Helsinki (Finland) - The Finnish Association of Designer Ornamo and the Association of professional graphic designers Grafia announce the winners of the Finnish Designers Award.

Helsinki (Finland) - University or Art and Design Helsinki, the Helsinki School of Economics and the Helsinki University of Technology merge to form Aalto University - the innovation project in the extensive higher education reform currently being implemented by the Ministry of Education in Finland.

Gellivare (Sweden) - The Swedish Industrial Design Foundation host think-tank and information gathering session in preparation for the Interdesign workshop scheduled to take place in March 22 - April 3, 2009.

Beijing (China) - The Taiwan Design Center and the Beijing Industrial Design Center sign cooperation memorandum between the two organisations to promote the development of local design industries.

Brussels (Belgium) - Design Flanders, an Icsid Promotional Member, is proud to announce that Flanders has surpassed previous results at the Design Management Europe Awards (DME Awards)

Helsinki (Finland) - The winners of the international Isku Design Competition 2008 for young designers were announced on October 9, 2008, at Design Forum Finland in Helsinki. The competition programme was devised in cooperation with Ornamo, the Finnish Association of Designers, an Icsid Promotional Member.

Amsterdam (The Netherlands) - As part of the ExperimentaDesign Amsterdam 2008, "Come to My Place" is described as "a laboratory experiment reflecting on how we make a space our own through design, confronting and combining the global design culture and the vernacular of local production."

Ljubljana (Slovenia) - The International Jury of the 21st Biennial of Industrial Design have announced the award-winners, selected from the exhibited works.

Changsha (China) - The Hunan Provincial Government of China invites design students, individual designers from business or design companies, and other industrial design enthusiasts from around the world to enter the 2008 Lotus Cup International Industrial Design Competition.

Montréal (Canada) - The Mayor of Montréal, Gérald Tremblay, has posted online five challenges for the creative and design community, which he issued last Tuesday during the Pecha Kucha Night for Elected Officials.