ID Seniors Domenico Colaprete and Katherine Sears will present the exciting results of an independent study done this quarter on sustainable laundry detergent concepts. We all hope that you can join us.

Wednesday, May 23rd
2:30PM
RIT’s Student Innovation Center (Building 87), RM 1100

RIT Industrial Design + Glass Students with CMoG will be displaying their work from metaproject02 at this years ICFF in NYC. The exhibit will be open to the public from May 18th to May 21st, located at WantedDesign.

RIT ID graduate student, Sunyoung Stephanie Kim, will be displaying her furniture inspired by woven textiles, “The #” in the Javit Center beginning on May 19th to May 22nd.

Industrial Design graduate students will present their final presentations for Professor Alex Lobos course ID Problems III. Good, Better, Best focuses on scaleable product design explorations using biomimicry as inspiration. All are welcome to join.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012
2PM – 4PM
Room 7A-4610

The IDSA Student Chapter at RIT held its final event of the year on Tuesday, May 15, serving a free barbecue on the rooftop patio outside the industrial design studios on the 4th floor of Booth Hall. About 60 students enjoyed the weather, the pulled-pork barbeque and a welcome break from the Week 10 crunch. The previous evening, the results of elections for officers of next year’s IDSA Student Chapter were announced, led by Ian O’Neill (‘13) as the new chapter President.

Design Strategies for Improving a Product’s Lifetime.
In a recent IDSA webinar Dawn Danby, senior sustainable design program manager at Autodesk and Domenico Colaprete, industrial design Senior at RIT, discussed the incredible opportunity designers and engineers have to diminish the e-waste problem.

If you missed the live webinar on April 25, 2012 you can download it now from the IDSA.

RIT Industrial Design junior, James Paulius recently had his illustrations published in GX Magazine (Issue 9.1). GX Magazine: The Guard Experience is for Soldiers, about Soldiers and often by Soldiers.

James produced several renderings for the article titled “High-Tech Warrior” (page 50-55), which covers scientific advances in military equipment for soldiers.

Three separate groups from RIT’s Industrial Design department displayed exhibits during this years Imagine RIT festival.

Under the direction of Professor Josh Owen, graduate ID students produced an exhibit titled “Activating the Vignelli Archive”, where products and furniture designs were created based on inspiration from the work of designers Massimo and Lella Vignelli. Students engaged in design research at the Vignelli Center for Design Studies and used their research to generate new designs inspired by the Vignelli’s.

The Big Idea team, under the direction of Professor Kim Sherman and ID graduate student / Visiting Assistant Professor Miguel Cardona flew their custom designed and produced tetrahedron kites over RIT, displaying the word “IMAGINE”.

Under the advisement Professor Alex Lobos, ID seniors Katherine Sears and Domenico Colaprete, presented an exciting laundry detergent concept that addresses environmental issues by minimizing chemical ingredients, water usage and packaging.

The Battery Conservancy Americas Design Competition 2012, has an open call for students and professionals in the Americas (North, Central, South, and the Caribbean) to design an iconic, movable outdoor seating element. The winning design will be fabricated for use in The Battery, the 25-acre park at the tip of Manhattan, which annually welcomes six million visitors.

REGISTRATION OPENS JULY 31, 2012.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE OCTOBER 30, 2012.

Prizes:
$50,000 prize fund will be awarded.

Top Designs: Curated selection of Top Designs featured on The Battery Conservancy competition website and on exhibition banners located in the park. Selected designs will be credited to the designers, their affiliation, city, country, and website.

Finalists: Finalists receive $ awards to develop full-scale prototypes. The Battery Conservancy has been invited by Design Miami to exhibit the prototypes.

Winner: Winner will be awarded a $ Grand Prize and we intend to fabricate the winning design for use in The Battery. The winning design will receive international media coverage.

For more information visit: Americas Design Competition

Professor Josh Owen was featured in the recently released hardcover book “GOWEST!: Cutting Edge Creatives in the United States“. He has a two page spread displaying his Menorah for Areaware and CD Jewel Case Chandelier. Owen was selected among ten other designers and design firms including; Ron Gilad, Yves Béhar, and Karim Rashid.

