheduled tours for 2010: 26 June

Further information
www.uktype.com

Our original walking tour of London continues and is now called the London Lettering Tour West. This tour commences outside St Bride Library, off Fleet Street, and will run the second Saturday of each month.

Scheduled tour: 12 June

Further information
www.uktype.com

Join us for SVA's Masters Workshop in Design History, Theory and Practice in Rome

Rome: June 6 – 12, 2010

Sapienza University of Rome, Piazza Fontanella Borghese

• Immerse yourself in Italian culture
• Classes on design and typography
• Trips to letterpress printing shops and design studios, museums, historic sites
• Workshops in metal and woodtype
• Produce projects for publication

U.S. Faculty:
Lita Talarico and Steven Heller, co-chairs of MFA Designer as Author at the School of Visual Arts; Louise Fili, designer, Louise Fili Ltd, and author of Italianissimo and The Civilized Shopper's Guide to Florence.

Italy Faculty:
Dr. Darius Arya, Roman Archaeologist; Carlo Branzaglia, Director of Design, Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna; Giorgio Camuffo, Studio Camuffo, Venice; Cristina Chiappini, Graphic and New Media Designer, faculty, University of Rome; James Clough, Typographer and Calligrapher, Milan; Mauro Zennaro, Designer and Typographer, Rome.

Tuition: $6,700
Includes three-star hotel accommodations in Venice and Rome, continental breakfasts, workshops, lectures, transportation to off-site visits, guided tours of architectural and archaeological sites, first-class train from Venice to Rome, and all program receptions.

Credit: 3 graduate studio credits

Contact: Esther RoSchofield
eroschofield@sva.ed
www.design.sva.edu
T: 212-592-2600

Join us for SVA's Masters Workshop in Design History, Theory and Practice in Venice

This Summer study type and typography, books and printing, while enjoying the sights and sounds of Italy's most inspiring cities.

Venice: May 30 - June 5, 2010
In collaboration with the Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Grand Canal

• Immerse yourself in Italian culture
• Classes on design and typography
• Trips to letterpress printing shops and design studios, museums, historic sites
• Workshops in metal and woodtype
• Produce projects for publication

U.S. Faculty:
Lita Talarico and Steven Heller, co-chairs of MFA Designer as Author at the School of Visual Arts; Louise Fili, designer, Louise Fili Ltd, and author of Italianissimo and The Civilized Shopper's Guide to Florence.

Italy Faculty:
Dr. Darius Arya, Roman Archaeologist; Carlo Branzaglia, Director of Design, Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna; Giorgio Camuffo, Studio Camuffo, Venice; Cristina Chiappini, Graphic and New Media Designer, faculty, University of Rome; James Clough, Typographer and Calligrapher, Milan; Mauro Zennaro, Designer and Typographer, Rome.

Tuition: $6,700
Includes three-star hotel accommodations in Venice and Rome, continental breakfasts, workshops, lectures, transportation to off-site visits, guided tours of architectural and archaeological sites, first-class train from Venice to Rome, and all program receptions.

Credit: 3 graduate studio credits

Contact: Esther RoSchofield
eroschofield@sva.ed
www.design.sva.edu
T: 212-592-2600

Join us for SVA's Masters Workshop in Design History, Theory and Practice in Venice and Rome

Venice: May 30 - June 5, 2010
In collaboration with the Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Grand Canal

Rome: June 6 – 12, 2010
Sapienza University of Rome, Piazza Fontanella Borghese
• Immerse yourself in Italian culture
• Classes on design and typography
• Trips to letterpress printing shops and design studios, museums, historic sites
• Workshops in metal and woodtype
• Produce projects for publication

U.S. Faculty:
Lita Talarico and Steven Heller, co-chairs of MFA Designer as Author at the School of Visual Arts; Louise Fili, designer, Louise Fili Ltd, and author of Italianissimo and The Civilized Shopper's Guide to Florence.

Italy Faculty:
Dr. Darius Arya, Roman Archaeologist; Carlo Branzaglia, Director of Design, Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna; Giorgio Camuffo, Studio Camuffo, Venice; Cristina Chiappini, Graphic and New Media Designer, faculty, University of Rome; James Clough, Typographer and Calligrapher, Milan; Mauro Zennaro, Designer and Typographer, Rome.

Tuition: $6,700
Includes three-star hotel accommodations in Venice and Rome, continental breakfasts, workshops, lectures, transportation to off-site visits, guided tours of architectural and archaeological sites, first-class train from Venice to Rome, and all program receptions.

Credit: 3 graduate studio credits

Contact: Esther RoSchofield
eroschofield@sva.ed
www.design.sva.edu
T: 212-592-2600

Following the success of our original walking tour of typographic London we are pleased to announce a new tour for 2010. The London East walk commences outside Old Street Station and runs the last Saturday of each month.

