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Bringing Designs to Life

Model Solution announced the student winners of its 2017 Model One Awards at IDSA's International Design Conference in Atlanta. Students from eight universities and design scohols across the United States developed products that enhance quality of life, improve safety, disrupt current technologies and utilize new design concepts.

The winners are:

Insatiable Curiosity

Herbst Produkt founding partner Walter Herbst, IDSA, completed his PhD in summer 2017. "Finishing a grueling four-year odyssey, the tireless design icon just returned from the United Kingdom where he completed his dissertation with Coventry University," reports the design studio. "Walter's insatiable curiosity and pursuit of design knowledge led him to create a collaboration between Northwestern University and Coventry, UK, where he studied insights and trends of graduate design curricula around the globe."

IDSA Awards 2017 Winners Announced

On Aug. 18 at IDSA's International Design Conference 2017, winners of the IDSA Awards were revealed:

Education Award
Ed Dorsa, IDSA, retired in 2017 after nearly two decades as an associate professor and the chair of the ID program at Virginia Tech. He also served as education VP on IDSA’s Board of Directors and as an IDSA International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) juror. In 2006, he was named one of the "Most Admired ID Educators" by DesignIntelligence.

Driver of Innovation

"Design IS entering into a new relationship with business, and one worth considering for your own business," declares IDSA Fellow Lou Lenzi in his latest column for Appliance Design magazine on the eve of IDSA's International Design Conference: Design IS Business.

Rewirement

A longtime IDSA member who's an IDSA International Design Excellence Award and Design of the Decade winner is, in his words, “rewiring.” David Hill, IDSA, stepped down on June 30, 2017 as vice president of design at Lenovo, after a 30-plus year career in industrial design. 

A New Domestic Landscape

IDSA Member Scott Klinker is among the Cranbrook Academy of Art alumus whose work is being highlighted in a new show at the school that runs through early next year. "Cranbrook has a tradition of experimentation that dates back to years of Eames, Saarinen, Bertoia and Knoll,” says Cranbrook's 3D designer-in-residence. "Today, that spirit is expressed in exploring new materials and processes, while rethinking the connections among design, art and craft."

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