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As first announced to our academic community on March 26 (via our Educator Update email), we are pleased to provide a virtual platform for graduating 2020 senior industrial design students to increase visibility of their work and assist in their transition to the professional design community. The IDSA Industrial Design Senior Show will be completely free and open to any graduating industrial design senior. 

During this uneasy time of living with and working through the global COVID-19 pandemic, leveraging our connections and unique skills as industrial designers to help others has become all the more important. 

A few days ago, I reached out to my good friend and colleague Dominic Peralta, IDSA, founder of stellar ★ design, to see how his firm was doing in this difficult time. What I learned is inspiring. 

There has never been a time when the role of design has been more crucial to the health of the Earth’s environment and people, or more crucial to the survival of many of the species with whom we share the planet.

The 20 hottest years on record have all occurred since 1998.¹ Science tells us we have 10 years to make dramatic changes to almost every aspect of our societies, our infrastructure and the way we behave as individuals.^{2, 3, 4}