Events

Starting Your Design Career

What skills are companies really looking for in junior designers? How much should you charge for freelance work? This is your opportunity to get answers to the real questions that challenge design students and young professionals.

2018 MassArt Industrial Design Portfolio Event

The MassArt Industrial Design Department is hosting a portfolio review for Industrial Design students from all area schools. During the event there will also be Digital Sketching demos hosted by Patrick Thrailkill from Blokx Design. Reviews will be conducted by Industrial Design professionals from the Boston Area. The portfolio reviews will be organized on a first-come-first-served basis. We ask that all attendees, reviewers, faculty and students register for this event.

Tuesday, March 13 at 6:00pm to 9:00pm

CES 2018: A Design Insider's View

The team from Whipsaw, Inc has visited CES every year since 1999. Each year, thousands of new products are introduced. "The show is a jarring assortment of competing gadgets and technology—epitomizing both very good and very bad design You go numb after a day," says President and Principal Designer Dan Harden, IDSA. "We comb for important tech advancements that might benefit from good design and we seek big ideas that portend a future category." See his take on CES 2018.

#IDSAMedical Pre-Conference Workshops

A day before the IDSA Medical Design Conference in Boston, join two, in-situ workshops at Boston Children's Hospital and dive deep with experts in medical design. Separate registration is open now for the two, pre-conference workshops on March 28.

Hack:Trash:NYC

Every year, an estimated six million tons of waste is produced by New York City. To help reach the Big Apple's goal of zero waste by 2030, about 100 product designers, engineers, waste and recycling experts and environmental lawyers teamed up in fall 2017 for Hack:Trash:NYC, a three-day collaborative to develop and pitch an innovative product, business model, service, policy or education campaign that increases reuse and results in a meaningful diversion of waste from landfill.

Sketch On

The inaugural SQ1 Conference is set for Oct. 6 to 7 in Chicago—and developed by students and led by Hector Silva, chair of IDSA's Chicago Chapter and IDSA's Young Educator of the Year for 2017.

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