Member News

Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)® Announces the Winners of the 2022 IDSA Awards

 

The winners of the 2022 IDSA Awards were revealed live on September 14, 2022, as part of IDSA's annual International Design Conference (IDC)® in Seattle, WA.  

The awards ceremony, held in person at Benaroya Hall and livestreamed to a virtual audience, was hosted by ClayVon Lowe, IDSA, At-Large Director of Awards on IDSA’s Board of Directors and Chair of IDSA’s Awards Committee. 

Please join us in congratulating the following members of our design community for their dedication, contributions, and excellence. 

The International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA)® 2022 Breaks Records Again, With Most Entries Ever

 

The International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA)® 2022 Ceremony & Gala, held at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, WA on September 12, 2022 and produced by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)®, included the grand unveiling of the placements of this year’s Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Special IDEA winners. 

2022 was the second year in a row that IDEA received the most entries in the competition’s history, going back to 1980. Rising above a sea of other design awards programs, the prestigious IDEA remains the gold standard.  

Randy Bartlett, IDSA, Retires from Auburn University

 

The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) congratulates Randy Bartlett, IDSA on his retirement from teaching after 29 years at Auburn University's School of Industrial + Graphic Design (SIGD).

A Bauhaus Quasi Endowed Professor, Bartlett established SIGD's Collaborative Studio Abroad program in 1996. He's been the director of this program for 26 years, leading design students on annual trips across Ireland and the United Kingdom.

IDSA Women in Design Committee Statement on Roe v. Wade

 

From IDSA's Women in Design Committee:

 

The right of autonomy over one’s own body is foundational to human rights. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States' decision to strike down Roe v. Wade stripped this foundational human right from over half of the U.S. population, including over 160 million women and girls.

Dr. Patricia Moore, FIDSA, Receives WDO's 2022 World Design Medal™

 

The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) congratulates Patricia Moore, PhD, FIDSA, for receiving the World Design Organization's 2022 World Design Medal. 

Dr. Moore was inducted into IDSA's Academy of Fellows in 2003. She has held prominent roles within the Society, including West District Vice President, and is widely considered to be a pioneer of Universal Design. IDSA is a longtime member of WDO. 

Read the full press release from WDO below:

 

Member Spotlight: Rio Chen, IDSA

 

Rio Chen, IDSA is a designer and researcher who focuses on sociopolitical issues and contemporary popular culture in the field of design.

 

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