Graphic designer Sigga Rún receives the ADC*E European Student of the Year award 2013 for Anatomy of the Letters, her final project at Iceland Academy of the Arts. meira

Harpa, the Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Iceland, is the winner of the 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award. meira

Graphic design duo GUNMAD will introduce Or Type at Imprint in Mainz, Germany. meira

New government-funded design fund has been established to support Icelandic designers. meira

The Icelandic Museum of Design and Applied Art’s summer exhibition maps the arrival of modernism in Icelandic home interiors in 1930-1980s. meira

Iceland Design Centre announces a new board of directors following the annual meeting held on May 30. meira

Graphic designer Hjalti Karlsson receives The Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize 2013. Karlsson has been working through the NYC-based design studio karlssonwilker since 2000. The Torsten and Wanja Söderberg prize of SEK 1,000,000 is the largest design prize in the world, where the winner is chosen by a jury and awarded annually. meira

Skrímslaerjur by Icelandic illustrator, designer and writer Áslaug Jónsdóttir along with Kalle Güettler (Sweden) and Rakel Helmsdal (Faroe Islands) has been nominated for The Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize. meira

Andrea Maack, known for her Andrea Maack Parfums, with Huginn Thór Arnason exhibit a fragrance as a 3-dimensional, architectural experience. Running through September 1st, the exhibition is part of Reykjavik Art Festival 2013. meira

An exhibition of posters by Goddur, professor of graphic design, is the first exhibition to open in Petra Lilja Design Galleri, Malmö, Sweden, on June 2-30. meira