designer pod ideas

Designer Questions
*Desk, purse, briefcase tour
*What is your Creative Space?
*Design Journey (How did you get to where you are today? Describe significatn phases/stops.)
*Future design goals?
*When in a designer block, I . . .
*Design role model/hero
*Favorite food, music, hobby. (What do you do for fun outside of work?)
*Favorite design book or resource you would like to share?
*Biggest design achievement?
*Inspirational object or place?
*What is your work method or process?



Designer Pod sketches/ideation
mockup of a Designer Pod

visualization presentation

presentation outline

more interactivity ideas & research

Student - Professional programs @ IIDEX/Neocon Canada 2008

Student Passport Program
A guide to help you navigate your way through the show. Using this passport will ensure that you participate in the key activities and events while allowing ample time to visit over 400 exhibitors.
Student Career Exchange
Spend direct time with interior designers to learn about their design stories, business practices, and project experiences. Students have 10 minutes with an interior designer before moving on to the next one and hearing a new set of experiences.
Student/Exhibitor Volunteer Program
Student volunteers are assigned an exhibitor partner for a day. Students learn about the exhibitor's product and business while helping with the flow of visitor traffic and education within the booth space.
Student Charrette
Students register for this competition with their school program coordinators and school teams arrive at IIDEX with little known to them other than the tools they may bring. That morning we reveal their design conundrum and let them toil over their approach in quiet groups, before plotting their creative structures/floor exhibits to be judged later that day.
Intern Challenge
Challenge of re-purposing a familiar item into a lighting fixture

Design Speaking Event (Vancouver)

Practivisim Speaker Series
Practical methods for radical sustainability in design
Where: Science World
When: Thursday, November 13th, 2008 6-10PM
Tickets: avaliable on gdc.net

interactive exhibitions

Orbis Pictus - Science World (Vancouver)
Experience Music Project (Seattle)
collection of sounds and videos clip of musicians, musical instrument & sound equipment interactive area, music booths, sound recording booths
Science Fiction Museum (Seattle)
part of EMP. Interactive space ship displays, large screen video installations, various exhibits of collector items
One Life - World Vision (traveling exhibition)
interactive narrative exhibition from the first person's point of view, leave a message wall
video of participants from the experience, accompanying website with interactive online experience of the exhibit
PAX 2008 (Seattle)
Guitar Hero & Rock Band stage areas, players competitions, DS player tables, 3D walk through exhibits
Give aways flyers, postcard, booklets, participant dress up as videogame characters
Art of Eating @ Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit)
rethink the displayy of museum's permanent collection, media-based interactive exhibitions through use of technology

exhibition ideas

24 hr design challenge (eg. 1 hour challenge by Core 77)
Design forum space (gathering space for all)
"Name that Type" game
Crit Night
Blind box souvenir (promotes local designers, collectible items)
'Pick up the phone' installation
'What inspires your creativity' Objects
Collaboration Wall
Inspirational desk/items
Maze layout (eg. The secret IKEA floor plan, simplified IKEA floor plan)
Market setup of professional exhibit
If i was in your 'creative space' (designer exhibition series)
'my nostalgia' (designer exhibition series)
3 part puzzle pieces (Student, Professional, Educator pieces; you must get all 3 pieces in order to complete the picture)
passport (collect all stamps from the exhibits)
Monopoly collector pieces (promotional item; replace play pieces with design related items)
Toy dispenser (random inspiration)

sketches&doodles