April 2010
14 posts
Join Formation Design Group for an evening with...
Formation Design Group is hosting a design research focused presentation and discussion with Steve Portigal on Monday on April 12th at 6:30-9:00pm. Please RSVP if you’d like to come: rsvp@formationdesign.com The event is free of charge, refreshments will be served. For the latest event information please visit Formation’s news blog at www.News.FormationDesign.com. Location: ...
ID School Chair Candidates Public Presentations
Presentations by candidates for the ID School chair position will begin this Friday, April 9th and continue through Friday, April 23rd. All presentations will take place in the coa auditorium, from 2:00-3:30 PM. These lectures should be incredibly interesting to attend! Friday, April 9 TED SELKER Cylab Mobility Research, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, Associate Director Stanford Computer...
CONFERENCE CONSTRUCTION PARTAYYYYY
We need your help tomorrow night at 8pm in 104 to put our Conference exhibit together! It looks pretty awesome SO far, but we still need your help! Please join us as we put everything together, eat pizza, listen to some music, and get excited about Conference!!!!
IDSA + SGA
Apply for an SGA-funded scholarship to go to IDSA Conference for cheap ($100 off) before tomorrow at 12 noon HERE! To be eligible for the scholarship, you must be a paid IDSA member.
If you are awarded the scholarship, you are expected to register for conference* (if you have not already done so), as well as turn in tiles of your work for the display. You will be reimbursed for the...
Submit your work for Conference!
If you would like to have your work printed out to be displayed at Conference, send us files now! You can send in as many projects as you would like, but please, quality over quantity. We are accepting: + 16x16 tiles in high quality (pdf, ai, id) + Studio projects for ‘give-aways’ - 1 beauty shot and 1 process “shot” in a square format - tiffs or jpgs only...
Countdown to Conference!!!
Conference is coming up, so we have a lot to get ready for! 4/2 - Friday Turn in submissions for Conference display & give-aways! 4/5 - Monday - TEE PARTY! BYOS Screen printing party from 8-10pm. Bring Your Own Shirt - or anything cloth you want to screen-print, as long as it isn’t super ribbed. We’ll be using old screens and a new screen designed by Jesse Mejia. Also, super...
IDSA MEETING TODAY!
Come for some April Fool’s Day tomfoolery including four square and other fun! 11am in the CoA Courtyard
March 2010
13 posts
Conference is rapidly approaching!
April 9th-11th
Congrats to Randy Chiang, our IDSA Student Merit...
He will go on to compete against one representative from each school in the Southern District!
Conference Hotel Sign-Ups!!!
Knights Inn is $20 for both nights and is only 10 minutes away from the Conference Center. Click here to register. Sign ups close this Friday! Conference is April 9th-10th!
Congrats!
IDSA 2010 Executive Officers President - Ryan McCorkle Vice President - Noah Posner Secretary - Kyla DeWees Treasurer - Jim Schuster
Don't forget!
Elections are tomorrow in 104 at 11am! Be there!!!
IDSA 2010 Elections
- info meeting if you’re interested in running for one of the 4 official positions this Thursday @ 8pm
- elections will be held Tuesday, March 16th, at 11am (there are no absentee ballots, there are no ‘parties’ or ‘platforms’, there are now videos ahead of time - just come, talk, vote, win, leave, smile!)
Conference Brainstorm Session II
Tonight at 8pm in 104! Come with ideas and sketches!
*We want to look super snazzy at Conference, so please come help us decide on an exhibit!
Student Merit Awards
Congrats to Patricia Bell, Randy Chiang, Christina Mayo, and Krystal Persaud for making it to the second round of Merit Awards on March 19th at 6pm!!!
February 2010
20 posts
HEY EVRYBODY
IDSA Exhibit Planning Brainstorm Session Is Tonight. ATL Connect is tomorrow night. Get pumped and get to work!!!!
ATL Connect Guests:
Robert Fleming: Summertime Market (Director of R&D) Brad Reese: Kids II, Inc. (Senior Product Designer) Alex Marshall: Case-mate (Industrial designer) Crystal Heithaus: User Insight (User Experience Researcher) Rachel Campbell: Logos Atlanta (Co-Founder/ Designer) Mark Campbell: Logos Atlanta (Co-Founder/ Designer) Jeffrey MacDonald: KidsII (Product Designer) Alex Soriano: KidsII (Product...
ATL Connect THIS FRIDAY!
