Every month, we recognize some of our long-time members in the form of the IDSA-versary list. We honor those who've maintained IDSA membership at five-year intervals and any member who has added an "IDSA" after their name for more than 25 years. Here's the list of IDSA anniversaries for January:
The IDSA Executive Committee may vote a "Special Award" to organizations and projects for: notable results; creative and innovative concepts; and long-term benefits to the profession, its educational functions and society at large. Prior to 1996, this award was given to individuals as well.
These awards are made by IDSA's Executive Committee to individuals whose involvement in and support of design has made him or her a special friend of the profession and major contributor to its long-term welfare and importance.
Every Year the Education Council of IDSA puts out a call for papers to the education community. These papers are then put through a process of peer review and those that are selected are published on the IDSA website. In addition to this, some of the selected papers are then chosen to be presented at the IDSA International Conference and others for the IDSA Education Symposium. For more information on how to submit a paper, please contact Rachel Wallmuller.
One of the design profession's true visionaries, Steve Jobs, succumbed to cancer on Oct. 5, 2011.
Through his breathtakingly innovative leadership at Apple, Jobs achieved iconic status among designers and business leaders throughout the world. His name has been mentioned alongside Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison as a human being whose talents and ambitions combined to transform life as we know it by delivering deliciously disruptive new tools that enable us to complete both small and unimaginably large tasks more intuitively and more joyfully.
This performance basketball shoe is made from manufacturing waste. It incorporates leftover materials—leather and synthetic leather, foam and rubber—into new shoes without sacrificing any of the performance aspects that come from shoes made from virgin materials.