The Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) announces that Washington, DC designer Patrick Gallagher, will serve as the Society's president for 2000. Over his twelve-month term, Patrick aims to increase membership and convert the organization into a new education-based foundation. One of his goals is to broaden the range of design skills represented in SEGD:

SEGD is the professional organization for individuals and firms working in the area of environmental graphic design (EGD). EGD is the planning, design and specifying of graphic elements in the built and natural environment. SEGD promotes excellence, professional development and public awareness of this expanding field. Members represent designers and firms from graphics, exhibit and industrial design, architecture, interior and landscape architecture and communication design.

Today, information design is a (graphic) speciality, which incorporates aspects of marketing strategies, public relations en technical manipulation. In the old days the encyclopaedia structured the path form A to Z. Now we have to find our own way using modern search- and navigation systems.

The manifestation InfoArcadia consists of an exhibition and a conference. The exhibition is build up like a three-dimensional type page, CD-ROM or web page. The visitor can find or lose his own way in the forest of information. He is confronted with five different forms of presentation, which are the building stones of the exhibition:

-Visuals : Strong images, that speak for themselves.
-Demo's : Navigational systems, that require participation.
-Spoken columns : The spoken word. Views of the participating artists and experts: video registrations and sound bites.
-Printed matter : Words in print.
-Flyers : Flyers are the connecting links in the exhibition. Who collects all the flyers, collects a catalogue.

The designer determines indirectly how we will understand data, how we will perceive certain events, what opinions we will form and even what we will consume. How can the interface make information more or less- accessible?

InfoArcadia is a project by Maarten de Reus and Ronald van Tienhoven. They invited an international company of artists and experts in the field of design, media and psychology to take part in the exhibition.

The AGIdeas International Design Conference is a major international event.  Speakers are selected from the cream of the national and international design community from such diverse fields as photography, film, multimedia, fashion, animation, sculpture, interior design, landscape design, architecture and graphic design and invited to speak in Melbourne to our young emerging designers.

With the 10th anniversary in the year 2000 next year's program plans to be the best yet.   We already have confirmation from the following designers:

David Carson (US), Dick Powell (UK product designer), Ralph Schraivogel (Swiss -- Poster Designer), Andrea Rauch (Italian Graphic Designer), Alan Chan (Graphic/Film/Product, Hong Kong), and the following Australian Speakers: Jonathon Nolan (SOCOG), Mimmo Cozzolino (Melbourne), Ros Moriarty (Artist/Graphic Designer -- Sydney), Robyn Schremmer (Anything's Possible Digital Pictures), John Denton (Architect and Public Artist Melbourne), Simon Needham (UK), Dana Arnett (USA -- Corporate Identity).

As well as three days of inspirational presentations, AGIdeas '2000  includes extra events such as design exhibitions, installations, performance artists, entertainment and much more! Students booking early for the conference can also register to attend one of the ever-popular Australian Design Nights, where small groups of students spend an evening with a Melbourne design industry leader.

Endorsed by Icograda

Endorsed by Icograda