Milan (Italy) - AIAP (Associazione italiana progettazione per la comunicazione visiva) is please to announce that the following directors were elected at its annual meeting held on the 9 November 2006.

Montreal (Canada) - The Institute of Design Montreal Awards competition underscores the excellence of Quebec design and demonstrates that design creates wealth, enhances the quality of life and expresses a society's cultural identity.

Montreal (Canada) - The International Design Alliance (IDA) has opened the Call for Interest for its inaugural 2011 Congress.

Golfe Juan (France) - Humanitarian International Design Organisation is a non-profit organisation (LOI 1901 HIDO), believing in the value and the importance of design.

Zurich (Switzerland) - The Shahneshin Foundation (SF) is pleased to announce that the distinguished jury of the 2006 Shrinkage Worldwide Awards 2006 has carefully reviewied and considered assessment of entries to find the award winners.

Montreal (Canada) - Expressions of work and education in South Africa change so quickly that anything you write about them is redundant by the time the ink dries.

Hong Kong - Icograda is pleased to endorse the the 2007 Hong Kong International Poster Triennial, a major event of the Hong Kong Designers' Association and the Hong Kong Heritage Museum.

Montreal (Canada) - Icograda is interested in partnering with its member associations to celebrate the value of communication design. We are inviting proposals from those interested in being recognised as an Icograda Design Week in 2008.

Hong Kong (China) - Business of Design Week (BODW) 2006, Asia's leading international event dedicated to design, brand and innovation, will be held from Monday 27 November - Saturday 2 December in Hong Kong.

Kharkiv (Ukraine) - In 2007, twenty years will have passed since the first HIV infection case was registered in Ukraine. A whole generation has grown up in this time.