January 14: Post-Housewares Show Dinner, 6-9 pm.
February 12: Monthly Chapter Meeting at HLB, 6:30 pm.
February 26: IDSA Book Club Meeting - Hi-tech versus Lo-tech
March 12: Chapter Meeting, HLB, 6:30 pm
March 14: Process - a Look Behind Product Success. Learning to Design, Designing to Learn, 6:00 pm
Panel discussion
Columbia College Chicago
72 East 11th Street
The Art and Design Department of Columbia College Chicago in conjunction with the Product Design program will host a panel discussion entitled: Learning to Design, Designing to Learn as part of the ongoing show: Process: a Look Behind Product Success. The issues discussed will include the changing role of the designer, new and emerging technologies and the state of design education in light of these changes. The panel will take place on March 14th at 6:00 p.m. in the 11th Street Gallery at 72 East 11th Street and will consist of designers and educators from the Chicago design community as well as participants in the current show.
The panel, moderated by Kevin Henry, coordinator of Product Design at Columbia College Chicago and curator of the show will include the following participants:
Greg Holderfield, Director of Design -Herbst Lazar Bell
Elliott Hsu, Industrial Designer- Herbst Lazar Bell
Monique Chatterjee, Industrial Designer- Herbst Lazar Bell
Steven Melamed -Tres Design Group and Adjunct faculty at UIC
James Morrow, Podd Morrow Design
David Stallsmith, Method Engine
Maren Nelson, design historian, UIC
March 20: How to Get a Job in Industrial Design - Presentation and Panel Discussion, 6:30 pm start time
When that next design job opens up will you be ready to claim it?
Presented by:
IDSA Chicago and Insight Product Development
Where: Insight Product Development, L.L.C.
4660 North Ravenswood
Chicago, IL 60640
<http://www.insightpd.com/Contactus.htm>
Who should attend:
Students, Recent Graduates, and Designers who would like to take a current look at the state of the ID hiring process.
Agenda:
A) Presentation by Mark Dziersk of Herbst Lazar Bell (45 min)
B) Panel Discussion / Q&A period (90 min)
Panel Speakers include:
Brian Furlong, Ignite Design
Tom Cray, Lifefitness
Paul Hatch, TEAMS Design
Steve McPhilliamy, Insight
Other Guest Panelist TBA
For more information, please contact:
Marianne Grisdale
mgrisdale@hlb.com
Tim Copeland
(773) 719-0530
temmland@yahoo.com
April 9: Chapter Meeting, PDT / Chicago, 6:30 pm.
PDT
520 West Erie
Chicago, IL 60610
312.440.9404
May 14: Chapter Meeting, Design Integrity, 6:30 pm.
Design Integrity
1155 W. Fulton Market
(Fulton and Racine)
May 21: IDSA Book Club Meeting, Teams Design, 6:30 pm.
July 9: Chapter Meeting, Models Plus Inc. (Chicago), 6:30 pm.
Models Plus
5080 N. Kimberly #109
(Cicero and Elston, south of Foster)
August 13: Monthly Meeting
The meeting will be held at:
Insight Product Development
4660 North Ravenswood
Chicago, IL 60640
6:30 PM Drinks and Schmoozing
7:00 PM Start of Meeting
August 20: Book Club – "Food For Thought" lead by Paul Hatch.
Summer having finally arrived, we get involved with the more pleasurable things in life such as sun, food, drink, and reading a good book. In the spirit of this, the next Book Club will look at two controversial books on the food industry (which you should read on the beach sipping your Daiquiri...).
The first book, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair had had a full third of the pages censored shortly after it's original release in 1905, because of the strong political and social comment, as well as it's stomach-churning gory details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. Today's edition has been restored to its original full glory.
For those wanting something a just little easier to swallow, try Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser. Similar to The Jungle, it reveals the better-left-kept secrets of the food industry, and how the global food corporations ironically "both feed and feed off the young".
Read one, read both, or just read the reviews on Amazon.com.
The Jungle:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553212451/qid=1026758382/sr=21/ref=sr_2_1/002-6548595-7356824
Fast Food Nation:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060938455/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/002-6548595-7356824
August 24: Picnic/BBQ jointly with the Wisconsin Chapter, Southern District of the Kettle Moraine State Park in Wisconsin.
We will be serving a late lunch/early dinner from 1-4pm at the Rice Lake Pavilion. We will have soft drinks, condiments, grilled meats, and grilled veggie entrees. Please bring a side dish to share (salad, dessert, veggies to grill, etc.). The park has many wonderful activities for everyone. There is camping, swimming, hiking, biking, and just laying around. Bring your whole family! Maps will be included in a future email and the newsletter.
Please note that while our picnic is free, the park requires that all cars pay a parking permit fee of $10. Additional fees are required for biking. No pets or alcoholic beverages are allowed in the picnic area.
September 26: Student Research Workshop #2 - Innovation: Transforming Information Into Ideas
October 3: Student Research Workshop #3 - Effective Visualization and Presentation Techniques
Both events will be held at 6:30 pm at Insight Product Development
4660 North Ravenswood
Chicago, IL 60640
For directions to Insight Product Development check out www.insightpd.com/Contactus.htm.
All Students and IDSA members welcome. Please join us.
For other information regarding this event please contact:
Tim Copeland
IDSA Chicago Vice Chair / Student Liason
temmland@yahoo.com
October 3: Open House at IIT, 6 - 8 pm.
