Event News

IDSA-KY - Kenmark Optical Design Studio Tour - Wed, July 16, 2015 @ 6:00pm EST

Have you ever wondered how sunglasses and optical frames are designed and manufactured? Are you curious to learn how graphic designers create beautiful campaigns for iconic fashion brands? Together with Louisville's local chapter of AIGA, we'd like to take you on an exclusive industrial design and graphic design tour of Kenmark Optical. The Kenmark Group is an employee-owned company providing exceptional products, competitive prices, and superior service to Eyecare Professionals. With nearly 40 years of experience, the Kenmark Group holds an impressive portfolio of licensed brands including: Vera Wang, Zac Posen, kensie, Dana Buchman, Original Penguin, and Lilly Pulitzer. This tour will be held on-site at Kenmark's HQ, a 72,000 sq ft distribution and design center.

These Ain’t Your Kidz Sketching Tools

On July 12th, Chevis Watkinson walked us through the stages of rough thumbnail sketch to presentation sketch rendering. If you missed the webinar or would like to see it again, check out the link below. This webinar is geared to anyone who wants to pick up a few tips and tricks in various software packages and also see how the various packages can work together. Also if you don't have these particular packages don't fret as the work flow can easily be adapted to a variety of software.

IDSA Chicago's Sketchnote Summit with Craighton Berman

Last spring, IDSA Chicago brought the best of 'sketchnoters' to one event, entitled Sketchnote Summit. This activity was held in partnership with Columbia College Chicago at the Quincy Wong Center. The summit featured Craighton Berman, a designer, illustrator, and creative director based in Chicago and Stefani Bachetti, a practicing design researcher and visualizer with a background in industrial design, architecture, and education.

This event was complimentary to IDSA members.

Field Trip to 2014 Pittsburgh Int'l Auto Show

The Western PA IDSA chapter would like to invite all members, students, and anyone interested in design to take a field trip to the 2014 Pittsburgh International Auto Show Saturday February 15th at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.

We will all meet at the main entrance on the ground floor by the escalators at 2pm. After touring the show for a few hours we will head over to a bar and restaurant for a happy hour discussion of what we saw. General admission tickets are just $10 and more information can be found at online.

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