BEYOND METAPHOR
The Pratt juggling club demonstrating a metaphor for the design process. Les Mandelbaum of Umbra said that having the design idea is only 5% of the process. I guess the rest is juggling engineering, manufacturing, finance, marketing, research, etc....

Phat Cash Design Contest
Tom Yurken, our presenter of the Multi Sensory Exhibit Design presentation is actually the CEO of th International Student Exhibit Design Scholarship Competition. OK, thats a big title, but with $4000 in scholarship monies we'll say it over and...

Multi Sensory Experiences
Tom Yurken: VP creative, Freeman transforming emotion into results. Taste, touch, smell, see, hear and how to apply it to exhibit design.No longer a exhibit, more of an experience. Last several years the industry has grown and changed immensely....

Corin Ludwig Shows Portfolio.
Corin Ludwig showed some of her work from a branding and identity class. She is graduating with her Masters in Industrial Design from Auburn and looking for a job this August. You can see the rest of her fantastic...

*shhh* Don't Tell the Core77 Guys
Yeah, so, I've been at the IDSA conference since about 7am and taken hundreds of photos already. I've hit every lecture so far and met a ton of really cool people... but I needed a lil break. It is Saturday...

Day 2 of the Western IDSA Annual Conference is Rollin'
After the portfolio review the talks started. Here's some shots from the morning sessions. Stuart Walker gettin' philosophical on our asses - Read Stephanies great write-up. Everyone is pretty excited to be here and there is a bit of a...

Sound Bites from the All Star Panel
Julie Lasky (ID Magazine) + Davin Stowell (Smart Design) + Eric Chan (ECCO Design) + Manuel Saez (HumanScale) + Walter Herbst (HLB) = an awful lot of ideas. Davin "People don't want photographs, they want to share memories with their...

Design Shoots Scores Saves!!!
Remember November 7, 2000? The fateful day when the voting system failed us, bad design failed us, which ultimately lead to the court determining who won the US election? The ballots in Florida that failed to count each citizen's...

The Think Chair
I'm going to rant for a moment. John Hamilton from Steelcase just finished talking about the Think chair. The same Think chair that was presented at last year's Design:Green workshop in New York, the same Think chair featured in...

"If you are not living on the edge...
...you are taking up too much room." Native American saying quoted by Mary McBride (Columbia University) in her presentation on ethics and design strategies. Her talk was on design as a risk management tool, "a way to shape or sabotage...

Cat Chow
Dress with linked dollars. There's always a debate about design vs art, but in fashion, there is no longer a debate, fashion is art. Cat Chow creates wearable art with materials not intended for fashion. Astro turf, industrial washers,...

Skin To Win!!!
Prasad (Assistant Professor at ASU) talks about "Design/Dermatology: The Sensual, Fleeting Skins of Objects" "when you change your smart skin, you change your identity." -- from /www.smartskins.com/ As a follow-up and in contrast to Stuart's talk, Prasad begins by...

Body Food Craft Identity
Jogi Panghaal, Doors of Perception Using the context of Indian culture, Jogi Panghaal guided the audience through an inquiry into what it is to make things. All skills come from food and preparing food, and thus are intimately connected to...

Stuart Walker Presents Enduring Objects
The first presentation of the day is by Stuart Walker, Professor and Associate Dean at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design. While his research looks at sustainable product design, his talk looks more specifically at enduring objects,...

Come Together
Groups broke out to have discussions on varying topics like the shift of manufacturing to China, the impact of design process in business, and design thinking. Groups were moderated by different people working in thinktank designer like Tucker, and...

Four Driving Forces
Andrew Zolli is a futurist, and makes a living trying to figure out what happens next. He does this for Popular Science, American Demographics magazine, National Public Radio, and his own company, Z Plus Associates. And he's pretty good...

BEYOND THE WALLS
Lunch on a piece of scuplture at Pratt campus. Did I mention yay for spring?...

Wipe the drool off your screen and starting saving pennies

For a good time click...
Ze Frank (Update 11pm- link fixed!) Start with the classic original "How to dance properly" and turn up the sound!. And then be jealous that we got to hear Ze Frank in person about empowering regular people to be creative....

Design is no exception to the rule
Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap. Discuss. (Background: Theodore Sturgeon is a science fiction writer who, when asked why he chose to write science fiction when he was a good writer of other more respectable genres, said "Sure, science...

Eames Sketches
here is an Eames sketch from the presentation - I know, not a good photo.... but an Eames sketch nonetheless....

Karim (is it Kah-reem or Care-im)
Karim Rashid has a vision for how the world should be, and he spoke about them freely and openly. I felt like I was watching a preacher-man, telling stories, and sharing views for the world, a gospel on design...

Eames - Audience
Eager conference goers await the Eames keynote....

Eames Demetrious - The Keynote(!)
The audience packs into the main auditorium at Emily Carr and are eager and ready to kick-off the conference with our keynote speaker, Eames Demetrious, who is the grandson of Charles and Ray Eames and Director of the Eames Office...

MP3 - Herb Velazquez
Herb is Senior Design manager at Kimberly Clark, a gi-normous copy to the tune of $15 billion in sales in 2004. It's pretty big. Herb was responsible for starting up the design group more than six years ago and...

Designer Kicks!

Andrew Zolli is a good sport
Speaking with a fever and jet lag, and willing to ham it up for the camera....

