Conferences Coming Soon

IDSA is strongly committed to advancing the profession of industrial design through education. In 2009, the Society will offer a diverse menu of educational programs—national and regional conferences, face-to-face seminars and other issue-related conferences, online webinars and a revitalized Designer Spotlight Series. Keep an eye on this page as further information about upcoming events becomes available.


IDSA International Conference and Education Symposium
Each year, between 600 and 800 design practitioners, educators, students, business leaders and vendors working with designers from all over the world gather for IDSA's International Conference and Education Symposium. These events combine provocative speakers with practical information and solutions, as well as plenty of time for building personal and professional connections.


2009 International Conference and Education Symposium
Bruce Claxton, FIDSA, Conference Chair
September 23-26, 2009
Loews Miami Beach Hotel
Miami, FL

2010 International Conference and Education Symposium
Sohrab Vossoughi, IDSA, Conference Chair
August 4-7, 2010
Hilton Portland and Executive Tower
Portland, OR

To view web sites and other information from previous IDSA national and education conferences, visit http://www.idsa.org/absolutenm/templates/?a=3904&z=50.


District Conferences
Practitioners, students, educators and business leaders come together to learn and network at the IDSA District Conferences. Five separate events are held in the Northeast, Southern, Mideast, Midwest and Western Districts that focus on topics of regional interest and feature the presentation of the Student Merit Awards. Area designers take advantage of these events to get to know the students who will be tomorrow's design stars.


2009 District Conferences

Mideast District Conference
May 1-3, 2009
Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel—Pittsburgh, PA

Midwest District Conference
April 3-5, 2009
Hyatt Regency Minneapolis—Minneapolis, MN

Northeast District Conference
March 27-29, 2009
Hyatt Regency Cambridge—Cambridge, MA

Southern District Conference
April 3-5, 2009
Hilton, St. Charles—New Orleans, LA

Western District Conference
April 24-26, 2009
Sheraton Delfina—Santa Monica, CA

Solar Car in Portland

Special Event - Globe trotting Solar Car comes to Portland

Hot off the presses!! The Power of One Solar Car Project is coming to Portland this Thursday. The Power of One Solar Car Project, or xof1, is a project to develop and build a solar car and set a new world record for distance. The catalyst for the project, Marcelo da Luz, was inspired to create xof1 after learning about the World Solar Challenge. Come see the car and attend a presentation about this amazing adventure and cause this Thursday night (1/15/09) at the Ecotrust Bldg. To learn more about this event and to RSVP click here Learn more about the xof1 project at www.xof1.com

xof1 at the Arctic Circle



xof1 on the open road


From: www.solaroregon.org

New Design Competition

New entries deadline: April 2nd, 2009

Registration is now open !

Competition: In this conceptual design competition, we welcome all designers around the world to create products that reflect new ideas for the beach, sea, terrace or swimming pool spaces, involving aspects such as comfort, pleasure, recreation, cleaning, environment protection, etc.

Jury: Prospero Rasulo (Italy), Jeff Miller (USA), Michael Sodeau (England), Jeannette Alther (Lievore Altherr Molina Studio) (Germany/Spain), Constantin Wortmann (Germany), Marco Acerbis (Italy), Harry Paul Van Iesel + Camila Vega (Harry & Camila Studio) (Netherlands/Chile), Carmen Fiol(Spain), Helen Kontouris (Australia)

Prizes:First Prize: $ 3,000 USD, Second Prize: $ 1,000 USD, Third Prize: $ 500 USD, Honorable Mentions: There will be 5 honorable mentions

Enter: http://www.thedesigninstitution.com/bp2008/
Contact us: bp2008@thedesigninstitution.com
Poster: http://www.thedesigninstitution.com/bp2008_poster/Poster.jpg

From: thedesigninstitution.com site

SolidWorks Workshop

January Workshop

We would like you to join us for a hands on SolidWorks workshop. Try out SolidWorks by performing a parts modeling with the assistance of our qualified engineers. Get a better understanding of how SolidWorks performs and how it will benefit you. Seats are filling up quickly, Please feel free to contact me via phone or email with any questions or to get you signed up. Hope you are able to attend.....

Great Design Starts Here

Try SolidWorks at our Quick Start Training and experience for yourself just how easy designing in 3D is.

