Last Call For Entries: 15 April 2010 for World Industrial Design Day student poster competition

This year's design students from Icsid Member Schools are put to the challenge to design a poster that illustrates the importance of industrial design to humankind. The poster can be a creative illustration or an illustration of the design of a product that captures this year's theme.

"Industrial Design: Humane solutions for a resilient world"



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Icsid Board Meeting to be held in San Francisco

San Francisco (United States) - The next Icsid Executive Board meeting will be held in San Francisco, United States on 24-25 April, 2010. The board meets a minimum of three times a year to review the current and upcoming activities and initiatives of the organisation.

For more information on when and where the next board meeting will take place, please visit the Icsid Homepage for updated events.

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Design Council Releases Design Industry Research 2010
London (United Kingdom) - In autumn 2009 the Design Council conducted its second comprehensive survey covering 2,200 design businesses, it was published in March 2010.

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Education in the New Millennium: The Case for Design-Based Learning
This article, by Hyun-Kyung Lee and Icsid President Mark Breitenberg, focuses on current examples of project or design-based learning at the secondary school level in the context of the increasing importance of creativity and innovative thinking in the twenty first century.

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