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A new year welcomes a new IDSA Ambassador—Covestro. Dubbed by its CEO Patrick Thomas as a “one-year startup with a 60-year history”—Covestro, since September 2015, has carried on the tradition of Bayer MaterialScience with global headquarters in Germany and US headquarters
Welcome to the world of making! Kick off 2017 by learning new skills with Autodesk: A free, full-length, 3D printing class offers 16 lessons—anytime, anywhere. Learn everything you need to know to design and 3D print your own creations. Enroll here.Or attend
As IDSA’s International Design Excellence Awards competition enters its 37th year, the categories have evolved. Branding is back—drawing global entries in identities, collateral and additional logo applications. And it couldn’t have returned at a more relevant time. “Branding has become a practice
From April 23 to 24, 2017, IDSA’s West District Design Conference (@IDSA #IDSAWDDC) lands at the University of Oregon in Portland. Chair Jason Belaire, IDSA, pledges you’ll be inspired by a fantastic group
IDSA’s South Design District Conference 2017 (@IDSA #SDDC), scheduled from April 7 to 8, 2017 at the University of Houston, is a celebration of creativity and ingenuity; a gathering of community;
Step up your game by attending IDSA’s Central District Design Conference 2017: Innovation Is a Team Sport, from March 31 to April 1, 2017. Chair Christopher Brown, IDSA, welcomes you to the
Chair Ayse Birsel, IDSA, says expect the unexpected when the Industrial Designers Society of America’s Northeast District Design Conference 2017 (@IDSA #IDSANEDDC) arrives at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence,
Nominations for the 2017-2019 Board of Directors term. The positions open for May 2017–2019 are: Secretary/Treasurer Serving as an Officer of the Society and a member of the Board’s Executive Committee, the Secretary/Treasurer oversees the Society’s funds and records and ensures that proper accounting
The story of industrial designer pioneer Norman Bel Geddes, FIDSA, (1893-1958) is coming to a book store near you. The Man Who Designed the Future: Norman Bel Geddes and the Invention of Twentieth-Century America, written by B. Alexandra Szerlip, willl be published by Melville
Declaring “explosive changes in design in the past 20 years call for a reexamination of design research’s accomplishments, aims and possibilities”—the seventh International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) Congress will be held for the first time in North America.
IDSA’s International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2017—honoring the best in industrial design and related fields—is open for entry through March 17, 2017. Enter at IDSA.org/IDEA. IDEA 2017 Jury Chair Owen Foster, IDSA, is leading more than two dozen design experts from
Former executive vice president of design at Knoll International and decorated US Army veteran Donald Rorke, L/IDSA, passed away on Nov. 4, 2016. He was 86. Rorke was born in 1929 to architect Edwyn Rorke and classical musician Florence Rorke. He attended
From MIT to MIAD, industrial design scholarships are having an impact on education. Ben Coble, S/IDSA, is the recipient of the $1,500 2016 Gianninoto Graduate Scholarship presented by the Indsutrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). Emily Siira,
University of Oregon (UO) in Portland, site of the IDSA West District Design Conference 2017, has kicked off a new sports product design master’s degree that’s touted as the only graduate program of its kind in the United States. Students learn not only
Stephanie Battista, IDSA, has launched Humanity Innovation Labs (HIL) in Portland, OR. “What makes us unique is that we’re focused on R+D and IP for preventive health systems in wearables,” says Battista, who brings 15 year of experience to the new venture. Battista
What began as a student concept that captured worldwide attention when it won Best in Show, Gold and People’s Choice in IDSA’s International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2007—has come full circle almost ten years later as it once again
What do you have to say about design on a global scale? Designers, educators, students, influencers and agents of change are gathering for the World Design Summit, Oct. 16 to 25, 2017 at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal. The
The work of two IDSA Medical Design Conference 2016 keynote speakers is in the global spotlight. Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD, of Neuroscape, is scheduled to deliver an inspirational presentation. His groundbreaking discoveries in neuroscience—profiled in The Wall Street Journal and on NBC, CNN,
“This legendary design firm has been putting the ‘D’ in design since 1934. Sundberg and Ferar mentored many of today’s industrial leaders. They retired in 1975 and passed away less than a week apart in 1982—but their legacy endures,”
‘Collaboration is key’ The state with the highest concentration of industrial designers is also home to an institution steeped in innovation. Now, Dearborn, MI’s iconic Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation—the site of IDSA’s 36th annual International Design Excellence
Mary Beth Privitera, PhD, FIDSA, Inducted into IDSA Academy of Fellows 2016 has been quite a year for a longtime IDSA member. Mary Beth Privitera, PhD, FIDSA, earned her doctoral degree in design from Loughborough University and was inducted
Just a month after it won Gold in IDSA’s International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2016, Nascent Objects has been bought by Facebook. Modules and Shapes was designed for Nascent Objects by Steve Sangik Lee, Achille Biteau, Victoria Slaker and Robert
He’s been a dedicated member of what he fondly calls the “IDSA family” for almost two decades. Kevin Shinn, FIDSA, was inducted into the Society’s Academy of Fellows at the IDSA International Conference 2016 in Detroit, MI—his home state,
Your website and your professional email address can be as unique and creative as the products you design! IDSA has teamed up with Top Level Design and its registrar to provide discounted, .design domain names to the design community. Unlike .com,