Insitute of Design, 6th floor Nathan Lecture Room
7:30 AM - 9 AM
IDSA Members and students: FREE
Non-members: $15

On Monday night, showroom-hop on floors 3, 10 and 11 to see fabulous products, network and wine and dine with all your colleagues and friends from the industry (select showrooms). Orangeskin presents The Great Little Mash Up 2007 Mon, June 11

5pm-8pm Reception at Orangeskin Showroom, 223 W Erie St 8pm-12am Party at Krem NightClub, 1750 N Clark Featuring the sounds of DJ Derrick Carter and DJ Kreemy aka Karim Rashid.
More info and RSVP here.

U of Robot Penn. presents:

Dr. David Hanson, Founder/CTO, Hanson Robotics Inc., will discuss his research in intelligent character machines, including three-dimensional robotic facial-expression hardware and character-intelligence software which fuse numerous machine perception and A.I. systems into a gestalt system, in the pursuit of humanlike machine intelligence.

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Reception at 5:30 PM Nobel Laureate Hall, Lower Level of the Chemistry Building
Seminar at 6:00 PM Chemistry Building, Room 102, 231 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA

Exhibit runs June 1 through 30
3337 North Halsted

Please join us for this year’s IDSA Philly’s Regional Student Merit Award Selection. One student from each participating school will be selected to “Join the Revolution” at this year’s 2009 Northeast District Conference being held in Boston, Massachusetts. This event gets better every year, and who knows, maybe one of our students may make it all the way to the National Conference!

Location: University of the Arts / Hamilton Hall: CBS Auditorium
Date: March 3rd , 2009 · Time: 7:00 PM

IDSA Student merit Awards

IDSA Philly members can get discounted admission to the Philly screening of:
Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit

May 11th, at the Drexel University Bossone Auditorium, 3141 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA. Showtimes are at 6:30pm & 9:00pm

Be sure to stick around for a post screening q&a with the director after each screening!

Talking with students about their portfolios is a great way to remind yourself about what's important in Design; as well as help the students polish the presentations they'll use to hunt for that first job. Come get inspired by fresh projects and ideas at the:

University of the Arts ID Portfolio Review
Thursday, March 19th, 6-9pm
4th Floor of Anderson Hall
333 S. Broad St. Philadelphia, PA

Congratulations to the winners of IDSA Philly’s Regional Student Merit Awards held Tuesday night at the University of the Arts. The students chosen to present their work at the “Join the Revolution” 2009 Northeast District Conference being held in Boston, Massachusetts are:

* Chris Basatan - The Art Institute of Philadelphia (Wendy Byer: IDSA Adviser)
* Jessica Tarlecki - Philadelphia University (Todd Corlett: IDSA Adviser)
* Liana Klaushner - The University of the Arts (Beth Van Why: IDSA Adviser)

Join us for a special reception with Jay Raymond, author of Streamlined Irons, a book which illustrates the design of electric clothes irons of the period 1934-52. Photography from the book, done by Philadelphia photographers James B. Abbott and Jay Texter, is on display this March at the Silicon Gallery in Old City.

Thurs., March 26th, 2009 - Silicon Gallery, 139 N. 3rd St., Philadelphia, PA

Reception 6-8pm with Author Q&A, and local happy hour to follow

Join your friends at AIGA Philadelphia for customized Design Quizzo at Yello'Bar! Don’t miss this new networking happy hour sponsored by the Fellow Award Program. Win a Gift Certificate to Yello'Bar, T-shirts and more.

Enjoy 1 free drink with your ticket and specials including $2 domestic beer on tap, $1.50 off microbrews, $4.50 well drinks and half off chicken wings!

WHEN: Wednesday, April 29th | 6:00 – 8:00 pm
WHERE: Yello'Bar | 2425 Grays Ferry
COST: $8 in advance | $10 at the door