The i-Design Conference

This year's i-Design conference will take place on 24 September in the Old Cinema at the University of Westminster as part of the London Design Festival.

Showcasing groundbreaking work in the field of interactive design, the conference will focus on the emerging field of 5D design.

5D is about the recognition that digital design has grown up and escaped the confines of your computer screen. On the one hand, there is now digital design in everything from street signs to tube trains.

On the other, computers are no longer beige boxes in the office: they're in your pocket; in your car and embedded into all kinds of objects, mixing freely and blurring the lines between digital and analogue.

Confirmed keynote speakers include Tali Krakowsky of Wet Design, Andrew Shoben of Greyworld and David Taylor from Arup.

"A big source of inspiration this year is the successful infiltration of the iPhone into the everyday lives of all sorts of people," commented Malcolm Garrett, Conference Director.

"It is a Trojan Horse. It has eliminated the distinctions between computers and normal life; between online and offline.

The touch interface - which brings the physical back into digital communications - has finally come of age, after so many false starts."