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"Lo is a wearable device that focuses on hypertension, encourages blood-pressure awareness, and is targeted towards people in their early twenties."  written by Aidan Wiess WWU’s Austin Scott and Jo Bloomfield , seniors in the Industrial Design program, won the prestigious 2020 GRAY Awards' student category for “Lo,” a wearable device that focuses on hypertension, encourages blood-pressure awareness, and is targeted towards people in their early twenties. The GRAY Awards is an annual cross-disciplinary awards program that focuses on architecture, fashion, product design and more. Winners are given awards that are hand crafted by John Hogan, and are also honored at the awards ceremony, which of course was a virtual event this year. The official list of submission categories includes commercial and residential architecture, commercial and residential interior design, landscape, student design and more.    Scott said the pair worked on Lo for their winter project, junior ye...

The Quadrato Utility Knife is CNC machined brass. Quadrato Retractable Knife By Jason Morris - Designer I've been designing products as a consulting industrial designer for about 20 years now. And here’s what I’ve learned: many good designs never make it to the market. And even if a good design does gets through; a company has to guess how many hundreds of thousands to manufacture, with the hope that they will sell them all. But today, two things have changed the whole system. One is crowdfunding, like Kickstarter , allowing you to decide which designs you want to support. Second is affordable rapid prototyping manufacturing. Where I can get parts made, with CNC or 3D printing in low quantities, on demand, in just a few weeks. So from the designer, to the customer, directly. No massive tooling costs, no middle-managers mucking things up, and no over-production.  Useful for daily tasks The common retractable utility knife is very useful, you probably have one...

Pacific Northwest Premiere Bellevue Arts Museum Friday, June 5th, 2015 7:30pm One screening only Director in attendance with Q + A afterwards. Facebook Event Page Buy Ticket Here Bellingham Premiere Pickford Film Center Monday, June 8th, 2015 6:30 pm One screening only! Director, cast and crew in attendance. Reception before. Questions and Answers afterwards. Facebook Event Page Buy Tickets Here Teague: Design & Beauty IMDB page

Teague: Design & Beauty is being screened at museums, universities and film festivals across the country, and this week has been selected for the Newport Beach Film Festival .  This film is a feature length biographical documentary about the life and work of the American designer Walter Dorwin Teague (1883-1960). Written, directed and produced by Jason A. Morris , filmmaker, industrial designer and professor of ID at Western Washington University . Teague: Design & Beauty IMDB page The first private screening at the Seattle Art Museum for TEAGUE staff. The lobby for Trail Dance 2015. Jason A. Morris at the San Diego Design Film Festival Recent Screenings: IDSA International Conference, Austin, Texas. August 2014 San Diego Design Film Festival, San Diego, October 2014 Metropolitan State University of Denver, CO, November 2014 Trail Dance Film Festival 2015 . January 23, 2015 North Carolina State University, January 30, 2015 Indianapol...

WWU Industrial Design Students Receive Scholarships for Re-Imagining Outdoor Spaces at Design Competition First place winner. Table 23. Picnic table design by Zak Basher Table 23. Picnic table design, scale model by Zak Basher BELLINGHAM — Western Washington University’s Industrial Design studio partnered with Architectural Elements of Bellingham to host a competition for 13 junior students in the industrial design program. Over the course of three months, students were challenged to re-imagine objects designed for outdoor spaces such as parks, urban areas, and corporate campuses. The students worked closely with Architectural Elements as they designed fully feasible concepts for public outdoor installations covering diverse product categories.  The project was led by Prof. Jason A. Morris, Director of the Industrial Design program at Western. The exhibition at Architectural Elements, Bellingham, WA photo by Jason Morris Emma Nestvold presenting her S- Bench...

The Trail Dance Film Festival is coming up, and with 100 films to pick from, which ones should you see?  Well here's one if you're into design, architecture, art, products, illustration and art deco... I'm very excited to announce that Teague: Design & Beauty as been selected for the Trail Dance Film Festival 2015.  And it has a sweet screening time of 8:00PM - Friday, January 23, 2015 - Palace Theatre Screen 1.  I will be flying to Oklahoma to attend and answer questions, so maybe I'll see you there! - JM About the documentary: Walter Dorwin Teague was one of greatest American designers of the machine age. Among his hundreds of designs, were the Kodak Brownie cameras, the Kodak Bantam Special, Texaco's art deco gas stations, the Polaroid desk lamp, Steuben glassware, the Marmon 16 automobile, Sparton radios, and pavilions of the 1939 New York World's Fair.Through hand-drawn illustrations, photographs, product designs, interviews, nar...

“So many of the designers that we interview don't know how to make stuff, because workshops in design schools are expensive and computers are cheaper. That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.” - Jony Ive "Design Education is Tragic Says  Jony Ive" This is the quote from Apple industrial designer Jonathan Ive being shared this past week.  You can read the full article about his recent talk in the UK. As a design educator I have two different responses, one is to the content of his message and secondly to the messenger that it is coming from. First off, the statement is a broad generalization of every design school in the world, which is unfair.  Design schools are quite different from each other, each with it own focus and philosophy of educational methodology. Although this generalization is his perception based on the portfolios that he has seen.  And when on...

The Alamo Drafthouse Ritz in Austin Texas. Photo by J. Morris The documentary about Walter Dorwin Teague, titled “Teague: Design & Beauty,” debuted on Thursday, Aug. 14 at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas as part of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) International Conference. IDSA took over the theatre that night.  photo by Tim Adkins. Entering in the lobby. The poster looked sweet printed, by the way. Photo by Tim Adkins.  Four screenings were held on two different screens, with an estimated 400 in attendance! Answering question after the show.  Photo by Tim Adkins.  After each showing, I had time to answer questions about the movie. It was an even better response than I thought!  Two writers posted reviews the next day: "Live a Great Story" by Chris Ross "Teague thought big and wasn’t afraid of change. He paved his own path and didn’t compromise. " New Biographical Documentary Captures the Spirit ...