The International Housewares Association Student Design Competition 2018 will celebrate its 25th year in 2018. The contest, which is open for entries through Dec. 18, 2017, is judged blindly—and challenges students to redesign a current housewares product to meet the needs of the future or to create a concept for a new product. Winning projects are selected for their innovation; understanding of production and marketing principles; and quality of entry materials.
A longtime IDSA member who will be speaking at the IDSA Medical Design Conference 2018 in Boston, is taking the lead in trying to start industrial design undergraduate and graduate programs at the University of Kentucky.
An IDSA student member is part of the winning team in the 2017 Pensole Footwear Design Academy's Fueling the Future of Footwear competition in collaboration with Foot Locker and asicsTIGER in Portland, OR. Blake Scordino, S/IDSA, (pictured on the right) was the first student from Auburn University—and one of only 18 students worldwide—accepted to take part in the academy and the competition.
The James Dyson Foundation's 2017 International Winner has been announced. The team of medical and bioengineering undergraduates from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada was chosen for designing The sKan, a low-cost and non-invasive melanoma detection medical device. Watch the video.
More than 2,000 students from 30 universities around the world will collaborate during a medical design hackathon as part of the Sept. 22-23 Design Good Now conference at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN.
The head of IDSA's Student Chapter at Rochester Institute of Technology is part of a group of about 40 students organizing the Thought at Work Conference.
Amid the devastation wrought by the 2017 hurricane season and the 8.0+ magnitude earthquake in Mexico, Parsons School of Design at The New School—and Japan Foundation’s Center for Global Partnership—have launched an innovative project to design solutions for surviving natural disasters. Earth Manual Project: Disaster Preparedness & Constructed Environments, kicks off with a week-long design intensive at Parsons in New York City, Sept.
Model Solution announced the student winners of its 2017 Model One Awards at IDSA's International Design Conference in Atlanta. Students from eight universities and design scohols across the United States developed products that enhance quality of life, improve safety, disrupt current technologies and utilize new design concepts.
