IDSA, Southern Savannah District Design Conference Coming Up This April 12. Stephanie Battista, Senior Design Program Manager, Modern Edge Will Be Speaking on “What We Really Need From Wearable Technology.” Stay…
Dr. Karl-Heinz Mertins, CTO wrote an article for the Appliance Design Magazine on connected devices. Like personal computers and mobile phones, connected devices are profitable products in their own right….

Come mingle, eat, drink, learn with Designers and other leading associations of Portland. Our speaker will present “10 Design Lessons from Rally Racing”. There will be Rally Cars on display….

This years’s Sichuan-Taiwan Industrial Design Awards is in Chengdu, China. The theme will be based on Brand + Industrial Design. Austen Angell, IDSA Chair is one of this year’s keynote speakers…

Innovation Magazine interviewed IDSA’s Executive Director Daniel Martinage. “The social media explosion and changing demographics have dramatically changed the membership value proposition for all associations and professional societies. IDSA has…

On Tuesday night Modern Edge hosted the first monthly meeting of the Portland Artificial Intelligence and Robotics group. This group was recently founded by Steve Taylor, the author of Get…

Concerns over licensure and registration have sparked a global debate about who is legally allowed to use the title “architect”. Fast Company discusses the issue, with a comparison to IDSA’s…

Join Modern Edge Tuesday, November 5th for the kickoff to the Robotics Meetup! The event will be hosted Steve Taylor, author of Get to Know Robotics, for his first meetup…

Uber in London have posted a fantastic write-up on their site of our collaboration with Eastman and HTI on the Hydropack project. Modern Edge spent three weeks in the field…

James Trew from Engadget: We get the impression that the team behind the IDSA conference are our kinda people. Why? http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/07/alt-week-09-07-13/
Modern Edge’s Austen Angell was asked to write an article for Appliance Design magazine. Here’s a bit of it: Effective medical design accounts not only for an appliance’s dedicated purpose,…

Sara Mesing, a Service Design Analyst at Modern Edge, recently presented at the Design for America Summer Leadership Studio. The conference was held at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She had…

“Chicago has a long history of rule breakers and pioneers. Necessity drove invention, but this was only possible through the discarding of convention to build new ideals. Today that inventive…
“It’s all about effective communication. It doesn’t matter what you display, it matters what people understand. Whether the object is a safety label or the interface on an instrument panel…