standards
Graphic Symbols for Disaster Response. A standard set of symbols for mapping and other graphic coordination between Federal, State, and local agencies in the event of a disaster, natural or otherwise. A work in progress by the Federal Geographic Data Committee’s Homeland Security Working Group.
Download for free as TrueType fonts.
10 Design Policy Proposals.
The results of a meeting held in Washington DC on November 30, 2008, this concise policy brief proposes a consolidated design policy that fosters “economic competitiveness & democratic governance.” The proposals are:
- Formalize an American Design Council to partner with the U.S. Government.
- Set guidelines for legibility, literacy, and accessibility for all government communications.
- Target 2030 for carbon neutral buildings.
- Create an Assistant Secretary for Design and Innovation position within the Department of Commerce to promote design.
- Expand national grants to support interdisciplinary community design assistance programs based on human-centered design principles.
- Commission a report to measure and document design’s contribution to the U.S. economy.
- Revive the Presidential Design Awards to be held every year and use triple bottom-line criteria (economic, social, and environmental benefit) for evaluation.
- Establish national grants for basic design research.
- Modify the patent process to reflect the types of intellectual property created by designers.
- Encourage direct government investment in design innovation.
The site is currently accepting comments on the proposals.
The Open & Closed Project. “A new research project headquartered in Toronto. Our main goal is to improve quality by setting
standards for the four fields of accessible media –
captioning,
audio description,
subtitling, and
dubbing. We’ll develop those standards through research and evidence-gathering. Where research or evidence is missing on a certain topic, we’ll carry it out ourselves. We’ll test the finished standards for a year in the real world, then
publish them. Then we’ll develop
training and certification programs for practitioners. ” Not much there yet, but I like this direct approach. I hope legislative advocacy will follow.
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