Design Strategies for Improving a Product’s Lifetime
FREE WEBINAR
Wednesday, April 25, 7:00PM – 8:00PM

Join Dawn Danby, senior sustainable design program manager at Autodesk and an industrial designer, as she discusses the incredible opportunity designers and engineers have to diminish the e-waste problem. RIT’s very own Domenico Colaprete will co-present and talk about the work he did at the Sustainable Product Design course last fall.

They will:
-Demonstrate ways to improve a product’s lifetime through design and get the most out of the materials and energy that products use throughout their lifecycle.
-Talk through the basic design strategies to optimize the life of a product, such as designing for durability, repair and upgrade.
-Show examples of products and student projects that applied these strategies in their designs.

You will leave with a better understanding of the role you can play in reversing the e-waste cycle.

Space is limited. Register now.

August Kawski, the winner of the RIT’s 2012 IDSA Student Merit Award, and approximately twenty other RIT ID students traveled to Philadelphia for IDSA’s Northeast District Conference on April 13-14. August and the Merit Award winners from ten other design schools in the district presented their work in a competition for the IDSA’s National Student Merit Award. Attendees also heard talks by Bill Moggridge, Tucker Viemeister, Eric Chan and other design notables.

Creativity: Careers in Motion
Thursday, April 19th
Gordon Field House

Meet with dozens of creative industry agencies in an informal, no pressure atmosphere. Make connections, get feedback.

Career Programming
12PM: “Creativity and Commerce: The Battle and the Balance”
Speaker: Michael Hess (Founder & CEO of Skooba Design)
1PM: “Interviewing for Creative Types”
Panel of experts

Portfolio Reviews
2PM – 4PM: Get feedback on your portfolio from a working designer, photographer, or artist.

Creative Industry Day
2PM – 4PM: New Media / Computer Graphics / 3D / Interactive Development / Animation
4PM – 6PM: All Majors

Vignelli Design Conversations Lecturer: Lorraine Justice
China’s Design Revolution
Thursday, April 19th
Carlson Auditorium – RM 1125 Building 76, 4:45PM

Congratulations to industrial design grad students Yu Liu, Danwei Ye, and computer graphic design grad Yakun Zhang for winning two, “Best 100″ iF Concept Design 2012 Awards. The team was awarded for their concept designs on The Backbone and Acoustic-Optical Lock.

On March 20th and 21st iF jurors decided on the “Best 100” as well as the winners of the Special award. Altogether 10,665 valid entries were contributed to the iF competition, and the RIT team is one of 100 award-winners that were selected to be exhibited. The award ceremony will take place at the Kunsthaus in Hamburg, Germany on May 31st, 2012. The exhibition of all valid entries as well as the winning entries will be presented there until June 17, 2012.

The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance’s (NCIIA) Open Minds student competition winners for best cutting edge innovation are RIT’s team of Justin Hillery and Sean Petterson. This is the first time in the 16 year history of the conference that RIT has had a team selected to compete. They beat PHD students from MIT, Cornell, Berkeley, and Stanford.

Justin and Sean won both the Best Video Presentation for their “Strong Arm” innovative product and the Peoples’ Choice for Best Innovation.

In sixteen months they have come from walking into the Center for Student Innovation saying “Hey we invented something, what do we do now?” to limited production and beta testing of their lifting safety/assist vest. They have also been invited to participate on scholarship in additional entrepreneurial development training at the NCIIA Venture Lab. Sean is an Industrial Design major and Justin is a Multidisciplinary major, both are 4th year students.

Congratulations to the winner August Kawski, of the RIT 2012 IDSA Student Merit Award, and to all the other nominees, for their outstanding presentations on Friday evening: Ben Hudson, Chen Guo Wei, Katherine Sears, Rob Guglielmo and Will Alusitz.

A special thank you also goes to the six design professionals who made time in their schedules to support RIT industrial design students by serving as the jury for the Merit Award competition: Bruce Leonard, Bryan Hammer, David Parsons, Dan Harel, Jake Silsby and Jason Pennell.

August Kawski will now have the opportunity to present his portfolio of work at the IDSA Northeast Design Dialogue Conference in Philadelphia, to compete with other student chapter winners outside of RIT.

Learn how to vote for Design Museum Boston, on MassChallenge 2012. MassChallenge is the world’s largest accelerator program and startup competition. They strengthen finalist organizations by providing high-quality, personalized mentorship, free office space, and $1 million in cash awards.

