Product Design
Homeless to benefit from UO grant
A $7,000 grant awarded to a UO student design organization for 2012-13 by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics will create a shelter or other tools to help homeless people in the Eugene-Springfield area meet basic needs.
The student organization, designBridge, is a multidisciplinary group linking UO with the surrounding community by offering architectural and/or product design-build services to local organizations that otherwise could not afford them.
Celebration of Life for Carlene Ho
You are invited to join the UO Community for an on-campus “Celebration of Life for Carlene Ho” this Friday, September 28th from 4:00pm - 7:00pm. Please join us from 4-5pm for a private tour of an exhibit of Carlene’s art in the Laverne Krause Gallery. The EMU Craft Center staff and Carlene’s co-workers also invite friends to create a piece of art that will join others for a permanent collaborative display in her honor.
Marine light design wins award
University of Oregon product design student Hana Hiratsuka is one of just three national award winners in a design competition to develop a marine lighting product, winning $2,000 for herself and $1,000 for the Product Design Program at the UO’s School of Architecture and Allied Arts.
Studio reviews wrap up year
Spring term studios in the Department of Art, Department of Architecture, and the Product Design Program produced a wide variety of creative art objects and products from A&AA students. Photographer Jack Liu captured a gallery of images from the studios, which wrapped up a year’s worth of work in printmaking, ceramics, jewelry, digital arts, photography, fibers, and product design.
Campus bicycle design wins Gold Award
Winners included designs for flat pack furniture and a municipal light standard designed for the City of Salem as part of the Sustainable Cities Year Program.
A University of Oregon student team entry took gold in a national competition among 129 schools and 410 students worldwide for the best innovative designs in the 2012 IDEA awards given by the Industrial Designers Society of America.
Products for Athletes with Disabilities exhibit opens at UO
Students collaborated with Nike to create products to help elite, disabled athletes compete at a higher level.
Products for Athletes with Disabilities exhibit opens at UO
Students collaborated with Nike to create products to help elite, disabled athletes compete at a higher level.
Designs by University of Oregon product design students working with Nike to develop equipment for elite athletes with physical limitations are on display at the Jaqua Center for Student Athletes on the UO campus through July 3.
Exhibit: Enabling Adaptive Athletes - Products for Athletes with Disabilities
The exhibit can be viewed at the Jaqua Center according to the following schedule:
Two Product Design faculty named to dwell’s top 27
Studio Gorm’s John Arndt and Wonhee Jeong Arndt are among a handful from North America.
Two University of Oregon Product Design Program faculty members are among the top twenty-seven designers globally deemed by dwell magazine as “The New Guard.” John Arndt and Wonhee Jeong Arndt – he an assistant professor and she an adjunct instructor – collaborate on projects in Studio Gorm, an independent design studio they began in 2006.
Designer hopes to launch cottage industry in digital ceramics
The UO product design student and independent studio principal seeks $3,200 through Kickstarter.
Making ceramics digitally may seem paradoxical, but for Matt Kennedy, melding craft practices with digital technology is the future of cottage industry ceramics production – and it’s a future he hopes to unleash by summer.
