Montreal (Canada) - Professional designers and design enthusiasts around the globe will unite on June 29, 2008 for the first ever observance of World Industrial Design Day (WIDD).

Seoul (South Korea) - Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon signs memorandum of agreement with Icsid officially appointing the city as the World Design Capital 2010.

Gellivare (Sweden) - In a partnership between Icsid, the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation (SVID) and the community of Gellivare, City Move Interdesign will be the main activity in a project about how to relocate people and societies.

Montreal (Canada) – Just over one year following the launch of its redesigned website, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) has announced the release of its website’s second phase of development.

Montreal (Canada) - Professor Carlos Hinrichsen is inducted as President.

San Francisco (USA) - Prof. Dr. Peter Zec steps down at the end of a successful two-year term.

San Francisco (USA) - The much anticipated announcement was made during Icsid's 25th world design congress.

Montreal (Canada) - June 29, 2008 will be the first “World Industrial Design Day” recognising the profession of industrial design, to be observed the world over.

(Singapore) - Board attends seventh meeting this term in Singapore.

Icsid joins APCI's fourth conference on design support and design promotion in Europe.