Icograda eNews 29/07

25th July, 2007

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IN THIS ISSUE:
Egodesign.ca joins Design Media Network
Design Research: Strategy Setting to Face the Future
Icograda World Design Congress 2007 announces new media partners
Expo Ageing & Design Montreal 2008 endorsed by Icograda
Icograda Executive Board meets in Milan, Italy 

GALERIA:
Racconti Allo Zolfo
by Emilio Machia, AIAP - Italy

FEATURE:
Parliament: for the people, by the people
by Gaby de Abreu, Switch Group, South Africa

OPINION:
Design and democracy: When the mark is a national emblem, when should the public be engaged in the design process?

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS:
Call for feedback: Designers of 2015
SVA announces new MFA program in design criticism

PUBLISHER'S CORNER
Emzin, Slovenia; 2+3D, Poland; Applied Arts, Canada

ICOGRADA ENDORSEMENTS:
Taiwan International Poster Design Award 2007; Encuentro LatinoAmericano Diseno en Palermo; FLUX: Design Education in a Changing World; HKDA Awards; 2007 Gwangju Design Biennale; Design/Culture: Icograda World Design Congress; Hong Kong International Poster Triennial; United Designs; Guangzhou Design Week 2007; Expo Ageing & Design Montreal 2008.

NEW UPCOMING EVENTS:
International Competition for the Design of the Brand and Logo of the City of Syracuse; Shrinkage Worldwide Awards; Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2008; Digitial Design Tournament 2007; ADI Design Award: Graphic Design Annual; Helvetica NOW! Poster Competition; Grün & Grassett Poster Exhibition; IIID Information Design Summer Academy “BASE;” Selections from the Graphic Imperative; Wayfinding and Signage Presentation: lessons from America!; Integrating Design into the Strategic Management Process; F3 World Design Congress.

HEADLINE STORIES
    
Egodesign.ca joins Design Media Network

Icograda is pleased to welcome Egodesign.ca as the newest participating member in the International Design Media Network (IDMN). Based in Montreal, Egodesign.ca is Canada's first bilingual webzine dedicated to global design.

Read this leading story at http://www.icograda.org/web/news.shtml

Design Research: Strategy Setting to Face the Future

>From 27 and 28 June 2007, 120 participants took part in the international conference "Design Research: Strategy Setting to Face the Future" held in Bozen. Design theoretician Hans Hoger and graphic arts designer Antonino Benincasa, both from the Faculty of Design and Art at the Free University of Bozen - Bolzano, organised the event.
  
Read this leading story at http://www.icograda.org/web/news.shtml
    
Icograda World Design Congress 2007 announces new media partners

Applied Arts Magazine and Grafika are the newest partners to join the supporters of Design/Culture: Icograda World Design Congress 2007. "Our media partners are a critical link in reaching the broadest possible audience about the Congress." says Brenda Sanderson, Icograda's Managing Director.

Read this leading story at http://www.icograda.org/web/news.shtml

Expo Ageing & Design Montreal 2008 endorsed by Icograda

From 4-8 September 2008, Montreal will host the first international conference and exposition on Ageing and Design at the Palais des Congres. Organised by the International Federation on Ageing (IFA), these events are being held in parallel with the IFA's Global Conference on Ageing, under the common theme 'Defining Health, Participation and Security through an Enabling Environment'.

Read this leading story at http://www.icograda.org/web/news.shtml

Icograda Executive Board meets in Milan, Italy

The Icograda Executive Board held its seventh meeting of the 2005-2007 term from 13-15 July in Milan, Italy. The occasion offered the opportunity for a visit to Torino and meetings with the organising team from AIAP, who will host the Icograda Design Week 2008 that is being planned as part of Torino's World Design Capital celebrations.

Read this leading story at http://www.icograda.org/web/news.shtml

GALERIA

Racconti Allo Zolfo
by Emilio Machia, AIAP - Italy

A poster design for a theatre event in Ravenna - Italy.

View in Galeria http://www.icograda.org/web/galeria-current.shtml

FEATURE

Parliament: for the people, by the people
by Gaby de Abreu, Switch Group, South Africa

As a new democracy, South Africa needs new symbols to identify with, to look up to and draw inspiration from. With Parliament being the heart of the nation, its emblem in particular needs to span all nine of the provinces, and be understood in every language. Parliament thus began its search for a new emblem in 2006: something that would embody the spirit of the nation and capture the ideals and values of the Constitution. To make the logo even more representative of the people it serves, Parliament asked South Africans to help create its new logo, and then invited an experienced branding and design company to refine and implement this new corporate identity throughout the institution. This company was the Switch Group.

Read this Feature http://icograda.org/web/feature-current.shtml

OPINION

Design and democracy

When the mark is a national emblem, when should
the public be engaged in the design process?

