Rob Waller Email & Phone Number

Hemington, GB

Leeds, West Yorkshire, GB

I'm delighted to have an academic home as a Visiting Professor in the School of Design, as part of a community of colleagues with the same interest in information design and clear communications.

The Simplification Centre was a social enterprise that promoted the cause of clear communications. We looked for radical ways to transform complex information so it's easier to understand.

Vienna, Wien, AT

The IIID is an international forum for people engaged in practising, teaching and researching information design. I was honoured to be the President, and on stepping down to be awarded the IIID Laureate (Award for Leadership and Distinctive Achievement in Information Design).

Kowloon, HK

This was an honorary role (not based in Hong Kong) to advise on the development of communication and information design in the School of Design.

SAID brought service design methodologies to the design of information. We worked on utility billing, pensions information, bank statements, contract simplification and forms design, for clients in the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada and the Middle East.

Reading, Berkshire, GB

At Reading I started the Simplification Centre, working with large government departments and private sector organisations who need to communicate complex information to the public. I also ran the MA Information Design programme, and supervised PhD students.

After the acquisition by WPP, we continued to manage the business as before, but as part of the global branding group, Enterprise IG. In 2005 we moved to the main London office, and fully integrated the businesses. Continuing to work for similar clients as before, I also gained valuable experience on corporate branding, packaging and retail projects. Our.

IDU was a specialist information design consultancy that grew to become the UK's largest. My co-principal, David Lewis, and I grew it to around 25 people at its height, and our clients were all well known service brands - BT, Royal Mail, Norwich Union, Alliance & Leicester, Barclays, Lloyds TSB, London Electricity, British Gas, Vodafone, T-Mobile and many.

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, GB

During my time at the Open University, the discipline we now call information design was starting to gel and it was exciting to be part of a wide community of people in different institutions and countries working towards the formation of a discipline. Information Design Journal, which I founded and edited from 1979, helped to provide a focal point and a.

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, GB

My first job was as a research assistant in a multidisciplinary team, alongside a cognitive psychologist and a linguist. This was the Textual Communication Research Group, led by Michael Macdonald-Ross. I consider myself fortunate to have worked with him - his wide reading and imaginative linking of different knowledge types influenced me hugely. The Open.

Phd, Typography And Discourse

Ba, Typography And Graphic Communication