This was the second newsletter published by IDC on January 1, 1984. The second edition of the newsletter includes the "Designing for Children’ Workshop, the "Designing for Children’ Seminar, Student Work, Projects, Events, Ergonomics, and News. The Design for Children workshop was a three-week workshop on designing children’s books and was conducted in IDC by Mr. Kohei Sugiura, a graphic designer from Japan, and Mr. Fujio Watanabe, an illustrator. Participants in the workshop were students and faculty members of IDC and NID, Ahmedabad. The Designing for Children Seminar was a 3-day national seminar. The seminar was organised by IDC with a view to understanding the various aspects of designing instructional materials for children and to helping formulate a course in designing for children as part of its Visual Communication programme starting in August 1984. Mr. Kohei Sugiura, graphic designer, and Mr. Fujio Watanabe, illustrator from Japan, attended the seminar as UNDP experts. Besides demonstrating the use of air brush illustration, Mr. Fujio advised the participants in planning the illustrations for the books designed by them. Japanese designer and philosopher Sori Yanagi was in IDC as a UNDP expert in 1983. A two-month course in advanced photography was conducted at IDC by Roland Furst, a photo designer from West Germany. Mr. Alain Baillon, Technical Director of Trinome Design Group, Paris, France and visiting Professor at the University de Technologie de Campiegne, was at IDC for 5 weeks as a UNESCO Consultant. The students' projects were also added in the newsletter and they are; Ticket issueing weighing machine, Baby carrier for train travellers, Train Indicator, Aids for refreshment Stall, Public telephone system for Railways, Display system for Railway Time Table, Luggage Handling Trolley, Facility Poles for Railway Platforms, Exterior Design of Heat Exchanger for L&T etc. In the ergonomics part, they have included Dr.R.H.Harding, of the Human Sciences Department, University of Technology, U.K., as a UNDP consultant. His main assignment was to advise IDC in selecting a computer suitable for real-time data acquisition for biomedical laboratories and also to suggest the various software and hardware specifications for it. John Kreifeldt, from the Department of Engineering Design, Tufts University, Boston, USA, was in IDC as a UNDP expert. Kreifeldt conducted a series of seminars for the IDC faculty and students on the use of multi-dimensional and individual-difference scaling techniques as a tool in Ergonomics & Product Design.Takeo Lida from the Industrial Products Research Institute, Tskuba, Japan held a number of seminars and workshops IDC as a UNDP consultant in product ergonomics. The Ergonomics Research Projects at IDC were Biomechanics of Machine Control Design, Ergonomic Data Generation on Indian School Children for School Furniture Design. In addition, they have a Master’s Degree Programme in Visual Communication, in addition to the existing programmes in Industrial Design. And they are introducing a six-monthly journal called Abhikalpa.