Every year DiGiT manages to outdo itself with exciting new ideas and activities and 2004 is no exception. Partnering with the Visual Impact Expo, the industry event of the year is set to break all records with an excellent line-up of speakers, workshops and fun-filled design activities.

Presenting a focused DiGiT conference that covers three main areas - international design, design-business and Australian design and inspiration - DiGiT has gathered awe-inspiring international and local talent.

One of the highlights of the DiGiT conference is the session by New Yorker David Carson (David Carson Design, New York). Once the bad boy of design Carson now is one of the most respected, influential and famous figures of the creative industry. Newsweek says "he changed the face of graphic design". Carson is not alone in the stellar line-up of speakers. Ryosuke Tei (FuriFuri Company, Tokyo), the creator of Girls Power Manifest and the Bash figures series, is one of Japan's most important figures in the character and game design scene. Also speaking is Nille Svensson, founder of Sweden Graphics, Sweden, one of Europe's best & most influential graphic design groups, Julio Hardisson (innothna, Barcelona) and Richard Hogg from (Airside, London). Please visit http://www.digitexpo.com for full details on all speakers.

Leading the Australian brigade is Garry Emery, Garry Emery Design. Emery is a world-wide renowned graphic designer who has achieved an impressive international reputation for his Australian design work. Joining Garry are leading designers Dave Taylor (Ambience Entertainment), Franc Gentil (Gentil Eckersley), Mesh 22, Brandan Cook (PictureDrift), Chris Round (M&C Saatchi), Andrew Hoyne (Hoyne Design), Ashley Ringrose (Soap Creative), Philip Brophy (Interactive designer and film director), David Gravina (Digital Eskimo), Graeme Smith & Heidi Dokulil (Parcel), Ron Newman (Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney) and many more.

Running over four packed days (11 - 14 August 2004), this year's DiGiT features even more workshops - new areas include 3D animation, digital video editing and digital audio editing while strengthening its base on evergreen topics such as Photoshop, Quark, Indesign, Photography, Web and Illustrator.

Delegates and exhibitors alike loved DiGiT 2003. "Just the right market for our stand! It was awesome; everyone wanted to see the new G5 or iPod! Great, it was Next Byte's target market all in one convenient location," said Daniel Ilic of Next Byte. Equally excited were delegates. Peter Gould, Creative Cubed said "the three day conference was great, well organised and a very good mix of speakers/topics. Can't wait till 2004!".

To make 2004 even more exciting, DIGiT is introducing excellent value add-ons that are sure to produce rave reviews. A "chill-out" lounge will provide delegates access to speakers after their sessions for further discussion while a number of live hands-on demos and workshops are planned for the expo floor.

Event organisers Key Media, are very excited. Event manager Tim Duce says, "from our experience over the last couple of years, we know that these add-ons on the expo floor will give excellent value for money to all our sponsors, exhibitors and delegates". Already at an affordable price, a full three-day DiGiT conference ticket is a mere $169 (early bird price) while workshops start at just $89. Delegates can pick and choose between days of the event and workshops making it extremely flexible for a delegate to attend multiple events.

For complete details on DiGiT please visit http://www.digitexpo.com or call Lipakshi on 02 8437 4727 or e-mail lipakshi.das@kmimail.com