Conference Underway
The conference begins with the important-people introductions -- Ron Kemnitzer (IDSA President), Kristina Goodrich (IDSA Executive Director), Dedre Toker (Western District VP)-- and a (re)stating of the western conference theme, Enduring Design. This theme questions "how designers can act in...

Portfolio Review - Industrial Design Conference at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
Joel Tobman reviews his portfolio at the Industrial Designers Society of America annual conference. He came to Vancouver from the University of Calgary where he is doing a Masters of Industrial Design. The rest of my photos from the...

Photographic Documentation
No content, just eye candy: Appetizing, no? Milling around the lobby. Jim Morrow of Morrow Design talking to a student. Bruce Nussbaum of Business Week gives a student the lowdown on what it takes to get a Gold IDEA award....

BEYOND EGO
Rationality, Relevance, Rey the dog New York Times reporter Rob Walker's dog, Rey. www.robwalker.net Reaching design-driven consumers: find products that appeal to individuality and yet create a "tribe" around them, like the iPod. Interesting products are able to create relevance...

Meta-wut-wut
Bryce Rutter is the CEO of Metaphase, an ergonomic-centered design firm out of St. Louis, MS. Not only is he a huge advocate of user-centered design, but he's also a really really engaging public speaker. (He talked about Kinesthetics...

Alias likes designers... duh.
Have you noticed how Alias has been pushing their sketchbook software like crazy recently? What's the deal? Well here's why-- their new focus is on innovation-- they want to "shift from tools for making to tools for thinking". This may...

BEYOND WALMART
Les Mandelbaum, Umbra Umbra found a market in the segment not served by corporate design, switching from hard-edged, high-tech design in the late 70's to the "sexy" 80's with Karim Rashid. In the US, maybe 20% of the market...

IDSA Portfolio Review
*yawn* Sitting here at 7:15am drinking Tim Horton's coffee and getting ready to take some photos of the portfolio review this morning at the Industrial Designers Society of America's annual western confernece. This morning there are about 20 firms here...

The ECCO party
One of three different studio parties that took place concurrently last night -- the ECCO design studio party appeared to be the most popular. Party officially ran from 8-10pm. Above photos snapped just before 11. Deb Johnson, head of...

National Association of Black Cowboys
Turns out IDSA - Beyond isn't the only group using the Pratt campus for it's conference. The National Association of Black Cowboys was here too. Didn't make it to the meeting, but apparently there was whoopin and lasso work...

Leveraging China - or - Why your job might go overseas, but you'll probably get another one
Australian-born designer and CCS professor Rob Curedale held the most dynamic, intense session of the conference so far yesterday afternoon, as he outlined to a packed room the changing realities of manufacturing and design in China. This is drawn...

BEYOND DESIGNERS
The morning panel of celebrity design objects was a huge success. Eclectic. Comfy. But when do I get to try them out? Thanks Knoll!...

Eames Demetrios - Keynote at Vancouver IDSA Western Conference
Great keynote last night by Eames Demetrios at the Emily Carr Institute for Art and Design....

Gettin' Dirty at the Peabody
After our meat-centric dinner outing we were hangin' with some more of the IDSA crew at The Peabody. After hearing of our rib exploits from earlier, Marty Gage was jonesin' for some late night eats. Sadly the Rendevous was...

Ali Khalifa: Creativity and Connectivity
Ali Khalifa: Creativity and Connectivity Photos: As expected Ty Rarick, our beloved IDSA Southern Chapter Chair, delivers an awesome opening speach at the conf. Ali pictured with fellow Design Box member Becky Shankle. If you had a design box...

Rib Rendevous
After the final speaker of the day, a small group of professionals, along with 63 Georgia Tech students, and roughly half the population of Memphis, headed to Rendevous, one of the most famous rib joints in the US. One...

Beyond Winter
Yay Spring in Brooklyn!...

Sunny Vancouver
So I have never been to this fine city before, so I spent the day on a bike riding around the place. For those of you who have never been here before, it is quite nice. The city is...

Rapid Proto
Here are some prototypes from ARRK Product Development Group....

Alias Reception
And here is the red punch......

Nypro & Radius / Manufacture & Design
Bringing designers and manufacturers together is like pairing cats and dogs...or is it? Nypro and Radius coexist and create products for companies with an emphasis on decreasing lead time. Currently, the average lead from design concept to production, for...

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
I am here at the beginning of the IDSA's western conference in beautiful downtown Vancouver after a nice day of biking around the city on a beautifully sunny day (despite an archetypal pacific northwest forecast for overcast and rainy...

Richard Simmons is a God
To be very honest, I figured Richard Simmons was dead, or missing, or at the very least, out of the public eye. But thanks to the diligence of Auburn student, Andrew Thomson, we now know with certifiable precision, the...

Student Merit Nominees
Thumbnail glimpses of the work of this year's student merit award finalists (at least the ones that displayed work in the break area). The presentations in the late afternoon had the greatest turnout of the day by far. Congratulations to...

Living the Dream
Four design entrepreneurs: Todd Seidman (54Dean), Scott Lundberg ([Make]), Paul Galli (54Dean), and Stu Constantine (core77)....

How to get ahead in ID- portfolio smackdown
A frank panel on using your portfolio to get a foot in the door, featuring an HR expert, a recruiter (or more accurately "THE recruiter" in ID), and three potential bosses. Some disagreement around the details, but the central message...

Wish ya'll were here...
Like many of our peers across the south, Ayham and I (Mardis) made quite a trek across the south to attend the IDSA conf. We left University of Houston's new ID studios on Thursday. Barelling accross Louisiana, high on...