Education

2019 Re|focus Sustainability & Recycling Summit

 

The 2019 Re|focus Sustainability & Recycling Summit presents a unique opportunity to connect and exchange ideas with the most influential thought leaders across the plastics supply chain, from brand owners to processors, and engineers to product developers. 

Attend Re|focus and discover new ways to think about greening plastics manufacturing and harness innovations in end-market opportunities that expand the horizons for recycling and sustainability in manufactured plastics. 

 

WHEN:
May 20 – 22, 2019

More Than Pen Meets Paper

 

Have you heard of ‘Sketchnoting,’ ‘Visual Note-taking’ or ‘Graphic Recording’? You may or may not have, either way in this article we will discuss how we use it and how we framed a workshop around it at the IDC 2018 (International Design Conference 2018) in New Orleans. We (Teddy Lu, IDSA, and Verena Paepcke-Hjeltness, IDSA) are educators who are using sketchnoting in the classroom, which we discussed in a paper called Design for Visual Empowerment.

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

Setting Sail

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design is introducing an apprenticeship program for graduates in several design disciplines including industrial/product design. Designship, the first-of-its-kind program in the United States, will train designers in management to help them land leading roles in a creative economy.

Spreading the Word

An IDEA 2018 juror and former IDEA winner who's marking 20 years as a professional designer, is spreading the word about industrial design. "What motivates me to inspire and teach the next generation is the debt I owe to the generation before me," says Michael DiTullo, founder and chief creative of Michael DiTullo LLC in Leucadia, CA. Read more.

 

In the Lead: Kiersten Muenchinger, IDSA

Busy is an understatement when it comes to describing the daily life of the founding director of the Department of Product Design at the University of Oregon, the site of IDSA's WDDC 2018. She took some time out to answer a few questions for us.

Designing Dining

Rochester Institute of Technology’s Industrial Design Department, including members of IDSA's Student Chapter at RIT, is serving up the savory results of its eighth annual Metaproject that creates industry partnerships. Designing Dining—a four-course meal experience—was crafted by 16 ID students and an interior design student. The setting: Good Luck Restaurant in Rochester.

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