State your opinion http://www.icograda.org/web/opinion

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

Call for feedback: Designers of 2015

Earlier this year AIGA, the professional association for design, embarked on a journey to define the Designers of 2015. Now, in a series of articles published by the TAXI Design Network, AIGA is inviting designers speak up about the trends that will influence the design profession tomorrow. AIGA has partnered with Adobe, Inc. to understand what today’s clues reveal about the expectations for designers in the year 2015. The clues’ indicators are evident among educators, students, design studio principals and business leaders—since the very people who know the challenges designers are asked to solve each day have changed dramatically over the past twenty years. Yet many educational institutions and studios continue to think in terms of what more is expected of the “traditional” designer. AIGA and Adobe believe we have to change the marker from an idealised traditional perception that is out-of-date, to a new model of designers likely to populate most design enterprises in less than a decade.

For more information: http://www.designtaxi.com/features.jsp?id=415

SVA announces new MFA program in design criticism

The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York has established an MFA program in design criticism, the first graduate-level degree program dedicated to critical writing about design. The Master of Fine Arts in Design Criticism will prepare graduates for careers as design critics, journalists, curators, educators and design managers, by providing the intellectual tools for researching, analyzing, evaluating and chronicling all aspects of design. The program, which begins fall 2008, was developed by Steven Heller, cochair of the MFA Design Department at SVA, and the writer, critic, and educator Alice Twemlow, who will chair the new MFA Design Criticism Department.

For more information: http://www.sva.edu/news/index.jsp?sid0=228&;page_id=519&content_id=1835

PUBLISHER'S CORNER

Emzin
XVII, 1–2, June 2007
theme: CONTROL
Slovenia

Out of the Table of Contents: Interviews: German design group cyan – Detlef Fiedler and Daniela Haufe, Dutch sculptor and architect Daan Roosegaarde, Russian psychoanalyst, philosopher and editor Victor Mazin, Slovene physic Mitja Perus, British Consultant Child Psychiatrist Brian Jacobs. Stories on control by the renowned Bosnian literary critic Damir Arsenijevic. Theory and reflection on control: a number of prominent Slovene and foreign intellectuals and artists. Report: Seminar on graphic design: cyan – Detlef Fiedler and Daniela Haufe, Berlin, Luba Lukova, New York. Illustrations: Mirko Ilic Corp., New York, Jugoslav Vlahovic, Belgrade and Kiddog, Ljubljana. Photographs: Primoz Korosec, Bostjan Pucelj, Mika Cimolini, Lotte Stekelenburg, George Garnier, Yuri Molodkovets. 

2+3D: Polish Design Quarterly
2/2007, G4: A Special Issue
http://www.2plus3d.pl
Poland

Out of the table of contents: Editorial; Czech section: Visual Style in the Czech Republic, Born in the Czech Republic, Logo Can Feature Yet Unknown Things, Life, Happiness, Surprise; Jiri Pelcl - Subjective x Objective; Hungarian section: Graphic Design – here and now, New Design Regime in Hungary; Polish section: Here and Now. Polish Graphic Design, Take the Breath – Polish plumbers moved to London, Here and Now. Polish Industrial Design; Slóvak section: A Slóvak Original, Design versus Stories, The State and Changes of the Contemporary Slóvak Poster, Designers in the Waiting Room.

Applied Arts
Volume 22 No 2, August 2007
Photography & Illustration Annual
http://www.appliedartsmag.com
Canada
 
Out of the table of contents: Editor’s Note; Judging Weekend; Judge’s Bios; GDC Student Winners; Out of Africa; Illustration Award Winners: Advertising, Complete Book, Conceptual, Corporate, Cover, Editorial Section, Fashion & Beauty, Poster, Self-Promotion, Unpublished/Personal, Miscellaneous; Photography Award Winners: Advertising, Architectural, Complete Book, Corporate, Conceptual, Editorial, Fashion & Beauty, Homes & Gardens, Nature/Landscapes, Photojournalism, Poster, Portrait, Self-Promotion, Sport, Still Life, Unpublished/Personal, Miscellaneous; Art Cards; Creative Source Directory; Index.

