Challenge extended – entries accepted through June 15th!
Do you dream of creating sleek new tech toys that outdo even today’s most stylish cell phone and MP3 players? Enter the Industrial Design category of the Autodesk Student Design Challenge where you get the opportunity to win great prizes, while building designs for your future career portfolio. Take a product that is currently on the market and redesign it with an enhanced look and feel (new lines and edges, better colors, etc.) and a design that improves the overall functionality using Autodesk AliasStudio™ software.
The Autodesk AliasStudio™ product line provides a comprehensive set of tools for conceptual design and design realization. AliasStudio provides industry-leading surface description capabilities supported by best-in-class sketching and visualization tools that let you capture and communicate design intent. AliasStudio streamlines consumer product and transportation design workflows, maximizing your productivity to deliver successful products without impeding creativity.
Want Some Free Money for School?
Again this year, IDSA will award two $2,500 Undergraduate Scholarships and one $1,500 Gianninoto Graduate Scholarship to eligible design students. Could one of those recipients be you or one of your students?
Undergraduate Scholarships will be awarded to two full-time industrial design students in their next-to-final year (third-year in a four-year program or fourth-year in a five-year program) who have earned a "B" or better cumulative average since entering the program. Applicants must also be a member of a current IDSA Student Chapter and be a US citizen or US resident. Scholarship applications are due June 1, 2008; application guidelines and forms can be found at http://www.idsa.org/absolutenm/ templates/?a=120&z=49.
IDSA's Gianninoto Graduate Scholarship was originally established by a contribution from famed package designer Francesco Gianninoto, FIDSA, a founder of the Package Design Council and creator of iconic designs such as "Elsie Daisy" the Borden Cow and the mid-1950s Marlboro cigarette package.
The Gianninoto Graduate Scholarship will be awarded to a senior industrial design student currently applying to graduate school, a student currently enrolled in a graduate industrial design program or a practicing professional applying to return to graduate school. Scholarship applications are due June 1, 2008; application guidelines and forms can be found at http://www.idsa.org/absolutenm/ templates/?a=3260&z=131.
For more information on either scholarship, please contact Larry Hoffer at 703.707.6000 x119 or larryh@idsa.org.
