DAI Student, Ethan Kerber, has been featured in the SF State News page for his large public art project in downtown Washington DC. This final piece will be a 25x25ft metal installation on a mixed use residential/commercial building.

Wednesday, 22 April 2009 at 7:30pm:

Spring 2009 Design and Technology Salon:
Seeing Beyond Now—Green Innovation in Tough Economic Times
Panelists include David Baker, Amy Franceschini, and Jill Manton

Studio 18
800 Chestnut Street (San Francisco, CA 94133)
Directions: http://www.sfai.edu/directions
Free and open to the public

iDo Founding Director Martin Linder to Receive Award for Community Service Learning.

SAN FRANCISCO, California-April 2, 2009 Industrial Design Outreach (iDo) announced today that the Institute for Civic and Community Engagement (ICCE) has selected iDo Founding Director Martin Linder for the San Francisco State University faculty award for Community Service Learning (CSL). Linder has established himself as a true innovator of CSL through his work with iDo projects that run free-of-charge in San Francisco public schools.

Congratulations to Laura Urquiaga!
Laura is a DAI Student whom is one of the Winners of the 2009 Northwest Design Invitational
Laura received the following:

Bronze: Laura Urquiaga, Cat-a-Tat: Modular Cat Habitat

Brian Chiu, a senior majoring in Design and Industry at San Francisco State University, was selected as the winner of the San Francisco City Identification Card youth logo contest. On Tuesday, November 18, 2008, Supervisor Tom Ammiano commended Brian for his talents at the Board of Supervisor's meeting.

Virtual Worlds Design
Spring 2009 DAI 627 Tu, Th 9am-12pm

Instructor: Jane Veeder, jveeder@sfsu.edu
Format: Active-research and experimental design studio; Interdisciplinary

The Industrial Design Society of America publication: Design Perspectives, September October 2008 issue, has published a feature article on DAI faculty member Martin Linder.

The article highlights Professor Linders award of the SFSU Sarlo Distinguished Teaching Award, and celebrates his work with the TROI, FITS and iDo institutes. Pictures of the iDo Community Bench Project are prominently displayed in the article.

The SF State Recyclemania ‘09 Poster Challenge will give students and faculty members the opportunity to create appealing posters to promote one of the three topics: Recycling, Waste Reduction, and Sustainability.

The Design and Industry Department at San Francisco State University in conjunction with the IDSA/SFSU Student Chapter invites you to the:

Taiwan Design Center Reception & Designer’s Forum

Monday, November 3rd, 2008, 6pm to 9:30pm
San Francisco State University
Design and Industry Department
Graduate Studio Space, Fine Arts Building

Recent DAI Alumna Ekaterina Guseva has launched her own magazine. Called Big Up Magazine, it is a glossy 80-page color magazine about modern art, underground music, revolutionary people and street culture. To learn more about the magazine go to www.thebigupmagazine.com or www.myspace.com/bigupmagazine. She tells us that the first 100 people subscribing will get a free Big Up T-shirt!