Wednesday, February 24, 2010

3D Modeling Demo Pictures







Modeling a martini glass in Rhinoceros, final render in HyperShot.

Ai iDSA

Ideation Sketching Competition WINNER!






Congratulations to Young-chul Ro,
winner of the Ai iDSA Ideation Sketching Competition.

The product chosen for the competition was a bottle opener.

Great Job!!

Ai iDSA

Sunday, February 21, 2010

3D Modeling Demo



Hello everyone,


Announcing our third meeting of the winter quarter Wednesday 2/24/2010 from 4:45pm - 6:00pm in room 815. We will be going over some Rhinoceros modeling and possibly some HyperShot rendering techniques. Also if anyone has anything specific that they would like to learn in these programs feel free to make a request.


Upcoming event-


The Philadelphia furniture show is coming up, and we are looking for students who have projects that they would like to submit into the show. If you would like more details on the show, contact Carl Bean, cbean@aii.edu and Don LaJeunesse, Donladon1@hotmail.com.

Ai iDSA

Saturday, February 13, 2010

2010 James Dyson Award competition


Now in its fifth year, the James Dyson Award is an internationally recognized design competition, which aims to support young people and their product designs.

Started by inventor James Dyson in 2002, the mission of the James Dyson Foundation is to inspire young people to study and enter the fields of engineering and design. The JDA plays an important part in the Foundation’s efforts to increase awareness about design engineering across the world. The design competition launched last week, February 2nd, and is open to university level students and recent graduates in 18 countries.

www.jamesdysonaward.org

Check it out!

Ideation Sketching Competition


Hello everyone,

Due to the weather we have rescheduled the competition.

Announcing the Ideation Sketching Competition, Wednesday 2/17/10 at 4:45pm-6:00pm in room 815.

The purpose of this competition is to work on industrial design style sketching. Students will be giving one hour to sketch as many concepts / variations as possible of a given product. After the hour is complete all work will be posted up, critiqued and judged. Gift cards will be awarded to the first, second and third place contestants. Don't forget to bring your favorite sketching tool of choice!

Image from IDSketching.com

Helpful links> Check these out!!
http://www.idsketching.com/
http://www.sketch-a-day.com/
http://www.core77.com/
http://www.coroflot.com/

We hope to see you there!

Ai iDSA

Friday, February 5, 2010

Alumnus Visit


5 Successful Practices For New Grads

http://www.productdesignhub.com/articles/36-tips-a-advices/39-5-successful-practices-for-new-grads