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• 08.31 Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: sales predicted to grow 17.6% for whole 2008
• 08.30 Intellectual Property: Draft amendment on China’s patent law tabled, higher penalties for violators
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• 08.24 Autodesk Contributes Coordinate System Software to the Open Source Community
• 08.24 Design in China: first Chinese digital publishing base opened in Shanghai
• 08.17 Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: Mobile phones fail to pick up sales
• 08.17 China, Technology, Innovation and the Environment: Chinese President Hu Jintao elaborates on China’s stance on climate change
• 08.17 Bibles to be available free during Beijing Games
• 08.10 Living in China: Shanghai’s Rising Population Challenge
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• 08.03 China Restricting Visas to Foreigners, hurts Tourism
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What is Information Design?

• Coined by Richard Saul Wurman in 1976, Information Design is a field and approach to designing clear, understandable communications by giving care to structure, context, and presentation of data and information, in the effort of making information as effective as possible. As a field, its principles relate to all communications products and experiences, regardless of medium: print, broadcast, digital, online, etc. Information Design is primarily concerned with clarity (instead of simplicity) and understanding, and with readers and users responses to information presented textually, graphically or in the form of an animation.

About

• Itamar Medeiros, from Brazil, currently lives in Shanghai (China), where he works as Product Design Manager of the Geospatial Business Unit at Autodesk®, and helps promote Interaction Design as a local coordinator for the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). Working in the Information Technology industry since 1998, Itamar Medeiros has developed several websites and interactive media campaigns, both as art director and, later, as creative director for several new media agencies in Pernambuco, Brazil. As an Information Design specialist, served a two-year term as member of the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Society of Information Design, lead the Design Research team of the Hypermedia Lab at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, and held a lecturing position as Assistant Program Director of the Visual Communication Department at Raffles Design Institute, Shanghai. Since 2001 has been teaching on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Hypermedia in Design and Information Systems undergraduate programs, as well in some graduate studies departments.

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