Member News

The winners of the IDSA Student Merit Awards 2017 will be recognized at the IDSA Awards on Fri., Aug. 18 during the IDSA International Design Conference. For the first time, an all-female slate of winners has emerged. The 2017 honorees are:

On May, 1, 2017, Megan Neese, IDSA, becomes the fourth woman to serve as chair of IDSA's Board of Directors

IDSA Fellow Charles Austen Angell will be speaking Future Tense at IDSA's West District Design Conference, which will be held from April 23 to 24, 2017 in Portland, where his Modern Edge design firm is based. Angell will take a closer look at "Virtual, Augmented and Autonomous."

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.”