Chapter Event: Carnegie International

Pittsburgh IDSA, it's time for our next event!

55th Carnegie International - Life on Mars
Saturday, September 6, 2008 @ 11:30am

Carnegie Museum of Art
http://blog.cmoa.org/CI08/

Please join us as we take advantage of this classic Pittsburgh event.

We have arranged for a private, hour long, docent-guided tour for our Western PA IDSA chapter members! Admission is FREE for members and discounted for non-members. ($9.00)

Join us afterwards at Union Grill on Craig Street for a casual get-together to chat about what we saw.

Spaces are limited, so please RSVP to Tony tonys@ballydesign.com at your earliest convenience!

We would like to give a special thanks to our event sponsor, Bayer MaterialScience. Their sponsorship will help offset the costs of our event so that our members can attend for free. Please take some time to check out their website and look into the fantastic things they do with special engineering plastics.

http://www.bayermaterialsciencenafta.com/

http://www.bayerdesignworks.com/

Hope to see you there!

Regards,

Tony Shoemaker, IDSA

Senior Industrial Designer

ballydesign

412 621 9009 ex227

tonys@ballydesign.com

Design Friends News: IDXA Happy Hour

Please join IXDA Pittsburgh for a summer Happy Hour
(half price appetizers and 1$ off drafts, wine and well liquor)
and discussion about submitting to the IXDA conference.

Date: Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008
Time: 5:30 - 7 pm
Place:
Walnut Grill
5500 Walnut Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15232

Michele Marut and Jack Moffett
(michele.marut@respironics.com)
IXDA Pittsburgh Local Ambassadors

Designers for a Sustainable Pittsburgh coming up!

Members-

An event that may be of interest to many of you is coming up NEXT WEEK here in town. Our very own Julia Frederking is part of this meeting, and we wanted you to all have a chance to attend. Details are below- we hope to see you there!

Regards,

Tony Shoemaker, Western PA IDSA Chair

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From: Jenna Date [jenna@fitassociates.com]

Designers for a Sustainable Pittsburgh - Wednesday, August 6, 5:30 to 7:30

Hello Hello!

Well, it's happening! We have a date, a time and a place for our very first meeting, now all we need is for YOU to be there.

As most of you know, (and for those that don't--you are on this list because some one that knows you wants you to be involved)...

Fit is excited to start something new... Designers for a Sustainable Pittsburgh. (for lack of a better name at this point)
Let’s get educated, get organized and get moving on making a difference together.

Our first meeting will be held:

Wednesday, August 6th
5:30 to 7:30pm
@ Bright Innovation
Directions can be found here: http://www.bright-innovation.com/contact.php

Please! RSVP to jenna@fitassociates.com, so we know how many mouths to feed.

Beers and food to follow at one of the establishments on the South Side.

Our agenda is loose, but active. From the folks that I’ve already talked to, there are some great ideas out there on how designers can get involved in the community to help create a sustainable city. We’ll spend some time brainstorming about all of those, and then set an action plan for the upcoming months.

If you can’t make this meeting, don’t worry, there will be others.

Please forward to friends, peers and colleagues that may be interested. At this point, the group is forming by word of mouth. This is an open forum, if you have ideas on discussion topics, please let us know.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Smiles.

Jenna

Ps. (A quick thank you to Minette Vaccariello and Julia Frederking from Bright Innovation for providing a space and snacks for us)