Icograda eNews 16/07

26th April, 2007

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IN THIS ISSUE:
"Designing politics - The politics of design" shortlist announced
Design Montreal Open House: Montreal's designers welcome you
British Design Innovation launches Innovation Bank

GALERIA:
HIV/AIDS
Hossein Abdolmohammadzadeh, IGDS - Iran

FEATURE:
What do we call ourselves now?

OPINION:
Should design education be a criteria for professional practice?

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS:
Etapes introduces podcasts
Indonesia launches One Globe One Flag
07 Shrinkage Worldwide Awards jury-members selection
Good 50x70: the first 30 days

PUBLISHER'S CORNER
DG magazine goes virtual

ICOGRADA ENDORSED EVENTS:
European Logo Design Annual; Good 50x70; +&-=X: 20 Years of typo-graphics from the Tokyo Type Directors Club; Design Camp 8; European Design Conference; Chaumont International Poster and Graphic Design Festival; 9 Tehran International Poster Biennial; Encuentro LatinoAmericano Diseno en Palermo; FLUX: Design Education in a Changing World; Design/Culture: Icograda World Design Congress; Hong Kong International Poster Triennial; United Designs; Guangzhou Design Week 2007.

NEW UPCOMING EVENTS:
25/25: Celebrating 25 Years of Design at the Design Museum; Communication Arts Advertising & Graphic Design Annuals; Cristina Llambi en “El Pasillo;” Graphis Call for Entries: Annual Reports; Red Dot Award; Scenes and Traces: From the Design, Photography, and Video Collections; BRAZIL AdDesign; G-Shirt Exhibition; Seminario de Diseño Editorial que la ADGV Seccional Lara; Meaningful Design for Global Culture; Linotype’s Typotechnica Conference; Design and Its Politics: Curators, Critics, and Historians; Planes, Trains and Ortolans: the Art of Finding Things; Logo Cities: An International Symposium on Signage, Branding and Lettering in Public Space.

HEADLINE STORIES
    
"Designing politics - The politics of design" shortlist announced

On Monday 16 April 2007, the Advisory Board of the International Design Forum (IFG) shortlisted the applications received for the promotional programme "Designing politics - The politics of design" by 31 March 31 2007. Fifty four applicants from 26 different nations applied for the second annual programme "Designing politics - The politics of design". The EUR 50 000 sum which is to be granted is one of the highest grants available for designers, architects and urban planners.

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

Design Montreal Open House: Montreal's designers welcome you

Following Montreal's recent designation as a UNESCO City of Design, the Design Montreal Office, in partnership with the professional design community, is launching Doors Open on Design Montreal. The first edition is being held on Saturday, 5 May 2007.

Read this leading story at http://www.icograda.org/web/news.shtml
     
British Design Innovation launches Innovation Bank

No service, product or proposition ever came to market without the intellectual knowledge and skills of several expert parties. Providing those parties with an accessible and equitable means of trading IP is beneficial to all concerned. Importantly, it assists originators to build their own asset base through IP license, royalty, equity and IP buy-out deals; at the same time as enabling access to lower risk innovation for groups from SME size to global players.

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

GALERIA

HIV/AIDS
Hossein Abdolmohammadzadeh, IGDS - Iran

Poster produced for the 2nd International Poster and Computer Animation Competition “AntiAIDS” in the Ukraine

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

FEATURE

What do we call ourselves now?
by Steven Heller

In a world of brand specialists and information architects, is it enough to call ourselves
'graphic designers' without sounding either overly specialised or obsolete?

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

OPINION

Should design education be a criteria for professional practice?

Many member associations require a combination of formal education and work experience to become a professional member. However, the design education landscape includes a broad range of public and private programmes, with full-time, part-time and continuing education options. We want to know your opinion on how design education should relate to professional practice.

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

FROM PREVIOUS OPINION

What percentage of your business is from clients outside the country?

73% Less than 10%.
12% Between 10-25%.
18% More than 25%.

Totals shown may be more or less than 100% due to rounding

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

Etapes introduces podcasts

With more than 10 years experience publishing étapes, the authoritative French language design publication, and its quarterly English-langauge sister publication étapes:international, Pyramyd is continuing to expand its media channels with the launch the étapes blog.
 
A new feature of the blog is weekly podcasts about design, including interviews, short movies and event reviews. Etapes: le podcast du design graphique currently includes eight episodes. Interested listeners can subscribe to the podcast for free through iTunes.

