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Pushing Boundaries

“Today more than ever, industrial designers are in a unique position to facilitate a change in the world. Our role as advocates of the user and their needs leaves us with a great opportunity to create powerful product experiences that push the boundaries currently defined.”

—Tanner Wills, IDSA, IDSA West District Student Merit Award Winner

Impact in ID

“We see how important design—not just industrial but all design—is becoming in our world. It leads to some of the most successful businesses; it solves some terrible and tragic problems facing our world; and it can lead to simple improvements in what people use every day. Design is not only a tool but a way of thinking and we are only beginning to shed light on its understanding and value. That's what is so exciting about it. It’s something so defined, yet so undefined, and in some ways we are pioneers to this conversation.”

Passion for ID

“I started backpacking and cycling at a young age and haven’t really stopped since. These gear-based passions made me very aware of the objects I was using. I found ceramics my senior year in high school which opened me up to the arts and creating. After that, the idea of blending my passion took hold.”

—Patrick Shields, IDSA, 2016 Central District Student Merit Award Winner

Designing with the End in Mind

The Wall Street Journal reports industrial designers are playing a key role in new efforts by global companies to design with the end of the product life cycle in mind. Professor WIlliam Bullock, FIDSA, is a sustainable design expert on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (site of the 2016 IDSA Midwest District Design Conference).

ICFF Honors RIT ID

Rochester Institute of Technology industrial design students came away with a major award from the 2016 International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City. RIT’s Metaproject 06 booth received the ICFF Editors’ Award—Best School, which recognizes innovative designs at ICFF. Five editors canvassed more than 700 booths on two floors of the Javits Convention Center to determine this year’s winners.

Intrigued by ID

“There is no better time than now to be an industrial designer.”

—Elvin Chu, IDSA, South District Student Merit Award Winner

The H Factor

“I'm very intrigued with the human factor elements of design. I love being able to see my user’s reaction and feedback toward my iterative concepts.”

—Lino Cantarella, IDSA, 2016 IDSA Northeast District Student Merit Award Winner

Mission to Mars

Pratt Institute is one only of a handful of universities selected in 2016 to participate in NASA’s eXploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge—part of the space agency’s goal to send astronauts to an asteroid by 2025 and to Mars in the 2030s.

Changing the Game

“This is really about changing the game. About delivering an iconic brand. Ultimately a health and wellness promise that is really changing the category," says Bryan Shova, IDSA, Kaleidoscope's industrial design director and 2016 IDSA International Conference speaker, about new packaging developed for a brand of milk that has 100 days of shelf life. “We wanted to form a structure that honors milk, knows what it is, but begins to dig deeper and answer why is it different?

IDSA Member Appellation

The IDSA Member Appellation is the highest mark of industry excellence. Any individual who fulfills the requirements of an industrial design or related design program  at an instituion of higher learning may be a Professional or Young Professional member of IDSA. From the years of formal education and as members advance in their careers, they may take on different appellations reflective of their achievements.

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