International Institute for Information Design call for Speakers Deadline: 11 June 2008 christopher.hanacek@iiid.net

The International Institute for Information Design (IIID) in Vienna is organizing a top-notch event this year in connection with public transportation entitled ‘Infoconnectivity - Intertwined information for interconnected transport networks’. The idea behind this expert forum: The effectiveness of public transport often depends on how long it takes to change between different modes of transport – the quicker and the more efficient, the better for passengers, tourists or staff, in short: everyone. Down-time should be reduced to an absolute minimum. However, if this so-called ‘inter-connectivity’ between transport networks is to be enhanced, it is vital to focus on measures of improving information-connectivity (infoconnectivity) between service providers in the area of public transport.

Between, graphic design between boundaries is an international conference for the graphic design, printing.

On 2nd October 2008 the 21st Biennial of Industrial Design will open at the Architecture Museum of Ljubljana.

Why not take advantage of the wonderful spring weather and book yourself on a Type Tour? Tours commence at 11.00 am. Start outside the St Bride Library, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London. Last around an hour and a half. Tickets can be booked on-line.

Running until the 21st July. Europe’s largest graduate art and design show. Now celebrating its eighth anniversary.

Housed in the cavernous splendour of Brick Lane’s Old Truman Brewery, Free Range 2008 boasts an incredible 400,000 square foot of dedicated exhibition space and is set to feature over 3,000 of the UK’s leading graduate artists ’drawn from 45 of the country’s finest art colleges.

Participating art colleges at the Fair are varied and include those from Brighton, Bournemouth, Nottingham, Manchester, Reading, and London. Each college creates their own tailor-made exhibition as part of Free Range, which rotate weekly over an 8 week period in several locations. Varied disciplines including graphics, illustration, printmaking, product design and textiles can be seen at the Fair and suit a variety of tastes. Popular with collectors, students, universities, employers, the media, industry shakers and everyday art lovers alike, Free Range has grown to become one of the world’s largest art fairs, now occupying the vast historic 11 acre site at the Old Truman Brewery off Brick Lane in East London.

Why not take advantage of the wonderful spring weather and book yourself on a Type Tour? Tours commence at 11.00 am. Start outside the St Bride Library, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London. Last around an hour and a half. Tickets can be booked on-line.

The world’s most respected international student competition and showcase.

Helen Escobedo is an international artist whose career spans over fifty years. An early exponent of installation art, she was one of the first artists of her generation to embrace site specificity in both permanent and ephemeral works. Themes of waste and the environment, women’s role in society, death, memory and the transformative action of light are prevalent in her work which often brings together the cultures of Mexico and Western Europe through art that intervenes in everyday life.

Escobedo’s interest in the cylindrical form of baled hay, its monolithic presence in fields across Europe and traditional pastoral connections within British landscape art, has informed the development of a new site-specific piece at the Sculpture’ Park.

This exciting work comprises twenty cylindrical sculptures sited in a square acre of land in the Country Park. Each structure has an inner and outer mesh, painted in such a way that the sculpture appears to float and merge with the landscape. The work alters and shifts depending on weather conditions, viewpoint and quality of light to create a defined but indeterminable space.

Born in Mexico City of an English mother and a Mexican father, Escobedo majored in the humanities and received her master’s degree in sculpture at the Royal College of Art in London. She also received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1991. She works on projects aroun’ the world, from New Zealand to Israel, England, Canada, the United States and Latin America.

Why not take advantage of the wonderful spring weather and book yourself on a Type Tour? Tours commence at 11.00 am. Start outside the St Bride Library, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London. Last around an hour and a half. Tickets can be booked on-line.

Fifteen designers of the highest caliber, coming from all corners of Europe will be taking us on a journey to their creative processes during the ED-Conference in Stockholm.

Through the presentation of carefully chosen case studies, each of them will allow us to take a glimpse on the way they work, from the very first meeting with the client, all the way up to the feedback of the delivered project.

The ED-Conference is only one out of 14 special design events taking place in Stockholm during this May.

Seeking inspiration: Seventh annual Friends of St Bride Library Conference, St Bride Library, London. Speakers include Paul Antonio, Joel Armstrong, Antonije Baturan, Sara De Bondt, Susanna Edwards, William Hall, George Hardie, Rian Hughes, Robin Kinross, Emily Luce, Karel Martens, Tyler Moorehead, Lizzie Ridout, Erik Spiekermann, Jeremy Tankard and Jake Tilson.

More information, including programme details when they become available, is at http://stbride.org/event/seekinginspiration

The world’s most respected Annual Reports competition.

Running until 6th July. The Not Knowing of Another is a new multi-screen video and sound installation that provides synchronized, but alternative viewpoints of a walk navigated by a man with complex neurological impairment at the De La Warr Pavilion.

Why not take advantage of the wonderful spring weather and book yourself on a Type Tour? Tours commence at 11.00 am. Start outside the St Bride Library, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London. Last around an hour and a half. Tickets can be booked on-line.

Topic: The effectiveness of public transport often depends on how long it takes to change between different modes of transport. This can become even more critical when it comes to transferring from long- to short-distance transport networks and vice versa.

If ’inter-connectivity’ between transport networks is to be enhanced, measures focusing on improving ’INFOconnectivity’ between transport networks and their customers are indispensable.

Highest possible effects in accelerating passenger transfers may be expected by introducing the concept of ’intertwined information’ of and between transport networks.

This year’s winner of the unique design-award »Cologne Thumper« is Stefan Sagmeister. The students of KISD voted for the famous Austrian designer now working in New York and thereby pay tribute to his outstanding works of the last years. Sagmeister will personally receive the »Kölner Klopfer« in Cologne on the 5th of June. The exact place will be announced soon.

Every year the students of KISD award the best or most important designer of the year with the »Cologne Thumper«. Former winners have been for example Erik Spiekermann, James Auger and last years award-winner was Kalle Lasn.

Lichfield’s photography for the ’Queen Magazine’, and ’Life’ helped crystallise the 1960s visual aesthetic. So much so that Diana Vreeland, the influential editor of American ’Vogue’, summoned him work for her. He capitulated in 1968, and became one of only five British photographers to be retained by the magazine since its foundation (Bailey, Beaton, Parkinson and Snowdon being the others).

Call for Entries: ADC Young Guns 6 Art Directors Club launches sixth biennial competition for under 30 creative pros and announces Young Guns alumni as jury

Young Guns: The rules are simple. You must be under the age of 30, you must have two years’ experience in a creative profession, and you must produce high-caliber visual work that will seize the jury’s attention and knock ’em dead.

The deadline for submissions is the 2nd June 2008.