Member News

Leap Forward

IDSA member Branko Lukic isn’t wasting any time. Just months after the first-of-its-kind Oculus Rift won an IDSA International Design Excellence Award in August 2016—Lukic began trying to make virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) headsets as comfortable as possible.

Transforming Ideas

An IDSA student member at Pennsylvania College of Technology, a Penn State affiliate, is one of only 20 scholars worldwide chosen to take part in an industrial design program in Japan. Dwight Alexander, S/IDSA, who serves as secretary/treasurer of the IDSA Student Chapter at Penn College, completed Kobe University International Innovation Design School's 12 hours a day, four-day workshop, which required participants to design an innovative product and evaluate how the product will enhance society.

New Twist

University of Kansas industrial design students, including an IDSA student member, are using an Undergraduate Research Award to design and create wooden furniture products with flexible, bendable wood. Jack Figgs-Hoard, S/IDSA, and Michael McCulley are seniors. 

Marking a Milestone

The International Housewares Association Student Design Competition 2018 will celebrate its 25th year in 2018. The contest, which is open for entries through Dec. 18, 2017, is judged blindly—and challenges students to redesign a current housewares product to meet the needs of the future or to create a concept for a new product. Winning projects are selected for their innovation; understanding of production and marketing principles; and quality of entry materials.

Leap of Faith

An IDSA student member is part of the winning team in the 2017 Pensole Footwear Design Academy's Fueling the Future of Footwear competition in collaboration with Foot Locker and asicsTIGER in Portland, OR. Blake Scordino, S/IDSA, (pictured on the right) was the first student from Auburn University—and one of only 18 students worldwide—accepted to take part in the academy and the competition.

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."

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