August 2007
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About The New Idiom
About
The New Idiom newsletter (formerly engageID) aims to be a student-centric publication that touches and reflects all aspects of the life of the multicultural and multidisciplinary ID student in Chicago: academic life, community and experiences. The ultimate purpose of the newsletter is to strengthen the community by means of stories that people inside and outside of the Institute of...
News & Events: Call for Lecturettes
Each semester, insideID puts on an exciting line-up of Lunchtime Lecturettes, featuring outside professionals and ID students. For outside professionals, this is an opportunity to share your work, discuss new projects and ideas. For ID students, this is an opportunity to teach new skills to your fellow students. If you are interested in presenting a Lunchtime Lecturette, please contact Margo...
NCKU Workshop Review & Preview
Review | 2007 NCKU International Design Forum
No matter how much traveling I do, new places and people never cease to inspire me and my design work. This summer I was offered the unique opportunity of joining my classmate Jordan Fischer and Professor TJ Mcleish in Taiwan for a week-long design forum hosted by the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU). The event included a nice mixture of intense...
Book Review: ID Student Handbook 2007-2008
We here at the New Idiom are constantly thinking about what information will be the most valuable to our readers and what they will have fun reading. So, when we saw the new ID Student Handbook for 2007-2008, we thought “We know our readers, and our readers would never want to read that. They would, however, like to be able to say that they know what is in it.” (You guys are real...
New IDer: Shivani Mohan
I’m Shivani, an MDes candidate for Fall 2009. I grew up in India, New Delhi. After high school I went to the National Institute of Design at Ahmedabad to study Industrial design for 5 years. Soon after design school, I joined the LG design team, and was with them for one and a half years.
How did you end up at ID?What were your motivations for coming? Where were you working before?
While...
Past IDer: Mario Ruiz, ‘06
Name: Mario Ruiz Program at ID: Master of Design Methods Age: 29 Where are you from: Roswell, NM Nationality: Mexican Married: no Kids: Joyce and Enric, my current roommates (and ID alumni) Politics: Boring Religion: Nope Current location: San Francisco, CA
What do you do now (and any other current information about yourself)?
Working in the corporate design group at HP leading the design...
Around Town: The TOTO Gallery
America is the largest manufacturer of bidets in the world, and yet you would be hard pressed to find one in service here. With their “clean is happy” campaign, TOTO is looking to push their adoption in the States. Having briefly explored the general (and often acute) discomfort Americans feel thinking or talking about anything related to their nether regions, a couple of us were intrigued to...
Of Interest: Observed
reactable - Awesome interactive, collaborative device for creating electronic music
Greenmaker - Fixing up your apartment? Green building supplies in Chicago.
Billmonk - Manage debt and loaning among friends. Seems to come from a solid user insight.
Conference Bike - Is this social technology?
Suck UK - Design finds from across the pond.
Arse Electronica - Possibly NOT SAFE FOR WORK...