Corina Barbu of Friends for Friends Foundation pages all Romanian artists, designers, programmers and content creators: you guys might want to listen to Ana Maria Andronic, Senior Associate at Biris-Goran law firm talking about intellectual property and find out more about your legal rights.

We are starting a project from our bike shop in North London selling limited edition posters, half of the profits will go to charity.

There are five posters in the first print run and there are lots more beautiful posters to follow when these sell out.

—Peter Carleton, Pushcycles.com via e-mail.

ADVICE invites students to take part in 2010's edition of ImPRINT, the Romanian commercial arts competition. Until 14 May students with a passion for print advertising may submit their entries on this year's “Let’s go to Theatre” brief.

Glad to see some love for print in a web-obsessed time.

Tudor Prisacariu announces the second edition of Romanian Visual Survey, comprising the works of 49 Romanian visual artists.

Meet me at Visual Playground: Friday, March 26.

P.S. An important something is in the works.

Plenty of news during my silence:

• Decât o Revista phenomenon extraordinaire launched;
• Cosmin Bumbut announced Punctum photography magazine;
• Pidjin got a makeover.

I'll detail later.

Sébastien Théraulaz & Valérie Desrochers via e-mail:

Hello, we have a small design studio in Montreal and started our production of fonts, greeting cards, postcards, t-shirts and others goodies!

The studio is called Subtitude. Take a look.

At 11:00 AM today I'll speak in The Power of Design (link in Romanian) conference organized by BIZ Magazine. Radisson SAS, Atlas Room. See you there.

Under the title "Marketing in a Brand-Crazed World", Al Ries, chairman, and Laura Ries, president of Ries & Ries will lecture tomorrow (November 5, 2008) in Bucharest.

If, for reasons known only to you, you're determined to attend the event, I have this favor to ask.

Please, ask them how come that — as marketing consultants — they have made a number of idiotic "predictions" with such embarrassing assertiveness, one of the most striking being that the iPhone is likely to be the biggest flop of the 21st century?

Thanks.

Dan Iavorszky of Laptop Gear announces the availability of Redmaloo (Germany) and Booq (USA) premium products (links in Romanian).

Not too shabby!

DesignAndDesign features each day two designs chosen from graphic, packaging and product design submissions received daily from a large scope of international designers. Submit your own work.

Octavian Pantis of TMI and Qualians starts blogging, brings “CEO of the century” — Jack Welch — to Bucharest in June. Bookmark him. Links in Romanian.

The HR people from GameGoods are spreading the word that Romanian programmers are badly needed there. If you need a job go check 'em out.