Welcome to INNOVATION, IDSA’s quarterly and one of the best places to learn about the practice of industrial design. Every issue of INNOVATION reaches IDSA’s membership, universities, associations, design consultancies and subscribers around the world.
We know that there’s a living visible structure to design—it’s all in what we see, feel and sense in the spaces we occupy and in most things we need and use—products like furniture, housewares, athletic equipment, medical devices, etc. And the creation of these items and ideas begin and end with story—precipitated by an obvious need or a problem perceived. The story is the primary motivating event that leads to design and to innovation. There’s also a structure to true storytelling, a genre referred to in the literary/publishing world as narrative nonfiction or creative nonfiction. This form of writing also has a design; it too follows a process from start to finish in the way it is crafted.
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The Table of Contents for the Winter 2016 issue is below. Articles highlighted in red are available to anyone as PDFs.
The Story Behind the Design
Designing Narrative | Narrating Design by Prasad Boradkar, IDSA, and Lee Gutkind, Guest Editors
Growing Up as a Creatie Designer in a Corporate Empire by Joel Kashuba
Oh Snap! What Snapchat Taught Me About the Design of No-design by Isabela Sa
Storied Objects: What Does Writing Have to Do with Design? by Caroline Tiger, A/IDSA
Casting a Wide Net: Unlocking Creative Confidence by Suzanne Gibbs Howard
Creativity in Crisis by Thomas J. Knittel, AIA, LEED AP BD+C
When the Story Is Already Written by Lauren Harms
Random Path or Reputed Practice? by Shea Tillman, IDSA
What Would I Do with an Industrial Designer? by Steven R. Umbach, IDSA
In Every Issue
IDSA HQ by Daniel Martinage, CAE
From the Editor by Mark Dziersk, FIDSA
Design Defined by John Caruso, IDSA
Beautility by Tucker Viemeister, FIDSA
Book Review by Mark Dziersk, FIDSA
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