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Industrial Design
Summer Speaker Series
Local Design / Local Flavor

Wednesday, July 16th 5 – 7 pm
Wendie Siverts, Principal
FlatHED Design
www.flathed.com

Wednesday, July 30th 5 - 7 pm
Toren Orzeck, Principal
FUSE
www.fuseid.com

Wednesday, August 13th 5 – 7 pm
John Schreiber, VP Creative Director CRACK
IDL worldwide
www.idlww.com

Wednesday, August 27th 5 – 7 pm
Gene Yanku, Partner / VP Products
Highgear, Inc.
www.highgear.com

All presentations will take place in the Industrial Design shop @ 722 NW Couch.

Pro's Night

Project Images

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

Thursday Night Sketch Party!

This Thursday May 22nd from 6:00pm to 9:00pm in the Industrial Design Shop (NW Couch & 5th) the IDSAip is having a Sketch Party.

Refreshments, snacks, Scott Robinson videos and much much more!

Come see The Great Jeff Deuchler and The Amazing Tracy compete in a no holds barred Sketch OFF!

Come one come all tell a friend and a fellow ID Classmate!

The Art institute of Portland Events Website

It's here! This brand new site is your link to our schools events!

http://ab3810.aisites.com/

Bikeoff...Designing Out Crime Case Study

The link...

www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/Case-Studies/All-Case-Studies/Bikeoff/


Design can be used not only to reduce the risk of products being stolen, it can also be a way of encouraging more people to use a product if they think it is secure. This case study shows how the design process has made bike stands more secure because it involved watching how people used bike stands, how criminals abused bike stands and how secure locking practices could be made easier.

Build something

Here is the link...
http://students6.autodesk.com/?nd=challenge_ind


Here is the info...

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.

IDSA Undergraduate Scholarship

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.

Industrial Designers Society of America

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email: jillr@idsa.org

phone: 703.707.6000

web: http://www.idsa.org

IDSA Western District Conference videos update

OK i have some of the video of the student merit presentations up and posted on YouTube. The rest are on there way so far i have been able to post two a day. they all well be up soon though. http://www.youtube.com/vwbusgromit66 is the website again. enjoy.

Western District conference videos

OK the videos are being posted on YouTube. you can see them here http://www.youtube.com/user/vwbusgromit66. Not all of them are up yet but will be soon.