If you’re interested, please RSVP for Atl Connect to: a. save you a spot in a carpool if needed b. make sure you get a cuban sandwich c. receive a cool name tag! RSVP HERE If you wait until Friday to do this you probably won’t get b or c…
TONIGHT
PW3b at 7:30 pizza, people, peer review of portfolios 3rd floor Arch Nest
TODAY
is a great day to work on your portfolio for the Portfolio Workshop 3b this Thursday! Also, don’t forget if you’re in the Mentor Program - we’re eating at F20 tomorrow evening!
I2Serve Competition
The I2SERVE is an ideas competition targeted towards undergraduate and graduate students at Tech and is focused on encouraging entrepreneurship with social and environmental responsibility. Sponsored by the Georgia Tech ILE, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems, MaRC, the College of Management, the Arthur Blank Family Foundation, and the Lambda Sigma Honor Society the I2SERVE is in its...
Erato Submissions
If you’re a creative person and would like to have your stuff show off in Georgia Tech’s creative arts journal, submit your things to: erato@gatech.edu before March 1st!
Click here for more information about Erato and submisisons!
Summer Internships!
The ID team for the Baby and Parenting Essentials Group at Newell-Rubbermaid is searching for Industrial Design Interns for the Atlanta office. Interested candidates for the summer positions please go to this website and apply online (Industrial Design Intern – 0901113). Please submit a portfolio and resume online.
TOMORROW & BEYOND
We’ve re-designed the trading cards and have new mock-ups for everyone to see in 104 at 11 TOMORROW!!!!
Also coming up this month is a TON of other stuff, so get ready and write this down:
2/11 Thursday - IDSA Meeting in 104 @ 11am 2/15 Monday - Food Inc. movie in 107 @ 8pm 2/17 Wednesday - Mentor Program Dinner @ 6pm @ F20 (mmm!) 2/18 Thursday - Portfolio Workshop 3b @ 7:30pm (FREE FOOD)...
MERIT MEETING
Kevin will be talking about this year’s upcoming IDSA Student Merit Awards tomorrow in 104 at 11am. This meeting is specifically for seniors interested in representing Georgia Tech at Merit Awards during IDSA Conference April 9th-10th. Come excited and ready with questions!! <3 IDSA
Do You Have the Perfect Design for This Year's Pi...
Well, Let’s See It!
The winner receives a Flip Video Camera, not to mention bragging rights as T-shirt designer. Submissions will be accepted through 2/19, so get those creative juices flowing and enter today. For more information on creating your masterpiece, visit the Pi Mile T-Shirt Contest. Join us Saturday, April 17 for a Georgia Tech tradition - Register online today.
More Competitions!!!
Acoustical Society of America, GT Student Chapter presents Royster Student Poster Competition.
Compete in a student competition for total cash prizes of $2,500. Poster must address the theme of “Noise Control and Hearing Convservation.” For information and rules of competition please visit http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/acoustics.
Who: You and your poster
What: Royster Student Poster...
Oliver Professorship
Wendell Wilson, the first candidate for the Oliver Professor of Practice in Design will be on campus Thursday, February 4. Please join us for his presentation in Room 258 at 11:00am. We have also scheduled open meetings for him to speak with students from 2:00-3:30pm and to speak with faculty from 3:30-5:00pm all in the Dean’s Conference Room - Room 223.
- Alan Balfour
Portfolio Workshop 3a
what. Portfolio Workshop 3a
when. THIS Thursday Feb 4, 7pm-9pm
where. 3rd floor jury space
why. your chance to get ideas and feedback where you need it. It will be a relaxed atmosphere so do not worry about not having anything!
how. Bring your 16x16 tiles, print outs of your projects, old portfolios, new portfolios, prospective layouts, anything! If you have class, feel free to come when you...
Upcoming CoA Events
IMAGINING A BETTER FUTURE: IN PERFORMANCE Resident composer Michael Gordon and Georgia Tech Sonic Generator Promising a unique experience in live music, creativity, and technology, the concert is presented in partnership with the Woodruff Arts Center as part of the T. Gordon Little Lecture Series in the Imagination.
February 8, 2010 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM Location: Woodruff Arts Center, Rich Theatre...
Meeting Re-Cap
NOW I <3 Design Movie Every Monday in February / Helvetica for Feb 1 / 8pm-9pm / 107 Classroom **Starts tonight!
Portfolio Workshop 3a This Thurs Feb 4 / 7pm-9pm / 3rd Floor Nest in West building **FINAL** Trading Card Photoshoot This Thurs Feb 4 / 6pm-8pm / Basement under Auditorium NEW Design Series Learn about different design fields / During IDSA meetings LATER ATL Connect End of...
I heart Design Movies Month
We’re showing ‘Helvetica’ in room 107 tomorrow at 8pm (after Asian Studies). BYOB - blanket! Think of it as screen on the green, but in that room instead. See you there!