IA Collaborative Judges Type Directors Club Communication Design Competition
IA Collaborative’s Graphic Design Group Director Rebecca Gimenez was invited to judge the 66th Type Design Club (TDC) Annual International Communication Design competition, TDC66. She joins an elite jury of 7 industry leaders to judge the design competition, including Partner & Creative Director at Base Design Min Lew, Dean of the Faculty of Design at OCAD University Dori Turnstall, and Founder & Director of Studio Lin Alex Lin.
The judges will convene in January at Fordham University in New York City to review a wide range of design – from typefaces, books, and exhibitions to identities, packaging, and websites.
You can learn more about the competitions and categories here. The deadline to enter is midnight, December 13.
Join design leaders for an evening celebrating best-in-class design and typography.
On October 30th, the best design and typography from the past year will be announced during the STA 100 Winners Exhibition at IA Collaborative.
To submit your work for consideration, click here. The deadline to submit to October 25th, 2019.
IA Collaborative Founder and Chief Design Officer Dan Kraemer is this year’s chairperson for the 2019 STA 100 awards for the Society of Typographic Arts. He’ll lead a panel of judges including Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper-Hewitt Ellen Lupton, Chief Design Officer at USAA Meriah Garrett, VP of Design Education at InVision Aarron Walter, and internationally exhibited artist and designer Matthew Hoffman to select the 100 best examples of typographic excellence produced in the previous year.
During the Winners Exhibition, the judges and chairperson will share their favorites and participate in a Q&A with attendees.
About the STA The STA brings the design community together by inviting and encouraging all creative professionals to help build a community with social, educational, and networking opportunities. Through events, activities, conferences, and publications, as well as the STA100 competition, the STA affirms its dedication to pursuing excellence in all forms of communication.
When
10.28.22
06:00 pm
Where
IA Collaborative
218 South Wabash Ave,
9th Floor
Chicago, IL 60604
IA Collaborative + IDSA International Design Conference: The Chicago Experience
On behalf of the IDSA International Design Conference, IA Collaborative invites IDC 2019 attendees to tour its world-class design space during the Chicago Experience studios tour. Attendees will learn what it’s like to work at the intersection of design and business while networking with a cross disciplinary team of research, design, user experience, and business innovators.
Join us for an evening discussing
design excellence and enjoying refreshments all while taking in a beautiful
view on our rooftop deck.
3 Questions with IA Collaborative’s Summer Interns
Our Interns Share What It’s Like to Work at a the Intersection of Design and Business
IA Collaborative invited a multi-disciplinary class of interns to learn from and collaborate across multiple projects this summer. From conducting immersive research to design the future of cycling to testing physical prototypes using augmented reality, the IA interns spent the summer exploring the intersection of design and business innovation.
At the end of their internship, we posed three questions to understand how their experiences at IA Collaborative are shaping their perspectives on design and their future careers.
Meet the Interns
IA Collaborative’s 2019 Summer Intern Class. From left to right: Yujin Lee, Cristina Tarriba Villa, Jenni Lee, Rachel Huvard, Nathan Pilkenton, and Karan Jain.
Name: Youjin Lee Title: Interaction Design Intern Before the IA Internship, I… graduated from a Designation bootcamp. I previously worked as a paralegal.
Name: Cristina Tarriba Villa Title: Research and Design Strategy intern Before the IA Internship, I… was pursuing a master’s degree in design at the IIT Institute of Design. I have one year left.
Name: Jenni Lee Title: Graphic Design Intern Before the IA Internship, I… was finishing up my sophomore year at Carnegie Mellon University. I’m a design major with a concentration in communication design and a minor in human-computer interaction.
Name: Rachel Huvard Title: Research & Design Strategy Intern Before the IA Internship, I… was working towards my Master of Design at IIT’s Institute of Design.
Name: Nathan Pilkenton Title: Business Strategy Intern Before the IA Internship, I… was enjoying my first year of business school at Columbia University in New York!
Name: Karan Jain Title: Research & Design Strategy Intern Before the IA Internship, I… was pursuing my master’s in industrial design at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
Question #1: What made you want to work at IA?
Karan Jain:
The diverse variety of projects that IA takes on was very appealing. I knew I
would get to learn a lot and work with talented interdisciplinary teams.
I wanted to learn from a company that believes in the power of human-centered design and approaches design with rigor and structure.
Cristina Tarriba Villa, Research & Design Strategy Intern
Cristina Tarriba Villa: I wanted to work at IA because it is one of the best independent innovation and design consultancies. I wanted to learn from a company that believes in the power of human-centered design and approaches design with rigor and structure.
Rachel Huvard: The cross-disciplinary team structure, the “whatever it takes to get it done” culture, and the breadth of client projects.
Cristina Tarriba Villa records a research participant’s interaction with a prototype digital interface to identify innovation opportunities for an international energy business.
Question #2: What inspires you most in the design and innovation space?
Youjin Lee: It’s inspiring to think about design’s
application in healthcare and education, because it has the potential to affect
so many people.
Nathan Pilkenton: After some exposure to the concept at IA, I’m really inspired by the idea of using behavioral economics to encourage people to make decisions and take actions that actually improve their lives. This concept has been explored and implemented in some small-scale cases, but I think there is so much more potential to imbue our designs with this kind of thinking in business.
Karan Jain (right) and Design Director John Foust collaborate on AR technology, integrating into research.
Karan Jain: My
design philosophy is, “Design is an opportunity to root fiction in truth.”
I believe that humans are gifted with imagination to think beyond the possible
and design provides a medium to root this thinking in evidence, enabling us to
turn our ideal world into a reality. This process of turning a vision into
reality is what inspires me the most in the innovation space.
Cristina Tarriba Villa: Being able to surround myself with people that are driven to transform the world around us. I love working with people from different backgrounds and disciplines. Amazing work can be achieved when multidisciplinary teams – like the ones at IA – come together to approach problems with a defined process, while simultaneously considering ideas that will challenge the status quo.
Question
#3: What’s the most important thing you learned during
your time interning at IA Collaborative?
Karan Jain:
Collaboration. I learned how to take a pause from the work I had been heavily involved
in and ask the team for quick feedback. This has definitely made me a more
effective worker and allowed me to produce better results.
It’s not, ‘how can we get these people to want to use the product we’ve designed?’ It’s, ‘how can we design our product or service so that people want to use it?’
Nathan Pilkenton, Business Strategy Intern
Nathan Pilkenton: So much about the importance of designing for the user. In my past life, I would often be trying to implement new processes or tools within a company. We thought about our end users, but not usually through a design thinking lens. Going forward, I’ve learned that it’s not, ‘how can we get these people to want to use the product we’ve designed?’ It’s, ‘how can we design our product or service so that people want to use it?'”
Nathan Pilkenton (middle) out in the field on research for a project to design the future of cycling.
Jenni Lee: How to communicate your design
choices through the lens of business strategy.
Rachel Huvard: A person’s title doesn’t have to define or limit engagement with a project. I loved seeing how people at IA are able to step into a huge range of roles depending on project needs and their own strengths and interests.
Over the past few months, the IA Collaborative interns have gone on research, designed interactive workshops, helped create key assets for clients, and immersed themselves in the our interdisciplinary, creative, and business-minded culture. We can’t wait to see their careers continue to flourish as they apply human-centered design to business innovation.