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Hi everyone...

Please post pictures of your projects. Have a great break keep blogging. See you all July 14th!

Freddy

Design Thinking: Action and Ecosystem

Don't miss this next CHIFOO Meeting • Wednesday, June 11

Design Thinking: Action and Ecosystem

presented by Bill Buxton,Microsoft, author of "Sketching User Experiences:Getting the Design Right and the Right Design"

Design luminary Bill Buxton will be in Portland, this Wednesday, June 11, to speak on "Design Thinking: Action and Ecosystem."

Winner of this year'sSIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award with years of accomplishments too numerous to mention here, Bill is currently the Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. He is the author of "Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design" not to mention recent Business Week article "A New Mantra for Creativity" . This lecture is presented by CHIFOO in partnership with Cascade SIGGRAPH.

The number of books, articles, and conferences on innovation, creativity, and design is staggering. Yet, there is still precious little on what designers actually do, how they do it, and how they interact with the other disciplines involved in bringing concepts to fruition.

This talk is based in the premise that design is a distinct discipline with specific skills and practices. Furthermore, the physical and cultural ecosystem in which designers work has a huge effect on their ability to exercise these skills.

This talk aims to shine some light on design skills and their relationship to various aspects of this ecosystem. The purpose is not to make everyone a designer; rather, it is to help both designers and non-designers better understand how and where they fit into the larger mosaic that makes up the partnership required to go effectively from concept to practice.

SCHEDULE & LOCATION
Please note: We will not be meeting at the usual Beaverton locations.

5:00 pm Book signing at Powell's Technical Books, 33 NW Park, Portland (see map)

6:30 pm Networking and social hour, Light refreshments will be served in the lobby of the Portland World Trade Center, 121 SW Salmon (see map)

7:00 pm Programat the bridge level auditorium of the PortlandWorld Trade Center, 121 SW Salmon (see map)

COST
Just like all the other CHIFOO meetings, this excellent program is FREE for CHIFOO members; non-member admission is $5.
Annual CHIFOO membership costs just $20 and offers benefits galore!

Our 1st 1st Thursday....

The doors were open and the people came to see our work! This past Thursday we opened the doors to the public. Lots of folks stopped by to see the work we all have been so diligently completing.

This was the 1st time we had student work out on display in the shop to show to the public. It was a great success for a stormy night. This is yet another great opportunity to get out and meet some folks and show off your work. The items on display were all chosen via your instructors and Jamie. If you would like to participate and see your work on display work hard to fulfill and surpass your class projects so that they might be selected to be displayed at the next 1st Thursday. To the right are some photos of the evening.

Updated Calendar

IDSA Oregon and local organizations updated Calendar is now posted...Summer break is great time to catch up on all kinds of events. Scroll down and to the left to see the list.

Fix innovative and functional furniture design show

Want to show of your furniture designs...? Here's your chance!

Show2008

innovative and functional furniture design

Show2008, a biennial exhibit, promises the public over 30 examples of unusual and stimulating furniture design and provides designers/fabricators/makers with a place for peer and public recognition and dialogue. Show2008 will take place at Portland State University's Shattuck Hall in October and is presented by fix.

OCTOBER 2008
Portland State University
Shattuck Hall
1914 SW Park (at Broadway and Hall)

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