The "Charrette de 24 Heures" is closed

IDSA Atlanta's first "Charrette de 24 Heures" Student Design Competition is now complete. As of Midnight (EDT) 12 April, no additional submissions will be accepted (otherwise it wouldn't be a 24 hour challenge).

What next:
Eligible entries have be collected and will be handed over to our panel of judges who are expected to begin deliberations Tuesday 14 April. Winners will be contacted via email with an official announcement posted to the IDSA Atlanta website soon after.

Thanks to everyone for your participation!
The Management

"To Go"

Charrette de 24 Heures Design Brief - April 11, 2009
presented by IDSA Atlanta

Welcome to IDSA Atlanta's first "Charrette de 24 Heures" Student Design competition, open exclusively to IDSA Student Chapter members at Auburn, Georgia Tech, and SCAD. Working as teams or individuals your challenge is to develop and communicate a response to the following brief within the next 24 hours.

The Brief:
Delivery, take out, left-overs.
Disposable food containers have become a mainstay of American culture. We invite you to identify issues with and propose solutions for problems related to the design and use of these disposable 'to go' food containers. Solutions may address specific foods or deal with more universal issues.

The Deliverable:
Content submitted for review must represent original work generated within the competition period by teams or individuals. To be eligible, entries must be submitted via email including file attachments before the stroke of Midnight (EDT) Sunday 12 April to:
24hr.challenge@idsa-atlanta.org

• Team entries should be sent from a single email address
• The Subject field of the email should consist of a brief descriptive project title. If multiple emails are sent, all Subject lines for the entry should be identical.
• The Body of each email should include: the name the individual or team members involved in the creation of the submission materials, and the school that they attend.

Electronic media documenting the concept may be submitted as attachments to email submissions in the following formats:

• Images: TIFF, JPEG
• Layouts: Acrobat PDF
• Video: via YouTube (provide complete URL with email submission)

In addition to selected materials, each entry should also submit one (1) 800 x 600 pixel JPEG to serve as a "preview" image highlighting the work.

The Judges:
The following individuals will be evaluating entries based on design execution, strength of concept, communication of the idea, and what they think serves up the tastiest solution:

• Maureen Carroll of Creature LLC
• Carie Davis of Coca-Cola and
• Paul Spitale of MeadWestvaco

The Spoils:
In addition to bragging rights, the grand-prize winner will receive two (2) VIP tickets to the Atlanta screening of Objectified on May 13th, and be featured in an upcoming issue of the IDSA's DesignPerspectives newsletter. All winners will be highlighted on the IDSA Atlanta website.

2009 IDSA Student Merit Award - Atlanta Chapter

IDSA Atlanta is pleased to announce the recipients of this years Student Merit Award from schools within our chapter.
For those of you bound for New Orleans and the Southern District Conference, please take time Saturday afternoon to encourage and support our student representatives.

The winners for the class of 2009 are:

  Alex Marshall - Savannah College of Art and Design
All aspects of design interest him, and he loves to explore all types of subject matter and methodologies. He has been inspired by the work of RKS and Astro studios where he sees cutting edge design language in their designs, supported by strong user research in the creation of outstanding solutions. Alex is originally from Tyler, TX.
coroflot: www.coroflot.com/alexmarshall
blog: www.byronalexmarshall.blogspot.com

  Stephen Kennedy - Georgia Institute of Technology
Stephen is the outgoing president of the IDSA Student Chapter at Georgia Tech. During the Merit Award process, reviewers commented that Stephen represented the new breed of designer - one able to produce results in areas outside of traditional industrial design. Stephen grew up in Metro Atlanta.
blog: www.stephenjameskennedy.com

Paul Possien - Auburn University
Paul's studio experience includes multiple industry collaborations. His career interests include furniture and point-of-purchase design, and he hopes to launch his own studio one day. Paul is from Daphne, AL.
coroflot: www.coroflot.com/Paul_Possien

About the student merit awards program:
In an effort to encourage, reward and celebrate excellence in industrial design education, IDSA encourages student chapters to nominate its best and brightest for the Chapter Student Merit Award Competition. Each student chapter holds a competition, juried by professional designers, to select the one Student Merit winner who will represent their school at the District Conference. The winner from each school presents at the District Conference, and a jury of professional designers select the National Student Merit Award winner for the district.

"Charrette de 24 Heures"

IDSA Atlanta: Student Design Competition - April 11, 2009
presented by IDSA Atlanta

This April, IDSA Atlanta will host "Charrette de 24 Heures" a student design competition open to IDSA Student Chapter members at Auburn, Georgia Tech, and SCAD. As the clock strikes Midnight (EDT) on April 11th the "Charrette de 24 Heures" Design Brief will be posted to the IDSA Atlanta Chapter website. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, will be to address the issue(s) at hand and communicate a design solution within 24 hours. The Brief will present the design problem in detail and provide formating and submission details. Entries must consist of original work generated within the competition period by teams or individuals. Judging will be handled by industry professionals.

In addition to bragging rights, the grand-prize winner will receive two (2) VIP tickets to the Atlanta screening of Objectified on May 13th, and be featured in an upcoming issue of the IDSA's DesignPerspectives newsletter.

Event details:
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2009
Time: the full 24 hours (Midnight 11 April thru Midnight 12 April)
Location: IDSA Student Chapters at Auburn, Georgia Tech and SCAD
Cost: Free

Promotional poster available for download [2.1Mb JPEG]