Ifra India 2007 conference
Posted on September 13th, 2007 by Peter Ong
More than 570 delegates, mainly from India, attended the 2007 Ifra India conference held in Chennai from Sept 5-7.
It was also the first time that the Ifra Expo has been held outside of Europe, with the next one scheduled for Vienna from Oct 8 to 11.
The conference had three strands – the Expo, a Publishers’ Forum and one for the technical aspects of newspapers.
I spoke on design at the Publishers’ Forum. Other speakers included Jim Chisholm, a principal at Imedia Advisory, a joint venture consulting firm with Ifra, and Pieter Liejten, a senior editor from nrc.next, the tabloid paper for young people in the Netherlands.
[…] this 1987 Asian Media Information and Communication paper that I found via Googling, Peter Ong, a former regional director of the Society of Newspaper Design, provides a short history of design