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Hey IDSA,

Welcome back for the 2010-2011 school year. We are currently working on the blog and are going to be making it more active! Check back for new updates and posts.

VT IDSA Officers

Hopewell HS InvenTeam

Hopewell High School received a grant for MIT to develop a sustainable desk and chair combination for high school students and they have reached out to VT IDSA for help. The project is in the design stage but will be off to production in just 6 weeks! Several VT ID students are helping the high schoolers by sharing their process, tips, tricks and by doing the production drawings and rendering for them. Look back here soon for updates.

idsa officer election results!

congratulations to all of our idsa officers for the 2010/2011 academic year!!!

president: danny calabrese
vice president: julia baugh
secretary: liz stokely
treasurer: jordan jackson
outreach chair: quinn huffstetler

2010/2011 officer elections

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tickets are on sale now! see ashley to purchase your tickets! there's a limited number of tickets, so get yours soon!

conference meeting

jeff smith sketching workshop

a HUGE thank you to jeff smith for coming to blacksburg this week! everyone enjoyed his presentation and sketching workshop. here's a few photos from the event.

project h's design revolution tour bus

on monday, march 15th, project h's design revolution road show made a pit stop in blacksburg. check out some of the photos from their visit!

jeff smith sketching workshop

vt idsa would like to welcome jeff smith from reflex design to blacksburg for his sketching workshop tomorrow!
stay tuned for pics from the event!

check out jeff smith's work on coroflot!

furniture competition with the svhec

hey everyone, we are still accepting entries for the vt idsa furniture competition!
so get your thinking caps on and put your pens to paper, because we want your sketches!

deadline is monday, march 15th at 5p.
for photos of the space and the design parameters, download the pdf here.

tonight! marker rendering

Detox Session Tonight!
Marker Rendering
with Jon Mills!

7-9p at the white table.
bring some markers and paper with you!

id featured on vt news

congratulations once again to the ardica competition winners! check out the article that was posted to the virginia tech news yesterday!

t-shirt voting

voting for this year's idsa t-shirt is now open!

we've got nine entries to choose from, but there can only be one shirt for 2010.

go to the survey here to vote. the survey is now closed.

there's only one vote per person, and voting ends THIS FRIDAY AT MIDNIGHT!

the winning shirt will be revealed monday at the start of studio!

southern district conference display

design this year's virginia tech id display for the idsa southern district conference!

• all designs must be able to showcase a variety of work from students attending conference.
• the design must be able to be fabricated (fairly easily) in our shops, be able to be disassembled and transported by suv to charlotte, and assembled quickly on-site.
• it must not exceed a footprint of 5 ft by 5 ft.
• the display must be free-standing (we can't hang anything on the walls of the hotel)
  
• sketches, models, renderings - whatever you'd like.
  

have them pinned up in the id side room by NOON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19th!

t-shirt competition

hey guys, there's only ONE SCHOOL WEEK left in our 2010 t-shirt competition.
all entries are due THIS FRIDAY AT MIDNIGHT!

remember - 3-screen (that means three colors, or two colors front one back, etc) maximum per design, and you can do up to 3 colorways.
just send ashley - brooksa[at]vt[dot]edu - a jpg of your design using the template.
make sure to show your design itself and placement on the shirt.

download the template here!

guest lecturer: tom shiner

A native of Washington, DC, Tom Shiner is an architect who designs furniture. Around 1994 Shiner designed a stacking stool for the educational programs at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg. Eventually his wood stool became THE MUSEUM STOOL®. The success of the stool with museum educators opened the door for other furniture designs for museums and public spaces.

M&LF, Shiner’s furniture company (www.themuseumstool.com), recently provided furniture for exhibits at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, The Birmingham Museum of Art, the US Holocaust Memorial, Monticello, and other cultural institutions.

M&LF has a showroom at Dupont Circle in Washington. Shiner lives and works in DC and Montana. He is working with a Montana manufacturer to build samples of his LC and AB chairs for eventual production. Shiner has designed renovations, additions and new houses. He won an award for preservation from the Bozeman Planning Department for his restoration of a small house in the historic district.

going from student to professional

"transitioning from id student to id professional"

feat. chris padilla from adidas basketball (and a VTID alum from 2009)

talk starts at 12:30p in cowgill 300!

*check your idsa email for the handout to print*

vt mentioned as a core77 "design snack"

the 2009 vt solar house is moving to nyc! and its journey is mentioned today as one of core77's "daily design snacks".

also, check out the collegiate times article that they linked talking about the move and it's appearance on "good morning america".

idsa southern district conference

we'd like to get a preliminary head count for people who are going to conference!
please fill out the survey by THIS FRIDAY!

the survey is now closed. keep an eye out for more information soon.


if you have any questions, please see one of your idsa officers!

logo competition

the southern association of colleges and schools is looking for a new logo design.

first prize gets $500! plus your logo would appear on all of their official stuff!

check out all of the details here.

blue pencil sketching with dino

our first detox session of 2010 will be this wednesday! meet at the white sketch table in burchard id quad. 3rd year student dino will be going over some of the tips and tricks of sketching in blue.

bring indigo blue verithin prismacolor pencils if you have them. idsa will provide some if you don't have any - but supplies are limited!

4th year kelly harrigan featured on core77.com

over winter break, current 4th year student, kelly harrigan was featured on core77 for her winning naef toy design from the previous competition.

check out the article here.

VTID featured on Core77 & VT homepage

the fall 2008 fourth-year id studio train projects are getting a lot of attention and making the rounds! the projects have recently been featured on the virginia tech home page as well as core77.com!

check out the virginia tech news article here.

check out the core77.com article here.