Icograda World Design Congress Beijing - 3 weeks to go!

6th October, 2009

There's only three weeks to go until the Icograda World Design Congress in Beijing on October 24-30.

The confirmed list of speakers includes:
> Pan Gongkai (China)
> Sol Sender (US)
> Kohei Sugiura (Japan)
> Jan van Toorn (The Netherlands)
> Patrick Whitney (US)
> Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares (Lebanon)
> Marc Alt (US)
> Andr ew Ashton/Studio Pip & Co (Australia)
> Ann Yu-Chien (China Taiwan)
> Peter Bankov/[kAk) magazine (Russia)
> David Barringer (US)
> Ruedi Baur (Switzerland)
> Bi Xuefeng (China)
> David Carson (US)
> Anne Chick (UK)
> Brian Collins (US)
> Base Design (Belgium)
> Sheila Levrant de Bretteville (US)
> Richard Doubleday (US)
> Brian Dougherty (US)
> Kiko Frakas (Brazil)
> Leslie Gallery-Dilworth/SEGD (US)
> Amy Gendler/AIGA China (US)
> Huang Yung-Sung (China Taiwan)
> Ric Grefe/AIGA (US)
> Peter Hall (US)
> He Jianping (China)
> Dan Hill (UK)
> Jiang Hua (China)
> Travs Jorgensen/Autonomatic (Denmark)
> Zuzana Lednicka (Czech)
> Li Dengeng (China)
> Liu Zhizhi (China)
> Lou Yongqi (China)
> Lu Jingren (China)
> LUST (The Netherlands)
> Ma Ke (China)
> Laurence Madrelle (France)
> Victor Margolin (US)
> Ron Newman (Australia)
> N55 (Denmark)
> Carsten Nicolai/Alva Noto (Germany)
> Ruri Noguchi (Japan)
> Achyut Palav (India)
> David Pidgeon (Australia)
> Qiu Zhenzhong (China)
> Fiona Raby/Dunne & Raby (UK)
> David Reinfurt/Dexter Sinister (US)
> Michael Rock/2x4 (US)
> Rod Roodenburg (Canada)
> Mehdi Saeedi (Iran)
> Joachim Sauter/ART+COM (Germany)
> Helmut Schmid (Germany)
> Markus Schneider/thismedia (Germany)
> Ronald Shakespear (Argentina)
> David Small (US)
> Leonardo Sonnoli (Italy)
> Les Suen (China Hong Kong)
> Isao Suzuki (Japan)
> Song Xiewei (China)
> Nille Svensson/Sweden Graphics (Sweden)
> Hilton Tennant (South Africa)
> Sophie Thomas (UK)
> Troika (UK)
> Alice Twemlow (US)
> Andreas Uebele (Germany)
> Michael Vanderbyl (US)
> Omar Vulpinari (Italy)
> Wang Xueqing (China)
> Wan Jie (China)
> Femke Wolting/Submarine (The Netherlands)
> Xu Bing (China)
> Yao Dajuin (China Taiwan)
> Garson Yu (US)
> Yoon Ho Seob (Korea)
> Zhu Dake (China)
> Kan Tai-Keung (China Hong Kong)
> Antoine ABI AAD (Lebanon)
> Deborah Alden (Singapore)
> Audra Buck-Coleman (US)
> Paula DiMarco (US)
> Anne Ghory-Goodman (US)
> Emma Jeffries (UK)
> Helmut Langer (Germany)
> Eric Ligon (US)
> Ian McArthur (Australia)
> Ann McDonald (US)
> Kathryn McKelvey (UK)
> Pan Lusheng (China)
> Simon McIntyre (Australia)
> Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall (Australia)
> Michele Wong (US)
> Wang Xiaojie (China)
> Karin Watson (Australia)
> Joyce Yee (UK)
> Lawrence Zeegan (UK)
> Zhao Jian (China)
> Zhang Pengchuan (China)

Under the theme Xin, and in the spirit of the institution of World Development Information Day, the Icograda World Design Congress 2009 seeks to explore contemporary issues and challenges currently facing communication design. The Congress will pre-dominantly address four topics in the parallel sessions of the international conference:

Access
Balance
Communicate
Define

For more information about the congress, visit:
http://www.beijing2009.org/index-eng.htm