CIDSA Meetings

First meeting is September 14th.

All SID students are invited to attend CIDSA's weekly meetings, held at 10:00AM in the Review Room on Wednesdays. Get involved with your student association, your input is important to us. Can't make a meeting? Don't worry, we'll be posting the minutes from each week!

Art of the Menu

Graphic design and food are two of my favourite things. This only feels right.

Beach Blast + Potluck

Hey Everyone,

CIDSA will be having the first event of the year this weekend! This year's Beach Blast + Potluck will be this Saturday, September 17th from 12-4pm. We will be meeting in studio @ 1130am for people who want to travel with the group.

Bring some food (chips, cookies or other snacks to share) and beach toys to entertain yourselves. There will be a sandcastle building contest so make sure to bring shovels and buckets if you have them too.

See you all there!

iphone Becomes Smarter

Yoorl Koo designs an iphone case which allows the 'smart' phone to hold and store other important objects in your pocket. The 5 slits in the back of the silicone case allow the iphone to carry money, pens, bills or your credit card.

Sugru: Hack Your Products

Why be disgruntled at your non-ideally performing products? Hack it yourself.

This Sugru stuff is really great. It comes in little packets of malleable clay-like stuff which you can mold, smush, mix, and texturize into/onto (almost) everything you might want. It then cures at room temperature, leaving behind a durable but flexible silicone.

I've got a packet on the way to fix my headphones. And maybe encase a USB drive I don't particularly like. There's an endless amount of stuff you could do with this. If you can think of them.

There are no cats, but there is...

projectile vomit of a different kind.



Typoe is a Miami-based (graffiti) artist. His piece is called Confetti Death.

The splatter of confetti is created from shards of spray paint caps. Neat, huh?

Human Centered Design

Open publication - Free publishing

This is a toolkit produced by IDEO that talks about the Human-Centered Design process and methodology for designing and implementing projects that help improve the lives of people who survive on less then $2 a day.

Coke Improviser

 
Bet you didn't know you could do that with a Coke bottle

UQAM Package Design Blog

I really like lurking UQAM's Package Design blog... it's nice to see what other Canadian design students are up to more than once a year.

Electrolux Design Lab 2011: Kent Madden

If you haven't already heard, Carleton SID student Kent Madden has been named a finalist in Electrolux's Design Lab 2011 Competition. You can find out more about his Salvé portable bagel toaster concept here, and vote for the People's Choice Award here. We wish Kent the best of luck at the upcoming Electrolux Design Lab Final on September 7th!