For more information: http://www.etapes.com/blog/

Indonesia launches One Globe One Flag

The aim of 'One Globe One Flag' International Poster Exhibition is to raise the level of awareness in the importance of togetherness in overcoming multi-dimensional problems in the world. The globe and flag are physical attributes in universal symbolism that posses implicit meaning. 'One Globe One Flag' is a concept that respects international social, cultural and geographical diversity in order to give birth to a series of interpretations that imply enthusiasm, aspirations and awareness in order to create a better world-together.

For more information: http://www.adgi.or.id

07 Shrinkage Worldwide Awards jury-members selection

The Shahneshin Foundation is now accepting nominees and candidacy in becoming Jury-Member for the Shrinkage Worldwide Awards. The Shrinkage Worldwide Awards now in its third year, encourages, promotes, and rewards critical thinking and visualising. Shrinkage Worldwide Awards include poster-works from New York, London, Vienna, Beijing, Santiago - just some of the global locations where artists, designers, scholars and thinkers have drawn to enter into the 2006 Shrinkage Worldwide Awards. If you’re interested to be considered among the candidates and nominees as a jury-member for the next edition of the Shrinkage Worldwide Awards, please submit a cover letter + a concise resume + a portfolio that includes samples of your most important and representative design and research works. You need to specify what your responsibility in each project was. This application material would portray you as a potential jury member for the 07 SWA.
 
For more information: http://www.shahneshinfoundation.org

Good 50x70: the first 30 days

Here the numbers describing the first 30 days from the official launch of the project: 17 600 results for “good 50x70” on Google; 224 links from industry web sites; 556 visitors to the web site on an average day; 5.7 viewed pages per visitor; 16 453 visitors in total during the first 30 days; 89 447 viewed pages in total; 45 000 contacts from the endorsing associations members; 25 magazines from all over the world interested in publishing the outcomes of the competition.

For more information: http://www.good50x70.org

PUBLISHER'S CORNER

DG magazine goes virtual

This week sees the end of era as DG magazine ceases publication as ink on paper and moves with the times to take up residence on the internet. But the new format will not simply be a digitised version of a printed magazine with fake page turns and too difficult to navigate. The type of content that has traditionally been in magazines can now be found freely on the internet. It is there in profusion, if only you had the time to search for it. Magazines can be very good at making sense of chaos, distilling confusion to bring you the crystal clear essence of information and inspiration. So the needs of readers have changed and a new publishing model is required.

Enter the DG Design Network: http://www.dgibox.com

ICOGRADA ENDORSEMENTS

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

28 February > 18 May 2007
Call for Entries
European Logo Design Annual
Milan, Italy
http://www.eulda.com
areti@eulda.com

10 March > 10 May 2007
Competition
Good 50x70
http://www.good50x70.org
giorgia.rossaro@good50x70.org

5 April > 5 May 2007
Exhibition
+&-=X: 20 Years of typo-graphics from the Tokyo Type Directors Club
Melbourne, Australia
www.tdctokyo.org
angela.brophy@artdes.monash.edu.au

4 > 5 May 2007
Conference
Design Camp 8
Wanganui New Zealand
http://wsd.ac.nz/designcamp8/index.html
F.McMillan@ucol.ac.nz

9 > 11 May 2007
Conference
European Design Conference
Athens, Greece
http://www.ed-awards.com/
info@ed-awards.com

12 May 2007 > 24 June 2007
Exhibition
Chaumont International Poster and Graphic Design Festival
Chaumont, France
http://www.ville-chaumont.fr/festival-affiches/index.html
artsgraphiques.affiches@wanadoo.fr

17 June > 22 July 2007
Competition
9th Tehran International Poster Biennial
http://www.tehran-poster-biennial.com/regulation.asp
secretariat@tehran-poster-biennial.com

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

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

UPCOMING EVENTS

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

1 January > 6 July 2007
Competition
Concurso De Afiches “La Mirada De Nosotros – LatinoAmerica Hoy”
Buenos Aires, Argentina
http://fido.palermo.edu/servicios_dyc/encuentro2007/03_foro_escuelas/bases_concurso.html
concurso.afiches@gmail.com

16 January > 1 June 2007
Call for Submissions
Sappi: Ideas that Matter
http://www.sappi.com/SappiWeb/Initiatives/Sappi+Ideas+that+Matter/Sappi+Ideas+that+Matter.htm

20 January > 25 April 2007
Exhibition
The New Italian Design
Milan, Italy
http://triennale.waylog.it/index.php?lang=_eng&;id=1&tbl=0&idq=347
biglietteria@triennale.it

