IDSA Philly

Center City Sips - Networking Event

 

Network with your fellow creative professionals and meet representatives from regional technology-driven, creative associations at Center City District Sips, this summer’s hottest happy hour series. Join Innovation Philadelphia, Center City District and the design associations listed below on August 19, 2009 at Thirteen. This is a unique opportunity to learn how you can get involved in the Philadelphia Region’s creative associations, as well as network with other creative professionals. Drink specials and appetizers will be available. Pre-registration for this event is required.

Center City Sips - Creative Associations

Network with your fellow creative professionals and meet representatives from regional technology-driven, creative associations at Center City District Sips, this summer’s hottest happy hour series. Join Innovation Philadelphia, Center City District and the Communications and Entertainment Associations listed below on July 8, 2009 at Lucky Strikes Bowling. This is a unique opportunity to learn how you can get involved in the Philadelphia Region’s creative associations, as well as network with other creative professionals. Drink specials and appetizers will be available. Pre-registration for this event is required.

Design Research Assistant Needed

Competitive Innovation, LLC. is leading strategic design and research company located in Media, PA.  CI is committed to providing innovative packaging designs through extensive ethnographic research. CI is looking for a part-time Design Research Assistant who will be involved in ethnographic and consumer insight research.

Hidden Philly - Diston Saw Works

Running True is a "a multimedia environment in an empty factory building at the Disston Saw Works that dramatizes the imagination and industry that have inhabited the site since 1872. Their video, audioscape and sculpture installation incorporates numerous artifacts found on the Disston grounds and imagery derived from early engineering drawings from the company files."

Saturdays & Sundays, 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM, May 30 - June 28, 2009

More about the Hidden Philadelphia Arts Festival

Drexel Furniture Design Reception

June 2nd from 6 to 9 - A one night reception at Drexel University's Bossone 3rd floor Atrium, 3128 Market St.

Students enrolled in the course Furniture Investigations used their favorite books as inspiration for designing a unique piece of furniture. Product Design Professor Mike Glaser’s class worked with Ponoko, an online shop for individualized goods that provides on-demand building, incorporating laser-cutting into design and product concepts. The students worked over two terms conducting research, creating prototypes, building full-scale versions, and working with Ponoko to make the pieces before assembling them at our studio on campus.

Design Change / UArts Senior Show

Please join The University of the Arts Industrial Design Department for Design Change, an exhibition of senior thesis and first year graduate work. By addressing social, environmental, and organizational concerns, the work in this exhibition explores how design is changing to encompass more than just products, aesthetics, and function.

EXHIBITION OPENING 20 MAY 2008 7-10 PM 313 S. BROAD ST.

PhilaU Senior Design Show 09

Come See Philadelphia University's Senior Class present work from the school's design programs: Architecture, Digital Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, and Textile Design.

Bucky Harris Gymnasium, Gallagher Athletic Center - Campus Map

Reception - May 16, 2009 - 3pm to 5pm
Show runs May 14th - 18th

East Asia Business Center Symposium

May 8th, 2009 - 8am to Noon

Philadelphia University is hosting a symposium called "Innovation/Design as Competitive Advantage", which features presentations by Eric Chan, Scott Henderson, Peter Bressler, John Goldschmidt, Peter Christian, Joe Ciquera, and Alix Kocher.

"This symposium will address how organizations need to align the way they innovate across disciplines to address increasingly complex problems... Our speakers will describe methods to identify new value propositions for both the end-user and the business.."

Only $50 for Pros and $10 for Students - $10 for IDSA members who register by May 2nd.  East Asia Business Center Symposium

UArts wins Northeast District

Congratulations to Liana Kalushner, ID Senior at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia for winning the Northeast District Student Merit Award.  In addition to receiving 3 free years of IDSA membership, Liana gets complimentary admission to the International Conference in Miami where she will compete with the winners from the other four IDSA districts. 

IDSAPhilly also congratulates our chapter's other two school winners; Jessica Tarlecki  from Philadelphia University, and Chris Basalatan from The Art Insitute of Philadelphia.  Jessica and Chris receive one year of  IDSA membership.

Richard Schultz Retrospective

1966 Adjustable Chaise Lounge

Richard Schultz: Five Decades of Design
Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibition - April 5th to May 31st, 2009

In this exhibition, several works created over half a century by legendary outdoor furniture designer Richard Schultz are being presented on the Perelman Building's outdoor Café Terrace.

Educated as a mechanical engineer and industrial designer at Iowa State University and the Design Institute of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Schultz joined Knoll Associates in New York in 1951, most famously creating the “petal” table (1960) and leisure collection (1966), winners of numerous awards. In 1992 Schultz launched his own company with his son Peter, reissuing his Knoll classics along with such new designs as “Topiary” (1996) and “Wing” (2008). Schultz's sculptural sensibility and love of elegant lines pervades his designs.