Design Museum Boston’s mission is to educate the public on the role of design in their lives and to unite the design community in ways that enrich collective work and solve real-world problems more creatively. Design Museum Boston is a decentralized network of exhibits: whether in a gallery, retail environment, public space or on the web, their programming gives audiences new insights into the design process and the greater social, economic and environmental contexts that both affect and are affected by design. RIT Industrial Design alumnus, Sam Aquillano is the Co-founder and Director of Design Museum Boston.

Please vote for the Design Museum Boston on MassChallenge.
Visit the Design Museum Boston and MassChallenge to learn more.

IDSA Student Merit Award Presentations
Friday, March 23rd
Carlson Auditorium – RM 1125 Building 76, 7:00PM
Free. Open to the public.

Vignelli Design Conversations Lecturer: Michael Burke
The Symbol Language ISOTYPE and its Relevance to Contemporary Design
Tuesday, March 20th
Carlson Auditorium – RM 1125 Building 76, 4:45PM

According to U.S. News & World Report’s 2013 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools, RIT is among the top colleges and universities in the nation for master’s programs in fine arts. The rankings are based solely on the results of a peer assessment survey completed in 2011, featuring input from art school deans and other top art school academics at 230 Master of Fine Arts programs in art and design from across the country. RIT was ranked as the 8th best fine arts school for industrial design graduate studies. Highlights of the rankings will be published in the April 3rd edition of U.S. News & World Report.

Professor Amos Scully recently invited Artist & Professor Lancelot Coar, of the University of Manitoba in Canada, to visit and lecture at RIT this past February. Assisted by RIT students and staff, Coar created and built a piece of temporary architecture on the RIT campus, in a colaboration titled the “Ice Hut Project”.

Students from Industrial Design, Packaging Science, and Graphic Design teamed up to re-work several Wegmans product packages in a competition sponsored by American Packaging Corporation. Juice containers, sauces and laundry detergent, were designed to be more eye-appealing, sustainable and easier to pack for shipping to stores. This was the third year students from the College of Applied Science and Technology worked with those from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences to redesign packaging.

Photo by A. Sue Weisler via RIT University News

Industrial Design senior Sean Petterson and Interdisciplinary Studies senior Justin Hillery have entered their Strong Arm lifting system in “Open Minds”, a national competition sponsored by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA).

Please support their entry by viewing their video and voting, at:
http://nciia.org/openminds/2012/videos
To get to the Strong Arm video you have to scroll down past several other great ideas.

The Strong Arm lifting system is a form-fitting garment that incorporates a unique system of load-bearing straps that allows workers to lift heavy objects more easily and with significantly less risk of injury.

Selected participants from Metaproject02 will have their projects on display in RIT’s Center for Student Innovation. The work will be available to view on Friday, February 23rd which aligns with, Winter 2012 Research and Innovation Symposium from 3PM to 8PM. This one-month exhibition will be up in CSI until March 22nd.

The following students will be featured in this exhibit.

Industrial Design:
-Richie Laurence
-Robert Guglielmo
-Ben Hudson
-Brendon Maryou
-Colin Packenham
-Jenna Parysek
-Joshua Rivers
-Morganne Theobald
-Kevin Toh

Glass:
-Orion Becker
-Celia Garland
-Gabriel Greenlaw
-Katelin Leidner
-Lars Lindquist
-Fahan Sky McDonagh
-Wil Sideman

Reception
RIT University Gallery
Thursday February 23rd, 5:30PM – 7:00PM

The Danish Institute for Study Abroad, will hold a reception for the Furniture Design in Scandinavia exhibition, that highlights eight seating designs built by students of RIT’s Industrial Design and School for American Crafts programs. The exhibit will be open from February 10th to March 2nd, 2012 in RIT’s University Gallery.

Photos by ETC photography

Congratulations to everyone who participated to make Metaproject02 a success.

Winner in Glass:
- Thomas Zogas

Winner in Industrial Design:
- Daniel Ipp

Runners-up in Glass:
- Karen Mahardy
- Surim Lee
- Allyson Klopp
- Jasper Signer
- Namdoo Kim
- Alexander Demmerle
- Michael Migliorini

Runners-up in Industrial Design:
- August Kawski
- Andrew Miller
- Casey Schneider
- Kyle Blemel
- Jacob Dorpfeld
- Chen Wei
- Robert Guglielmo
- William Alusitz
- Clay Amos

RIT students Sean Petterson (Senior Industrial Design) and Justin Hillery (Senior Multidiciplinary Studies), were recently awarded patents for their new invention, the Strong Arm. Both students sat down with Professor Chance Glenn (host of Intelligent Conversations) to discuss their invention as well as entrepreneurship and business. You can listen to the complete podcast “Let’s Get Down to Business” on iTunes or visit the shows Facebook page.

