Nagoya (Japan) - From 9 July to 18 August, Musashino Art University will host the International Students' Poster Design Project "Climate Change," an Icograda-endorsed poster exhibition featuring work by 190 students from 20 universities on 5 continents.

Montréal (Canada) - The Adobe® Design Achievement Awards has announced a deadline extension for the third and final submission session. Due to popular demand, students and faculty can submit their projects until 30 June 2012, 21:00 PST.

Taipei City, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) - The Taipei City Government and the China Productivity Center have launched the 2012 Taipei International Digital Content Awards, an Icograda endorsed event.

Nanjing (China) - Celebrating its third year, Hiiibrand Awards 2012 is the international awards honouring brand design. This Icograda-endorsed event is open to world-wide enterprises, design institutes, design companies, designers and students in design.

Toronto (Canada) - The Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario (RGD) has recently launched their National Survey of CreativeEarners. The survey seeks to build an economic profile for the creative industry in Canada. Among other measurements, Creative Earners seeks to discover what benefits beyond financial incentives motivate professionals in the industry and makes their work worthwhile.

Montréal (Canada) - Icograda has endorsed Energy for All, Utilità Manifesta's (UM) 2012 design competition - accepting entries until 30 October 2012. The organising committee notes that the lack of clean, accessible and reliable energy sources hinders human, social and economic growth.

Montréal (Canada) - Icograda has endorsed the 2012 DesignThinkers conference to be held in Toronto (Canada) 8-9 November 2012. Design Thinkers is the annual conference of the Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario.

The 2012 Adobe Design Achievement Awards are excited to announce that this year’s ceremony is moving to Toronto, Canada and will be presented in concert with the RGDOntario DesignThinkers Conference on 9 November 2012.

Montréal (Canada) - Icograda has endorsed the Good Design Award 2012, a long-standing initiative of the Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP). The award winners will be announced on 1 October and exhibited 23-25 November 2012.

Montréal (Canada) - Icograda Board Members from 9 countries gathered on 20-21 May 2012 in Montreal, Canada to share ideas and plan for Icograda’s ongoing strategic development.