INDD
Awards & Recognition
INDD Awards & Recognition
National Student Awards & Recognition
IARC has two finalists in Janus et Cie: 2024 Student Design Competition
Awarded Most Playful - KINECTION by Emmett Lockridge, ' 24 IARC
Awarded Best Presentation - RELAXPLORATION by JC Stewart, '24 IARC
IAID Student finalist in Janus et Cie: 2022 Urban Playground Design Competition
Zachary Spearman, '23 INDD, McPherson, KS, a fifth-year graduate student in industrial design was also a finalist.
The students were challenged to design a furniture product for the perimeter participants of an urban playground that is used year-round. The five finalists were selected by an international jury of furniture industry professionals and architects that included Giulio Cappellini, art director of Cappellini.
Industrial Design Students win People's Choice and Editor's Choice in Allcart Design Challenge
Special recognitions were given to three teams that participated in the competition. Genesis by Jordan Cutsinger and Jacob Kim won the People's Choice Award, while Social Q by Zachary Spearman, Levi Hansen, and Dustin McDermott and Curio by Matthew Heninger, Jake Lathrum, and Kayla Roles won Editor's Choice in the 2021 Allcart Handcart Design Challenge. As part of their Industrial Design Studio 4, taught by assistant professor Hernán Gregorio, the students were tasked with designing a low-cost handcart for low-income users, taking into account the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to assist street vendors in reinventing their business models.
National Faculty Awards & Recognition
"Balance Desk and Work Manager" by Assistant Professor Hernan Gregorio is Silver Design Award winner in 2020-2021 A'Design Award & Competitino Furniture Design Award Category
Balance is a multi-functional work and desk manager that inspires a more organized, personalized, and productive work experience. The product consists of a canvas and six types of modules (Surface, White Board, Cork, Kanban, Time, and Shelf) that attach magnetically to the canvas. The users can pick and choose the modules and materials that work best for their personality, work style, and aesthetic preference at the same time that they can combine them to allow the use of productivity techniques such as Kanban and Pomodoro.
New APDesign faculty member a champion at product design
Hernán Gregorio, associate industrial design professor, is the grand prizewinner of the BOSEbuild Design Challenge for his project "Friendly Dinosaurs."
The international sound brand Bose, in collaboration with Instructables.com, challenged designers to test their 3-D modeling abilities by creating a custom enclosure for the BOSEbuild Speaker Cubes. The idea of this product is to teach children how speakers work and how they can make these speakers their own.
"Luminare Lamp" by Assistant Professor Hernan Gregorio is Winner in Lighting Design Category for A'Design Award and Competition
What makes a lamp, a lamp? And how simple can it be? The design is composed by four basic elements intertwine to form a minimalistic and geometric expression of a traditional ceiling lamp. The designer's idea was to reflect about all stages of design using Dieter Rams ten design principles as reference, and utilizing a simple object to convey a design philosophy that goes beyond aesthetics. Assistant Professor Hernan Gregorio researched about the history of luminaires with a focus on the most iconic products and how people identify them, in the pursue of learning which basic shapes are easier to recognize.