Event News

IDSA's first Future of Design Leadership Panel, held at the 2015 International Conference in Seattle, is making headlines. IDSA Member Thomas Lockwood moderated the panel that included chief design officers (CDOs) representing corporations with hundreds of billions of dollars in revenues: Philips, Intuit, Microsoft, PepsiCo, 3M, Johnson & Johnson and REI.  Along with leaders from Design Management Institute and Whipsaw, the speakers tackled challenging questions about their climb to the top, and where they believe design is headed.

"It was such a great, intimate event and I left feeling so invigorated about design and our ID women community," says Grace Lee, IDSA, of the IDSA Women in Design Fireside Chat with Cameron Campbell, IDSA.

IDSA is #MakingThingsHappen at its 2016 International Conference (@IDSA #IDSADetroit16) from Aug. 17 to 20 in Detroit, MI. The dynamic event will be held in the first US metropolis to be named a UNESCO City of Design—and in the state with the highest concentration of industrial designers.

Some major news coming out of the latest 2015 International Design Congress in Korea.

With a majority vote, the 29th General Assembly of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) approved a name change for Icsid to World Design Organization. Attended by member organizations from more than 50 nations, Icsid's General Assembly also agreed to renew the vision and mission of the Council.