Scheduled tours for 2010:
29 May, 26 June

Further information
www.uktype.com

Dear lettering and type enthusiasts,

There are TWO PLACES available on the inaugural Legacy of Letters tour of the Veneto and Emilia-Romagna. The deadline for registration is May 15 which is not that far away. You may have been hesitating because of the weak dollar or the high cost of airfare, but right now the Greek debt crisis and several other events are conspiring to drive the euro down and thus make it more affordable to join the tour. And, despite the disruptions of the Icelandic volcano, airfares have not shot up. There are good deals to be had if one looks. As low as $1000 round trip from New York to Italy. The tour itself remains a bargain as other art history, design and archeology tours of Italy and the Mediterranean are being offered for prices from $7,000 to $14,000 (and that does not include airfare either!).

There will be a tour next year but it will not be identical to this one. So, now is the time to see the Biblioteca Marciana, the extraordinary Brion-Vega cemetery by Carlo Scarpa, the type and printing museum in Cornuda, the frescoes of Mantegna, the sculpture of Donatello, the Tempio Malatestiano by Alberti, and manuscripts by Bartolomeo Sanvito. The Legacy of Letters tour is unique in its breadth and wide-ranging interest in lettering from ancient Roman inscriptions to modern neon signage and graffiti. It looks at the famous and the ordinary.

The image above is an example of some of the small things the tour covers along with the big stuff. This is a typical Bodoni-esque stencilled house number in Venice. Next to it is the crudely inscribed date when the house was erected. For more images of the tour and information see the website. Thank you.

http://legacyofletters.com/index.ph

Yours, Paul Shaw and Alta Price

Our original walking tour of London continues and is now called the London Lettering Tour West. This tour commences outside St Bride Library, off Fleet Street, and will run the second Saturday of each month.

Scheduled tours for 2010:
15 May, 12 June

Further information
www.uktype.com

About the event
Imagine iT is a two-day-conference organised by the Design Center Bologna in partnership with Typevents Italy. This event, in 2010 the third of its kind in Italy, comprises lectures, exhibitions, projections and workshops and welcomes the participation of international contributors from across the creative industries which may include: graphic designers, product designers, artists; scientists, companies from related industries, companies interested in design and moving their products and service a step a head through design; which certainly also includes: publishers and advertisers; teachers, researchers; students and those just starting out on their careers.

The theme: The big thing – think big!
Stop worrying about the economic situation. Because all that is doing to you, is sabotaging your income.

Think big: Now is the best time to move your business forward, because many of your competitors have cut back on investments into their future.

What you need to do know is more than simply being good at what you’re doing. You need to have a vision of the ‘big thing’. Long enough we have been satisfied with taking what we were getting, be it orders, payment, quality and service.

Now is the time to do more, because from that you get more. Which means work smarter and harder.

In detail this means: improving your business (be it products or services) through design, the correct marketing and branding. Because in the end this shows your customer, you are investing into their needs and demands, and that will turn into credibility and confidence, which will automatically increase your income.

In consequence you need to be more creative, search for solutions yourself, also by inverting a problem into an opportunity, go for new ideas that match the contemporary possibilities, make use of what is around you and be innovative! Innovation, with the help of the right tools, and by applying latest technology helps to bypass the crisis. Innovate your products by applying these tools and technologies, through means of design/marketing/branding. Invest in collaborators, suppliers, designers and marketers that are appropriate for your business or project to be accomplished.

Invest in research as your main tool to figure out what it really is, you need to change – at the same time involving your clients.

Yes, this is an investment, time-wise, money-wise, through people. Which means it is not an expense. Because well done, it will return many times over.

How to apply?
If you have a design/marketing/branding related topic or case study that links to having innovated your (or your clients’) company/products/service, and that matches our theme - may it have turned into success or failure - and if you would like to talk, exhibit or demonstrate, hold a workshop, a seminar or similar at Imagine iT, please send an outline proposal and biographical note of
not more than 300 words supplied in MS Word or PDF format with (where appropriate) up to 4 digital images of no more than 300dpi to: entries@design-center.it .

Closing Date: 15th December, 2009

Selection committee
All papers will be assessed by a selection panel. The members of the jury will be announced shortly.

The venue
The Accademia di Belle Arti Bologna was founded 1711 to develop the arts and crafts in Emilia Romagna. It is now one of the largest institutions of its kind in Italy, with 1,200 students studying Visual Arts, Applied Arts, and Communications & Didactic of the Arts. In the Applied Arts Department, the design courses have an outstanding reputation for the quality of their teaching staff and the excellence of their public events.

Further information
Email: simone@typevents.com
www.typevents.com