Industrial Designers Society of America

First Thursdays (Jan 2022) - IDSA HTX
2022-01-06 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Thursday, January 6, 2022 to catch up on all things design. Sign up to get monthly invites if you’re not already!
Nico Nikos
2520 Montrose Blvd
Houston, TX 77005

IDSA CHI: Jingle Bowl Holiday Party
2021-12-15 18:30 (America/Chicago)
Ring in the holiday cheer with IDSA Chicago! Your ticket includes pitchers of beer and unlimited pizza!

Diversey River Bowl
2211 West Diversey Parkway Chicago, IL 60647

IDSA DFW: Holiday Social
2021-12-15 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)

IDSA ATX: 2021 Holiday Party
2021-12-09 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York)

Design Management Section: Learning Lab
2021-12-09 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
In this reoccurring series, we will share insights, information, case studies, models, and methodologies, amongst a variety of other assets, to help inform and inspire you in the professional practice of Design Management.
This series will host a variety of events, including learning from leading practitioners in this field, facilitate knowledge sharing amongst the event participants, and pragmatic hands-on interactive workshops.
These events are brought to you by the IDSA Design Management section to help advance the careers of professional designers and raise the awareness and integration of Design Management in industry and agencies alike.
Recorded on December 9, 2021.

IDSA HTX: iDesign 2021
2021-12-06 - 2021-12-09

First Thursdays (Dec 2021) - IDSA HTX
2021-12-02 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Thursday, December 2, 2021 to catch up on all things design. Sign up to get monthly invites if you’re not already!
Torchys Tacos
2400 Times Blvd
Houston, TX 77005

IDSA Sections at NYCxDesign 2021
2021-11-17 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Section experts (Transportation and Mobility, Design Management, and Materials and Processes) share information about their communities.
Take a deeper dive into the Industrial Designer’s Society of America’s (IDSA) Sections! Experts from the Transportation and Mobility, Design Management, and Materials and Processes Sections, connect the dots between Industrial Design and their topical communities. Participants will have the opportunity to further their learning about IDSA’s Sections, and select a learning experience from one of our three, featured Sections. The Transportation and Mobility Section will discuss accessibility and its importance within design and inclusion; The Design Management Section will take participants on a journey to enlighten them in the professional practice of Design Management, and the Materials and Processes Section will share how material choices enable sustainable design.
Speakers:

Farrell Calabrese, IDSA-Chair, Materials and Processes Section
Gayatri Keskar, Ph.D- Materials and Processes Section
Glenn Johnson, IDSA – Chair, Transportation and Mobility Section
Jay Peters, IDSA-Chair, Design Management Section
Kshanika Patel, IDSA-Vice Chair, Design Management Section
Michele Erwin – Transportation and Mobility Section
Stephan Clambaneva, IDSA – Director of Sections
Tsai Lu Liu – Transportation and Mobility Section

Design Management Section: NYCxDesign 2021
2021-11-17 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
The Design Management Section will take participants on a journey to enlighten them in the professional practice of Design Management, and the Materials and Processes Section will share how material choices enable sustainable design.
Recorded on November 17, 2021.

Design Leadership Bootcamp 2021
2021-11-15 - 2021-12-16

Beyond the Box: IDSA JMU Conference
2021-11-12 - 2021-11-13
Industry speakers, professional workshops, portfolio reviews, and more come to James Madison University for the 2021 IDSA JMU Conference.

IDSA CLE: Designed in Cleveland
2021-11-11 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
IDSA Cleveland will host an evening celebrating the great design that has been developed all around our region. It will be an evening of community building, networking, and inspirational content for area industrial designers. This will be a catered event and will be hosted in Moen’s recently renovated first floor atrium and design studio.
We will have three presentations and product displays for viewing. Presenters include Balance Inc., Spectrum Diversified Designs, and Industrial Design Outreach. Come check out the work of other Cleveland based designers/companies, be inspired, and chat with them and learn about their process.
To make this a successful event, we’re asking designers to participate with a product display (not required for attendance). We hope that you and/or your colleagues would be willing to share some of your great design work that has recently gone to market or has been released to the public. This is a great opportunity to share with the Cleveland design community what you and your company are capable of. Your table display can showcase any of, but not limited to, the following: recent case studies, a design-centric strategy in the works, presentation of an award-winning design, a recent success for your respective company, or the best of your latest work.

IDSA TOR: Color, Material, Finish Trends with Anouk Groen
2021-11-09 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Anouk Groen will inspire us with a cross-industry look at Color, Materials and Finishes in design trends for products and mobility. Industrial designers are called upon to design products, services and experiences for uncertain futures. How can they predict the colors, materials and trends in advance?
Recorded on November 9, 2021

IDSA SEA: Industry Stories
2021-11-04 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
IDSA Seattle is focused on fostering relationships and building a more connected PNW design community. Students and young professionals play a big role in our chapter. As we welcome in the school year, our board will present 2-3 slides each about their experiences in different fields of design to inspire and help students understand the breadth of our industry. This includes art direction, sporting goods, industrial hardware, consumer hardware, and startups. We will end the session by providing more information about the student mentorship program and field any questions or thoughts you may have for the coming year.

