Professor David Sless, executive director of the Canberra-based Communication Research Institute of Australia, has been appointed director of studies for 1995’s most important international meeting on information design for multimedia.
The world’s peak body for information design _ the International Institute of Information Design (IIID) _ will meet in Austria in July and August this year, under the auspices of UNESCO, to hold a symposium and advanced course in designing multimedia information. The Vision Plus: Designing for Electronic Communication Symposium and Course will attract the world’s leading information designers and post-graduate students.
Professor Sless has been invited to head one the two main components of the event _ the advanced-studies course. This will be attended by 150 post-graduate students in multimedia, drawn from around the world. Professor Sless was a senior lecturer at Flinders University until he moved to Canberra 1985 to found the institute, He was the foundation chairman of the Standards Australia on Signs and Symbols, and has chaired the Computer Human Interaction Special Interests Group, and the Australian Communication Association.