Torino (Italy) - CEO of famed Italian car design firm will be remembered fondly.

Cardiff (Wales) - The IWDS 2008 is one of four conferences that will engage with the issues relating to a design policy at the European level.

Brisbane (Australia) - Brisbane designer Robert Geddes is the 2008 Smart State Designer of the Year.

Hannover (Germany) - Universal design GmbH, in partnership with iF International Forum Design GmbH, announces the universal design award 2009. Now in its second year, the universal design award acts as a communication tool to target businesses, researchers and the political community.

Kowloon Tong (Hong Kong) - The Hong Kong Design Centre is pleased to announce that the Hong Kong Design Directory and the HKDC Library are now available to the public. The Library acts as an important resource centre to design and design-related disciplines while the Directory provides a convenient digital platform for the design professionals and the general public.

Pasadena CA (United States) - Icsid Educational Member, Art Center College of Design, has received six awards in the 2008 international Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) competition, the only U.S. design school to receive awards this year.

Singapore - Temasek Design School (TDS), an Icsid Education member school, has set the record as the first school outside of the UK to receive the "D&AD Student of the Year" award in the 30 year history of the D&AD Student Awards.

Dulles, VA (United States) - A jury of 20 design experts from around the globe gave 205 awards to the most innovative designs; with more international winners than ever before and two Best in Show awards, the results of the 2008 competition show breadth and depth of design excellence.

Montreal (Canada) - Established in 2006, the Age-Friendly Cities project will be a highlight of this year's IFA Global Conference, an Icsid endorsed event, taking place in Montréal.

Osaka (Japan) - The Japan Design Foundation seeks innovative ideas for lifestyels in the near future, as well as the technological skillset to transform this imagination into reality, and would like to call upon the world to propose the appropriate aesthetic solutions.