Every year Cooper-Hewitt gives out National Design Awards, but do you agree with their choices? Now is the time for action! This year Cooper-Hewitt is giving out some special People's Choice Awards. You can nominate and cast votes but it all ends 6pm EST Tuesday night! That's right tomorrow! Get Your voting season started early with the Cooper-Hewitt People's Design Award!

via Gizmodo

	Hey everybody, There is an exciting GUEST SPEAKER EVENT Tuesday, Oct. 21st, 1-2pm Graduate Studio, FA 151 Join us for a presentation and "Q and A" with DAI Alum and working professional CHARLES HALL Charles Hall is the CEO of Advanced Elements which makes some impressive outdoor sporting equipment. Charles is also the inventor of the waterbed, which he developed right here at San Francisco State University! Come say hello at the Graduate Studio, FineArts room 151. This Tuesday, Oct. 21st, 1-2pm. See you there! -Thomas Deckert, IDSA SFSU

This is a really cool 3d sketching interface created by the developers at University of Toronto. I can only wonder if there is a viewer/reader program as well and if there is any interface/export compatibility with Solidworks/Alias/Pro-E etc.


ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo (Via Core77).

Any thoughts?

Awesome! This is a really good resource that we should all be able to take advantage of!

"The LUNAR Elements team has recently published “The Designer’s Field Guide to Sustainability”, a tool designed to help all designers and engineers, no matter what their level of experience, design more sustainable products."
-Ecolect

They also make a really good point that none of these are an instant fix or cure but that they are a very good first step in a very complex issue.

IDSA-SF (via swissmiss via ecolect)

Bart Haney, Program Manager at Fuseproject, was kind enough to do an interview with us! We covered a lot of things that are beneficial to students looking towards graduation and entering the design industry. Enjoy!

Sorry, we will NOT be playing Pictionary again this week, but we do have a number of announcements to share with you about our updated Event Calendar.

Also this week, we're going to screen Lee's exclusive interview with Bart Haney of fuseproject. In their discussion, they went over key issues concerning portfolio development and job hunting for new designers--all questions that were based on feedback from members like YOU.

Additionally, we'll be announcing the details of our latest Sketch Contest. Our last one was a little bit disorganized, but the few submissions we got were awesome, so we hope it'll inspire some more of you to enter this next one. Curious about the topic? Well, we'd like you to come hear more about it at the meeting, but if you're really that excited, then here's a hint.

That's all for now. Hope to see you this Wednesday, October 8th at 1PM in FA 163!

-Eugene Wong, IDSA SFSU