Beijing (China) - bt'09 - Beijing Typography Exhibition 2009 will be one of the official exhibitions of Xin: Icograda World Design Congress 2009 in Beijing, under the theme of "Typography, Unity with New Life."

San Jose (United States) - With just under a 20% increase in submissions compared to last year, the Adobe Design Achievement Awards 2009 Call for Entries closed on Friday, 5 June with a total of 3245 entries. Students from higher-level institutions all over the world rushed to upload their submissions as the competition came to an end.

Beijing (China) - Kohei Sugiura is the latest keynote speaker to be announced for Xin: Icograda World Design Congress 2009 Beijing. He joins Sol Sender (United States), Jan van Toorn (The Netherlands) and Patrick Whitney (United States).

Melbourne (Australia) – Presented by INDIGO and Melbourne Conversations during the State of Design Festival, Culture Shift: An Indigenous Future for Design is free public forum bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous designers and commentators.

Beijing (China) - The China Design Education & Enterprise Development Summit asks why, despite the recognition of the creative industry as a driver for economic growth and the soaring student enrollment in design programmes around the country, designers within China still face great barriers when entering into the design industry.

Ottawa (Canada) - On 25 April 2009, the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC), at its National Annual General Meeting in Winnipeg, Manitoba, honoured Edmonton educator and designer Sue Colberg with Fellowship status. Only 12 other women have previously received this honour.

Seoul (Korea) - The Seoul Design Olympiad 2009 (SDO09) is a world design festival, organised by the city of Seoul to enhance and promote Seoul as a world design center. Now in its second year, this year's overarching theme is 'i-design'.

Lahti (Finland) - The 17 International Lahti Poster Biennial, organised by Poster Museum, Lahti, Grafia ry and Poster Friends, will be on display from 14 June - 27 September 2009 at the Lahti Art Museum.

Melbourne (Australia) – The Design Institute of Australia has inducted five new designer members into the DIA's Hall of Fame for 2008. Of these, the Dean of the Faculty of Art & Design at Monash University, Professor John Redmond, has been recognised with a Hall of Fame award.

Lima (Perú) - The San Ignacio de Loyola University's Art & Design programme is pleased to announce the international poster exhibition CANCER, HOPE AND LIFE.