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IDSASV Speaker Series: Design Entrepreneurship Industrial Design @ SJSU with Brett Lovelady

Date: Tuesday, October 29
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Will be provided in the Evite confirmation after you RSVP

ASTRO Studios Founder & Creative Capitalist, Brett Lovelady will present the design driven launch of ASTRO Gaming, from idea through acquisition.

ASTRO Studios of California was launched in 1994 by Brett Lovelady as a pure design driven culture to blend creative skills, technologies and lifestyle perspectives into supercharged products and brands.

Nick Foster: It's Grim Up North

IDSA Silicon Valley is proud to present a talk by Nick Foster, a self-confessed "post-discipline designer with specialisms". Nick is Creative Lead for Nokia's Advanced Design team; partner at the Near Future Laboratory, pioneering work in the field of Design Fiction; and has over fifteen years experience in the design industry as an engineer, industrial designer and futurist for companies such as Dyson, Seymourpowell and Sony.

IDSA Professional Speaker Series: "Rethinking User Experience," Bryce G. Rutter, CEO & Founder of Metaphase Design Group

A big thank you to Bryce Rutter and Max Ryan at Metephase for a fantastic talk!!!.

VIEW THE PRESENTATION HERE

PARTICIPATE IN THE PRESENTATION:
Email us a picture of the best designed product you own and three bullets on why you love this design. We will collate and present back to the audience these designs and talk about how they all share a common thread.

Email to max@metaphase.com prior to October  23rd

Date:

Atlanta Design Outreach 4 - Recap

That's a wrap - our Fourth annual Atlanta Design Outreach is officially in the books!  The creativity and quality of thought this year was truly inspiring, and we could not be happier with the results and impact the program has had on our community. The program is geared to challenge participants with a rapid-paced, collaborative design charrete structure that brings all skill levels of industrial design together; high school students work with Atlanta design professionals and academic design students from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

IDSA Names Nominations Committee led by George McCain, FIDSA

With nominations now open for IDSA’s Board elections, George McCain will lead a committee of volunteers that includes: Mariah Hay, IDSA; David Klein, IDSA; Paul Magee, IDSA; Nancy Perkins, FIDSA and Katherine McCoy, FIDSA. The Board of  Directors is responsible for directing the affairs of the Society, and specifically, each member is expected to help raise funds, increase membership, support the development of programs and services, including the Design Foundation and build awareness of the value of IDSA to the membership, design community and the public.

Design Process and Brand Experience

Design awareness is at an all-time global high and the focus of design theory is shifting from ‘the interplay of form and function’ to that of the ‘experience’ offered by a brand. Further, there is all this talk of big data and game theory while people continue to be more connected through the internet and social media. What does this mean to the practice of design? How can the design process assimilate these trends and evolve to connect with the present and the future?

Thomas Overthun, IDEA 2013 Jury Chair, Discusses Judging Process

What happens when a world-class group of designers gathers at the Henry Ford to determine what work is worthy of an International Design Excellence Award (IDEA)?
 

The 2013 IDEA jury chair, Thomas Overthun from IDEO, walks us through the evaluation process, from choosing the jury to online judging to the fierce and thoughtful debates that take place in the hallowed halls of the Henry Ford Museum.

St. Louis: DesignSpeak

What is designspeak?
DesignSpeak’s mission, simply put, is to promote design & St. Louis.

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