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IDEA Awards

Uday Dandavate, Founder and CEO of SonicRim was invited to join a distinguished panel of jury members for this year’s International Design Excellence Award sponsored by Business Week and the IDSA.

The International Design Excellence Awards program is the premier international competition honoring design excellence in products, ecodesign, interaction design, packaging, strategy, research and concepts. Entries are invited from designers, students and companies worldwide.

This year’s international jury will be chaired by the Director of Brand Strategy for Siemens AG, Ruth Soénius, IDSA.

Other members of the IDEA Awards jury are Carole Bilson, IDSA, Vice president, global design & usability, Pitney Bowes, Inc; Barbara Bloemink, IDSA, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and Programs,,The Museum of Arts and Design in New York; Hillary Blumberg, IDSA, Vice President and Design Director of Home Furnishings, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Prasad Boradkar, IDSA, Associate professor in industrial design, Arizona State University (ASU),Tempe; Moira Cullen, Design director, Coca-Cola North America; Robin Edman, Chief Executive, Swedish Industrial Design Foundation (SVID); Chris Hacker, IDSA Vice President, Global Design and Design Strategy, Johnson & Johnson; Andreas Haug, Partner,Phoenix Design, Stuttgart,Germany; Gavin Ivester, IDSA, Senior Vice President and General Manager, International Footwear at PUMA AG; Jonathon Kemnitzer, IDSA, Principal, KEM STUDIO; Franco Lodato, IDSA, Professor, University of Montreal School of Design; Sigi Moeslinger, IDSA, Partner, Antenna Design New York Inc.; Richard Sapper Professor for product design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, Germany; Michael Schrage, Research associate, MIT Media Lab and author of the book Serious Play: Dr. Milton Tan, IDSA, Fellow of the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA), Singapore; and Stephen B. Wilcox, Ph.D., FIDSA, Founder and a Principal of Design Science.

IDSA Northeast district conference: Shift April 20th-22nd, 2007. Providence, RI.

SonicRim will be represented at a panel discussion on India and China at the IDSA Northeast district conference by Founder and CEO, Uday Dandavate.

This year’s Shift Conference takes on current notable shifts in our industry by gathering a speaker line-up from Patagonia, Black Diamond, Treehugger,Kid Robot, Core77, Frog Design, the Smithsonian Institute and the Ministry of Culture … to name just a
sampling of the talent.

For more details visit: http://www.idsa-ned.org/

Design Research Manager

Design Research Managers Needed for the Columbus, OH office. Duties include: Plan, manage & execute design research projects. Modify & refine designs. Present research findings, strategy & design recommendations to customers. Some short term travel required. Send resumes to: The Office Manager, SonicRim, Ltd., 846 S High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43206 or email info@sonicrim.com.

Interaction design seminar at CMU

SonicRim’s Vice President, Preetham Kolari has been invited to speak at the interaction design seminar course at Carnegie Mellon University, on April 16, 2007. He will be talking about the research mindset to help design and ideate for emerging markets. This course is taught by Asst. Professor of HCII and School of Design Jodi Forlizzi.