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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...

Hipposquirrel by Peter Jacobson In my class (ID320) where we learn Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Solidworks and Keyshot, one way I teach some Photoshop skills is to create photo manipulations.  These are done by sophomore students who only have 2 weeks of photoshop training. They were created from various photos found on the web, so apologies to the original photographers, but these were done for educational purposes and fun only. Enjoy and share. - J. M. Iron JFK by Drew Falabella When Insects Attack by Sam Weaver Earth Popping by Noah Lamphear Kitten in a Bottle by Jill Kuyt Moon Walker by Justin Janczakowski Morning Cup by Chloe Lewis Octophant by Dylan Fischer Taking my T-Rex on a walk by Scott Paton

by Carson Massie This past senior exhibition for the Western Washington University Industrial Design graduates at TEAGUE in Seattle, displayed a dozen new designs of chaise lounges.  Each was a full size structural prototype created in real materials. design in Aluminum, fabric and wood by Scott Broberg by Melina Edgerton  The project spanned 9 months from conception to exhibition under the direction of Prof. Del King, former CEO of TEAGUE. by Nick Hanlon  In carbon fiber and space frame structure by Jonathan Mayfield by Leon Wolfendale in carbon fiber and aluminum, by Kirk Turner  The exhibition occurred in June 2014. All photos by Jason Morris.

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...