We have decided to close the Simplification Centre sixteen years after we started work in 2008. We stopped seeking new consultancy work and training two years ago, and our sole activity is now the Information Design Summer School. This will move to the International Institute for Information Design (IIID) from 2025. IIID has been a partner in the summer school from the beginning.
This website will remain open as an archive, and we may add some resources from the summer school such as presentations.
You can read more about the history of the Centre, and our approach to clear communications, in this article in the design journal She Ji.
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