Overview
Design
is a practice-based discipline and engaging in direct interaction with industry
is a key component for understanding how my research and my students’ work can
have a feasible application. I have found great companies that share similar
interests on design strategy and have been strong supporters of RIT’s efforts
in design research.
Whenever working on sponsored projects, it is ideal to set them up as inter-disciplinary collaborations. Many of the most challenging problems in the world cannot be solved from a single angle and business models always integrate multiple disciplines that need to work together and understand each others' role, language and requirements. My design studios frequently have industrial design students working with other disciplines such as graphic design, mechanical engineering, psychology, business and sustainability. Having corporate sponsors adds a real-world scenario where students understand the power of their own discipline within complex environments and structures.
Whenever working on sponsored projects, it is ideal to set them up as inter-disciplinary collaborations. Many of the most challenging problems in the world cannot be solved from a single angle and business models always integrate multiple disciplines that need to work together and understand each others' role, language and requirements. My design studios frequently have industrial design students working with other disciplines such as graphic design, mechanical engineering, psychology, business and sustainability. Having corporate sponsors adds a real-world scenario where students understand the power of their own discipline within complex environments and structures.
___________________________________________________________________
Autodesk
HYBRID IDEATION AND
FABRICATION: $20,000 (PI)
Research grant and
sponsored student project | 2013-14
PRESENTATIONS
Autodesk University
2013
Title: Unleashing the Power of Fusion360 in Product
Design.
Alex Lobos & Keqing Song. Peer
reviewed.
Autodesk University 2011
Title: Collaborative, cross-disciplinary courses for
Innovation and Sustainable Design. Adam Menter, Dawn Danby & Alex Lobos. Peer
reviewed.
Industrial Designers Society of America
International Conference 2011
Title:
Working Together to Advance the Practice of Sustainable Design.
Adam
Menter & Alex Lobos. Peer reviewed.
FEATURES AND MENTIONS
Fusion 360 team meet-up 2013
Fusion 360 at I3D + Autodesk University 2013
Sustainable Design with Autodesk
Design, Emotion and Sustainability
___________________________________________________________________
Staples
OFFICE OF THE FUTURE: $35,000 (Co-PI)
Research grant and
sponsored student project | 2013
___________________________________________________________________
AT&T
TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT AWARD:
$25,000 (Co-PI)
Research grant and sponsored student
project | 2011
___________________________________________________________________
Sustainable Packaging Design
Interdisciplinary
course between Industrial Design (Prof. Alex Lobos), Graphic Design (Prof.
Lorrie Frear) and Packaging Science (Prof. Karen Proctor). Offered since Winter
2011 and sponsored by the following companies:
Unilever: $10,000 (Co-PI) | 2014
Sun Products Corporation: $11,400 (PI) | 2013
Wegmans: $5,000 (Co-PI) | 2012
Kraft Foods: $5,000 (Co-PI) | 2011
Colgate/Palmolive: $5,000 (Co-PI) | 2011
___________________________________________________________________
Upcoming Collaborations
General Electric Appliances: $20,000 (PI)
| 2014
___________________________________________________________________
Featured Student Projects
Autodesk
Fusion 360 design concepts around Flow | 2013
1st year Graduate Students in Industrial Design
Staples
Traveling briefcase |
2013
June Lee, Rachel Son, Calvin Au, Erica Nwankwo
Wegmans
BBQ Bottle | 2012
CJ Allessio, Sumeet Deshpande,
Marco Fesyuk, Chen Guo, Simon Jones, Tuan Tran
Wegmans
Laundry
Detergent | 2012
Katherine
Bukys, Dom Colaprete, Jess Crawford, Bailey Kennedy, Kai Lei, Victor Santiago
AT&T
AT&T
farmLocal community-based Interface | 2011
Julian Del Campo, Alex Freeman, Ben Hudson and Anton
Siekmann
Kraft Foods
Planters
Peanuts | 2011
Isaac
Alves, Hong Guo, Vicki Julius, Andrew Lakata, Keelyn Nori, Marc Priddy