Milano (Italy) - The 210 posters selected by the 2008 Good 50×70 jury as the best of all this year’s entrants are now online. In total, 2710 posters were submitted in response to seven briefs: Child Mortality, Global Warming, Human Rights, Hunting, STDS, War Victims and Water Scarcity.

Montreal (Canada) - Icograda endorses the fifth edition of the Croatian Design Exhibition, organised by the Croatian Designers Society.

Zagreb (Croatia) - The ZGRAF 10 jury has made the final awards from more than 500 entries from 23 countries. The ZGRAF 10 exhibition includes 185 pieces from 16 countries. The award winners were recognised that the exhibition opening on 6 May.

Barcelona (Spain) - Based on the response and requests from the design community, Design for the World has extended the deadline for participation in the 'Push-Pull' pictogram project to 15 June 2008. The project is soliciting submissions to develop a 'push-pull' pictogram to fill a gap in the codified systems of pictograms.

Montreal (Canada) - CONCEPTS FOR ALL is an internet image bank offering visual concepts to promote humanitarian causes. The main topics are: human rights, the environment, refugee and immigration issues, racism, disease prevention, war and violence, abuse of women and children, illiteracy, social isolation, etc.

La Habana (Cuba) - “Cuba Grafica”, one of the three signature exhibitions presented in La Habana during Design/Culture: Icograda World Design Congress 2007, has received the 2008 National Prize for Curatorship. The award is the highest granted in Cuba to art and design exhibitions.

Brussels (Belgium) - The time has come for designers to enter their packaging creations in Pentawards 2008, the only competition in the world dedicated exclusively to packaging design.

Montreal (Canada) - An impressive lineup of speakers is confirmed for IFA's 9th Global Conference in Montréal, and deadlines for abstracts has been extended to 30 May 2008.

Milan (Italy) - Wolda, the Worldwide Logo Design Annual, announces the distinguished panel of 30 independent judges that will select the winning entries for its '08 inaugural edition.

Washington, DC (United States) - The 2008 SEGD Conference + Expo in Austin will honour Ronald Shakespear of Diseño Shakespear, an internationally acclaimed designer and father of environmental graphic design in Argentina, on 29 May 2008.