'Look for Designers'

The Hong Kong Designers Association (HKDA), a Professional Member of Icograda, has recently launched the publication 'Look for Designers: Your Design Partners to Increasing Business Competitiveness'.

In light of the recent global shift to design as a high value-added production strategy, this book acts as a guide for Hong Kong businesses looking to hire designers to increase effectiveness. Incorporating the work and contact information of over 80 local design talents, this book is also a directory for companies to identify their suitable design partner.Hong Kong businesses have been facing certainchallenges in recent years. Low value-added production strategies are no longer enough for businesses to remain competitive. Historically, many high performing economies have shifted their focus to the creative industries in order to help create high value-added products and services locally and maintain their competitive edge.In order for Hong Kong to continue leading as an important high value-added economy in Asia, 'Look for Designers' remarks that it is essential for this country's economy to concentrate on design. To support Hong Kong's transformation, businesses must learn to use design services effectively, while designers must also learn to provide effective services to businesses.

More: www.icograda.org/news/year/2009_news/articles1426.htm

International Poster and Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont

Chaumont (France) - Icograda is pleased to endorse the twentieth annual International Poster and Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont, from 16 May - 14 June 2009.

Each year, an increasing number of students, professionals and general public come to the Chaumont Festival to discover the best in contemporary French and international creations and to pay homage to a key figure in the history of graphic design.The Festival focuses on diversity of content, and presents the colorful reality of graphic design by comparing and contrasting works produced in various studios and workshops on an international scale.A highlight of the Festival will be the exhibition of 100-120 posters, selected from the International Poster Competition 2009. Designers, studios, institutions and companies from all over the world are invited to submit printed posters created within the past three years with cultural, social, political or commercial themes. The deadline for submission is 20 February 2009.


More: www.chaumont-graphisme.com/en/avantpropos.php

Brand New Citroën

More: www.autoincar.com/brand-new-citroen-to-the-next-decade/

Animator x Animation

Animador e animação resolvem entrar em guerra neste brilhante trabalho em Flash do designer Alan Becker.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: ICOGRADA WORLD DESIGN CONGRESS 2009 EDUCATION CONFERENCE

Icograda is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the Icograda Education Network (IEN) Conference that will take place during the Icograda World Design Congress 2009 in Beijing, China.
The Congress is being planned in collaboration with the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). CAFA is the only national art education institution in China directly under the Ministry of Education, exclusively dedicated to the education of the fine arts, including painting, sculpture, design, architecture and art history.

IEN Conference format and themeThe Icograda Education Network (IEN) Conference brings together the worldwide community of communication design educational institutions during the Icograda World Design Congress 2009. This two-day event will include invited and refereed papers. All selected papers will be published in book form and on the Icograda website following the event.Icograda is inviting papers from the international design education community adressing the following themes:
Design Education and Innovation
Design Education and Diversity
Design Education and Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
Design Education and Regional Development

More: www.icograda.org/news/year/2009_news/articles1390.htm

New York Festivals Innovative Advertising Awards

New York Festivals was the first to create an international competition recognizing the importance and marketing value of innovative media.When the New York Festivals' Innovative Advertising Awards, formerly known as the Interactive Awards were first established in 1992 the world was a different place and the potential of new technology as a marketing tool was still very much in its infancy.Some of the categories in this competition include: Advergames and Viral Advertising for products or services; Online Advertising, including integrated campaigns that include online elements; a wide selection of categories for Guerrilla Marketing and Alternative Media, such as ambient, event and mobile marketing, blogs, short message systems, and street teams; and CD-ROM applications.To be eligible for the 2008 competition, entries must have been produced or released between October 1, 2006 and November 26, 2007.

The deadline for entries is November 30, 2007.

More: www.newyorkfestivals.com/main.taf?p=2,2

The European Design Awards 2009

Athens (Greece) - The European Design Awards 2009 has been endorsed by Icograda

The European Design Awards, also known as the Ed-Awards, is a comprehensive annual awards organisation acknowledging the best of graphic design, illustration and multimedia design in Europe. The ED Awards 2009 will take place on 17 May, as part of the European Design Festival which will take place in Zürich, Switzerland.The call for submissions is now open and will close on 14 February 2009.

The jury, consisting of representatives from leading communication design magazines in Europe, will select the recipients for the 30 award categories, which are divided into seven groups and two overall prizes. The first is the Jury's Prize, which is awarded for the most exceptional piece of design in Europe during the previous year. All work awarded is automatically eligible for the Jury's Prize, regardless of whether it is successful in any of the main categories. The Agency of the Year Award is awarded to the agency with the most overall points. Any participating person or studio is eligible for this prize.

More: www.ed-awards.com

PENTAWARDS ARE IN PARIS

There is a new place dedicated to packaging design in Paris, very close to the Louvre.It is the brainchild of Fabrice Peltier, founder of the P'Réference design agency.
It’s the DesignPack Gallery , 24 Rue de Richelieu, 75010 Paris.From 26 January to 28 February 2009 this gallery will be showing the winning packaging designs of Pentawards 2008. A unique opportunity to see these creative and surprising packaging designs from the 4 corners of the world.

On Wednesday, 11 February at 6:00 PM, Gerard Caron, publisher of the website www.admirabledesign.com and president of the Pentawards jury will make a presentation on the major marketing trends and their influence on packaging design.

Admission is free but reservations are required by mail to the DesignPack Gallery.

DesignPack Gallery
Rue de Richelieu 2475010 Paris – France www.designpackgallery.com

Telephone: + 33 1 44 85 86 00

Open Monday to Friday, from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM, Saturday from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM.

SHIGEO FUKUDA PASSES AWAY AT 76

At the age of 76 years old, Mr. Shigeo Fukuda passed away suddenly in Tokyo on Sunday, 11 January 2009 as the result of a subarachnoid hemorrhage.As one of the founding members and directors of the Japan Graphic Designers Association (JAGDA), Mr. Fukuda contributed profoundly to the development of the Association.Mr. Fukuda was deeply respected member of the Icograda community, serving as a Vice President of the Executive Board from 1993-1995.He was exceptionally generous with his wisdom, wit and time during numerous Icograda Congresses, Design Weeks and events, including Visualogue, the 2003 Icograda World Design Congress in Nagoya, Japan.

More: www.icograda.org/news/year/2009_news/articles1382.htm