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Sarah Blott - IDSA Student Merit Award winner and Northwest Best in Show Sarah's chaise lounge design. Students from Western Washington University’s Industrial Design program were recently honored with the Industrial Designers Society of America Student Merit Awards in Seattle.  They presented their portfolios and were interviewed by a panel of professional designers in Seattle.  Award winners were announced at the Northwest Chapter of the IDSA at the University of Washington’s School of Art. The Northwest Chapter of the IDSA includes professional industrial designers and student designers from Western, the University of Washington and the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Western students and their awards include: Senior Student Merit Winner:  Sarah Blott, Seattle Senior Student Best in Show:  Sarah Blott, Seattle Junior Student Merit Winner:  Anna Perrella, Bellevue Junior Student Best in Show:  Ryan Hume, Bainbridge Island Blott will ...

San Jose State's Campus The MLK Jr Library AKA San Jose Public Library Inside the library   San Jose State's Campus The Student Union building The Barrett Ballroom Inside the Student Union Join the dialogue in San Jose May 6 - 7 at the 2011 IDSA Western Conference: SOCIAL IMPACT!     Regular registration ends THIS FRIDAY April 22 at midnight EST.  Don't pay late fees! REGISTER TODAY .    

copyright 2011 Jason Morris This is how I imagine my commute every day. I have more bicycle graphic designs on Zazzle.

Lenny was my former professor of three dimensional design at Pratt Institute.  He passed away last year, and has been recently recognized with the Rowena Reed Kostellow Award.  Now that I am teaching the elements of form to my students at Western, I think of Lenny often and can still hear his words echoing in my mind. "LOOK at it.  What do you see?" "Precarious balance is like Martha Graham, the dancer, think of a dancers' pose when creating your forms." He encouraged me to go into teaching and is part of the reason why I am a design professor. Wire/Curve study by Thomas Kloucek, Western Washington Here's more about Prof. Bacich from the RRK fund: "For almost a quarter of a century, Lenny Bacich epitomized the rigor and magic of great teaching. He said: "The WHAT and HOW issues of three-dimensional design are explainable and teachable. The WHY is the challenge of teaching the course." Lenny taught courses about abstraction an...

Hoima Bicycle will be showing soon: Star Cinema Sidney, BC, Canada June 1st and/or 2nd, 2011 (check their site for final schedule) It will be shown together with other bicycle movies such as Breaking Away, Chasing Legends, or Veer (To be determined). Admission will be a donation with proceeds to Bicycles For Humanity Thanks to John Robertson of Saanichton, BC for setting this up! Star Cinema, 9842 3rd Street. Sidney, BC. V8L 3A7. Office: 250-655-3384. Info Line: 250-655. Here's a trailer:

David Kaisel   has worked for 25 years integrating design, business strategy, user research and global health. Pursuing design as a tool to help people lead healthier lives, his design career progressed from office seating in Italy to client management in Silicon Valley to designing morgues, emergency housing and malaria treatment programs in Angola, Colombia and Brazil. Four years coordinating projects for Doctors Without Borders confirmed his interest in design for global health. Exploring how design impacts sustained adoption of health interventions, he advises clients such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and PATH on user research design and product innovation for household water treatment and community sanitation. As a research director at the Institute for the Future, he developed strategic forecasts of trends in the global health economy for Fortune 100 clients. His past work includes research on biomass stove test protocols and standards for the Shell Foundation, ...

Dawn Danby   wants the things designers make to benefit both people and the world.  Her goals goals are simply to develop environmentally sustainable systems and products that change the way individuals experience the things around them. Dawn is a cross-disciplinary designer, strategist, art director, project manager, producer and artist. She currently manages Autodesk's Sustainable Design Program, integrating sustainable thinking into the digital tools used by 9 million designers and engineers worldwide. Dawn has collaborated with international artist Noel Harding on Windsor, Ontario's Green Corridor initiative, designed a $3.5 million tree-covered, wind-powered pedestrian bridge on the US-Canada border and developed closed-loop manufacturing strategies for a leading outdoor footwear manufacturer. Dawn is a  co-author of  WorldChanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century and has spoken at  TEDGlobal 2005:  Ideas big enough to change th...