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Last Call for Early Bird Registrations to Xin: Icograda World Design Congress 2009 Beijing

Best rates until 31 July

31 July will be the last day for early bird registration. This means there are only 2 days until it expires. Take full advantage of discounted rates before it’s too late; register now! Professional, academic, student and group rates are available for qualifying delegates. Please visit www.beijing2009.org/reg.htm for further details.

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Selected speakers profiles

Huda Smitshuijen AbifaresHuda Smitshuijzen Abifares (Lebanon)
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès is author of Arabic Typography: a comprehensive sourcebook, Experimental Arabic Type, and Typographic Matchmaking. She holds degrees in graphic design from Yale University School of Art and Rhode Island School of Design, and specialises in bilingual typographic research and design. ... More

n55N55 (Denmark)
N55 is a Copenhagen-based Scandinavian art collective which was founded in 1994. All of N55's work product is freely accessible; their books, manuals, manifestos and images can be seen online and are not copyrighted. Their most recent work the Walking House is a modular dwelling system that enables the dweller to live a peaceful nomadic life, moving slowly through the landscape or cityscape with minimal impact on the environment. ... More

Carsten NicolaiCarsten Nicolai / Alva Noto (Germany)
Carsten Nicolai was born in 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, and now lives and works in Berlin. He launched noton.archiv für ton und nichtton (1994) that merged with raster music to label raster-noton (1999). Carsten is known best as visual artist creating paintings, objects and installations. He also publishes records under the pseudonyms noto and alva noto. ... More

(Every now and then in the Icograda WDC 09 newsletters, we will try to briefly introduce our confirmed speakers. This selection will be made randomly and through this we hope to show the diversity of presenters who will share their inspirations and experiences with our delegates in Beijing this October.)

POST__: Contemporary International Poster Retrospective

"Post__: Contemporary International Poster Retrospective" focuses on avant-garde concepts in international graphic design, illustrates the contemporary landscape of poster design, and explores alternative possibilities of poster design as a medium for communication. As a retrospective study in the "post-poster media age," the exhibition aims to analyse, reflect and shed new light on contemporary graphic design.

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