Welcome to Innovation, IDSA's quarterly design journal and one of the best places to learn about the practice of design. Every issue of Innovation reaches the IDSA membership, the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, universities, associations and design offices around the world.

Below is the summer 2006 issue table of contents with selected articles in PDF format.

WHO KNEW?

HOW RESEARCH INFORMS DESIGN

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2526-Rhea.pdf

2526-Sterling.pdf

Welcome to Innovation, IDSA's quarterly design journal and one of the best places to learn about the practice of design. Every issue of Innovation reaches the IDSA membership, the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, universities, associations and design offices around the world.

Below is the spring 2006 issue table of contents with selected articles in PDF format.

GLOBAL DESIGN CONSTRAINTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

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Dziersk_spring_06.pdf

Haythornthwaite_spring_06.pdf

Speer_spring_06.pdf

Welcome to Innovation, IDSA's quarterly design journal and one of the best places to learn about the practice of design. Every issue of Innovation reaches the IDSA membership, the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, universities, associations and design offices around the world.

Below is the summer 2005 issue table of contents with selected articles in PDF format.

IS SUSTAINABLE ATTAINABLE?

COVER STORY

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McDonough_summer05.pdf

Lasn_summer05.pdf

Belletire_summer05.pdf

Design Organizations

In the last century Industrial Designers gave form to products. In this century they will give form to experiences.

In our recent survey of IDSA members, Innovation came out as the runaway number one membership benefit. And so it should, as the critical, thought provoking mouthpiece of IDSA. In other parts of the survey, IDSA fell way short of members’ expectations; as we head into the next decade, we are going to raise the bar on everything we do, starting with the above thought about the future of our profession in a world run by a global economy and, for the most part, global design thinking.

Is there a reason for this trend? Of course! A large, technology-driven social revolution is underway that we need to frame our design thinking around in order to become a more important contributor to positive change in the world.

1897-1948

Ray, a U.S. industrial designer born in Malden, MA, attended Harvard and studied engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His first position was with the Hume Body Corporation in Boston. He later designed custom automotive bodies for the Dayton Wright Company and spent five years with the Packard Motor Car Company.

US industrial designer born 1931 in Sellersville, Pennsylvania. Received a BFA in Industrial Design, from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1953. Served in US Army with the National Security Agency as a cryptanalyst from 1953 to 1956. He became designer and later industrial design manager for the Hoover Company in North Canton, Ohio from 1956 to 1972, before he joined Black & Decker US Power Tools in Towson, Maryland as Manager of Industrial Design.

In 1913, Henry Ford perfected the mass- production process with his re-designed Model T. Inspired by efficient Chicago meatpacking processes, Ford developed a sophisticated assembly-line method reducing production time from 12 1/2 to 2 1/2 hours, and the car price from $900 to $440. In 1913 alone, 168,000 were produced. His unprecedented system became known throughout the world as Fordism, and by 1915 had reduced skilled labor in auto factories from 60% to 13%.

The Hughes Electric Heating Company was founded in Chicago by George A. Hughes (1871-1944), the founder of an electric light and power company in Fargo, ND. He introduced the first &quotelectric cook stove" at the National Electric Light Association convention in St. Louis M0 in 1910.