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Rob Waller

Visiting Research Fellow

Rob Waller is an information designer and director of the Simplification Centre - a not-for-profit organisation that promotes the clear communication of complex information. Rob's career has combined academic research at the Open University and the University of Reading, and design practice with his own agency Information Design Unit, and later with the global branding agency Enterprise IG. Rob has been associated with the creation of an institutional framework for the development of information design, founding Information Design Journal in 1979, and co-founding the Information Design Association in 1992. He has also co-organised a series of Information Design Conferences from 1982 to the present day. Rob is a frequent conference speaker, and has published many papers on the theory and practice of information design.