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Sooshin Choi Named Next Provost at College for Creative Studies

IDSA’s Education VP, Sooshin Choi, IDSA has been chosen as the new Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Design at College for Creative Studies (CSS). His appointment as Provost begins January 1, 2014 and he succeeds the late Imre Molnar. Choi’s design expertise spans three decades and includes seven design patents and three utility patents for his automotive and furniture designs.

A Smart Salon on Making it Real: the Agony & Ecstasy of Connected Devices - tales from the front lines

People aren’t disappointed by current-state connected devices because their creat­­ors lacked vision, instead we're let down because their dreams exceed the reality of what technology can deliver.

As design thinkers, we’re focused on identifying the hard tradeoffs in product design while keeping the user perspective front and center. This is imperative no matter what the size of your business - from startups to multinationals.

IDSASV Speaker Series: Design Entrepreneurship Industrial Design @ SJSU with Brett Lovelady

Date: Tuesday, October 29
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Will be provided in the Evite confirmation after you RSVP

ASTRO Studios Founder & Creative Capitalist, Brett Lovelady will present the design driven launch of ASTRO Gaming, from idea through acquisition.

ASTRO Studios of California was launched in 1994 by Brett Lovelady as a pure design driven culture to blend creative skills, technologies and lifestyle perspectives into supercharged products and brands.

Nick Foster: It's Grim Up North

IDSA Silicon Valley is proud to present a talk by Nick Foster, a self-confessed "post-discipline designer with specialisms". Nick is Creative Lead for Nokia's Advanced Design team; partner at the Near Future Laboratory, pioneering work in the field of Design Fiction; and has over fifteen years experience in the design industry as an engineer, industrial designer and futurist for companies such as Dyson, Seymourpowell and Sony.

IDSA Professional Speaker Series: "Rethinking User Experience," Bryce G. Rutter, CEO & Founder of Metaphase Design Group

A big thank you to Bryce Rutter and Max Ryan at Metephase for a fantastic talk!!!.

VIEW THE PRESENTATION HERE

PARTICIPATE IN THE PRESENTATION:
Email us a picture of the best designed product you own and three bullets on why you love this design. We will collate and present back to the audience these designs and talk about how they all share a common thread.

Email to max@metaphase.com prior to October  23rd

Date:

Atlanta Design Outreach 4 - Recap

That's a wrap - our Fourth annual Atlanta Design Outreach is officially in the books!  The creativity and quality of thought this year was truly inspiring, and we could not be happier with the results and impact the program has had on our community. The program is geared to challenge participants with a rapid-paced, collaborative design charrete structure that brings all skill levels of industrial design together; high school students work with Atlanta design professionals and academic design students from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

IDSA Names Nominations Committee led by George McCain, FIDSA

With nominations now open for IDSA’s Board elections, George McCain will lead a committee of volunteers that includes: Mariah Hay, IDSA; David Klein, IDSA; Paul Magee, IDSA; Nancy Perkins, FIDSA and Katherine McCoy, FIDSA. The Board of  Directors is responsible for directing the affairs of the Society, and specifically, each member is expected to help raise funds, increase membership, support the development of programs and services, including the Design Foundation and build awareness of the value of IDSA to the membership, design community and the public.

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