Annual Designing Green Competition

Each spring the Industrial Design Department’s student chapter of IDSA, Industrial Designers’ Society of America, sponsors a competition for students. Students are assigned teams and given a unique challenge to design and build a functional object completely from recyclable materials over two days.

The last two years Graphic Design students have participated in different capacities. In 2006 graphic design students were assigned to teams that built chairs. In 2007 the competition centered on designing, building and competing with a method of moving each design team from one location to another. Graphic Design students played the role of recorder / observers.

Their effort culminated in a presentation made to the leadership of IDSA about how graphic design could play a greater role in future competition.