>International Council of Graphic Design Associations
Conseil International des Associations de Design Graphique

> > > Secretariat:
E.mail: icograda@compuserve.com

Guy-A. Schockaert, President
David Grossman, President Elect
Thierry Van Kerm, Director

>Official partner : Papierfabrik Scheufelen GmbH

News from Icograda

>Until September 30: Icograda Education Manifesto

The year 2000 marks the closing of a century in which design flourished. It also inaugurates a next era. Graphic design is changing now. Modern design is nearly 100 years old. We have followed the Bauhaus principles and have revised very little. We must now redefine design education, our aims as designers, our request for future designers. We propose the formation of an Icograda Seoul Manifesto Committee to collaborate toward the preparation of a design manifesto for the year 2000. The manifesto will be brief, only 2 to 3 pages long.

This will be published and read at the Icograda Seoul Millennium Congress, September 2000. The intention is to create a working document addressing the fundamental principles with which design education should concern itself. It is not intended to be the last word in design pedagogy, nor does it aims to prescribe a particular design philosophy. It intends, basically, to invite conscious reflection, the articulation of positions taken up by designers and the consideration of the board issues that surround design today.

We will invite a wide spectrum of design educators and practitioners from different parts of the world, representing different ages and sectors of society. The document, however brief, should include multiple concerns and viewpoints, and must avoid the temptation to pronounce a universal truth. We hope you will be willing to participate in this project. In the first stage we want to collect keywords. Just think about those words which represent fundamental design principles we should always embrace, and pass them on to us. The mechanics of participation will operate through a closed-user-group website.

Although this is presently conceived as a cug, we would like to have your suggestions about other ways of organising this project. We would also like your suggestions regarding other people or institutions or publications that you think should be invited.

Please send us their names and e-mail addresses. Our aim is to promote reflection about design and design education, and to reach a large number of contributors. We would not like to work behind closed doors and then publish a statement in the year 2000; we want to involve as many active people as we can in the exercise, and greet the millennium with a higher collective awareness about design and design education, dedicating the congress to the celebration of partnership rather than to the public celebrity of a few minds.

Please let us have your reaction to our invitation.
If you will participate, please send us your keywords by the end of September, 1999.
Sincerely,
Jorge Frascara, Univ. of Alberta, Chair of Icograda Education,
Ahn Sang-Soo, Hong-Ik University, Vice President of Icograda
Web: http://sidi.hongik.ac.kr/~manifest/

>Let's meet in Sydney Design 99 !

At the ICOGRADA, ICSID and IFI Congress: september 26-29, 1999
At the Icograda General Assembly: sept. 30-Oct. 01, 1999
You didn't register ? Contact Sydney Design 99 on:
sd99@icmsaust.com.au or register live on http://www.sd99.com.au

>Miscellaneous

>Iso 14001
ISO 14001 is an International Environmental Management System by the International Standard Committee. The purpose is to give the individual companies a tool to secure they govern the environmental work in an effective and systematic way. It also gives managers a tool to have control over the effects and costs of the work. It's also used as internal and external communication as a certificate upon the intentions and results of the environmental work. Icograda is connected to ISO. Contact: http://www.iso.14000.com

>Web site and exhibition
Visit the 'Signs of the Times: Political Posters in Central and Eastern Europe 1945-2000' website at http://www.idea,org.uk/posters/
The exhibtion opens at the Moravian Gallery, Brno on 17th November 1999, There will also be a symposium 'Culture, Society and Politics' 18th -19th November to look at issues concerning graphic design, politics and censorship.

Contact Marta Sylvestrova at the Moravian Gallery, Brno, Husova 18, 662 26 Brno, Czech Republic or James Aulich Department of History of Art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M15 6BG, UK - J.Aulich@mmu.ac.uk

>Books:

>Wipo international designs bulletin now available on CD-ROM
As of March 31, 1999 users of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs, will be able to receive the images published in the WIPO International Designs Bulletin on CD-ROM. This is a further manifestation of efforts by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) to move towards full automation of its support structures and increase efficiency by keeping abreast of technological developments.

This measure has resulted in a reduction of 20% in the publication fees paid by the applicants to register a design.
Contact: http://www.wipo.int
e-mail: wipo.mail@wipo.int

>Viver de design
A new book by Gilberto Strunck, Brazil
Contact: ADG: adg.br@uol.com.br

>Paint and Decorative effects
Twice a year, a panel of the world's most distinguished and experienced colourists get together. Based on their evaluation of future trends and social influences, a prognosis for paint and decorative effects is presented.
Contact: http://www.ncscolour.com
E-mail: info@ncscolour.com

>Entry deadline for Morisawa Awards 1999
August 31, 1999.
International Typeface Design Competition
Contact: http://www.morisawa.co.jp
E-mail: compe@morisawa.co.jp

>Events:

>22-28 August, 1999. Rencontres internationales de Lure Lurs-en-Provence, France
Typographie ordinaire, typographie singuliËre
Web page http://www.rencontresdelure.org
Tel & fax +33 01 42 55 79 13
E-mail: jeanpaul_martin@compuserve.com

>27-29 September, 1999 : Sydney Design '99
To receive your registration brochure for the Sydney '99 and the General Assembly:
E-Mail: sd99@icmsaust.com.au
Tel.: +61 2 9241 1478
Fax: +61 2 9251 3552
Web page and register live on http://www.sd99.com.au
>See you soon

>30 Sept.-1 Oct., 1999 : Icograda General Assembly
At the upcoming General Assembly in Sydney, the Board will present a program for the future of ICOGRADA which will include new tools and services that will strengthen national associations. In addition, new communications channels are being established that utilise the potential of the new technologies. We hope that you will attend and that your association will be well represented at the Congress and at the General Assembly. Besides the opportunity to meet colleagues from around the world, by participating in the General Assembly, you will be able to influence the future of ICOGRADA.
>Let's meet in Sydney !

>ATypI Annual Conference
7-10 October 1999
Bayside Expo & Convention Center, Boston, USA
Information from tel +44 (0) 1737 780150, fax +44 (0) 1737 780160, email
atypi@sharonirving.co.uk, http://www.atypi.org.

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Guy-A. Schockaert, Designer Graphique, UDB, FSTD

President Icograda 1997-99
International Council of Graphic Design Associations

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