Hello from Seattle!
ID and Microsoft have generously stepped forward to show their support for our third largest ID community and the many talented people that emerge from our program. If you will be in Seattle, stop in for some eating, drinking and design thinking. We welcome your design friends in the Seattle area as well, we just ask that they RSVP to get an accurate head count.
Who: Approximately 60 alumni, local companies/organizations
When: Friday, April 30th 6-9pm Where: Vessel - a lounge in downtown Seattle
RSVP: ABatchu@gmail.com or ABuhayar@gmail.com
Cheers! Amy & Andrew
To accompany this week’s scores, here’s a highlight video with some of the participants crushing their cans:) Watch till the end to see danimal’s beast-like can-crushing prowess!
Recycle-Can Update Week 1 →
Hope you were able to check out the first week of Recycling Can game on 3rd Floor. Another week before it moves to the 5th floor!
Remember to save your cans to crush and see how many points you can earn! You also automatically get 10 points for each bottle you recycle even if they are not yours so tally up those points!
So far, our leaders are:
Dan Roberts with 210 points
Apeksha Garga with 120 points
Max Talbot-Minkin & Helen Tong with 100 points
Good luck!
InsideID
NICE TO MEET YOU TAL SHAY
Where are you from?
I’m 31 and from Israel. Moved to Chicago +3 years ago. I’m on my last few weeks of my M.Des (yey!) after doing an extra year of design boot camp of foundation.
How did you end up at ID? Where were you before?
I was an interaction designer in Israel. Never studied design, only worked in it, I studied psychology since I wanted to understand how people perceive and process information so I could better design for that.
I wanted to learn how to learn more about the process of design, have more methods in my toolkit, to help me address a bigger scale of complex problems. Also wanted to take my interaction design skills that at the time were only applied for things that had a screen and apply them to other mediums that involved humans such as service design or product design (I’m from the discipline that believes that the medium for interaction design is behavior, not a specific technology).
Tell us quickly about a project that you’re working on now that you’re really excited about.
My awesome demo team (Jim, Cornelia and Kate) are working on a connected asthma research project with the Mayo clinic. We planned, executed and analyzed research looking for opportunities for the Mayo Clinic to expand their services beyond the clinic walls, to help college age students manage their asthma remotely.
What do you do in your spare time?
Haven’t had much of it since I joined ID. But when I do I love to spend time with Eitan (my husband), read, cook (and eat!), travel to new places I haven’t been to, visit my friends and family in Israel, and go on beach vacations. When I have time during my routine I love making pottery. Unfortunately that hasn’t’ happened since I moved to the U.S.
What would you do with 20 million dollars?
I’d start with going on a long trip around the world testing out the most quiet beaches and best food with my best friends and my family. Then I’d have to think.
What does Michael Beirut think of us?
Read his recent post on Design Observer where he talks about The Institute of Design and Innovation:
Michael Bierut
Innovation is the New Black
Last month I was invited by Patrick Whitney, director of the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology, to participate in a symposium on the “‘creative corporation’ and the adoption of design by business leaders.” Naturally, I said yes, quoting Lance, the drug dealer in Pulp Fiction, who, when asked by Vincent Vega what will happen after he gives Marcellus Wallace’s wife an adrenalin injection to the heart, answers “I’m curious about that myself.”
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read on: http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=3857
the serviceID silk screening workshop was thursday! five frames were provided with a bunch of graphics to choose from on each. all the shirts provided by serviceID are being donated to a local shelter next week, and a few were brought in by students to be personalized and then taken home. thanks to everyone who came out to print a shirt or two!
more photos @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/skurfee/tags/silkscreen/
Hello ID Community,
We are on a sustainability binge! Paper recycling, a sustainability workshop and now…
RECYCLE-CAN: a competition to see who recycles the most cans and bottles.
How it Works:
Although we don’t have a bottle recycling system in place at ID, we want to encourage sustainability and let people know the impact of their actions
With every can and bottle you recycle, you are removing waste from landfills and decreasing the impact you make on the Earth’s resources…that’s significant!
So, instead of throwing out your drink bottle and soda cans, make good use of them!
Take them the Recycle-Can Game Board:
Step 1. Crush your aluminum can with The Can Crusher (it’s fun and a stress-reliever)
Step 2. Place the crushed can into one of the slots at the top of the board and watch it fall into the box (plinko-style)
Step 3. Enter your name and add your points you earned on the score board (super easy!) Note - this is an honor system!:)
Repeat! At the end of April, we will tally up the points and award amazing prizes (it’s worth doing, trust us)!
If you don’t drink soda or use water bottles, good for you! You can still participate by recycling other people’s cans and earn 10 points for recycling plastic bottles or other drink containers in the box.
We will keep track during the weeks on The New Idiom and see who is in the lead.
The Game Board will be on the 3rd Floor Hallway for 2 weeks and switch the last two weeks on the 5th floor.
Please let us know if you can help us take the cans to the recycling (it’s just Annie and Sally).
Good Luck!
Brains, Behavior and Design
Research in the field of behavioral economics can help designers understand why people often don’t adopt offerings designed to address identified consumer needs. Based on a synthesis of current behavioral economics research our ID Demos team developed a set of tools and engagements that help designers more effectively understand and design for people’s decision making processes.
Learn more and download the kit at:
NICE TO MEET YOU HANNAH SWART
Please introduce yourself in a few sentences.
About 3 decades ago, on the red dusty plains of Southern Africa, a rational planner and passionate artist kissed and not long after that beautiful moment, I happened. I am in love with life and the people that share it with me. I am endlessly fascinated by the thinking that sustains and creates our lives and futures.
How did you end up at ID?
During my career as interior architect, I saw glimpses of what our future could be, but I did not know how do get there. This dissonance between what I was doing and could be doing grew until I realized that I had to leave South Africa to bridge the gap between what is and what can be. I came to Chicago to lecture at the School of the Art Institute and then stumbled across ID.
Tell us quickly about a project that you’re working on now that you’re really excited about.
During the past weeks, I started to read about living systems. This way of seeing is generating a new paradigm where we learn to work with the bigger order to create a sustainable future. This excites me beyond words.
What would you do with 20 million dollars?
I would set out to discover how a sustainable future might look, by starting an organization that brings together brilliant minds from various disciplines that can see a new way forward. Together we can prototype how new thought patterns may become tangible realities. As we discover sound ways of thinking and doing that creates wholeness, we would partner with companies to bring the future into the present. We would work with companies to redefine and broaden their identities and start the necessary transformation from the inside out.
What super-power would you most like to have, and why?
Hmmm, I’d like to be the melting muse. I’d LOVE to be able to lose my form and melt into stuff – become one with it and learn it’s core nature. Imagine melting into the side walk, being absorbed through the roots of a tree, breathed out by it’s leaves and rained back through layers of misty clouds; imagine melting into language and becoming the pattern that adapts to different meanings; imagine melting into the body and mind of a tiny 8 year old in a dusty African shanty town; imagine melting into the internet and hearing the billion voices and bits of information whizz through me, catching phrases, picking up repeats, understanding us all the more.
