The poster for Design Summer 8. [Photo/art.china.cn]

An international designer training camp marking its eighth year will hold sessions this summer in Hangzhou and Berlin.

Design Summer 8, will be July 12 to August 5 in Hangzhou and Berlin in Germany.

The training camp this year has gathered noted international designers who will work with participants to help improve the standards, vision and cultural cognition of China's contemporary designers.

At the two-week Design Summer 8 Goes to Berlin, trainees can listen to lectures given by prestigious professors from Germany, Switzerland, Poland and Spain. Trainees will also visit Germany to see master designer Gunter Rambow's studio, tour European cultural cities, including Hamburg, Bielefeld and Dusseldorf. They also will visit design museums, such as the Museum Folkwang and Zollverein School of Management and Design, as well as talk with famed designers at The Center for Visual Arts & Education in Berlin.

The Design Summer 8 Goes to Hangzhou has invited world-renowned designers, including Taku Satoh from Japan; He Jianping, a Chinese from Germany, Sergei Serov from Russia and Guang Yu from China. The curriculum will include talks on "Body and Line", "Contemporary Poster's Visual Language" and "Design as a Whole", aiming to explore the connection between design and business, the changes in design style and the aesthetic effect of language and culture.

Design Summer 8 is recruiting participants now. For more information, go to www.phoenixdesignsummer.com