IDSA Rocky Mountain Event

Oct 14th, 2009 DoubleButter - 17 Galapago Street 5:00 P.M. Exciting news! The next Rocky Mountain IDSA meeting is being held at DoubleButter, a local furniture design and manufacturing company. Come hear about their design philosophy. Participate in an engaging discussion about the importance of meaningful design. And join other creative professionals for an evening of mingling, networking, and getting to know the designers. This promises to be an exciting and enlightening evening. And as always, food and drink will accompany the presentations. See attached flyer for more information. Encourage any ID professionals who might benefit from this event to attend. Please RSVP to IDSArm Chair, Jason Belaire at belworld@mac.com if you plan to attend. We hope to see all of you there!

IDSA meetings this week!

IDSA will be holding three meetings in the Studio this week:

**Tuesday Sept. 22 at 5pm & Wednesday Sept. 23 at 11:30**
These first two will be short half hour informative sessions on what
the club has planned for this year. The most important thing is for you
to come to one of the meetings and tell us what you'd like to do as a
club this year, these suggestions will inform our plans for the whole
year. We are also voting on a standard meeting time for the semester.
We are having two of these in order to accommodate the most students
possible. LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD! :)

Add Tuesday's event to your Google Calendar:
Add Wednesday's event:

**Thursday Sept. 24 at 5:30**
Internship round table discussion/presentation. Please join those of
us that just finished our internship,we'd like to share our experiences.
Learn how we got the job, what we did while we were there, and what
advice we have for those about to intern. If the company you interned
for is looking for more help please come to the meeting and share those
contacts as well.
Thursday event:

Thanks for reading all of this!

e-mail rmeier4@mscd.edu with any questions

2010 Conference- put on your thinking caps

So it's official- the 2010 Western District IDSA conference is being hosted by Denver in Apri!!! l :D

Let's get together and help Dave Klein choose a theme that Denver can be proud of. This is an awesome opportunity for us students to influence the direction of this conference. We'd like to hear from both conference veterans as well as newbies who have a fresh perspective.

See you there!

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AIC Design Competition

Thursday, September 17, 6-8pm

Join Design Within Reach Denver and the Art Institute of Colorado for our fourth annual student design competition. Industrial design students from AIC will display their projects in the Denver DWR Studio and will give short presentations on their design concepts, ideas and execution. One student’s work will be selected as best in show. Appetizers will be provided by the Art Institute’s International Culinary School.

RSVP to denver@dwr.com.

On campus Ford car design and development presentation

Metro State College School of Business Presents:

WHO:                    Frank Davis, Ford Motor Company, Executive Director of North American Product

WHAT:                 Speaking about Ford Motor Company’s Product Development,
                             Ford Motor Company and the product launch of the flagship vehicle
                             The new 2010 Ford Taurus

WHEN:                 Wednesday, September 23                                                       
                             10:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m.
    

WHERE: Tivoli TurnHalle

IDSA Fall Kick-off Party!

Hey kids! Come join us for some bowling on us! Click the image for details:

Upcoming IDSA event - invite ANYONE!

On July 1st (a great way to start off the July 4th weekend) we have secured one of the REI Flagship store Conference rooms for our next meeting. There will be food/drink/fellowship and hopefully to match our first meeting at the beginning of the year. In other words, lets make this a BIG to DO! : )

Please mark your calendars and pass the word on to IDSA and Non-IDSA people. Yes, this is also to include people interested in learning more about the outdoor industry and what life is like as a designer in this field.

I'll be putting out more of a formal PDF the week of June 1st. However, this is to get your taste-buds going! : )

So - here's the plan:

1. Meeting at REI Flagship - Denver, Colorado
2. Food and Beverages at REI (come hungry)
3. EVERY STINKING DESIGNER that either currently as their own design or the company they're working for on the floor currently at REI in the Colorado region NEEDS to be there!
4. If you don't have anything currently on the floor but did last season, bring along this example and we'll give you the opportunity to discuss and explain etc.
5. We will put pods together in order to circulate around the REI floor. 10-15 minute rotations ect. TIME Frames are subject to change!
6. Head off into the sunset in search of more beer! good time to talk more in a different setting!

Overall macro vision = to give students, design professionals, non-design professionals and the community a glimps into what PRODUCT DESIGN is like for the "outdoor" industry.

YES! This is great way to network and explore other areas of design that non-outdoor industry people aren't familiar with!!!!

I NEED your help to pull this event off! REI has a 3 month waiting list and I finally got the go-ahead last week. Let's make this REALLY cool! Something for our neighboring chapters to envy!

Please pass along the word to others as I am missing about 75% of emails from our fellow designers that fall into this above category! Again, you guys have to help me - I can't pull this off alone! : )

Thanks in advance for all of your efforts and helping to make this event even better then our first one!!!!


If you have any questions please contact any MSCD-IDSA student officers or Ted Shin, or Jason Belaire, IDSA RM chair.

Jason P. Belaire, IDSA
Design Manager

BOSG - Boulder Outdoor Specialty Group

IND on News 9

This spring semester 2009, the Advanced ID studio and Intermediate ID studio classes participated in a sponsored design project for Pride mobility, a manufacturer of home health care devices. The goal of the project was to develop an innovative wheel chair or adaptive device for Bryan Anderson, who lost both of his legs and his left hand serving in Iraq, to pursue his sporting activities. The final projects were featured on News 9 on May 12, 2009.

We came, we saw, we got an autographed poster...