IDSAmn Events
1 comment so farA quick reminder that the IDSA Midwest Conference is right around the corner - if you haven’t done so please review the sponsorship package and don’t hesitate to contact Kerstin Strom or John Caruso with any questions!
Tomorrow - Wednesday - March 18th
PDMA : Creating a Small Business: The Journey of the Pickle 5:30-8pm
@ The Dining Studio, 1121 Jackson Street NE, Minneapolis Minnesota 55413 (map)
Do you have a new business and are trying to build it up? Looking for some real world experience for a class or new skill set? This will be an interactive session with Jeff, Gregg and David of The Preferred Pickle as they will talk about how they got started, the hurdles they overcame, and where they are headed next in their journey.
Please visit the PDMAmn website for more information
Thursday - March 19th
solidThinking - Interactive session on 3D software for Industrial Designers 5-8pm
@ Kablooe Design 9162 Davenport St NE Minneapolis, MN 55449 (map)
Please join us Thursday, March 19 beginning at 5pm at Kablooe Design for appetizers and drinks. We will be demonstrating and discussing the Industrial Design software tool solidThinking from Altair Engineering. This will be an interactive session in which your questions will dictate the content. We are looking to have an open discussion about ID’ers experience with the various modeling software on the market, our experiences, frustrations, expectations, and further professional development. What can help you become more effective, efficient and productive? solidThinking is a product from solidThinking, Inc., an Altair company
Saturday - March 21st
Portfolio Day At Penco 9:00am - 5:00pm
@ Penco Artists’ Supply Warehouse 718 Washington Ave North Minneapolis, MN (map)
The IDSAmn Chapter is proud to present Penco’s Portfolio Day (this Saturday March 21st) filled with information and discussion related to putting together a portfolio that works- whether to get a job, a client or just in case. This event is timed to give students and professionals who hope to participate in the IDSA Mid-West Confererence (April 3/4/5) event time to get their book ready. Penco will feature presentations and demonstrations of the latest products like Case Envy and Pina Zangaro and the various types of presentation cases and accessories to make your work shine.
Currently the roster of speakers include:
• Glenn Sherling, a 30 year veteral of the advertising world and currently a VP with Mars Advertising has agreed to be on hand starting at 11 am Saturday, as well as
• Jack Matter, photography instructor at MCTC.
• Jason Brown, owner of Lost Luggage, the creators of Case Envy presentation products will be on hand as well. He is flying in all the way from Seattle.
• Jeff Johnson founder and owner of Spunk Design has agreed to appear as one of our Celebrity Designers from 12-5.
• Pete Rivard of Dunwoody College who teaches graphics and printing will on hand from 9 to 2.
• Orin Rutchick of the Mpls Photo Center will also be on hand to address photography issues.
Monday - March 30th
Will Durfee - Product Design Graduate Programs at the University of Minnesota
5pm at the U of M East Bank Campus @ 1130 Mechanical engineering building
Come and hear about the exciting new Product Design graduate minor under development.
Monday - April 6th
Clive vanHeerden - Innovation and ‘Far Future’ Research at Philips Design
Main campus of the University of Minnesota at 6pm @ Rapson Hall auditorium on 6th April.
Sponsored by the Safety and Protective Products division of Industrial Fabrics Association, International
and the Stegeman Visiting Professorship Fund
Wednesday - April 8th
Green Drinks 6-8:30pm
@ Black Dog Café 304 Prince St, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101 (map)
possible speaker change - currently Wendy Jedlicka - TBA
Monday - April 13th
Michael Speaks - Design Thinking
Main campus of the University of Minnesota at 6pm @ 100 Rapson Hall
Michael Speaks is a Professor and the Dean of the College of Design, University of Kentucky
Sponsored by the Cass Gilbert Fund
Monday - April 20th
Niels Diffrient - The Design of Experience
University of Minnesota - St Paul campus at 6pm @ 33 McNeal Hall
Sponsored by Humanscale
Thursday - April 30th
Objectified - Walker Art Center: 7pm & 9pm
2 showings, both with Q&A with Gary Hustwit and Andrew Blauvelt
Join us for the regional premiere of Objectified, from the director of Helvetica.
Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential product designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?
http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/
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Penco Portfolio Workshop
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Event:
Portfolio Day At Penco
Date:
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Time:
9:00am - 5:00pm
Location:
Penco Artists’ Supply Warehouse
718 Washington Ave North
Minneapolis, MN
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(612) 333-3330
Penco will present a day filled with information and discussion related to putting together a portfolio that works, whether to get a job, a client or just in case. This event is timed to give students and professionals who hope to participate in the IDSA Mid-West Confererence (April 3/4/5) event time to get their book ready. Penco will feature presentations and demonstrations of the latest products like Case Envy and Pina Zangaro and the various types of presentation cases and accessories to make your work shine.
Currently the roster of speakers include:
Glenn Sherling, a 30 year veteral of the advertising world and currently a VP with Mars Advertising has agreed to be on hand starting at 11 am Saturday, as well as
Jack Matter, photography instructor at MCTC.
Jason Brown, owner of Lost Luggage, the creators of Case Envy presentation products will be on hand as well. He is flying in all the way from Seattle.
Jeff Johnson founder and owner of Spunk Design has agreed to appear as one of our Celebrity Designers from 12-5.
Pete Rivard of Dunwoody College who teaches graphics and printing will on hand from 9 to 2.
Orin Rutchick of the Mpls Photo Center will also be on hand to address photography issues.
More on the Minneapolis Mid-West Conference : Speakers
3 comments so farRegister Here For the Mid-West Conference : Minneapolis : April 3/4/5
Steve Diller
We will feature a presentation by Steve Diller from Cheskin, a Strategic Consulting and Market Research company from California. Steve is co-author of the book, “Making Meaning, How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences. ” Writing in the tradition of Louis Cheskin, one of the founding fathers of market research, the authors of Making Meaning observe, define, and describe the meaningful customer experience. By consciously evoking certain deeply valued meanings through their products, services, and multidimensional customer experiences, they argue, companies can create more value and achieve lasting strategic advantages over their competitors.
www.makingmeaning.org
Garrick Van Buren is the President of Working Pathways Inc, a customer-focused web application design firm. His clients include Sun Microsystems, Best Buy, Target, and Orbitz.com. Garrick writes at http://garrickvanburen.com, he co-founded and frequently contributes to MNteractive.com, and continues to publishes one of the first Minnesotan podcasts - the First Crack Podcast (firstcrackpodcast.com).
Garrick will be discussing The Meaning of Interaction: Finding Your Professional Voice Through Weblogs and Twitter
Bob Schwartz, General Manager of Global Design, GE Healthcare, is to present on the aspect of social design and the choices he made through his career to work on projects that had Meaning to him as a responsible and ethical designer. He will emphasize his work as a designer for the Red Cross on systems, signage and equipment. In December 2007, Bob joined GEHC as General Manager, Global Design and is responsible for overseeing the Global Design function encompassing human factors, industrial design, ergonomics, and user interface and design research for GEHC. Bob joined GEHC from Procter & Gamble, where he was a global design leader working to transform the design function there to a strategically relevant capability, which is now comprised of 300 global designers and design managers.
F.K. Day, World Bicycle relief, is to present on the impact the donation of a single bicycle to a under privileged village in Africa can make. People who had to wait days for medical assistance can get access in hours. Times to get to markets for food and medicine have been reduced. Access to clean water has been increased dramatically, due to the Meaning of access to a bicycle.
Simple, sustainable transportation is an essential element in disaster assistance and poverty relief. Bicycles fulfill basic needs by providing access to healthcare, education and economic development. Bicycles empower individuals, their families, and their communities. Our mission is to provide access to independence and livelihood through The Power of Bicycles. F.K. Day is the President of World Bicycle Relief. He is also a co-founder, Executive Vice President, and on the Board of Directors of SRAM Corporation. F.K. has 20 years of experience in the bicycle industry, and served SRAM as the Vice President of Product Development for six years, developing and implementing strategy, with responsibility for multiple development projects driven through SRAM locations and factories worldwide.
www.worldbicyclerelief.org
Wendy Jedlička, An IoPP Certified Packaging Professional, Jedlička is president of Jedlička Design Ltd. (jedlicka.com), working in print and packaging since the early 1980s, coupled with eleven years as a retail industry insider. As a design and business strategy vendor, she has served clients such as 3M, Target, Hormel, Anchor Hocking, and Toro. Jedlička writes the regular feature “Sustainability Update” for Package Design Magazine, is the contributing editor for two books by Wiley Publishing, Packaging Sustainability: Tools, Systems and Strategies for Innovative Package Design, and, Sustainable Graphic Design: Tools, Systems and Strategies for Innovative Print Design, and is a national caliber speaker, regularly tapped to speak on eco-packaging and print design, as well as a variety of sustainable design and business issues.
As part of her professional outreach efforts, Jedlička is the United States co coordinator for the o2 International Network for Sustainable Design (o2.org) as well as Upper Midwest chapter chair (o2umw.org). Working to change minds in higher education, Jedlička is program development team member and faculty for the groundbreaking Sustainable Design Certificate Program at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD). (mcad.edu/sustainable)
Dr. Bruce M. Tharp is a professor of Designed Objects at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received a doctorate in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Chicago, a master of industrial design degree from Pratt Institute, and a bachelor of mechanical engineering degree from Bucknell University. Early in his career, he served four years as an army nuclear weapons officer in Germany and just before teaching, worked as a design researcher within Haworth’s in-house think-tank, the Ideation Group. He and his wife presently run a design studio, “Materious”, which produces both commercial and more speculative products. Stephanie M. Tharp is an Associate Professor, and Program Coordinator, of Industrial Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received a master of industrial design degree from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a bachelor of mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan. She has work experience at Ford Motor Company, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and amazon.com. Bruce and Stephanie presently run a design studio, “materious”, which produces both commercial and speculative products. They have won several design awards, lectured internationally, and are currently working on a book project entitled, Discursive Design, which seeks to further legitimize and problematize alternate forms of design work that extend designers’ cultural agency.
Bernard Gonzalez will present on the design development process of that organization as well as the difficulties of managing large-scale manufacturing of “invisible” products. The challenges of “manufacturing by the mile and selling by the inch”, and what Meaning does innovation have to 3M when parts savings is measured in fractions of an inch. Bernard has a unique vision and passion for the environment and ethics in the product development process.
Paul Hatch, The Meaning of (ID) Life : How do we do what we do? In this presentation, Paul Hatch uses cognitive science to explain how industrial designers balance left and right brain halves utilizing both creative and rational thinking. Breaking down the typical personality traits of an industrial designer, he defines an ‘ID-DNA’ and explains how we can use this knowledge to improve how we design and manage design. Paul Hatch is President of the Chicago branch of TEAMS Design, which he opened in 1998. TEAMS Design now has five branches, over 80 industrial designers and has received well over 1000 Design awards. Paul has had articles published in design and business magazines and is also known for founding and running a ‘extreme debate’ event called Fight Club which eventually spread to five other states and was filmed as a pilot for a TV show. Paul has taught, given presentations, workshops and seminars in the UK, Germany, China and the US. He was IDSA District Vice President 2004-2006 and chaired the Midwest Conferences for those years. Together with Deana McDonagh he was responsible for creating the IDSA books ‘Impact, the Synergy of Technology, Business and Design’ and ‘REALIZE – Design Means Business’ in 2005 and 2006.
Alex Lobos is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Industrial Design at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is always curious about the connections that products promote between users and their context. These are complex relationships that allow designers to create a meaningful impact in society. Alex’s interest in user- product relationships has focused widely on home appliances. As an industrial designer for GE Appliances, he was able to understand in more depth the importance of products in the complex lives of everyday users. Originally from Guatemala, Alex is a Fulbright Scholar with degrees in Industrial Design from Universidad Rafael Landivar and University of Notre Dame.
Scott Robertson will be presenting an advanced drawing and digital rendering lecture and exclusive workshop. Scott has authored multiple books on the subject such as, “Concepts 1 &2 “, and “How to Draw Cars the Hot Wheels Way”. After two and a half years at Oregon State, Scott transferred to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California where his father had studied illustration. He graduated in 1990 with honors and a B.S. in Transportation Design. He immediately opened a consulting firm in San Francisco, where he designed a variety of consumer products, the majority being durable medical goods and sporting goods. In 1995, he began teaching at Art Center, first with a year-and-a-half stint at Art Center Europe in Vevey, Switzerland (now closed), and then in Pasadena, California. Since returning from Europe, Scott’s clients have included the BMW subsidiary Designworks/USA, Bell Sports, Raleigh Bicycles, Mattel Toys, Patagonia, Scifi Lab, 3DO, feature film Minority Report, Nike, Rock Shox, Universal Studios, OVO, Black Diamond, Angel Studios, Rockstar Games, Sony Online Entertainment, Buena Vista Games, and Fiat.
Drawthrough.com
Scott is sponsored by Applied Engineering Technology, Minneapolis
David Bentley graduated with a BFA in Industrial Design from the University of Brigham Young in 1997. He then worked as a Creative Designer at General Motors Design. Three years later, David left GM to consult for Alias/Wavefront at Chrysler Design where he worked with designers, to enhance workflows and solve problems. He left DCX to work at Lear as a senior designer on the GT40 Ford production program as well as the advanced design studio. In 2003, he hired back into Alias as an AE, where he used design and entertainment products. Most recently, David worked at Autodesk specializing in conceptual design and visualization solutions in the Global Automotive Accounts Group.
bentley.design@hotmail.com
David is sponsored by Applied Engineering Technology, Minneapolis.
Gary Vande Berg, Bemis Mnfg. What do you make plastic shopping carts from? How about ground up shopping carts! Gary will discuss the true Meaning of closed loop recycling and material trends in industry regarding greener choices. Gary Vande Berg is the Director of Engineering and Global InnovationTeam Member for Bemis Manufacturing Company. He is responsible for leading the Bemis engineering group on projects involving part design, tool construction, process validation and technology implementation. Gary has over 30 years of experience within the plastics industry many working within the Bemis Contract Group. Most recently, Gary has pioneered the development of multi-barrel/multi-material injection molding processes and systems. He holds several patents in co-injection technology and multi-material machine and manifold technologies. Gary will discuss the following materials & processes: metal insert molding, internal and external gas assist, sequential molding, co-injection molding for strength, aesthetics and utilizing “green” and regrind materials, working with engineering grade or exotic materials, and the appropriate use of “molded in” color and film technology.
Wis. Stout ID student workshop at Brooks Stevens
1 comment so farST. PAUL, MN – Last week, Brooks Stevens, Inc hosted the University of Wisconsin, Stout IDSA Student Chapter in a high energy workshop focusing on process. We wanted to augment the students’ education with a real world experience in the design profession. We agreed on three key areas design students needed to learn pre-graduation: the value of planning and process, the “client experience,” and the dynamics of a team effort. First, we divided into five groups and allowed them to work on five different projects through five different project phases. In this setting, the teams learned that sketching was a highly efficient mean to communicating an idea. One student explained “The simulation of handing off design work to and from different groups emphasized the importance of communication visually and verbally. Many of my fellow students that attended, realized how working with teams of people can strengthen our work from raw concepts to refined designs”
To loosen the student’s minds we warmed up with a rousing game of Destructo! Much to the chagrin of some students, this game did not involve any imbibing of malt liquor. Nope. It was a drawing game that involved destroying others’ ideas using the classic brainstorming rule stating “there are no wrong answers or ideas too outrageous.” After a disturbing game of Destructo, it was time to get serious. We directed the student’s approach to the definition phase of the design process. We stressed the importance of defining the challenges first and forced them to prioritize their goals. Too often, designers (and companies) fall into the trap of developing a design in search of a problem to solve. Also attending was assistant professor of industrial design, Noah Norton. He summed it up stating,”Industry involvement is such an important part of design education and Brooks Stevens has been a fantastic partner. The Saturday design session got everyone involved in the process from identification to refinement. It was challenging, fun and a great learning experience.” In the end, our teams developed designs for interesting products, some more practical than others. Their creativity and teamwork produced many well defined designs! We loved the fashionable and functional biodegradable, leaf-shaped bandages. We were impressed by the full body motion-controlled video game for flying. The compact, sustainable shoe box was a viable solution for a better shopping/purchasing experience. Who can forget the multi-purpose prisoner restraint system featuring feather fringe? Did we mention they had fun? Fringe equals fun!
Mid-West Conference Schedule!
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MEANING April 3/4/5/ 2009 Minneapolis MN : Schedule
Friday April 3rd
11:00-12:00 Officers Meeting Chapter chairs
12:00 Conference Opens
12:15-2:00 F2 Scott Robertson part 1
F3 Professional development 1
Materials and Processes Gary Vande Berg
Bemis Mfg. Co. - Contract Group
F4 Jeff Hayden Bunkspeed
1:30-2:30 IDSA Student Merit Rehearsals Steve Visser
2:00 Registration opens at Hotel
2:00 to 215 Break room transition
2:15-3:30 F5 Scott Robertson 2/ Advanced rendering / special tickets required
F6 Professional development 2 Meaning of Experience; What Employers are Looking For
Mike Kahwaji/ Richard Gresens / Kevin Gilboe, Whirlpool
F7 Italian Design with Solid Thinking WS
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00 F8 Panel on Making meaning Educators plus students P Hatch , B Tharp, S Tharp, S Visser, S Diller,
A Lobos
Influence - IDSA Midwest Conference
5:00 - 6:00 F9 Meaning BUSINESS AND DESIGN
Steve Diller , Cheskin
Opening Keynote
6:00 to 7:00 Travel bus /car/ cab
7:00 - 10:00 Opening Night Party Location Worrell Design
MEANING April 3/4/5/ 2009 Minneapolis MN : Schedule
Saturday April 4th
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15 Opening remarks JKC
9:15 - 10:15 S1 Bob Schwartz GE Healthcare Intro by Wis Chapt Chair Chevis Watkinson
10:15 - 11:15 S2 WBR President FK Day Intro by Chicago Chapt Chair Emily Gensheimer Kevin Henry
11:15 - 12:30 IDSA Student Merit Award Winner Presentations
12:30 - 1:45 Box Lunch
1:45 - 2:45 S5 Bruce Tharp, StephanieTharp, Meaning of the object
Breakouts
45min 15 q&a
S6 Alex Lobos, What Does Design Mean to People?
S7 Drawing on Meaning, David Bentley P1
2:45 to 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:00 S8 Paul Hatch , The Meaning of (ID) Life
Breakouts
45min 15 q&a
S9 Garrick Van Buren, The Meaning of Interaction
S10 Drawing on Meaning, David Bentley P2
415 - 4:30 The Meaning of IDSA, George McCain
4:30 - 5:30 S11 Bernard Gonzalez 3M Intro by MN Chapt Chair Kerstin Strom
5:30 - 6:30 S12 Wendy Jedlicka
Closing Keynote
6:30 - 7:00 Reflect and connect
7:15 - 8:00 Happy Hour
8:00 - 11:00 Awards Dinner and Celebration
Hyatt
MEANING April 3/4/5/ 2009 Minneapolis MN : Schedule
Sunday April 5th
8:30 - 9:30 Scoops meeting
9:30 – 11:00 Student Portfolio Review sponsored by 3M
Noon Conference Closed
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