SolidWorks 3D modeling software offers the most advanced innovations available to help engineers and designers slash design time, reduce design costs, minimize production errors and build better products.

Directions

Location:
Shounco Design Studios
1600 N.W Compton Drive, Beaverton, OR 97006

Parking is FREE for this Quick Start Training

Time: 8:30 am to 12:30 pm
Date: Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

We still Have a few seats available, Hurry cause they wont last!

Sincerely,
Ticia
_______________________________________________
Ticia Hanmer |Business Development Team
Shounco Design Studios |Email: ticiah@shounco.com
Toll Free: + 1-877-746-8626x.208

Interaction Design Workshop

As the boundaries between the design of objects, information and environments continues to blur, teams creating the interactive products and services of the future will need increasingly sophisticated methods for prototyping and exploration with hardware as well as software. Join the IIT Institute of Design on Saturday, January 17, for a day-long, hands-on workshop on interactive hardware prototyping in the age of ubiquitous computing, led by Professor Anijo Mathew.


Thinkering with Hardware:
interaction design workshop

Saturday, January 17, 2009 | 9:00am–5:00pm
IIT Institute of Design
350 North LaSalle Street | Chicago

OVERVIEW
This workshop will help interaction designers learn to “thinker” through tinkering with physical computing artifacts. The idea is to bring together talented individuals from the realm of interaction design, introduce them to new concepts/artifacts in the realm of physical computing, and allow them to put the two together. Most importantly, it will be an opportunity for interaction designers to get their hands dirty with electronics, soldering, and wiring, and learn how to interface hardware artifacts with virtual interactions. Each participant will receive a customized interactive hardware kit to work with and take home.

FORMAT
Registration is limited to 20 participants. The first half of the workshop will bring designers and programmers in teams which work together to solve short problems linking physical computing platforms, programming environments, and traditional interaction software such as Flash. Once the basic concepts of physical computing are covered, participants will work together to come up with the design of an interactive system based on the resources available at the workshop. Teams will then split once again into separate units that tackle independent aspects of the installation with the end goal of bringing these individual units into a cohesive whole. A possible outcome of the workshop (for example) could be an interactive game at the scale of a room which employs both physical sensory objects and virtual environments. The workshop will conclude with a demonstration and exhibition of the workshop installation at a public reception hosted by the Institute of Design.

'THINKERING'
John Seely Brown, former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), claims the process of tinkering with physical objects is what allows us to evolve from using tools as instruments to using tools as conduits for productive inquiry. While some of this ability of ours to ‘tinker’ was lost when product design became “cognitively impenetrable,” the digital era is bringing it back…through a culture of participation that includes tinkering, building, remixing & mashing up. The ‘Thinkering Spaces’ initiative at ID, led by Dale Fahnstrom, T.J. McLeish, Heloisa Moura and Greg Prygrocki, takes this one step further: tinkering promotes more than just learning about the topic of inquiry; it promotes the development of critical thinking skills that will prepare us for more complex scenarios that may be unrelated to the current object of our tinkering. According to the Thinkering Spaces team, this process of thinking while tinkering inevitab
ly leads to “thinkering” a semantic conjunction borrowed from Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient where the term is used to “suggest collecting a thought as one tinkers with a half-completed bicycle.”

FACULTY
Anijo Mathew is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Design (ID) at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. After his professional BArch from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, he went on to complete an MDesS from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Prior to joining ID, he was a tenure track Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Design (CAAD) where he taught in the graduate program and led the interaction design track at the Design Research and Informatics Lab (DRIL). He is currently working on a PhD at the Open University in the UK exploring the intersection of computing and design.

REGISTRATION
Price: $625 per person; $525 for ID alumni
Includes breakfast, lunch, reception, and interactive hardware prototyping kit.
Limted to 20 participants. Register by January 12, 2009. Sorry, no refunds after January 5, 2009. Substitutions allowed.

register now:
www.id.iit.edu/917/

Questions? Contact Vincent LaConte, vince@id.lit.edu


Institute of Design
Illinois Institute of Technology
http://www.id.iit.edu

350 North LaSalle Street
Chicago, Illinois 60654
USA

IDSA-OR Weekly Update

When: Next Monday, December 8 at Jimmy Mak’s jazz club. Doors open 5:30, starts at 6:00. No cover.

