IDSA POR: Designed in Maine

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.

IDSA CLE: Advancing Design Maturity Panel Discussion

Join a panel of Cleveland area design experts as they explore the use of design methodologies in business. This free, virtual event will discuss the past, present, and future state […]

IDSA SEA: Unreally Real with Keyshot

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, […]

Design Voices: Perspectives on Race & Design

Donald Burlock, Jr., IDSA, author of “Superhuman by Design,” Ayana Patterson, IDSA, Leader on IDSA’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council, and Jasmine Kent, IDSA, Apparel Designer at Under Armour, shared their stories and journeys to becoming industrial designers with host Başak Altan, IDSA.   https://vimeo.com/516933834

Design Voices: Design for Democracy

A discussion on design’s influence on democracy and politics, as well as its social implications, with host Başak Altan, IDSA (design strategist, educator and future thinker) and uests Lisa Kay Solomon, Designer in Residence at Stanford d.school, and Jeroen van Erp, professor at Delft University of Technology and co-founder of Fabrique, Netherlands.   https://vimeo.com/516906793

IDSA NL: Relentlessly Inclusive

A conversation with Le’Spencer Walker, Sr. Operations Manager + Product Engineer at Target Recorded on February 3, 2021 https://vimeo.com/575909907

Women in Design SEA: Counterweight

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 […]

IDSA SF: Design Stories with Jeff Smith and Gerard Furbershaw

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 […]