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Labs of Wonder

IDSA Member TJ Kim, the faculty advisor to the IDSA Student Chapter at Purdue University, has announced its Industrial Design Department has received a grant to help enlighten elementary student across Indiana about industrial design. The grant from IN-MaC—Indiana’s Next Generation Manufacturing Competitiveness Center—will bring so-called Wonder Labs to 16 schools.

IDSA Member Leads New Wearables and Soft Goods Program

IDSA Member Karen Hofmann—chair of undergraduate product design at California’s ArtCenter College of Design—has launched a new Wearables and Soft Goods program. "It all came out of the shoe design workshops we'd been asked to do in Portland, which led to discussions on the quantified self and, naturally enough, to soft goods and onto the whole wearable tech sector.”

IDSA Fellow Steps Down as Dean of RIT CIAS

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has announced that IDSA Fellow Lorraine Justice, PhD, has stepped down as dean of its College of Imaging Arts and Sciences (CIAS) because of health reasons, effective March 31, 2017.

IDSA Members Rethink the Refrigerator

IDSA members are part of a Rochester Institute of Technology team that’s collaborating with GE Appliances on a project to enhance sustainability and user experience.

Sustainability Reigns

IDSA Student Member Ezra Depree is part of a Metropolitan State University of Denver industrial design duo that’s trying to make an environmental impact with sustainable design. Aqua Box by Depree and \Wendy Hughes won first place in a recent competition judged by water conservatin experts. It will be on display tthis June at the Watershed Summit 2017 at the Denver Botanic Gardens.

Shedding the Past

A new Fast Company article features former International Design Excellence Award winner Mark Promell, IDSA, partner and design director at Pensa, weighing in on the shared economy. Not the ride sharing kind—rather, sharing products that may not be used everyday, from vaccums to lawn mowers. Pensa’s “Share Shed” concept is paired with a mobile app.

RISD Team Aims High

Two IDSA student members from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Robert Wang, S/IDSA, and Max Riece, S/IDSA, were part of a team of about a dozen RISD students that won second place for a second year in a row in the Human Exploration Rover Challenge at NASA's US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL.

Transforming Wellness

In March 2017 at SXSW Interactive in Austin, TX, Tim Ronco, S/IDSA, was among a group of Parsons School of Design students who unveiled new, wearable technology devices and experiences to transform wellness.

"Heart of Industrial Design"

IDSA Fellow William Plumb has passed away at the age of 84 in Piermont, NY. He is survived by his wife of 43 years Catherine Plumb, and children Christian Plumb and Abigail Plumb-Larrick. His daughter also works in design and human factors—in software—at Rockwell Automation. "My father believed in the marriage of beauty and usability at the heart of industrial design," his daughter tells the Society.

IDSA Student Members Earn Top Housewares Awards

An IDSA student member has scored a record-setting win in a 2017 national competition. For the first time in the 24-year history of the International Housewares Association Student Design Competition, an industrial design student has won first, second and third place prizes for three different designs!

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Member News

Labs of Wonder

IDSA Member Leads New Wearables and Soft Goods Program

IDSA Fellow Steps Down as Dean of RIT CIAS

IDSA Members Rethink the Refrigerator

Sustainability Reigns

Shedding the Past

RISD Team Aims High

Transforming Wellness

"Heart of Industrial Design"

IDSA Student Members Earn Top Housewares Awards

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