What: Bright Lights discussion series, sponsored by Portland Spaces and the City Club of Portland. Lorrie Vogel, the head of Nike’s sustainability initiative, Considered, will be speaking about sustainable design at our next discussion next Monday, December 8

Come on down!



From IDSAOr
www.idsaor.org

IDSA STUDENT MEMBERSHIP

Here is the link to the National site.

http://www.idsa.org/absolutefp/student_member.htm

Designs for a Consumer Culture

October 30, 2008 - January 4, 2009

Raymond Loewy was the most prominent industrial designer of the 20th century. As he once said, his firms created everything from "lipsticks to locomotives." Raymond Loewy: Designs for a Consumer Culture was recently described by the Philadelphia Enquirer as "one of the most enjoyable exhibitions of its kind that one could expect to see." This exhibition showcases Loewy's work, placing it in the wider context of the shaping of a modern look for consumer culture. His career is brought to life by an array of original drawings, models, products, advertisements, photographs, and rare film footage of Loewy at work.

Upcoming Program!

Friday, November 21st @ 5:30 p.m.

Oregon Historical Society Pavilion

Free to OHS Members

Raymond Loewy and Andy Warhol: Commerce, Culture, and Art in 20th-Century America

A lecture presented by the curator of the Raymond Loewy exhibit, Dr. Glenn Porter, Director Emeritus, Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware.

America’s consumer culture was shaped in significant part by the work of the advertisers, industrial designers, and commercial artists who defined much of the nation’s visual landscape in the 20th century. Pioneer industrial designer Raymond Loewy and Pop artist Andy Warhol both spent a full decade as highly successful commercial artists before moving to their principal careers in industrial design and in art. Dr. Porter will examine the commercial art and subsequent careers of these two major figures, who reflected and influenced broad patterns of cultural change in America from the 1920s through the 1960s.

Mark your calendars for BikeCraft IV!

A scene from last year’s event.
(Photo: J. Maus)

BikeCraft, the bike-lover’s gift bazaar that showcases local, handmade, bike-themed arts, crafts, fashion, and more, is coming next month.

BikeCraft IV will be held on Wednesday, December 10th at Roots Organic Brewing (on SE 7th, just south of Hawthorne) from 5:30pm until late. The location is right off the Hawthorne bikeway so you can stop in on your way home from work!

If you’ve never been to BikeCraft, it’s always a great night to get your hands on fantastic things you just can’t get anywhere else. Last year at BikeCraft we had locally-made “Smittens” bike gloves, bike-themed clocks, original stencil paintings by Tiago DeJerk, earthenware plates with bike motifs, bike-part furniture, messenger bags, cycling caps, t-shirts, zines, patches, stickers, and more! And everything is made by hand in Portland.

Mark your calendars for Wednesday, December 10th and stay tuned for more updates and a list of vendors.

If you’re a crafter, builder, artist, etc… and you’re interested in being a part of BikeCraft, send an email to Elly Blue at elly@bikeportland.org (by the way folks, Elly is now officially working with me here at BikePortland World Headquarters! More on that later).

Original post from bikeportland.org

IDSA Event

"Behind the Scenes of Getting a Job"
A Webinar with IDSA Executive Director Frank Tyneski
Monday, November 17
2:00 pm ET
$50 for IDSA members/members of IDSA Student Chapters
$75 for nonmembers

Thinking about seeking a job or internship? How can you make your portfolio stand out from the crowd? What are employers looking for?

Get some real advice from a real pro—IDSA's Executive Director, Frank Tyneski. Prior to his arrival at IDSA, Frank staffed design teams globally, from interns to executives, at companies like Kyocera, RIM/BlackBerry and Motorola. He knows what design managers are looking for and how they seek talent.

For this webinar, all you need is a phone and a computer. Gather your entire student chapter or class together to participate (for one price)—or listen yourself! Frank will give you the practical advice you need to get your foot in the door and get that job.

Register now at https://sslserver.com/idsa.org/absolutefp/tyneski_webinar_112008.html.

Quick Start Training for SolidWorks

Try SolidWorks at our Quick Start Training and experience for yourself just how easy designing in 3D is.

SolidWorks 3D modeling software offers the most advanced innovations available to help engineers and designers slash design time, reduce design costs, minimize production errors and build better products.