Anthony Garzzona – Associate Art Director, Taphandles
Scott Tsukamaki – Senior Industrial Designer, Fluke
Ginger Woo – Industrial Designer, Fluke
Herman Chan – Co-founder, Formfuture / Juno
Kate Shreffler – Product Designer, Axe Bat

Business of Design Deep Dive 2021
2021-11-02 10:00 - 2021-11-03 13:00 (America/New_York)

IDSA SYR: Business Storytelling for Designers and Engineers
2021-10-28 00:00 (America/New_York)
Likely, you’ve heard that storytelling at work is good for leaders, good for marketers, good for trainers. Is it good for industrial designers and engineers? Come see for yourself. Rance will facilitate a lively discussion that may change the way you communicate at work forever. Get started with four questions that define the purpose of your message. Get to know your audience and deliver a story-based message that sparks their intellect and emotions. With Story Design, invite collaboration more effectively. Make people-centered decisions more efficiently. Make concepts more concrete.

Medical Section: Cognitive Human Factors for Designers Pt 1
2021-10-19 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Exploring how the mind works, and its implications for the design of controls, displays, IFU’s, information architecture design, and more.
Many product designers have never taken a university-level class on cognitive human factors or cognitive science. This set of one-hour workshops is designed to remedy that. It provides a crash course on how the mind works, and its implications for the design of controls, displays, instruction for use, information architecture design, and other factors.

IDSA NL: Back-to-School Sketchnote with Mike Rohde
2021-10-14 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Join Mike Rohde, author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook as he shares the concepts that make visual thinking a fast, effective communication power tool.
This workshop is designed to develop and to strengthen your visual thinking abilities so you can use simple shapes with words to emphasize speed and idea sharing.
We’ll talk about how this approach can help you communicate more clearly with customers and engineers by using simple drawings and words to communicate ideas. Mike will share how he has applied drawing as a powerful thinking tool and how it has benefitted his work.
If you have a positive attitude and are willing to experiment and share your work with a small group, you’re perfect for this workshop.

IDSA Membership Meeting – 2020 Year In Review
2021-10-14 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
On Thursday, October 14, 2021, IDSA’s Executive Director presented the annual membership meeting and year in review. During this session, Chris Livaudais, IDSA provided a look back on our 2020 performance as well as updates on how the association has been navigating our journey through the COVID-19 pandemic. This annual event is an important moment to share information with IDSA membership in a public forum about the current and future status of our Society. Thank you to those who attended this event live. Usually this is an in-person meeting; however, due to COVID-19 restrictions, the meeting was held virtually.

IDSA POR: How Not to Make A Fortune In The Design World
2021-10-13 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
The IDSA Portland Chapter and IDME will be hosting a “fireside” chat with Todd Amelung on “How Not to Make A Fortune In The Design World,” a designer’s retrospective on how a different business model could have achieved a better outcome. Come grab a drink and join the discussion on lessons he took from the process, the industry, and the failures along the way.

IDSA TOR: Iconic Product Design with Wolfgang Joensson
2021-10-12 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Award-winning designer, educator and author Wolfgang Joensson will take us on journey through time to look at iconic products.
What makes a product iconic? Looking at historic memorable design objects, and analysing the roots of their impact on the consumer’s perception, Wolfgang Joensson will talk about what can be done to create artefacts that will persist in people’s memory.
Recorded on October 12, 2021

IDSA DEN Portfolio Review
2021-10-12 13:15 - 15:15 (America/New_York)

IDSA ATL: Brew Crew - What's New With You?
2021-10-07 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Join the IDSA Atlanta Chapter for the return of Brew Crew at Round Trip Brewing Co. We hope to see you there and learn more about what you have been up to and what you hope to see in the future.

IDSA NL: Last Call Fall
2021-09-30 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Come grab a beer and enjoy the last of the warm weather with your ID friends

IDSA NL: Fall Happy Hour
2021-09-30 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for drinks as we soak up some of the last warm Milwaukee weather and discuss what’s in store for IDSA at the local level!

Design Management: Lets Talk Design Management
2021-09-30 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
In this reoccurring series, we will hear from leading professionals who will share stories of their design journey, the challenges they have encountered and overcome, how they have managed to progress their careers.
Recorded September 30, 2021

International Design Conference 2021
2021-09-22 12:00 - 2021-09-23 12:00 (America/New_York)
International Design Conference (IDC) 2021 – September 22-23, 2021 – Virtual Event

2021 Education Symposium
2021-09-22

IDEA 2021 Ceremony
2021-09-21 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The Gold, Silver, and Bronze IDEA 2021 winners are announced at this live during this virtual event.

2021 IDSA Awards Ceremony
2021-09-20 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Presentation of the 2021 IDSA Award recipients.