We would like to invite you and your colleagues to an Open House at the Institute of Design (ID) on Thursday, October 3rd, 2002 from 6-8 p.m. Please join us on the 6th floor, 350 North LaSalle Street, Chicago 60610
This informal event offers an opportunity to learn more about the Institute of Design and our programs in human-centered communication design, human-centered product design and design planning.
Guests will see short presentations by students and alumni, and have a chance to meet one-on-one with members of ID's faculty, all of whom are dedicated to developing new methods of creating innovative products, messages, and services that improve people's lives.
The Open House includes:
- Break out sessions with students, faculty and alumni about ID
- Examples of current student work
- Guided tours of the facilities
Light refreshments will be served.
We hope you can attend. To RSVP, please contact Niti Bhan at 312.595.4927 or niti@id.iit.edu.
October 15: Chapter Meeting at Inventables, 6:30 pm.
We will discuss details of future events including Student Design Workshops, The Wearable & Implantable Technology Panel Discussion, The IDSA Chicago Holiday Party, Book Club, and More.
6:30pm Social
7:00pm Begin Meeting
The meeting will be held at:
Inventables
2000 North Racine Suite #2130
Chicago, IL 60614
www.inventables.com
October 17: Free lecture and book signing by John Hesket: Toothpicks & Logos, 6:00 pm.
Chicago Cultural Center
78 West Washington Street, 5th floor
(Part of the Chicago Book Festival.)
RSVP: 312-595-4900 or id-news@id.iit.edu.
Please indicate the full name(s) and company or affiliation of everyone attending. Space is limited.
www.id.iit.edu/events/toothpicks.html
October 19: User Research Conference, IIT.
About, With and For is a one day conference hosted by the Institute of Design at IIT on October 19th, for sharing methods, processes and tools with professionals from many fields for furthering the practice of understanding people hosted by the Institute of Design at IIT.
Design is just one profession which borrows formally and informally from many other fields to create customized tools and processes for understanding people. Whether you are National Geographic, Sony or a traffic cop, being able to "read" or interpret people's actions and reactions is a valuable skill. The way you then apply that knowledge is yet another valuable skill.
To learn more about how your peers are stepping up to the challenge of capturing and interpreting everyday life visit www.id.iit.edu/conferences/aboutwithandfor for registration and conference information.
October 16/30: Digital Design Workshop at TEAMS Design, 6:30 pm.
Digital Design: Product Development and Presentation in 2D and 3D. This is a free 2-part workshop open to all students and IDSA members.
TEAMS will demonstrate some of their computer sketching and development techniques, featuring the Wacom Tablet, Painter, and Rhino.
Workshop 1: 2D Development Techniques
Wednesday October 16th @ 6:30 PM
Workshop 2: 3D Development Techniques
Wednesday October 30th @ 6:30 PM
Both workshops will be held at TEAMS new space:
TEAMS Design
1812 West Hubbard St #3a
Chicago, IL 60622
www.teamsdesign.com
October 23: IDSA Chicago Chapter Panel Discussion: (The Future of) Wearable and Implantable Technology, IIT, 6:30 pm.
Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design
350 N. Lasalle, Chicago
Admission: $10 IDSA Members / $20 Nonmembers / $8 Students.
Special guests include Don Norman, John Grimes, Francine Gemperle, Ben Mitchell, and Michelle Berryman.
This exciting moderated panel discussion will focus on the future of designing products that we use every day. We will explore the line between what is merely wearable, and when we may implant these technologies. We will talk about ethics and user considerations. This will be a very fascinating talk by some of the most prominent people in this field. Please see the biographies listed below.
Panel:
Don Norman is the well known author of The Design of Everyday Things and The Invisible Computer. His next book is "Emotion & Design." Don is also one of the principals at the Nielsen Norman group as well as a computer science professor at Northwestern University. He is also a new member of our chapter! Welcome Don.
C. Ben Mitchell is a professor of Bioethics in Medicine at Trinity Evangelical College. He is called upon to testify on ethics in medicine in front of the Senate and the House of Representatives on a regular basis. He is also the editor of, Ethics & Medicine: An International Journal of Bioethics at www.ethicsandmedicine.com. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity at www.cbhd.org
John Grimes is a professor of Computer Imaging and Interactive Technology in IIT's Institute of Design program.
Francine Gemperle is the lead Design Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University with the Wearable Computing Group and the Project on People and Robots.
Moderator:
Michelle Berryman has just received her Masters in Wearable Computing from Georgia Tech. She has participated as an expert in her field on panel discussions like this one all over the country. She is currently the IDSA Section Vice President and is running for IDSA National Secretary/Treasurer in this election.
November 12: Chapter Meeting, IIT, refreshments at 6:30 pm, meeting at 7 pm.
IIT
350 North LaSalle Street
6th floor
Chicago 60610
December 5: IDSA Chicago 2002 Holiday Party
When:
December 5, 2002 - Thursday, 6:30 pm
What:
Live Music, Dinner
Menu:
hors d'oeurves (smoked salmon, pate, shrimp parma)
soup or salad (caesar or lobster bisque)
entree (coq auvin, halibut, polenta and veggie napolean)
desert (platter)
Where:
Saussy
1156 West Grand Avenue
Chicago, IL 60622
312.491.1122
How much:
If your RSVP is postmarked November 26th:
$30 for members, significant others, and students
$40 for nonmembers
After November 26th or at the door:
$40 for members, significant others, and students
$50 for nonmembers
As with previous years, we are asking everyone to donate a toy or gift to the South City Foster Parents Association. We suggest that the gift should be around $10. This year the SCFPA has asked that all the gifts be for school aged children (5-18 years of age).
Thank you as always!
