Icograda to honour Sara Little Turnbull at Icograda Design Week in Seattle

Icograda is pleased to announce that Sara Little Turnbull will be the recipient of an Icograda Achievement Award. Turnbull is the Director of the Process of Change, Innovation and Design Laboratory. She trained in design at Parson’s School of Design before launching a career that now spans six decades and multiple continents. Turnbull has held positions as an editor, designer, strategic planner, cultural anthropologist and development consultant. In addition to founding the Center for Design Research and the Process of Change Laboratory, she served as a consulting professor for Stanford's School of Engineering and Graduate School of Business.  

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Icograda is pleased to announce that the Graphic Artists Guild (United States) has joined its ranks as a provisional full Professional Member. The Graphic Artists Guild is a national union of illustrators, designers, web creators, production artists, surface designers and other creatives who have come together to pursue common goals, share their experience, raise industry standards, and improve the ability of visual creators to achieve satisfying and rewarding careers.

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The report is a project of the International Design Alliance (IDA) managed by the Icograda.

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Design as an Ideological State-Apparatus
by Slavoj Zizek,
published from the proceedings of Era 05: The World Design Congress

The term 'design' oscillates between these two extremes: between design in the sense of 'mere design,' of designing the aesthetic form of a product, and design in the sense of constructing the very inner core, the genetic formula, of an organism.

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Design and Ideology: Where do you sit?

In this week's feature, Slavoj Zizek makes the statement, "This is what design is
truly about: designers articulate the meaning above and beyond the mere functionality
of a product." We want to know what you think.

State your opinion http://www.icograda.org/web/opinion

The third Design for Business Advantage Program will be opened by the Hon. André Haermeyer, MP, Minister for Manufacturing and Export, Small Business and Financial Services.  The International Design for Business Forum will demonstrate the critical role that design plays in bridging organisational creativity and its delivery of products, services and reputation. Companies that recognise the importance of design thinking and problem solving, benefit on practically every measure of business performance. Good design is more than styling; it offers better functionality, better communication and better use of resources. Put simply, design is the point of difference and as business leader Tom Peters once said, “design is the soul of new enterprise.”

With design contributing $6.8 billion per annum to Victoria’s GDP, ask yourself if your are realising the design capital your business deserves?

To register: http://www.lab.3000.com.au/agideasadvantage2006

Hyphen welcomes papers on typography and graphic communication and contributions at the meeting places between typography and other disciplines. Ten issues have been published since 1998 and the journal now appears on a yearly basis. The 2006 volume will be printed in October. The editor will be accepting contributions till the end of July and endeavours to acknowledge receipt within fifteen days after the contribution has arrived.

On acceptance, the editor will ask contributors to supply their work as a word-processed file. Illustrative matter, in digital or conventional form, accompanying the text should be in an acceptable form to allow for the best possible reproduction.
Proofs are sent to contributors about two months before publication. Contributors receive without charge three copies of the relevant volume.

Contact:
Klimis Mastoridis, klimis@uom.gr or klimis@altervision.gr
Gerry Leonidas, g.leonidas@reading.ac.uk

The Design Skills Advisory Panel is a group of designers and design body representatives drawn from all sectors of the business. It's the result of a unique partnership between the Design Council and Creative & Cultural Skills.

For more information: http://www.keepbritishdesignalive.com/

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MUSA BOOK: From Portugal To Everywhere
Musacollective, in collaboration with IdN

It all started one summer afternoon in 2003. There is a dream, an idea, a huge will to do something. To do something for Portugal design's sake. Merely two years later, part of the dream is coming true with the release of the MUSA Book.

Over 80 contributors; 180mmx214mm; 304 pages; 5 color process + vanish; semi-case bound; deluxe fluorescent protective plastic cover; ISBN-13: 978-988-98097-0-6

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