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pIn mid-August in New York City, the only material I’m thinking about is Freon and the air conditioners it goes in; but for those seeking greater edification, A HREF=”http://materialintelligence.nu/about” Material Intelligence/A is an upcoming “intensive design and prototyping workshop” running from August 16-20th and held in Queens./p

pSponsored by Arch Daily, Rhino, Studio Mode/modeLab and others, the workshop seems geared mainly towards architects but should have some room for ID overlap (you can be that one annoying person who keeps trying to bring it back to ID while pooh-poohing any project larger than a desk) and does provide access to some sexy CNC machines:/p

blockquoteOver the course of five days participants will examine the cultural as well as technological domains of associative practices within architecture and its related fields. Participants will develop projects through iterative workflows with an emphasis placed on material prototyping as a vehicle for design innovation. The workshop will be conducted in a fast-paced and hands-on studio environment where participants will have access to digital fabrication equipment including an industrial CNC 3-axis Mill and CNC High-Force Cutter./blockquote

pClick A HREF=”http://materialintelligence.nu/about” here/A to learn more, or A HREF=”http://materialintelligence.nu/registration” here/A for registration info.br /
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Lifelong skater (and Olympian snowboarder) debuts his affordable skate shoes for Target

Building out his line for Target, gold-medal snowboarder Shaun White’s first collection of skate shoes drops in stores this week. In of-the-moment colors like electric blue, gray, black and maroon, each pair makes a bid to be an everyday shoe, covering all the bases with fat laces, thick outsoles, suede uppers and double stitched construction. Target sent over a pair for us to check out and we were impressed with the high quality considering the low price-point.

Shaun, who’s also an avid skater, introduces six styles of the skate shoes—three for men, three for boys— which will be stocked in stores, and two models for each will be online exclusives, with prices ranging from $28-$35. Also launching, a new season of apparel—the latest in the line that White and his brother Jesse have been partnering with Target on since 2008—includes jeans, t-shirts, wovens and jackets, hitting the sweet spot at $35 and under.

pLike my college classmates, I studied industrial design with thoughts of going into furniture, electronic products or auto design, the sexier subdivisions of ID. Package design never occurred to any of us as an option until one of our number, a guy named Randy, got an internship doing package design. It paid roughly 50% more than any other ID internship at the time, and when he came back to the studio and told us what he was making we all dropped our glue guns./p

pRandy quit that internship after a few months to take an even more lucrative one doing POP (point-of-purchase) design. Upon learning of the vacancy, I called the first place, secured an internship with them after an interview, and after graduating I had steady freelance work from them for 12 years./p

pThat was a long time ago, but what do ID students think of going into packaging design now? IPackaging News/I hits The New Designers show at London’s Business Design Centre to find out:/p

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