Hong Kong - Design to Empower programme was initiated by Hong Kong Design Centre in 2008 with the aim to train the secondary school students on "Design Thinking" and how to apply its processes to solve problems and to design projects.

Brisbane (Australia) - The much-anticipated Optimism: Icograda Design Week in Brisbane 2010 International Conference opens today at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre.

Montreal (Canada) – Helen Fotopulos, Ville de Montréal Executive Committee member responsible for Culture, Heritage, Design and the Status of Women, today awarded the Phyllis Lambert Design Montréal Grant to Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat.

Ljubljana (Slovenia) - The BIO 22 international Jury has presented this year’s BIO Awards. Jury members selected the recipients of three BIO Gold Medals, ten BIO Honourable Mentions, seven BIO Quality Concept Awards and and Award for a Student Work.

Melbourne (Australia) - Entries have opened to the Melbourne Design Awards (MDA) – a new awards program in association with the Design Institute of Australia, Victorian Branch, that honours Melbourne's best design across more than fifty categories.

Trier (Germany) - This December, The Academy of European Law will host a conference on European Intellectual Properly Law 2010, focusing on design law, trade marks and domain names. It aims to address various legal aspects of the most recent developments in both jurisprudence and legislation in the field of EU industrial property law.

Treviso (Italy) - Fabrica, the Benetton Group's communication research center, has been invited by the Lodz Design Festival in Poland to present Imaginaires, an installation merging simple, handmade ceramic pieces, representing the plant world, with drawn electric systems to create a new surreal natural landscape.

Terni (Italy) - Utilità Manifesta / Design for Social aims to give visibility and promote messages, graphic design and industrial design projects that are compatible with the claim 'Less Waste More Rights.' Graphic designers, industrial designers and students have until 30 October 2010 to take part.

Tokyo (Japan) - The Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization has announced the results of the 2010 Good Design Awards. From 3136 applications from all over the world, 1110 items received Good Design Awards. These include the Good Design Award Best 15 and other special awards.

Vienna (Austria) - The international jury for the Joseph Binder Award 2010 has announced this year's finalists. The jury assessed 447 entries by 206 participants from 16 countries, 24 of which will be awarded trophies during the awards ceremony on 10 November.