{"id":2646,"date":"2009-10-21T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2018-10-14T03:25:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T22:25:32","slug":"hrh-prince-philip-on-graphic-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/hrh-prince-philip-on-graphic-design\/","title":{"rendered":"HRH Prince Philip on Graphic Design&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2647\" title=\"HRH_Prince_Philip_on_design\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/HRH_Prince_Philip_on_design.png\" alt=\"HRH_Prince_Philip_on_design\" width=\"437\" height=\"559\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>London, (September, 1964)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During the past weeks I\u2019ve been doing some preparation for the 23rd biennial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icograda.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Icograda<\/a> General Assembly taking place this weekend in Beijing, China (in conjunction with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beijing2009.org\/index-eng.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Xin, the Icograda World Design Congress<\/em><\/a>). In the process, this lovely typewritten note crossed my desk, written by His Royal Highness, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Philip<\/a>, the Duke of Edinburgh, issued on the occasion of the very first Icograda Congress held in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, some 45 years ago\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve heard rumour that China\u2019s \u201cparamount leader\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hu_Jintao\" target=\"_blank\">Hu Jintao<\/a> may show up at this Icograda Congress in Beijing to give an address to the thousands of graphic designers assembled for the occasion (that would be way cool, no?)\u2026 though I\u2019m not holding my breath. Nonetheless, many of us actively involved in the profession of visual communication design still care about \u201cimproving standards\u201d around the world, and these biennial events provide a suitable occasion for exchange and further development of best practices\u2026 for what that\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, (September, 1964) During the past weeks I\u2019ve been doing some preparation for the 23rd biennial Icograda General Assembly taking place this weekend in Beijing, China (in conjunction with Xin, the Icograda World Design Congress). In the process, this lovely typewritten note crossed my desk, written by His Royal Highness, Prince Philip, the Duke of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,13,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16182,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions\/16182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}