December 13, 1999
International Council of Graphic Design Associations
Conseil International des Associations de Design Graphique
Secretariat: E.mail: secretariat@icograda.org
Official partner : Papierfabrik Scheufelen GmbH
From Icograda Members
>From Swiss Graphic Designers
DGD A4-Award
Email: info@sgd.ch
Internet: www.sgd.ch
The winners of the DGD A4-Award are Niklaus Troxler (Poster), Peter Scholl (Print), Urs Grünig (Corporate Design), Thomas S. Schaer (Editorial Design) and Hanspeter Schneider (Open Category).
From Design Austria
Joseph Binder Award 1998: Catalogue and CD-Rom are out now!
Fax: +43 1 524 49 49 4
Email: info@designaustria
Finally, the first digital Joseph Binder Award catalogue has appeared. A CR-Rom on which the trend-setting works of the winning candidates from Austria, Germany and Switzerland can be looked at either in the form of abbreviated originals or via direct links. The lates edition of the Joseph Binder Awarrd was devoted to digital design and the new media.
From Icograda Foundation
Date: 16-17 October 2000
Crash Test Dummies, The year 2000 Icograda Foundation London Student Seminar
Venue: The Business Design Centre, Islington, London, Great Britain
From Icograda Foundation
Student design Award sponsorised by the Icograda Foundation
Contact: Debbie Hutchinson, RSA Design
Tel.: +44 20 79 30 51 15
Internet: www.rsa.org.uk/sda/pro/02.html
The winning student will receive a £2,500 travel bursary plus introductions and support in their chosen destination country. Winning and short listed work will be exhibited at The Business Design Centre during the 21 Crash Test Dummies, the year 2000 Icograda London Seminar
Miscellaneous
UNESCO awards internet
Unesco gave its first web award to Nirnanet
Internet: www.nirvanet.com
Deadline :February 10, 2000. Review of candidates will continue until position is filled.
The Minneapolis College of Art and Design is seeking a Chair for its Design Division.
The Design Chair is responsible for providing leadership and management as head of the Design Division. She/he will evaluate faculty, advise students, teach across the Design curriculum, and work as a member of the institution's academic team to develop and implement curriculum changes. The Chair will be dedicated to expanding and strengthening links with the professional community.
Qualifications include superior teaching and professional credentials with demonstrated managerial skills and leadership potential. Candidate will demonstrate particular skills in one of the majors and have experience in computer based design processes and new media. The Chair will possess excellent interpersonal skills and afford vision, guidance, and advocacy for faculty. Master's Degree or equivalent desired. Salary range $56,000-$60,000 commensurate with educational and professional experience.
Send cover letter detailing your philosophy and qualifications for this position, resume, examples of personal work and work by students in any of the following formats: slides (20 each), computer disk, CD or video; and three names and telephone numbers of professional references.
Address applications and inquiries to: Judith Rae,
Design Chair Search, Minneapolis College of Art and Design,
2501 Stevens Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55404;
E-mail: judith_rae@mcad.edu
Internethttp://www.mcad.edu.
NEW KIDS JOURNAL ON-LINE
The first DX (Design Xchange, Toronto, Canada) publication specifically geared to students and educators (named Re:Design) will be launched on Dec. 3. The first issue was written,
designed and created by high school students in the Cyberarts Program at
Don Mills Collegiate. A variety of professionals visited the students and
mentored them in their work. Visit Re:Design at
http://www.dx.org/edu2.html. For more info about this program, e-mail
mailto:rebecca@dx.org
OM'NIUM -- VIRTUAL DESIGN STUDIO 1999
om'nium was conducted in July and August 1999, and involved students from
geographically distanced design colleges working collaboratively to produce
design solutions using the Internet as a communication tool. This project
was featured at the Sydney DECA Conference '99.
