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Posted by hipstomp | 16 Apr 2008
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When you talk to industrial design students in America, whether they're at coastal schools like RISD and Art Center or in the hinterlands at CCS and RIT, few of them express interest in moving to the American Midwest; ID success is usually linked with moving to a well-known city near the ocean.
The American state of Indiana is feeling the crunch--for the past few terms they've not been able to get the board members neccessary for a proper IDSA chapter. They're hoping to fix that next month with a one-day membership drive:
"Resurrecting IDSA's Indiana chapter would benefit Indiana on the whole," commented James Spaulding, industrial designer and IDSA member. "This network promotes the creation of new jobs and new companies by encouraging entrepreneurship and collaboration. It could also help in creating jobs with competitive wages to motivate Indiana's most talented design students to seek in-state employment."
Designers with a jones for Indiana can RSVP here.
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The problem is that Indiana doesn't have much in the way of design jobs. There is good talent coming out of the few schools there, but there's not a lot of opportunity. Someone would have to convince Thomson Electronics, Delta Faucets, or the small handful of other companies to start hiring from within the state and stop bringing people in from all over the country. Since graduating from Purdue, I've worked in Texas, Ohio, and now, California. All of my classmates left too. There's just no place to go. Maybe that's what the IDSA members in Indiana need to focus on.