Love PGH Design | Launch

Hi Design Community!

It's your very first issue of "Love PGH Design" (name is still pending). What is "Love PGH Design"? it's an announcement of all those great design events coming to your area.

Our goal is to try it twice a month... even more if we can get those events going!The design events will not just be limited to Industrial Design but open to anything that gets your design blood boiling... contact us if you have an event you'd like to have posted!

It's starting off to a beautiful spring and there are quite a few of design events coming! Two in one night on April 2nd... both at CMU!

Take care and love Pittsburgh design (that means show up)... Christine Fish IDSA Western PA | Chapter Chair + create + strength + love + beauty +

IDSA CMU Student Merit Awards Presentations

Learn Enjoy and Relax with upcoming CMU designers... plus there is Pizza!

Our Multi Faceted Panel will be judging... (from a New Zealander with quite a precise eye to a young interaction design expert... plus + a few more characters, I'm sure) Let the presentations begin!

Please RSVP if possible...

April 1, 2010 5:30PM gathering/ 6:00PM presentations start

Carnegie Mellon University School of Design

110 Margaret Morrison Building - Room A-14

Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Pizza and drinks will be served at 5:30PM.

Parking is available in the Gesling Stadium garage off of Forbes Avenue and Beeler Street. On-street Parking on Margaret Morrison Street and Tech Street.

INTERACTION 10 REDUX!

Presented by IxDA Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon HCII

JOIN US! for a showing of talks from the IxDA’s conference, Interaction 10, held this past February in Savannah, GA.

Thursday, April 1st 6:30 to 8:30pm

Carnegie Mellon, Gates-Hillman Room 4303

Talk selection: (20 min. each)

Liz Danzico – Frames: Notes on Improvisation and Design

Ben Fullerton – Designing for Solitude Intermission

Mike Kruzeniski – Poetry and Polemics in Creating Experience

Paola Antonelli – Talk to me ............... Logistics:

Doors open at 6:30pm, talks start at 7pm Light Appetizers and beverages will be provided (come early)

Parking: East Campus Garage, on Forbes next to the University Center OR after 6pm, free at the meters on Craig Street Entry to the Gates Center: The building is technically locked to visitors after hours, but we will have a person standing at the west entrance from 6:30 to 7:00.

Love PGH design | Every hour

Every hour is a happy hour, but if you are interested... after both events we will be wandering over to the Union Grill for quick drink is anyone is interested Union Grill

413 South Craig Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412)-681-8620
Monday-Thursday: 11:30am-10pm
Friday & Saturday: 11:30am-11pm
Sunday: 12pm-9pm

TOWN HALL MEETING | Update & Progress

Hi Western PA design community!

This is just a quick update on the progress of the town hall meeting!

First we had a great turn out, and a wonderful amount of participation. After some refreshments and hellos, we broke into teams. The teams focused on three topics:

Relax: What activities would get you out? What makes Pittsburgh such a hidden gem?

Create: What should the identity of Western PA look like?

Collaborate: What can IDSA do to contribute to the Western PA design community?

The messages from each team were great and are going to help set a path and identity for our chapter. More information is to come about this event... simple ideas that we can implement like utilizing our blog as a posting for all relevant design events...

SO designers, start keeping us informed about activities we can share. There will be more ideas from the session that we would love to implement...

I would love for those that participated to make some comments about the time spent... let the sharing begin. What was the important thing that you heard?

Take Care and happy designing...

Christine Fish
IDSA Western PA | Chapter Chair

+ create + strength + love + beauty +