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Guy-A. Schockaert, President

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News from Icograda

>Reminder: 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 !

>Reminder: 27-29 September, 1999 : Sydney Design '99
In brief: the program

>Monday 27 September 1999: Searching, Sustainability and Competition

Competition stimulates, co-operation reinforces and solidarity brings together. To be lost is a process that challenges our preconceptions, we begin to question all that we take for granted as designers. To open our minds to other ways of thinking, the different perspectives of our own and other cultures.

The speakers on Day One will challenge our perceptions of design.

In order for the Congress to produce "outcomes" we must begin a process on Day One that promotes our thinking about the role of design in today's world and into the next century. The role of competition in our practice, our responsibilities as designers and our potential to make a difference in a world under threat from forces that are attacking our environment and our cultures.

We are so close to the end of the twentieth century! We need to reflect on the impact that
design has had in light of the revolution in social and economic change that has occurred.

>Tuesday 28 September 1999: Understanding Today - Enterprise, Government and Design

Projects drive our very being, clients our direction? Understanding our world as designers today can be seen as a journey that begins with the setting of our own parameters. Finding our own starting point based upon knowledge, personal experience, environment, culture and personality.

The practice of design today pre-occupies all of us. Many of the issues and challenges that confront society today could find resolution through design.

Consumption versus sustainability. Cultural identity. New media and communication. Design in emerging economies. The impact of design on demographic changes. Making design education relevant to the community and the professions.

>Wednesday 29 September 1999: Enjoying the Journey. The next 10 years

Short term thinking - what about the long term? By further exploring the ideas that have been developed over the previous two days, the first steps are taken on our journey. Has the path an end? What is the time frame? We know where we have come from and we now know why we are travelling. "Is the journey the destination?"

For most designers their professions are a vocation that satisfy a deep yearning to be creative and to *order* the world in a better way. The journey for the designer is to seek satisfaction. Change is so rapid that many believe that we can only plan and predict outcomes for the first decade of the new century.

The final day explores how designers will approach the new millennium - its challenges and its potential to provide satisfaction for themselves and relevance in a world that will change rapidly in the next decade.

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

>A website for Icograda:

An Icograda website which has just gone on-line can be accessed at http://www.icograda.org
This site has a chat room called Icograda/space and there is a link to it from the home page.
Contact: s.campbell@mdx.ac.uk

>A website for Icograda:

Thierry Van Kerm has been appointed has Director until the General Assembly in Sydney. Thierry Van Kerm will be in charge of the day-by-day management of Icograda and will prepare the General Assembly in Sydney. You can join him for any enquiry, E.mail: icograda@compuserve.com

>From Icograda Members:

>A Travelling Exhibition of Japanese Graphic Design Posters proposal from Leimei Julia Chiu, Vice President, ICOGRADA
As a pilot project for the member associations to collaborate with each other, ICOGRADA and the International Design Center NAGOYA will co-ordinate the exhibition of the World Heritage Posters to be travelled amongst the member associations around the world. This is a collection of 25 Japanese posters designed by 25 Japanese graphic designers including Shigeo Fukuda and Kazumasa Nagai, to advocate the importance of preserving our world heritages, and received the BIO16 Gold Medal and Icograda Excellence Award last year.

Details of hosting this exhibition:
1. travelling format: The exact size of all the posters are 728 mm x 1030 mm. These posters are laminated on both sides, rolled up into 2 big tubes (13 and 12 posters in each tube) and have all the details in English written on the back of the posters.
2. Expenses: Each member association interested in hosting this exhibition will be responsible for the one way delivery cost of sending these two tubes to the next association, finding the exhibition venue and setting up the exhibition. Promotional materials: 50 catalogues (in English) of this travelling exhibition are available for each venue.
3. Timetable:
August- December, 1999: Asia Region,
January- July, 2000: European Region

Each association is allocated one month to display these posters. We have received the following confirmation from associations: January, 2000- Design Austria, February, 2000- Sweden, March, 2000- Spain, April, 2000- Turkey, Israel We are accepting requests from associations in Asia for the period between August- December, 1999.

For inquiries, please contact: Leimei Julia Chiu, Vice President ICOGRADA
Tel. +81-52-265-2100
fax. +81-52-265-2107
e-mail: julia@idcnagoy.co.jp
e-mail: leimei_julia_c@hotmail.com

>Icograda Education Manifesto
Thanks to Ahn Sang Soo and Jorge Frascara, an homepage is now available for the Icograda Education Manifesto ! Have a look at: http://sidi.hongik.ac.kr/~manifest/

>Academic position at ANU
The Australian National University, Institute of the Arts is seeking to appoint an academic in the arts experienced in technology in the arts as Head of its re-organised Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology (ACAT). The appointment will be made at the level of Senior Lecturer (Academic Level C).
Contact: the Secretary, Institute of the Arts, Mr Ross Cornwell, Tel. 02 6249 5702
Email: Secretary.ITA@anu.ed.au

>ACUADS: a new website address
Contact: http://www.acuads.curtin.edu.au/

>ADI: new coordinators
Department of Designers: Antonio Macchi Cassia
Department of Enterprises: Lodovico Acerbis
General Department: Daniele Baroni
Thematic Delegations:

Information technology for design: Aldo Bottoli
IIDD Italian Institute for Design and Disability: Paolo Favaretto, President

ADI Adriatica: Marco Tamino
ADI FVG, Friuli Venezia Giulia: Fausto Boscariol
ADIDOC - Occidentale: Alberto Donini
ADI Nord Est: Valerio Facchin
ADI Roma: Stefania Bedoni

>Web Resources:

>About typography
A typography website: http://www.dab.uts.edu.au/viscom/cypher/

>About AIGA
Web site of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Institute of Graphics Arts, featuring advice on timing, compensation, responsibilities, and other tips for design firms in search of interns. It also offers advice to those seeking an internship.
http://www.aiga-intern.org

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

President Icograda 1997-99
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