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Article: UK groups slow to back industrial design day drive.
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- Design Week
- Article date:
- June 25, 2009
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World Industrial Design Day 2009 is billed by organiser The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design as a 'celebration', 'to raise awareness about the benefits of industrial design in improving our quality of life'.
The initiative, on 29 June, will see a network of events held around the globe, including a regional exchange event in Santiago, Chile, and a special screening of Gary Hustwit's industrial design film Objectified in ICSID's hometown of Montreal, Canada. In the UK it will be marked by a webcast from Berkshire-based group Industrial Design Consultancy titled Global Markets, Local Solutions.
But as Martin Darbyshire, ICSID ...