Our first IDME/IDSA Portland event! Let's start off by discussing success stories detailing how design and innovation has traditionally helped our local economy and how it is now being applied to local industries in new ways.
KeyShot is popular amongst designers for their intuitive and powerful visualization software. We will sit down to learn about new features from how to rapidly animate a product using Keyframe Animation, rendering unreal fabrics using Real Cloth 2.0, to lighting environments from sunrise to sunset. Beyond rendering, we’ll learn about new capabilities from AR, VR, […]
A conversation with Le’Spencer Walker, Sr. Operations Manager + Product Engineer at Target Recorded on February 3, 2021 https://vimeo.com/575909907
Seattle Women in Design's inaugural event navigates fostering our own creativity amidst the unknown with Kay Kim and Clare Duffy. As designers, we’re expected to have an endless supply of creativity, but how do you cultivate a source for this? For our two speakers, it comes from exposure to new ideas and willingness to show […]
Jeff Smith and Gerard Furbershaw Co-Founded LUNAR Design in 1984 and lead the firm together as its CEO and COO respectively, for 30 years. Partnering together with a symbiotic balance of complementary skills and personalities they accomplished a great deal with their design firm. When LUNAR was acquired in 2015, Wired the magazine reported first […]
What is sustainability? How can we design better futures? Studies have shown that following major economic downturns like the one caused by the COVID -19 Pandemic, the rate of resource consumption and environmental degradation increases significantly. With scientists predicting that we only have a decade left before irreversible climate damage, how can designers create products […]
A casual networking virtual conversation with Denver area designers.
2021's colors of the year are Ultimate Grey and Illuminating! Join us as we kick off 2021 with the spirit, verve, and joy we have come to expect from an IDSA event. Register here for the virtual party on Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 7pm Eastern. The IDSA host chapters (Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas-Fort Worth, […]
IDSA Atlanta and Toy and Game Design Atlanta feature two guests from The Lumistella Company, the home of The Elf on the Shelf (yes, the iconic Christmas tradition!). Co-owner and author, Chanda Bell, and Director of Product Development, Brad Reese, will be answering questions and telling the story of how one family transformed a small […]
In the age of emojis, type and image work in tandem to bolster our typographic voices, conveying our wide range of emotions. What if new punctuation could formally articulate the meaning of a message as conveyed through gesture and expression? Engaging with design as a medium for inquiry, Cinelli proposes a new set of characters […]
