IDEA Entries Up 18 Percent...

IDEA 2012 jury contemplating finalists at the Henry Ford Museum last year. This year the number of entries submitted to IDSA’s International Design Excellence Awards grew by 18 percent. And, that increased participation was on a global...

Call for Nominations |...

IDSA members in good standing are invited to nominate candidates for the Academy of Fellows, the Personal Recognition Award, Education Awards and the Special Award. The deadline for nominations has been extended to May 17, 2013.Academy of...

Call for Student Merit...

Each year IDSA encourages, rewards and celebrates excellence in industrial design education with the Student Merit Awards. The 2013 Student Merit Awards, sponsored by Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corp., have officially begun! To kick off...

2013 International Design...

HERNDON, Va., Nov. 9, 2012 – On Dec. 3, the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) will open its International Design Excellence Awards® (IDEA) 2013 competition to designers, students and companies worldwide. For 33 years, IDEA has...

Gold IDEA Winner Q&As

Every year we see some of the most innovative and thought-provoking products and concepts come out of the IDEA competition crowned as gold winners. These projects always leave us craving more information about the approach, their...

How Paper Holds Liquid

Q&A with Rob Watters, IDSA, senior industrial designer, DW Product Development Inc

Making Peruvians Healthier...

Q&A with Kimberly Chow, Designmatters at Art Center College of DesignIn some parts of the world, public health dilemmas arise from the difficulties citizens have in finding ways to wash their hands. A project at the Art Center College...

C-ing Your Way Thru to a...

Q&A with Omer Haciomeroglu, product & concept designer, Umea Institute of DesignFirefighting is a noble profession. It’s also an experience that is particularly difficult to design for as some of the most noble and brilliant...

High Audacity: An Opening...

Q&A with Michael Kim, Art Center College of DesignSometimes, a design comes along with the express purpose of disrupting everything you think you know regarding what is possible (and logical) about a particular experience. DIGIFI:...

Sit, Store, Work and...

Q&A with Ted Rapone, Weiland HealthcareHospital rooms are not designed to accommodate the needs of visitors. They can be made to accommodate a visitor’s needs, but that often requires some ingenuity on the part of a visitor. Clearly,...