Model Maker/Finisher – Jr. ID

Paid Position

Speck Design is a leading product design firm in Silicon Valley. We design complex products for companies in five industries: medical, consumer products, computers and telecom, clean tech, and industrial. Speck provides industrial design, product development, and mechanical engineering services. Notable clients include Abbott Labs, Apple, Audi/VW, Boston Scientific, Cisco Systems, Dell, Funai, Logitech, Medtronic, Motorola, Nike, The North Face, Tesla, and Palm Computing. Learn more about Speck Design at www.speckdesign.com. Speck has an immediate opening for a local, talented Model Maker/Finisher in our Palo Alto office. This is a two-year training program with exciting possibilities in the Industrial Design field.

A class taught by Hsiao-Yun Chu is a virtual world tour of design, from history to product design and development. The Design and Industry assistant professor considers herself a guide-not an expert-leading a fun experience.

Chu's newest tour involves nearly 1,400 linear feet, the size of R. Buckminster Fuller's personal archive. This semester, students are engaging in a typesetting project of Fuller materials, on the heels of Chu's first book, New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller (Stanford University Press).

As the Fuller archive's assistant curator while attending Stanford, Chu grew interested in Fuller's self-taught, innovative design and utopian, visionary viewpoints. Fuller's geo-dome, she notes, came decades before today's green movement.

New Florabella Lounge Collection Receives Nightingale Award at Healthcare Design 09

We are delighted to announced, Florabella was honored this week at Healthcare Design 2009 in Orlando with a Nightingale Award. The Nightingale Awards, sponsored by Contract Magazine, and The Center for Health Design recognized excellence and innovation in healthcare product design. Each year, a jury of design professionals review entrants based on the following criteria: Contribution to the healing environment, Functionality, Quality and durability, Aesthetics and style, Pricing, and Sustainability/Innovation.

This year a total of five products were recognized, and Florabella was one of only two seating products to receive an award.

Willie L. Brown Internship Program Spring 2010 - for upper division students.

The deadline for applications is November 30, 2009. This is a terrific opportunity.

The Willie L. Brown Internship Program selects outstanding SFState students from all academic majors and places them in San Francisco city agencies and organizations engaged in work that is relevant to their professional aspirations. The program combines practical experience and professional development by giving students the opportunity to experience and then discuss the mechanics, politics, and challenges of local government during an academic seminar.

The 15th Annual DAI Alumni Portfolio Nite will take place Monday, November 2nd, 2009, from 6:00 - 9:00 PM in the Jack Adams Hall in the Cesar Chavez Student Center at SFSU.

The Welcoming Reception will take place from 5:15 – 6:00 PM in Jack Adams Hall.

The purpose of the Portfolio Night is to provide DAI Alumni, faculty and students the opportunity to view the portfolio, or design projects of DAI Alumni practicing in their profession.

Students are encouraged to bring their portfolios, or examples of their work for reviewing and feedback advise from DAI Alumni.