In 1988, the American Press Institute invited a group of designers and editors to the J. Montgomery Curtis Memorial Seminar on the future of newspaper design. Here’s what the seminar leader, John G. Finneman, wrote to participants:

• We will have a total of 22 invited members, along with API executive staff, at the conference table.
• API will pay tuition, room and board for participants. You will have to take care of travel expenses.
• All members will be asked to create a front page for the year 2000, so there will be a little advance work for everyone.

In your case, however, you will be taking on an even heavier responsibility. As I explained, we plan to have four studies presented during this program:

1.  the future of informational graphics;
2. color
3. people
4.  technology.

Each of the four persons taking on studies will be asked to make brief oral presentations during the seminar to go with printed results which will be incorporated into a post-seminar publication.

I took on the report about the future of informational graphics. It is included in the report / book from the seminar.