Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the Conference Organizing Committee, I would like to inform you
of the:

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES     
University of Illinois at Chicago  
Chicago, USA     
13-15 February 2010     
www.Design-Conference.com     

The Design Conference explores the meaning, purpose and future of 'design',
including design processes and the use of objects produced. The conference
is an inclusive forum that welcomes a breadth of perspectives on design from
practitioners, teachers and researchers from many professions and academic
disciplines. This inclusive approach provides opportunities for
conversations that interrogate ossified assumptions and suggest new
possibilities informed by a multiplicity of theoretical, pedagogical and
practical concerns.    

The conference was inaugurated in 2007 at Imperial College London, South
Kensington Campus, London, UK. It was held at the University of Miami, USA
in 2008, and at the Technical University Berlin, Germany in 2009. We are
pleased to hold this year's conference at the University of Illinois at
Chicago, USA.

This year's conference features the following plenary speakers:
* Richard Buchanan, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
* Dennis Doordan, Notre Dame University, South Bend, USA
* Marcia Lausen, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
* Bill Lucas, MAYA Design, Pittsburgh, USA
* Victor Margolin, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
* Kathryn Moore, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham, UK
* Sol Sender (creative development, 'Obama 08' campaign logo), VSA Partners
and Sender LLC, Chicago, USA
* Bruce M. Tharp, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
* Stephanie Munson Tharp, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
* Patrick Whitney, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA For more
information about these speakers, please visit the conference website:
http://designprinciplesandpractices.com/conference-2010/plenary-speakers/.

In addition to plenary presentations, the Design Conference includes
parallel presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We invite
you to respond to the conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters submit their
written papers for publication in the refereed 'Design Principles and
Practices: An International Journal'. If you are unable to attend the
conference in person, virtual registrations are also available, which allow
you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in the journal.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short
abstract) is 14 January 2010. Future deadlines will be announced on the
conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks
of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal
submission form, may be found at the conference website:
www.Design-Conference.com.

We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join
us in Chicago in February.

Yours Sincerely,

Prof. Mario Minichiello      
Head of Department and Chair of Visual Communications      
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham City University, UK     
For the Advisory Board, International Conference on Design Principles and
Practices, and Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal