February 2010
1 post
I'm back!!!
Hello Blog!!!! Long time, no write!!! The 4th year ID students have been so busy over here across the pond! Can’t wait to let you in on a bit of what we have been up to. We miss you!!!
xoxo
November 2009
4 posts
Good to know...
I found this on the IDSA web site and though yall might find it fun to go through:
100 Years of Design
DESIGN COMPETITION: iF Concept Award
The iF concept award invites young designers worldwide to submit innovative contributions and apply for the sought-after iF award. The iF concept award offers students and recent graduates from the areas of design, architecture, marketing and engineering an opportunity to compare themselves on an international level and to present their ideas to the design-interested public.
If you are...
Pratt Institute..
Here is a link so you can see some portfolios from Pratt Students. It is interesting to see what other students are doing:
http://www.core77.com/design.edu/school_search_results_portfolios.asp?school_id=64307
October 2009
49 posts
London Design 2009
http://www.core77.com/gallery/photos_search.asp?context_id=1&album_id=110
Take a look at these photos from the London Design Festival 2009!
Monster Mash!!!
Hopefully everyone has seen the posters around the Warehouse for the Monster Mash party this coming Friday! We are working on getting Dinosaur to cater for us!!!! Tickets are going on sale starting Monday! Bring $3 with you to the Warehouse this week to get your ticket!
TWINE!
This weekend Alan is assigning mentors so email him if you would like to put in a request! Everyone on Monday seemed to be pretty psyched for this program to start up so yay for everyone who decides to participate. Other majors are jealous of how we are bonding (just sayin)
3rd years...
This is something fun that I though that the 3rd years in the typography class might enjoy.
http://www.dezeen.com/2009/10/19/karamel-sans-ce-by-marta-mastalkova/
D-Build...take a look at this
Rob Englert and Grant Meacham are in the process of developing a new method of cataloging and distributing reclaimed materials in an effort to promote the benefits of their use in new constructions and products. To do so, they are creating a website called D-Build, which will be both a blog and an online marketplace that sells material from dismantled houses and the products made from them,...
The Shop...
question was asked about additional tools requested for shop by IID kids. here’s zeke’s answer: “I have put through a PO for the bigger tools, though I know the Dean is watching the money pretty closely. Not sure what the status of it is, I can check this week. Many of the smaller tools have been ordered, and are on their way. “
Student Council: Meeting Notes
I hope everyone is utilizing and enjoying the new Express Warehouse bus line! Also some light bulbs around the building have been replaced for safety.
We were talking about how to make the Colab space more personal to us.
Cass is screening movies in there every monday and wednesday from 12 to 2.
We are also discussing the possibility of putting some student work up in there for people from...
SPEAKER!!!!
Robert Blaich is coming to speak to us tomorrow, Tuesday October 20th at 5pm in the Warehouse Auditorium.
About him:
US industrial designer with a BFA in industrial design from Syracuse University, he worked in design and marketing before starting with the Herman Miller Furniture Company in 1953, and served as its vice-president of corporate design and communications from 1968 to 1979. In...
Some fun graphics... →
http://www.toby-ng.com/graphic-design/the-world-of-100//
World Beach Project
The World Beach Project is a global art project open to anybody, anywhere, of any age. Building on the experience many of us have of making patterns on beaches and shorelines, this project combines the simplicity of making patterns with stones with the complexities of shape, size, colour, tone, composition, similarity and difference.
All over the world, people are making artistic patterns and...
Very Important!!!!!
Dear fellow designers,
I just wanted to let you know that a girl was hit by a car tonight while riding her bike right by my house. I just thought I might take advantage of this blog to tell you to always wear a helmet and put reflectors on your bike. Please be careful out there designers. Love you all!
xoxo
liz w.
DESIGN COMPETITION!
The Safety Products Student Design Challenge is in its 7th year, encouraging post-secondary students in the pursuit of functional design for safety. This Challenge, juried by industry experts, is open to post-secondary students worldwide.
http://www.safetyfabrics.com/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=87&op=page&SubMenu=
Design Complexity and Change
If anyone is heading to Massachusetts this coming weekend, there is going to be a design conference in Cambridge called Design Complexity and Change. It sounds very interesting:
“With times of change, design managers need to think, work and execute beyond the normal—to drive business and industry in new directions and be better equipped as change agents. We need to help solve complex...
Nendo
“Blown Fabric” by Nendo
I read Nendo’s mission statement and thought I might share it with you:
“Giving people a small ” ! ” moment. There are so many small ” ! ” moments hidden in our everyday. But we don’t recognize them. and even when we do recognize them,we tend to unconsciously reset our minds and forget what we’ve seen. But we...
Great News!
The 5th floor computer lab is now open 24/7! Everything in there is now secured down so no one can steal anything….yes, I am talking to you whoever you are who keeps stealing mice from the computer lab.
Dear Mouse Bandit: You have been outsmarted by Lucinda Havenhand (love her!)!!!
ID Date Auction
Thank you to everyone who came! Hope you had a great time! Can’t wait until the next one!
Very Important!!!!!
Warehouse bus update! An express route is now in place and will be up and running on the 12th of October. This bus is not part of the Centro line of buses so you should be looking for a different kind of bus. This new bus is solely for students and not for the city! SO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR ID or you will not be able to get one the bus. This is a remedy to the extremely long PM bus rides,...
SPEAKER!!!!
Massimo Vignelli is coming to Syracuse to speak to us as part of the Golden Mean Series (that’s right, it’s back). This semesters’ theme is “Design is One”.
When?:
October 21 from 5:30-7 p.m.
Alexander Manu →
For those of you who are not in the “What’s the Big Idea?” class:
Alexander Manu showed this youtube video to the class.
On another note, I think that we can all agree that his morning lecture was amazing and extremely helpful. Very inspiring.
Student Work
I would really like to start posting some student work. If you want to get your designs online give me a file and I will post it for you. If you want to put your work on big, popular blog (like core77 or NOTCOT) it looks good if your photos are linked to a website instead of just photos. Let me know.
xoxo liz weil
Industrial Renovation →
Click Here:
http://twistedsifter.com/2009/10/gasometers-of-vienna/
So at first glance this looks like an interesting way to reuse spaces that are no longer in use. It is nice that they did not tear these beautiful buildings down, but did they renovate them in an appropriate way?… Did someone say biodome?
This raises a very serious problem. Once we are finished with buildings that were...
Cooper Hewitt: Design for a Living World
The Cooper Hewitt museum is having a show right now called Design for a Living World. All of the designs in this exhibit are made from sustainably grown and harvested materials. How far can we push these materials?…
If you are interested check out Design for a Living World. The web site has some really smart designs on it and further explains the project exhibited at the Cooper Hewitt.
...
IDSA Date Auction
Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 8:00pm Sunday, October 11, 2009 at 3:00am 5th Floor Warehouse
The second annual IDSA date auction is a fundraiser where industrial designers donate their hot bods to be auctioned off (designers to auction off is not limited to industrial designers so com/fashion/ad/interior/whomever sign right up!). The auction starts at 8pm on the 5th floor of the Warehouse in the...
SPEAKER!!!!
Alexander Manu tomorrow morning at 11am in the auditorium on the first floor.
Tara Donovan
Transplanted, 2001
If you are looking for some inspiration or you just want something beautiful to look at, check out the work of Tara Donovan.
Student Council: Warehouse issues
This is an overview of the things that student council talked about this past sunday. Our next meeting is Sunday afternoon, so if you have any concerns or there is something that you would like us to work on for you let us know!
Hours and printing in Lab (working toward 24/7 service in 5th floor lab, contingent on securing the equipment)Alias on more computers (keeping main lab open will help...
Twine!!! IID mentorship program coming soon!
The Industrial and Interaction Design program adequately prepares its students for the professional world by providing an array of research and hands-on design courses. Like many other programs these courses are applied in phases throughout the semesters, and it is easy for students to become lost in the “big picture.” We understand that students work around a tight schedule during...
Project H
IDSA is working to get Project H to come talk to us at Syracuse. Check them out. What they are doing is really awesome.
Their Mission:
We champion industrial design as a tool to address social issues, a vehicle for global life improvement, and a catalyst for individual and community empowerment. Using a scalable local-to global model for all projects, design fellows and volunteers in 6 US and...
SPEAKER!!!!
Alexander Manu is and innovation practitioner and is coming to speak to us THIS WEDNESDAY MORNING October 7, 2009.
“He works with executive teams in Fortune 500 companies in industries as diverse as consumer packaged goods, media, advertising, mobile communications and manufacturing. Alexander lectures around the world on innovation, imagination, change agents and strategic...
Student Council: on CENTRO
Last night there was a meeting concerning issues that students are having with the Warehouse bus schedule. Here are a few quick notes from that meeting:
The week before and the week of finals buses will run 24/7
Apparently there is a 9:07 bus in addition to the 9:05 and 9:10 bus that has not been running. It is being looked into. Yay for more buses to get us to 9:30 classes!!!
We discussed...
DESIGN COMPETITION!
What:
Dining is an experience expressive of lifestyle, economics, ethnicity and heritage. It is imbued with meaning and ritual, as well as function. At its most basic, it nourishes the body; at its best it nourishes the spirit.
But how we eat, when we eat, what we eat, even where we eat: all have changed drastically in the past 100 years. Until the mid-20th century, it occurred mostly as a...
Junior Prize
Congratulations to Sam Thompson for winning the Junior Prize this year!