“Commuter bike for the masses” design competition

–enter for a chance to win a Cannondale Bad Boy bicycle-

Those of us who are already cyclists know that riding a bicycle is one of the best ways to get around town. Infrastructure, enforcement, and general traffic safety issues may be the biggest obstacles to convincing people with no real interest in cycling to try riding a bike to work, but the design of the bicycle itself is also an important part of the equation. Some great discussion has taken place on the blog recently about the design of a bike for the many “potential cyclists” out there who do not currently ride. What kind of bicycle, or pedal powered machine, would it take to get those people out of their cars for trips to the store or to work? Building on those discussions, the idea of a transportation-oriented bicycle for the vast “blue ocean” of non-cyclist is the theme of this design competition.

I started thinking about holding a competition like this as soon as I started reading your responses to the aforementioned commuter bike post. The good folks at Cannondale were generous enough to provide a Bad Boy bike (like the one pictured here) for the winner, so the competition is a go. Read on for the details and start thinking about your entry.

Design Brief

Do you have an idea for a bicycle that might persuade the average person, with no prior interest in cycling, to park the car and pedal to work? That is the main idea behind this competition. The scope is up to you- choose to come up with a whole new form factor for a pedal powered machine, or focus on specific details that you consider key to accomplishing the goal of getting the average non-cyclist to consider riding a bike for transportation. Don’t be constrained by products that are currently on the market, but do make sure that your concepts are based in reality (don’t break the laws of physics, etc) and that they are manufacturable using existing technology. All concepts submitted will be considered, so be creative and have fun.

A jury of 6 industrial designers and 1 journalist will review and discuss the submissions to choose a winner. The jury will be looking for creative and sound concepts that are clearly defined, original, and innovative. Presentation counts too, so do your best to sell us on your concept.

Entry Requirements

Create and submit two jpeg presentation layouts, horizontal format at a size of 800 x 600 pixels (at 72 dpi). Higher resolution files may be requested if you are chosen as a finalist.

* The first image board should show development sketches, drawings, support images etc.
* The second image board should primarily show a final rendering or prototype photo.
* Write a short description of your concept in English- 200 words max (save as a .doc file or include in the body of your email)


In addition to the 200-word explanation, you may also include text/ notes in the composition of your images to clarify the details of your design. Keep in mind that the images will be sized for the web if posted; so make sure any text on the images is large enough to be legible.

Send the 2 jpegs and description in an email to bicycledesigncontest@gmail.com with “Commuter bike competition entry” in the subject line.

The deadline for entries will be Friday, December 5th, 2008 at 11:59pm Eastern Standard time.

Prize

1 Grand Prize, a Cannondale Bad Boy bicycle valued at around 1,000 U.S. dollars, will be shipped directly to the winner from Cannondale.

Note: If the winner is in the U.S., the prize will be the Cannondale Bad Boy Disc model. For the rest of the world, it will be the Cannondale Bad Boy 700 (European version)


Jury

The winning design will be chosen from all submitted entries by a jury that will include:

* James Thomas (me)- Industrial Designer and the blogger here at Bicycle Design
* Torgny Fjeldskaar- Director of Industrial Design & Advanced Products Division at Cannondale Bicycle Corporation
* Mark Sanders- Principal of MAS Design Products Ltd and designer of the Strida and IF Bikes
* Steve Zwonitzer- Principal/Founder of Propane Creative; a strategic brand + product design consultancy
* Agnete Enga- Senior Industrial Designer, Smart Design/ Femme Den, NYC
* Michael Illukiewicz -Automotive designer
* Carlton Reid- Editor at BikeBiz, Quickrelease.tv, Bikeforall.net, and BiketoWorkBook.com

Rights

Intellectual property rights will remain with the designer, but by participating in the competition, you agree to allow your design to possibly be posted at bicycledesign.blogspot.com, and therefore made public. The jury will review all entries received and the winner will be announced on the blog after the contest closes. After the contest closes, the decision of the jury will be final.

Eligibility and requirements

This competition is open to anyone18 years of age and up, worldwide. Needless to say, I am not eligible to enter and neither are the other jurors or employees of Cannondale.

All submissions must be original work by the designer, created for this competition, and not currently in production. Do not submit any images that contain reproduced or copyrighted work. No brand names should be visible in your images. Submissions with logos or copyrighted artwork will be disqualified.