1 February > 1 May 2007
Competition
One Good Idea
Vancouver, Canada
http://www.onegoodidea.ca
onegoodidea@iondesign.ca

1 February > 1 May 2007
Competition
Chartered Society of Designers Student Awards 2007
http://www.csd.org.uk/awards/student_awards07.jsp
http://www.csd.org.uk/contact_us/contact_us.jsp

1 February > 4 May 2007
Call for Submissions
Rockport Publishers Design Matters: Packaging
http://rockpub.com/entries.asp
shokkanen@capsule.us

1 March > 25 May 2007
Call for Submissions
Singapore Design Festival 07
Singapore
http://www.designsingapore.org
eugene_ng@mica.gov.sg

2 March > 16 September 2007
Call for Proposals
ATypI 2007 Conference
University of Brighton, United Kingdom
http://www.atypi.org/news_tool/news_html?newsid=384&;from=/
secretariat@atypi.org

1 March > 27 April 2007
Call for Papers
Second MX Design Conference 2007
Mexico City, Mexico
http://www.dis.uia.mx/conference/2007

14 March > 14 May 2007
Call for Papers
3rd Information Design International Conference 2007
Curitiba, Brazil
http://www.sbdi.org.br/congresso2007/ingles/call.htm
conference2007@sbdi.org.br

16 March > 27 April 2007
Competition
2007 Adobe Achievement Awards
http://www.adobe.com/education/adaa

21 March > 11 June 2007
Competition
Prix Jeunes Artistes 2007 de la Communauté francaise
Brussels, Belgium
prix-jeunes-artistes@pcf.be
http://www.pcf.be/ROOT/PCF_2006/public/prix/jeunes_artistes/prix_jeunes.html

29 March > 22 June 2007
Exhibition
25/25: Celebrating 25 Years of Design at the Design Museum
London, United Kingdom
http://www.designmuseum.org
amelia@designmuseum.org

29 March > 1 June 2007
Competition
Communication Arts Advertising & Graphic Design Annuals
Menlo Park, United States
http://www.commarts.com/CA/info/contactus.html
competition@commarts.com

30 March > 25 May 2007
Exhibition
Better Food Exposition
Brussels, Belgium
bie.luyssaert@designvlaanderen.be

11 April > 4 May 2007
Exhibition
Cristina Llambi en “El Pasillo”
Montevideo, Uruguay
http://www.goethe.de/montevideo
cultura@montevideo.goethe.org

13 April > 7 May 2007
Call for Entries
Graphis Call for Entries: Annual Reports
http://www.graphis.com
info@graphis.com

16 April > 25 June 2007
Competition
Red Dot Award
Essen, Germany
http://www.red-dot.de
info@red-dot.org

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

9 > 20 April 2007
Exhibition
BRAZIL AdDesign
New York City, United States
http://www.adcglobal.org/main.html
info@adcglobal.org

18 April > 5 May 2007
Call for Entries
G-Shirt Exhibition
http://www.galeriacolombiana.blogspot.com
gcdisenos@gmail.com

19 > 21 April 2007
Seminar
Seminario de Diseño Editorial que la ADGV Seccional Lara
Barquisimeto, Venezuela
http://www.grupografico.net.ve/informacion_evento.pdf
grupográfico@intercable.net.ve
 
26 > 27 April 2007
Seminar
Meaningful Design for Global Culture
Providence, United States
http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/education/seminars/mgc.htm
dmistaff@dmi.org

27 > 29 April 2007
Conference
Linotype’s Typotechnica Conference
Frankfurt, Germany
http://www.linotype.com/3259/2007_03_06.html
info@linotype.com
 
27 April > 28 April
Conference
Design and Its Politics: Curators, Critics, and Historians
Minneapolis, United States
http://design.umn.edu/go/project/DAIP07
design@umn.edu

2 May 2007
Seminar
Planes, Trains and Ortolans: the Art of Finding Things
London, United Kingdom
http://www.signdesignsociety.co.uk
enquiries@signdesignsociety.co.uk

3 > 4 May 2007
Seminar
Law Meets Design: Strategies for Extending Design Protection into Design Ownership
Seattle, United States
http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/education/seminars/lmd.htm
dmistaff@dmi.org

4 > 5 May 2007
Symposium
Logo Cities: An International Symposium on Signage, Branding and Lettering in Public Space
Symposium
Montreal, Canada
http://www.logocities.org
logocities.symposium@gmail.com

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