The Strong Arm is a new lifting safety system that distributes heavy loads to prevent bodily injury. The system works by redirecting the lifting load forces to strategic pressure points on the back and torso. The Strong Arm user is forced into the proper lifting posture to minimize or avoid potential injury.

RIT ID Senior Lecturer Kim Sherman and Visiting Assistant Professor Miguel Cardona are organizing a new project for this years Imagine RIT.

The Big Idea intends to physically fly, float, or project the word “IMAGINE” over the campus during Imagine RIT. The project is currently looking for students from various disciplines to form the team. If you would like to learn more about the project and how to get involved please visit the website The Big Idea or Facebook page.

Industrial Design sophomore Alexander Bennett and Management Information Systems junior Christopher Burton were recently selected as 1st place winners in RIT’s Shark Tank Exhibition, sponsored by the Saunders College. The students received a $2,000 prize for their concept and prototype for the Kinetic Beacon.

The Kinetic Beacon is a self powered GPS distress locator device, that can be used when hikers or other outdoor enthusiasts get lost or are in other unfortunate circumstances while visiting state or national parks. The students plan on creating the self powered part by making a mechanism that you can squeeze with just one hand to generate power. They are currently working on the final design, as well as visiting manufacturers and venture capitalists to try and bring this concept to market.

When asked about winning the 1st place prize, ID sophomore Alexander Bennett said “Being recognized for an idea you cultivated and worked so hard on is every designer’s dream. Winning the award with Chris was amazing and an eye opening experience that shows what is possible through great collaboration and passion.”

RIT’s Industrial Design Society of America will host a lecture by Professor Kim Sherman. Please join to learn about the work, life and essence of one of RIT’s Industrial Design professors.

Campus Center, Room 2650
Friday February 3rd, 12:00PM

Please click on the image to view details on Metaproject 02, the Corning Museum of Glass Student Design Competition. Held on February 16th at RIT’s Center for Student Innovation.

Vignelli Design Conversations Lecturer: Lorraine Justice
China’s Design Revolution
Tuesday, February 14th
Webb Auditorium – RM 1350 Booth Hall 7A, 4:45PM

RIT Professor Josh Owen, launches his newly designed “WC Line” for Kontextur. The collection comprises of a plunger and storage dish, a toilet brush with storage vessel, and a waste bin. The “WC Line” is on exhibition at the NY International Gift Fair in New York through February 2, 2012.

Thursday, February 2nd, 4:00PM
Booth Hall, 3310
Funded by Foundations Department and the School of Design

Leading American Industrial Designer, Jeff Miller meets with students at RIT during a visit to Vignelli Center for Design Studies. After Jeff’s formal, public lecture as part of the Vignelli Design Conversations lecture series, he offered an in-depth look at the work that went into his “Clipt Chair” produced by Cerruti Baleri. This chair is now part of the Vignelli Archives, secured as a part of the joint ID/VC initiative “Product Timecapsule”. During this session with the designer, graduate students of industrial design experienced an intimate look into the story of a project told through the artifacts of of its development.

RIT’s Industrial Design Society of America will host a lecture by Professor Alex Lobos. Please join to learn about the work, life and essence of one of RIT’s Industrial Design professors.

Industrial Design Studio
Wednesday January 25th, 5:00PM

Artist and Professor Lancelot Coar, of the University of Manitoba in Canada, will visit RIT to create a piece of temporary architecture made of ice. The Ice Hut Project will involve Professor Amos Scully’s Form II students, who will be working in teams with with Professor Roberley Bell’s 3D Design students, to propose their own structure and help build the one on RIT’s campus. Construction is set to begin on February 1st and will be up for one week. The dates align with Freezefest run by RIT’s Student Life, who is also partially funding the project.

Chris Hall, from Autodesk, visits with ID students to demonstrate work flows inside of their new Product Design Suite. Autodesk provides access to full versions of all their software at no cost for current students.

