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“This is really about changing the game. About delivering an iconic brand. Ultimately a health and wellness promise that is really changing the category,” says Bryan Shova, IDSA, Kaleidoscope’s industrial design director and 2016 IDSA International Conference speaker, about new
IDSA Member Craig James Carlson has passed away at the age of 62, after a five-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was born in in Brooklyn, New York on October 14, 1954. Carlson became an industrial designer and the owner of InDepth Design
The IDSA Awards 2016 winners were announced August 19 at the 2016 International Conference at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center. Photos can be viewed here. Video can be viewed here. Pascal Malassigné, FIDSA, senior professor and chair of industrial design at the Milwaukee Institute
IDSA’s third annual Medical Design Conference: From Volume to Value will be held Nov. 11–12, 2016 at the new University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center’s Mission Bay Conference Center. The design industry and the frontlines of the medical field are
More than two dozen industrial design students in Iowa State University’s College of Design are teaming up with a recreational facility in Urbandale, IA that serves people with special needs—to design adaptive sports equipment. Several of the Iowa State students also are going the extra mile
Registration is free to the College for Creative Studies design workshops that will be held one day before this year’s IDSA International Conference kicks off in Detroit. See the details and register now. The workshops, hosted by CCS and sponsored by Autodesk, will be held at the historic
On April 19, 2016, IDSA Executive Director Daniel Martinage, CAE, and IDSA Board of Directors Chair Emeritus Austen Angell, FIDSA, spoke before a capacity crowd on What’s Trending in Design at the 10th annual United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Design Day. See the IDSA Photo Album.
Two updates on IDSA involving design patent issues: On April 19, 2016, IDSA Executive Director Daniel Martinage, CAE, and IDSA Board of Directors Chair Emeritus Austen Angell, FIDSA, will take the stage before a capacity crowd at the 10th annual United States Patent and Trademark
The design community mourns the loss of ArtCenter College of Design‘s first chair of its product design program—Martin “Marty” Smith—who also was an IDSA member. He was 67. “An industrial designer and educator with over 35 years of experience
Apple—marking its 40th anniversary on April 1, 2016—is the focus of news interviews conducted by global broadcaster Voice of America (VOA) and CBS Money Watch with the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) on how Apple redefined and helped put industrial design on
Join the conversation on the IDSA Medical Section LinkedIn group here. If you’re not yet a member of the group, you will need to request to join here. By Sean Hägen, IDSA – IDSA Board of Directors Section Vice President;
For the first time in more than a century, the US Supreme Court will hear an appeal in a design patent case that some media observers say “could set a precedent with ripple effects throughout the tech industry.” On March 21,
IDSA Member Yves Béhar is lauded in a new article for “forging the path on a return of retro-inspired products—a return of analog in our increasingly digital world.”
By Feb. 24, 2017, designers are being asked to push for legislation to be introduced in the 2017 Maryland General Assembly that would establish the Maryland Design Excellence and Innovation Commission. “There is no better time than now to contact your
The Eastman Innovation Lab, an IDSA Ambassador, is making quite an impression on IDSA events in 2016. The EIL was a Career Path Partner at all five, 2016 IDSA District Design Conferences—Central, West, South, Midwest and Northeast in April. And the EIL is
Today, people are living behind the screen. Our observations of the world are becoming reduced to digital data points that are solving problems intuitively or telling us what to do next. Design education is not much different. Research and
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has added nearly four dozen cities, including Detroit—which is the site of the 2016 IDSA International Conference: Making Things Happen—to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (CCN). In 2015, Detroit is one of only
A memorial fund has been set up in honor of IDSA Fellow and historian Carroll Gantz, who passed away on Nov. 18, 2015 at the age of 84. The fund, set up by Gantz’s brother, Vernon, and associates, will help
IDSA’s first Future of Design Leadership Panel, held at the 2015 International Conference in Seattle, is making headlines. IDSA Member Thomas Lockwood moderated the panel that included chief design officers (CDOs) representing corporations with hundreds of billions of dollars in revenues: Philips, Intuit, Microsoft, PepsiCo, 3M,
The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) Student Chapter faculty advisor at California State University-Long Beach (CSULB), and industrial design assistant professor—David Teubner, IDSA—tells Voice of America the 23-year-old ID
IDSA Fellow Darrell Staley has passed away from cancer. He was 78 years old. “He was a designer, painter, traveler, writer, innovator who was creative, intelligent, fun, witty, sweet, charming, private and a wonderful friend to so many of us,” former IDSA Executive
The IDSA Life member known as the “Godfather of New Zealand industrial design,” (Alban) Gifford Jackson, has died at the age of 93. The Designers Institute of New Zealand says Jackson’s “gentlemanly manner, professional skills and generous mentorship were
Did a scholarship help put you on the path to industrial design? Did an educator, professional or a conference make a crucial connection in your career? Have you influenced someone entering the ID field? Then you know how much financial support and educational initiatives can
Demystifying Ecodesign Thursday, November 19, 2015 2:00–3:00PM EST Approaches to ecodesign and design for sustainability have been around for a while, but many designers are still uncertain about where to begin, and how far to go. Experts Philip
IDSA had a strong presence at the US Economic Development Administration’s 2nd annual Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership (IMCP) National Summit, held Oct. 21‐22, 2015 at The White House and at the US Department of Commerce in Washington, DC.