View the outcomes at http://www.omnium.unsw.edu.au and for further details
regarding this innovative educational project contact Rick Bennett on email
r.bennett@unsw.edu.au
Agenda
Date: until January 9, 2000
Subject: Mutanten
Venue: NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf, Germany
Internet: www.nrw-forum.de
Exhibition on the german avant-garde in comics
date: January 21, 2000
Subject: Call for papers -- CIR-2000, The Challenge of Image Retrieval, Third UK Conference on Image Retrieval, Brighton, United Kingdom
Web: http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/cfp.html
The main themes of CIR-2000 are video asset management, and image indexing and metadata, and content-based image retrieval. The 2000 event aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of image data management, to exchange information and gain some idea of the significance of developments in related disciplines. It should be of interest to researchers in fields as diverse as information retrieval, database, computer vision and image processing, human visual perception and interface design, as well as users and managers of image and video libraries.
Original papers are solicited for the conference describing research or innovation in any area related to image or video storage and retrieval. Accounts of work in progress are acceptable provided at least some results are reported.
Date: February 12, 2000
Subject: Making it Conditions of contemporary design practice
Venue: Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 43 35 03 737
Fax: +31 43 35 03 799
Internet: www.janvaneyck.nl
A one day symposium that will examine the nature of design practice today. Relevant issues for discussion include: communication strategies in international, networked and multi-linguistic communities; the influence of rapid technological change on designers and their audiences; the realities of working in cross-disciplinary teams and multi-media platforms; the effects of a shifting geopolitical landscape; the role of design in a multi-cultural and post-colonial society; the changing role of design commissioners in the shift from stake holder to shareholder economies.
Deadline for outline paper submissions: 25 February 2000.
Subject: Idater Conference
Contact: Mrs PM Wormald-Lim,
Tel: + 44 (0)1509 222644
Fax: + 44 (0)1509 223999
e-mail: idater@lboro.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/idater
IDATER is an established annual International Conference on Design and Technology Educational Research and Curriculum Development organised by the Department of Design and Technology at Loughborough University, UK.
Date: March 20-22, 2000:
Subject: "Smart Graphics" AAAI 2000 Spring
Venue: Symposium, Stanford, CA, USA In Cooperation with Eurographics
Email: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~patrick/SG2000
Smart Graphics aims to move beyond the current requirement that designers anticipate every data, task and technological scenario, and instead allow the dynamic generation and presentation of content in such a manner that: (1) engages the user and is aesthetically satisfying; (2) takes account of cognitive insights as to the use of external representations, for example, minimizing potential for imprecision and ambiguity; (3) is sensitive to the real-time demands of the task in the context of available computational resources; and (4) adapts the form of the output according to constraints placed on the presentation by the nature of the target media and available interaction devices.
Date: March 31, 2000: Deadline for entries
Subject: The National Post Design Exchange Awards (DXA)
Contact: Debbie Brown
Email: mailto:pr@dx.org.
Tel: + 1 416 216-2145
The 1999 National Post DXA have been postponed. The new deadline for
entries is Mar. 31, 2000 with the Gala taking place on May 24. This annual
Canadian awards program judges design from all disciplines on its
effectiveness: how it impacts the business bottomline and quality of life.
Date: April 1-6, 2000
Subject: CHI-2000
Venue: The Netherlands
Web: http://www.acm.org
Web: http://www.amand.com,
Email: Aaron@AMandA.com.
CHI-2000 is the pre-eminent annual user-interface design conference. Aaron Marcus will lead a one-day tutorial about cultural diversity in user-interface design. His co-presenters are Prof. Donald Day, Towson University, USA; Prof. Emilie Gould, Rensselaer Polytechnic University, USA; and Dr. Pia Honold, Siemens, Germany.
Mr. Marcus has recently authored a chapter about globalization of user-interface design for the Web in Stephanidis, C., ed., User Interfaces for All, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000 (in press).
