At least two-thirds of this year’s IDSA student IDEA awards went to Asian designers. This might have something to do with the ethnic mix of submissions to the IDEA student competition but I think it is also emblematic of an overall shift that is happening in the design industry today.
“This is serious stuff!”
84 year old iconic industrial designer Paul Specht, FIDSA, spoke today about his life, the power of design and his views of the future. Here is a brief bio as written by AU INDD professor Bret Smith:
Paul Specht has practiced design for more than 60 years and holds more than 50 utility [...]
Auburn University’s student IDSA chapter once again hosted their annual Designing Green competition with the Department of Industrial and Graphic Design. This year, after a couple of lectures on sustainable design Thursday morning, Industrial Design and Graphic Design students were divided into 11 teams of 12-13 members each (including a faculty adviser). The teams [...]
Last night I rode up to Atlanta with a some of the INDD faculty to hear Joyce Bromberg, Steelcase’s Director of WorkSpace Futures- Research, present to a joint group of the Atlanta IDSA and PDMA chapters at Newell Rubbermaid’s headquarters. Joyce delivered an awesome presentation where she revealed the methods and tools Steelcase uses to [...]
Today Auburn’s student IDSA and AIGA chapters hosted what I believe was the the 30th annual Design Interaction Symposium (though no mention of this momentous anniversary was made). Paul Rossetto and Clayton Garrels of Kohler, Ken Musgrave of Dell and Terry Slaughter of the Slaughter Group all made presentations. While the Kohler and Dell presentations [...]