Autodesk has also launched 123D, a collection of free software tools that allow people to make 3D objects from start to finish.

Jeremy Knopow visits with ID graduate students to take questions and comments after his lecture: “Passion & Purpose” on design, engineering and social innovation.

I made this chair in Denmark, and I named it The #, because from the top the chair looks like #. When I was designing this chair, I kept thinking about how I could stress the best characteristics of the material used, veneer.

I decided to emphasize the bending feature and came up with the woven shape. Also, I realized that I could make a really strong and interesting shape if I made it as a loop or ring shape. I also tried to make this chair as strong as possible while using the least amount of veneer as possible. The most interesting part of this chair is that each of the four pieces is exactly same form. Thus, I only needed one mold and used it four times. After that, I put them together. There is an even distribution of weight on the chair, so the overall structure is very strong and stable. I made several mock-ups to figure out a best proportion of this chair. I tried to change the width, depth, height and the distance between the pieces and the width of each piece.

For information on the Danish Institute for Study Abroad and the Furniture Design Studio visit the DIS website.

Vignelli Design Conversations Lecturer: Jeff Miller
Wednesday, January 18th
Webb Auditorium in Booth Hall, 4:30PM

Jeff Miller is a leading, American Industrial Designer who has received international acclaim for his innovative and distinctive style. Having established his own practice in 2002, Jeff blends his research-driven consulting background, with a more personal elemental approach for a range of clients in the areas of product, furniture and interior design including: Bosch / Cerruti Baleri / Herman Miller / Itoki / Panasonic / Samsung. In addition to his own projects, Jeff currently heads Product Design at Poppin, and the Creative Direction of Itoki Design, a New York-based subsidiary of the Japanese parent company. Years prior, he was the long-time member and Vice President of Design at ECCO Design in New York, where for more than a decade he was involved in product development for global brands including: Apple / Colgate / Corning / LG / Motorola / OXO / Procter & Gamble. Jeff regularly lectures about his work and has conducted design seminars for students from New York to Paris to Jerusalem. His work has received numerous awards, appeared in print, media, and television, and been exhibited in prestigious collections and museums, worldwide. A native New Yorker, Jeff Miller was born in the city in 1968. He studied Industrial Design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, and graduated with University and Department Honors in 1990. He holds several design and utility patents and has been a member of the IDSA since 1992.

Design is a pragmatic endeavor, but underpinning the most captivating ideas there is often whimsy, or poetry, a story to be told, or a faded memory that has reemerged. Having traversed the professional design landscape from consultant to individual to corporate designer, Jeff will share some of his recent work and provide insight into the ideas running parallel to the methodology.

Lecture on design, engineering and social innovation.
Passion & Purpose
Stories of a quest for creative impact

Jeremy Knopow
Sr. Research Incubator
S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.

Center for Student Innovation
Tuesday January 17th, 2:00PM

Jeremy Knopow is a multi-disciplinary design professional with over 17 years of impact oriented industry experience. He has held positions in design management at multiple Fortune 500 companies. At SC Johnson, Knopow leads the R&D efforts for the company’s global social entrepreneurship initiatives, as well as creating and heading up an internal Incubation group.

Knopow holds over 65 patents worldwide, and in 2010 was presented one of four IDSA Catalyst Awards. He is a frequent guest lecturer and currently teaches as an Adjunct Professor of Design at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Knopow holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MFA in Industrial Design, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Metaproject 02 is currently featured in GLASS Quarterly’s Winter 2011-12 issue. The article discusses the ongoing collaboration between the Corning Museum of Glass and RIT’s industrial design & glass students. Final student work will be displayed at New York’s Design Week, details to follow.

RIT and the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences has recently launched the new college website. This includes a section called the student gallery, in which students can upload and display their design work. There is also a faculty and staff section which allows professors to create profiles and display their professional work along with student class work.

Professor Alex Lobos co-presented with Adam Menter and Dawn Danby, managers of Autodesk’s sustainability education, at their annual conference in Las Vegas. Their talk was titled “Collaborative, Cross-Disciplinary, Project-Based Courses for Innovation and Sustainable Design.”
For more information about the talk visit Autodesk University

Professors Owen and Lobos visit Hong Kong for the annual Business of Design Week. They attend events throughout the city and tour The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Professor Owen also attends the Design Educators Conference.