ICOGRADA ENDORSEMENTS

Events endorsed by Icograda meet international guidelines for best practises.
For more information see http://www.icograda.org/web/calendar

4 June > 31 August 2007
Competition
Taiwan International Poster Design Award
Taipei, Taiwan
http://96.cdip.org.tw/competition
1303@cpc.org.tw

31 July 2007
Earlybird registration deadline
Design/Culture: Icograda World Design Congress
La Habana, Cuba
http://www.havana.icograda.org
secretariat@icograda.org

31 July > 3 August 2007
Conference
Encuentro LatinoAmericano Diseno en Palermo
Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
fido.palermo.edu/servicios_dyc/encuentro2007/index.html
moriana@palermo.edu

3 > 5 October 2007
Conference
FLUX: Design Education in a Changing World
Cape Town South Africa
http://www.defsa.org.za
aecon.e@mweb.co.za

5 > 14 October 2007
Exhibition
HKDA Awards 07
http://www.hongkongda.com/awards07/regStart/index.html
info@hongkongda.com

20 > 26 October 2007
Congress
Design/Culture: Icograda World Design Congress
La Habana, Cuba
http://www.havana.icograda.org
secretariat@icograda.org

1 November 2007 > 31 April 2008
Exhibition
Hong Kong International Poster Triennial
Hong Kong, China
triennial@lcsd.gov.hk
http://www.heritagemuseum.gov.hk/PDF/triappf.pdf

19 > 30 November 2007
Exhibition
United Designs
South Korea
http://www.designresearchlab.com
aychoi@hanyang.ac.kr

29 November 2007 > 4 December 2007
Exhibition
Guangzhou Design Week 2007
Guangzhou, China
http://www.gzdesignweek.com
info@gzdesignweek.com

6 > 8 September 2008
Conference
Expo Ageing & Design Montreal 2008
Montreal, Canada
http://www.expoageing.com/
jbarratt@ifa-fiv.org

UPCOMING EVENTS

For more events and information http://www.icograda.org/web/calendar

7 April > 15 August 2007
Exhibition
Scenes and Traces: From the Design, Photography, and Video Collections
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.stedelijkmuseum.nl
info@stedelijk.nl

15 April > 30 August 2007
Competition
International Competition for the Design of the Brand and Logo of the City of Syracuse
Syracuse, Italy
http://www.concorsosiracusa.aiap.it/documenti/61/8094
aiap@aiap.it

15 May > 31 July 2007
Competition
Pentawards: Worldwide Packaging Design Competition
Brussels, Belgium
http://www.pentawards.org
question@pentawards.org

15 May > 31 July 2007
Competition
Design For Asia Award 2007
Hong Kong
http://www.dfaaward.com
dfa@hkdesigncentre.org

16 May > 11 August 2007
Summer Academy
Pentiment International Summer Academy of Art & Design
Hamburg, Germany
http://www.pentiment.de
office@pentiment.de

18 May > 8 September 2007
Exhibition
Breaking the rules: Swiss graphic design
Zurich, Switzerland
http://www.museum-gestaltung.ch/exhibitions/program.html
http://www.museum-gestaltung.ch/informations/contact.html

26 May > 4 September 2007
Competition
HOW International Design Awards
Cincinnati, United States
http://www.howdesign.com/competitions/international.web1.pdf
how-competition@fwpubs.com

1 June > 27 July 2007
Exhibition
ADC 86th Annual Awards Exhibition
New York, United States
http://www.adcglobal.org
info@adcglobal.org

15 June > 19 November 2007
Competition
Shrinkage Worldwide Awards
Zürich, Switzerland
http://shahneshinfoundation.org/awards/meet.html
http://shahneshinfoundation.org/contact/index.html

1 > 31 July 2007
Call for Papers
Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2008
Cape Town, South Africa
http://www.sigchi.org/dis2008/
dis2008@acm.org

1 July > 30 November 2007
Competition
ADI Design Award: Graphic Design Annual
Hangzhou, China
adiaward@126.com
http://www.ad110.com/date/view.asp?view_date=2007-11-30&;I_ID=91

4 July > 4 October 2007
Competition
Helvetica NOW! Poster Competition
Bad Homburg, Germany
http://image.linotype.com/files/pdf/pressreleases/helvetica_now_e.pdf
info@linotype.com

13 July > 13 October 2007
Exhibition
Grün & Grassett Poster Exhibition
Chaumont, France
http://www.ville-chaumont.fr/emag/index.html
office-tourisme.chaumont@wanadoo.fr

30 July > 11 August 2007
Workshop
IIID Information Design Summer Academy “BASE”
http://www.iiid.net/Base.htm
christopher.hanacek@iiid.net

31 July > 25 August 2007
Exhibition
Selections from the Graphic Imperative
Istanbul, Turkey
http://www.thegraphicimperative.org/
garantigaleri@garanti.com.tr

1 August 2007
Seminar
Wayfinding and Signage Presentation: Lessons from America!
How to plan, design and implement large-scale wayfinding programs.
London, United Kingdom
http://www.signdesignsociety.co.uk
enquiries@signdesignsociety.co.uk

1 > 2 August 2007
Seminar
Integrating Design into the Strategic Management Process
Boston, United States
http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/education/seminars/ids.htm
dmistaff@dmi.org

3 > 5 August 2007
Conference
F3 World Design Congress
Puerto Iguazu, Argentina
http://www.f3mundial.com/index.htm
kuyaprod@telesurf.com.py

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