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Jul 10

2013 IDSA IDEA Winners, Our Gold Faves: Omer Haciomeroglu’s ERO Concrete Recycling Robot

Posted in: IDSA

There’s a reason demolitionists use explosive charges to take buildings down: Abject destruction is a relatively quick way to dismantle rebar-reinforced concrete. But boy does it create one helluva mess to clean up:

Smaller-scale demolition techniques require massive machinery to pulverize buildings chunk by chunk, while workers spray the destruction with a steady stream of water to keep the dust down. The resultant mess is then carted off, load by load, to landfill or a recycling center tasked with the difficult chore of separating metal rebar from the concrete fragments.

Look no further than the 2013 IDEA Winners for a better building demolition concept.

Omer Haciomeroglu, from Sweden’s Umea Institute of Design, won Gold in the Student Designs category for his ERO Concrete Recycling Robot. Haciomeroglu’s excellent concept not only takes buildings down in an energy-efficient way, but it systematically recycles as it goes along. “In order to overcome later separation and ease the transport of materials,” writes Haciomeroglu, “the process had to start with separation on the spot. It was a challenge to switch from brutal pulverizing to smart deconstruction.”

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Jun 12

IDSA’s 2013 International Conference, Breaking the Rules, Aug. 21-24 in Chicago!

Posted in: 2013, Breaking the Rules, IDSA

As a cutting-edge innovator you are breaking the rules almost every single day! Take the recent iOS7 interface for example, Jony Ive has re-written the rules about the role of a product or industrial designer. So get ready to Throw the Rule Book Out the Window, Blaze a New Path and Kick Your Career up a Notch in the Process! Yanko Design will be there at IDSA’s 2013 International Conference, Breaking the Rules! Question is, Will You?

When we create revolutionary ideas and game-changing innovations, we tear down predefined assumptions. But how can you know which rules to break and which to keep? Find out at IDSA’s 2013 International Conference, Breaking the Rules, Aug. 21-24 in Chicago!

Here are three reasons why you should be a part of this path-breaking conference:

Get inspired by speakers who are thought leaders from outside of design with fresh perspectives on how innovators and game changers operate in other fields.
Learn from the best including some of the most captivating cutting-edge design leaders
Fast track your information exchange with high-octane TED-style 20-minute presentations in a single track.

Some of the Speakers for the 20-minute TED-esque session.

Dean Kamen, founder and president of DEKA Research & Development Corp
Bruce Nussbaum, award-winning writer, former assistant managing editor for Business Week and professor of innovation and design at Parsons The New School for Design
John Bielenberg, founding partner at FUTURE, designer, entrepreneur and creator of Project M
Bill Buxton, principal researcher at Microsoft Research, former researcher at Xerox PARC, chief scientist of Alias Research and SGI Inc. and co-recipient of an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement
Pat Schiavoni, global vice president of design for Whirlpool Corp., designer of the 11th generation Ford F-150, the best-selling truck in the world, and the 1994 Ford Mustang, a refresh that is said to have saved the “pony car”
Surya Vanka, principal manager of user experience at Microsoft, author and international lecture

Essentially just ‘Break all the rules’ with the first-ever IDSA Unconference!

Unlike the traditional conference where on-stage speakers present to a large audience, everything about the Unconference is completely participant driven! This session will be held only on Thursday, 22nd August.

Multiple sessions run in parallel, each addressing an entirely different subject matter. It’s an excellent contrast to the rest of the conference allowing for more in-depth and personal discussions to take place on an even wider spectrum of subjects.
It is also a perfect fit for the Breaking The Rules theme.

Early registration: open through June 15, 2013
Regular registration: June 16 -July 20, 2013.
Late registration: July 21- Aug. 11, 2013.
On-site registration: Aug. 12 -Aug. 24, 2013
All registration deadlines are midnight EST

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Jan 03

Good Design = Best IDEA! 2013 Registrations Are Open

Posted in: IDEA Awards, IDSA

For more than three decades (33 to be precise) IDSA and IDEA Awards have stood for awarding excellence in the field of products, sustainability, interaction design, packaging, strategy, research and concept design. The 2013 registrations are now open with the Early Bird phase coming to an end pretty soon. What I really like about this award is that IDSA goes the extra mile to ensure designers get adequate exposure through exhibitions and tours. Last year they had one in Boston and one in Korea.

For 2012, IDSA took it upon themselves to relay the message that “Good design is the basis for improved products, better business and a richer life.”

Every year some of the most innovative and thought-provoking products and concepts come out of the IDEA competition crowned as gold winners. These projects always leave us craving more information about the approach, their inspiration and what made them stand out from the other entries each category. IDSA has compiled an exclusive Q&As that addresses these queries in what they call “IDEA Insights” for 2012. Have a look.

Important Dates:

Regular application deadline – Feb. 11, 2013, 11:59 PM PST
Late application deadline – Feb. 25, 2013, 11:59 PM PST
More Info Here

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