Reminder: events endorsed by Icograda
Deadline for entries: December 12, 1999
Subject: 17th. International Poster Biennial of Warsaw
Endorsed by Icograda
Venue: The Poster Museum at Wilanow, Poland
10/16 St.Kostki Potockiego street
02-958 Warsawa
Poland
Tel: 48-22 842 48 48
Fax: 48-22 842 26 06
Date: Exhibition: January 10 -- 20 2000
Subject: Salon International de l'Affiche
Endorsed by Icograda
Organised by: Unesco, Icograda and les Arts de la rue
Venue: André Parinaud, Bureau 2.07 UNESCO, 7 Place de Fontenoy, Paris, France
Travelling exhibition:
André Parinaud
105 Boulevard Haussmann,
F-75008 Paris
France
Fax +33 1 49 24 98 45
Deadline for entries: 15 January 2000
Subject: 19th. International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2000
Endorsed by Icograda
Venue: Brno, Czech Republic
Email: bienale@mg-brno.anet.cz
Web: http://www.moravska-galerie.cz
Tel: 00420-5-42211464
Fax: 00420-5-42215758
Deadline for entries: 15 February 2000
Golden Bee 5, International Biennial of Graphic Design, Moscow 2000
Endorsed by Icograda
Venue: Moscow Central Artists Hall, Russia
Contact: Dr. Serge Serov
E-mail: serov@mega.ru
Web: http://www.golden.bee.design.ru
Deadline for entries: 15 February 2000
Trnava Poster Triennial 2000
Endorsed by Icograda
Exhibition: 28 September 30 November 2000
Venue: Galéria Jana Koniarka, Trnava, Slovak Republic
Email: sdc@sdc.sk
Tel. +421 805 55 11 659
Fax +421 805 55 11 391
Internet: http://www.sdc.sk
Deadline: Marsh 4, 2000
11th Rencontres Internationales des Arts Graphiques de Chaumont
Endorsed by Icograda
Exhibition: May 19 -- July 18 2000
Venue: Chaumont, France
Entries must be addressed to : Bureau d'inscription Festival d'Affiches de Chaumont, 7/9, avenue Foch, 52000 Chaumont -- France
Tel : 33 (0)3 25 03 86 80
Fax : 33 (0)3 25 03 86 98
Email : silos.artsgraphiques@netcourrier.com
Deadline: March 15, 2000
Water for human kind, Creation of an image bank
Endorsed by Icograda
Venue: « Association pour une banque d'images: l'eau pour l'humanité », c/o Sng, 8 rue Saint-Jean, F 75017 Paris, France.
Email: thierry.sarfis@thotm.com
Deadline: (first judging): 20 April 2000
The Future passed through
Endorsed by Icograda
Venue: International Design Centre Nagoya, Japan
Fax: +81-52-265-2107
Email: inquiry@idcnagoy.co.jp
Web: http://www.idcnagoy.co.jp/compe/index.html
Date: 24-28 April 2000
Istanbul International Graphic Design Week
Endorsed by Icograda
Venue: Istanbul,Turkey
Contact: Sadik Karamustafa
Phone: +90 212 245 2297
Fax: +90 212 251 5211
Email: sadik@turk.net
Deadline for entries: May 30, 2000
Sixth lnternational Biennial of the Poster in Mexico
Endorsed by Icograda
Exhibition: October 2000 -- January 2001
Venue: Mexico, Mexico
Tel: (52 5) 514 81 37
Fax: (52 5) 525 42 65
E-mail: tramavis@.df1.telmex.net.mx
Web: http://www.bienalcartel.org.mx
Date: October 24-27, 2000
Icograda Millennium Congress Oullim 2000 Seoul
Endorsed by Icograda
Venue: COEX, Seoul, Korea
Tel: +82-2-708-2170
Fax: +82-2-3672-5971
Email: oullim@kidp.or.kr
Web: http://www.oullim.org
Any inquiry about Icograda:
Icograda secretariat: secretariat@icograda.org
Thierry Van Kerm, Director: secretariat@icograda.org
President: president@icograda.org
David Grossman, President: vitaldav@netvision.net.il
Board Members: board.members@icograda.org
Guy Schockaert, Past President: guy.schockaert@euronet.be
Robert Peters, President Elect: rlpeters@circle.mb.ca
Martha Bateman, Secretary General: MarthaB@MDGRAPHIC.CO.ZA
Russell Bevers, Treasurer: russell@rba.com.au
Sang Soo Ahn, Vice President: ssahn@wow.hongik.ac.kr
Leimei Julia Chiu, Vice President: julia@idcnagoy.co.jp
Sanja Rocco, Vice President: sanja.rocco@zg.tel.hr
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