Barcelona (Spain) - On Monday 21 January 2008, BEDA President Michael Thomson (UK) and Vice-President, Jan R Stavik (Norway) met with Vice-President of the Commission, Gunter Verheugen at the European Commission in Brussels.

Montreal (Canada) - The Temasek Design School, a member of the Icograda Education Network (IEN), will play a leadership role in Singapore's new National Design Centre for Ageing.

Amsterdam (The Netherlands) - Student work usually disappears into drawers after presentations to small college audiences. :output, the biggest international competition for students in design and architecture, aims to change that. The works selected by the jury will be published in the yearbook :output.

Hong Kong (China) - In order to showcase design to the general public, Hong Kong Design Centre has co-organised with Hong Kong Designers' Association to bring the "HKDA Awards 07" Exhibition, one of the exceptional Hong Kong design awards exhibitions, to the InnoCentre from 8-30 January 2008.

Auckland (New Zealand) - Cathy Veninga and Fraser Gardyne have been recognised by DINZ for their contribution to the New Zealand design profession.

Zagreb (Croatia) - ZGRAF is an international triennial exhibition of graphic design and visual communications held in Zagreb, Croatia since 1975.

Washington (United States) - SEGD (the Society for Environmental Graphic Design) has announced the publication of the SEGD Green Paper: Best Practices, Strategies, and Scenarios for Sustainability in Environmental Graphic Design.

Ljubljana (Slovenia) - The Biennial of Industrial Design is one of the few events in the world to present, every two years, an expert selection of industrial design products and to promote, through well designed products by Slovene and foreign designers, contemporary trends in international design.