Design News

IDSA Releases INNOVATION Archives

 

The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), in partnership with the Hagley Museum and Library, is pleased to share archives of the Society's quarterly journal INNOVATION magazine, dating back to 1968. We hope you enjoy this archive and leverage it as a great resource for your reading pleasure, design practice, or academic pursuits. INNOVATION has long remained a central element of the IDSA membership experience and we look forward to much more to come.

 

Indigenous People's Day: Regenerative Design Is Inextricable from Indigenous Design

In Meghalaya, India—known as the wettest place on earth—the Khasis have trained rubber fig trees to grow into bridges across rivers during monsoons and heavy rains. Beyond their utility, they are visually stunning and have become a symbol of how humans can work with, not against, nature. Photo, published in Vogue, by Pete Oxford / Courtesy of Taschen, publisher of Lo―TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism by Julia Watson.

 

IDC 2021: Event Recap

 

IDSA's annual International Design Conference (IDC) returned in a virtual format on September 22-23, 2021. The event included the IDSA Education Symposium and featured over 50 presenters, panelists, and workshop leaders, all timed in a carefully choreographed progression over a continuous 24-hour span.

Design Leadership Bootcamp 2021

 

IDSA is proud to partner with Grow to offer an exclusive Design Leadership Bootcamp training program.

 

The IDSA + Grow Design Leadership Bootcamp is intended to help you prepare for your future as a design leader and equip you with the necessary knowledge to accelerate your professional growth. Classes start on November 15, 2021 and conclude on December 16, 2021. Registration has closed for this course.

Unofficial Glossary of Industrial Design

 

So you have a great new idea, eager buyers, keen investors and a wonderful team. All that’s left is bringing the product into the physical world. What will it look like? How will users interact with it? How will it be made? That’s when you call an industrial designer.

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