May 2008

The Art Institute of Portland IDSA Student Chapter has a new website for special student events - check it out! http://idsaip.blogspot.com

January 2008

IDSA Oregon Chapter Secretary, Janna Kimel, has noted a great event schedule for the Contemporary Craft Museum: http://www.contemporarycrafts.org/programs_lecture.php

Send in your exciting Art/Craft related event links and we will post them here. If you have commentary we will post that as well. Design events will be posted on the Events page.

January 2008

Art Institute of Portland’s IDSA Student Chapter website posting through Coroflot…

http://www.coroflot.com/groups/group_details.asp?group_id=1088

November 2007

Photos of last Thursday's DWR/IDSA/AI/Knoll event are posted here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/idsa/pool/

March 2007

Carl Alviani, an industrial designer at Portland-based FlatHED, Inc. www.flathed.com, has written a feature story for Core77.com's March installment. Entitled "Not Created Equal," the article is an examination of the influence of new polymers on product design, and opportunities for positioning plastics as desirable, differentiable materials in the public mind.

Read the article: "Not Created Equal

January 2007

CHIFOO has a great program lined up for you. This year it's "Mind the Business: Promoting the Value of Your Work". Check out the details http://chifoo.org.

-David Shaw, Editor and Co-Communications Chair, CHIFOO

There are some impressive names from the field this year, and I encourage everyone to come out and see how the local field of human-computer interaction has been growing.

-Chris Dame | IxDA | SIGCHI, Interaction Designer

December 2006

Designing to Help (October 2006)

Janna Kimel, Intel design researcher and Oregon Chapter IDSA secretary, is featured in the October 9 issue of Business Week. Click here to read the Business Week Article!

Vancouver, WA

Job description:

Product Design Program Faculty Position Description | Assistant or Associate Professor of Product Design | Designer: Products + Theory and Practice

Eugene and Portland, Oregon

Position: University of Oregon’s Product Design Program is accepting applications for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor beginning fall term 2010 with the possibility of beginning earlier. Salary is commensurate with qualifications.