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ACIDO is participating at IDS12 with its Industrial Design Experience exhibit. Our booth allows visitors to try their hand at the most fun and creative part of the design process, the ideation phase. Using an app developed with Primordial Soup, each user will be able to sketch out their product ideas on one of five scenarios. Our goal is to highlight designers’ emphasis on user-centric design. Here are some images of the exhibit in action:

Over the past few months we’ve been working with a web programmer to create the WordPress based member pages we have been discussing for some time. Some of you may have noticed since the last ACIDO.info refresh that the member’s section had disappeared, this was in preparation to go live with the new one. The members area is now re-launched so all members in good standing can create and manage their own profiles as long as you are a member. YOU WILL NOT APPEAR ON THE MEMBERS LIST UNLESS YOU CREATE A PROFILE so everyone needs to make the time to show themselves off to the Industrial Design community and potential clients and/or employers.

This members area is phase one of an ongoing web update that will streamline all processes related to membership, payment, and collaboration.

Please click the following link and follow the steps. Once you receive your password you can fill in the rest of your profile. Your bio pic or avatar will be automatically re-sized as required but a landscape or square format is recommended to avoid any undesirable cropping. Images load a lot faster if saved as web format (72dpi) and remember, you will be able to edit and change your profile any time and there is no need to contact ACIDO to make any changes.

http://acido.info/wordpress/members/member-registration/  or click “register” under the membership menu. All current members will be activated within 48 hours. New applications will be contacted by membership.

Thanks to a small dedicated team led by Davide Tonizzo, Michael Manolis Vranas, Payam Shalchian and Jonathan Loudon, ACIDO was well represented at IIDEX.

The theme was an open forest that took visitors through a design journey. The booth highlighted the various stages in a project, starting with research/sketching and ending in a finished product. At the booth’s terminus, guests were invited to share their thoughts, insights, stories, complaints, praises and other comments on industrial design.

We’d like to thank Arconas, Neinkamper and Nova for donating furniture and prototype samples for the booth.

Below a few images of the booth.

Please note that Association of Chartered Industrial Designers of Ontario (ACIDO) will hold the Annual General Meeting (the “meeting”) at 7-9:30 pm June 22nd at the Gladstone’s second floor Reception Gallery (1214 Queen St W, Toronto). The meeting is open to all.

For more information, please contact acido.pr@gmail.com

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