Member News

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.

Making His Mark

“When a person is part of a community, they want to help that community do better. There’s a reason that the majority of design leaders in the United States for the last 50 years all have been members of IDSA. They love design and believe that the community of design has the power to transform society for the better.”

—Charles Austen Angell, FIDSA

IDSA Member Remembered for Professional and Personal Endeavors

IDSA Member Craig James Carlson has passed away at the age of 62, after a five-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was born in in Brooklyn, New York on October 14, 1954. Carlson became an industrial designer and the owner of InDepth Design in Lawrence, MA which consulted everything from small partnerships/start-ups to major corporations in products and services ranging from medical instrumentation to packaging to cable management and more.

Why #MaterialsMatter

Farrell Calabrese, IDSA, is the creative manager for the Eastman Innovation Lab (EIL), a strategic program that pairs Eastman experts in material science—with leaders in industrial design and architecture. Register now for the free, live, new #IDSAWebinar #MaterialsMatter on 1pm EST on Wednesday, June 22, 2016.

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