Experience the exclusive and unprecedented access to the Design First Innovation of business leaders showcasing their creative leadership. Learn how to manage business innovation from the methods, strategy and practices of actual development teams who have moved their enterprises to the cutting edge. Join ground breaking start-ups, entrepreneurs, and innovation icons such as Bombardier and RIM Blackberry to learn how to ‘Profit by Design’.

The Design Exchange Awards promote Canadian design excellence and recognizes the critical role of design in all types of organizations including commercial entities (large and small businesses), not-for-profit organizations, and the public sector. The Awards celebrate the success stories achieved through close partnerships between clients and designers. The DXAs are Canada’s only award program to judge design by results, balancing function, aesthetics, and economic success.

The Carter Wosk BC Creative Achievement Awards for Applied Art and Design celebrate British Columbians who through their creativity contribute to the cultural and economic fabric of the Province. The awards recognize individuals whose work has a practical function. Artists and designers who work in jewelry, glass, wood, fibre, clay and metal or in such areas, but not limited to, textiles, furniture, weaving, ceramics, fashion and industrial design are eligible.

The Centre for Advanced Wood Processing at the University of British Columbia will offer a full-day seminar for industrial designers, furniture designers and manufacturers on March 25 2011.

Pecha Kucha 15 will be held at the Vogue Theatre on February 24
The presentation line-up looks great but we are most excited to hear BCID Professional member Peter Busby! Perhaps we are a bit biased…

BCID Professional Member Adrian van Wijk will speak on Eco industrial design at the Building SustainAble Communities conference in Kelowna on November 15.

Our friends at Emily Carr have invited BCID Members to attend the first lecture in the 2010 Emily Carr Speaker Series – Alex Steffen, Executive Editor and co-founder of Worldchanging.

Join fellow members of GDC/BC, CAPIC, BCID, SIGGRAPH or TAAC, at the 4th annual Associations BBQ – Thursday August 19th at Trout Lake

April 26-30 2010. Design Currency 2010 offers designers, business leaders and government the opportunity to experience current design thinking. Reshape your understanding of the value of design.