Remember, the competition closes on December 5th, so get to work and have fun with it. Good luck to all of you; I can’t wait to see the ideas that you come up with.


FROM:

http://bicycledesign.blogspot.com/2008/10/commuter-bike-for-masses-design.html

IDSA Event | THE SOCIAL | October 29, 2008 | Wednesday | 6-8:30pm

IDSA Oregon presents: The Social - a monthly after work meetup for Portland area designers and the people who love them. This month's location is Holocene.

Location: Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Portland, OR Phone: 503.239.7639

Oregon Manifest Bike Show

Oregon Manifest Bike Show

Friday - Sunday, October 11th - 13th

10:00 AM - 7:00 PM

Leftbank Greenroom

240 N. Broadway, Portland

$10 entry for one day, $15 for both days

Set within the heart of Portland's legendary cyclocross scene, Oregon Manifest will feature an unconquerable mix of custom framebuilders, bike-centric vendors, bike culture squads, and blowout parties, crowned with a Sunday cross race to bring home the glory.

Oregon Manifes is the collective vision of Portland, Oregon's cycling and creative communities who have come together to dream up and develop the most original, spirited, and spectacle-laden boutique bike show in the nation.

Friday, October 10th

Action time. Meet some of the finest handmade bikes in the world and the personalities behind them. From bikes built in Portland to bikes built across the country, this show will highlight what can be created with two hands, a set of tires, a thousand degrees of heat, and a valiant heart. Builders will be showing their bikes, sharing their stories, and collectively demonstrating the depth and breadth of American cycling culture. This is not your average pipe-and-drape experience: this is a rare opportunity to experience builders and their bikes, up close, raw, personal and powerful. Oregon Manifest is intent on being more than just a showcase for superior craftsmanship. It seeks to display the fortitute, unrivaled pluck and indomitable spirit that burns in the heart of the artistan bike builder.

If you have a custom bike, ride it to the show. Special bike parking will be available to custom bikes, creating an ever-evolving installation immediately outside the show venue.

Saturday, October 11th

The show continues. This will be your final opportunity to meet the builders in the extraordinary atmosphere of the Greenroom.

Rapha Cross Roller Race

Saturday, October 11th 8:00 PM

Held across the street from the show venue, these aren't your average roller races - they're cross style. Running, dismounts, and full-on mayhem. Riders will be selected from the Teams of Portland with wildcard entries chosen the day before. Winners of the mens and womens categories will each walk away with a custom built frame of their very own, and every top placer from OBRA racing categories will get a call up at the Cross Crusade race the following day. Entry fee is $10.

Sunday, October 12

Cross Crusade/Oregon Manifest Cyclocross Race

You want cyclocross? We got yer cyclocross! The legendary Cross Crusade is the best, biggest, most lunatic cross race series in the nation. Racers come from all areas of the region, just to get a piece of it. Fast riders, classic courses, and a whole lotta cowbell!

Held at the Dammasch Hospital, home to a former insane asylum, this race will feature a special Builder’s Exhibition Lap (that’s right, some of those pretty show bikes are going to get dirty), and an Oregon Manifest exhibit featuring before and after custom built cross rigs.

Entry fee: $22 per race

SW Ravenna Loop, Wilsonville, Oregon

8am to 6pm

www.oregonmanifest.com

Google Design Project

Want your designs to have a huge impact?

Here's your chance...

http://www.project10tothe100.com/index.html

Project 10¹⁰⁰

About the Project

Q: What is Project 10¹⁰⁰? A: Project 10¹⁰⁰ (pronounced "Project 10 to the 100th") is a call for ideas to change the world, in the hope of helping as many people as possible.

Q: Why is Google doing this? A: The short answer is that we think helping people is a good thing, and empowering people to help others is an even better thing.

Q: How many ideas are you funding? A: We have committed $10 million to fund up to five ideas selected by our advisory board.

Q. Why the name 10^100? A: 10¹⁰⁰ is another way of expressing the number "googol," a one followed by one hundred zeroes. Our company's very name expresses our goal of achieving great results through smart technology that starts small and scales dramatically over time to have a tremendous long-term impact. Project 10¹⁰⁰ is a similar attempt to produce those kinds of scalable results by harnessing our users' insights and creativity. We don't know what ideas would help the most people. This project's premise is that maybe you do.