Designed Objects at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

site description: "Increasingly, many products are being designed with features that intentionally restrict the way the user can behave, or enforce certain modes of behaviour. The same intentions are also evident in the design of many systems and environments.

This site aims—with readers’ input—to examine and analyse the ideas and techniques of these architectures of control in design, through examples and anecdotes, and by keeping up-to-date with relevant developments. If you can suggest an example, please get in touch, or add a comment—all help is much appreciated."

Seems like a great blog to keep our eyes on. Not only is it informative and fairly conceptual for a blog, but their posts and essays could influence projects or contests in the future.

--Zach

We're holding a t-shirt design competition!

The winning design will be hand-screened onto t shirts that we'll sell as an IDSA fundraiser. The contest is open to anyone taking a Designed Objects class. I know it's a busy time, but let's get all entries in by Saturday, November 14th. Please email them to lcsmith AT gmail DOT com. The winning design will be decided by vote.


Design Guidelines:

One color (these are easier and cheaper to silkscreen). You can specify the color(s) of the actual shirt. Having a design on the front and back is fine.

This shirt is a fundraising shirt with a general audience, not necessarily a desob/idsa t shirt, so don't worry too much about putting our names on it. If you do so, make it subtle.

That's it! If you have questions, email me: lsmith7 AT saic DOT edu.

"No Ideas But In Things is a library of controls, animations, layouts, and displays that might be a source of inspiration for interaction designers. Dan Saffer is the curator."


Nice title. This relates a lot to the material we've been covering in the Evident Objects course, even if it is just about interfaces.

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Dyson, Inc. and IDSA have again teamed up on “Eye for Why,” the Dyson Student Design Competition, to inspire industrial design students to create an innovative household product that reflects Dyson's philosophy and commitment to intelligent function-first design.

Entries are due December 18, 2006. To enter, visit www.dyson.com/designaward.

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This looks like a really good competition. I suggest entering.

The second annual Microsoft/IDSA Next-Gen PC Design Competition is officially open for business: submissions are now being accepted online through December 18! As you may be aware, last year's competition proved a tremendous success, with nearly 200 entries submitted from 33 countries. We hope this year we can continue building bridges between the design and PC industries, as well as nurture young, undiscovered design talent.

For more information, visit the competition web site at www.nextgendesigncomp.com, or contact Chelsea Sutula at 703.707.6000 x111 or chelseas@idsa.org.

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A writeup of Hussein Chalayan's morphing garments
(via We Make Money Not Art).

Labels: fashion, news

D&AD Global Awards 2007 Call For Entries.
Deadline: January 10th, 2007

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First SAIC IDSA Group Event: Group trip to the Massive Change exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art + dinner/drinks afterwards. Meet there on Saturday, October 28th at 2pm. There are 2 more spots, so RSVP to lsmith7@saic.edu by Friday, October 27th if you want them.



Counterpoint article that may be of interest: Featherless Chickens and the Reptilian Brain

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On Saturday, November 18, 2006 (10AM-12NOON) your students are invited to participate in a special "DRIVERS OF CHANGE WORKSHOP" given by Chris Luebkeman, director and leader of Arup's global Foresight and Innovation initiative. In 2002, Wallpaper Magazine named Chris as one of the ten futurist speculators and shapers "who will change the way we live." As an educator, he taught in the Departments of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [ETH] in Zurich, the University of Oregon, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]. He created the first award winning on-line teaching site in Architecture in 1992. As a researcher, he initiated the research program at MIT entitled house_n; MIT's intelligent home of the future; a technological and tectonic exploration of integrating the digital with the physical. His engineering practice centered on conceptual design with artists and architects as well as on tensegral, mobile and deployable structures. His education included degrees in geology, structural engineering and architecture. He currently is spending most of his time and energy building a better understanding of the way in which the driving forces of change should be incorporated into more effective building/living/business strategies.

Date: Saturday November 18
Time: 10 AM-12 Noon
Location: Sullivan Center Room 1227
33 South State Street (12th Floor)

Please RSVP to Melanie Feerst mfeers@artic.edu. Space is limited.

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