According to the ranking by the Red Dot Institute in Germany, METU Department of Industrial Design is on the list once again this year. Our department is on 5th place out of 15 universities in "Red Dot Design Ranking 2016: Universities – Americas & Europe". We congratulate all our staff [...]
The winners of Energy Globe Award has been announced. Our instructor Asst. Prof. Dr. Hakan Gürsu along with his team, Designnobis, received the National Energy Globe Award of this year with their project "Parabosol" that aims to provide clean drinking water to individuals living in underdeveloped countries. Our sincerest congratulations [...]
METU Department of Industrial Design Graduation Projects Exhibition will be held at METU Culture and Congress Centre, June 7th - 10th, 2016. This year, the exhibition also included projects from variety of courses for three themed exhibitions. We would like to see you all at our exhibition and opening cocktail [...]
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Students of the Interdisciplinary Design Studio; Elif Merve Ünsal, İbrahim Anıl Balkan, Utku Ay ve Jean-Piere Demir will be joining us in a panel, titled: "Working with Industrial Design Students from the Perspective of Architecture, Engineering and Business Administration Students", in part of the ID480 Introduction to Design Management Seminars. We [...]
The winners of A`Design Awards 2016, the design competition being held in Milano, Italy since 2010, were announced this year as well. An instructor of our department, Assist. Prof. Dr. Hakan Gürsu has won 8 awards along with his team, Designnobis. Our sincerest congratulations to Assist. Prof. Dr. Hakan Gürsu and [...]
Gizem Öncü, a recent graduate of METU Department of Industrial Design, has received A`Design Award in the A`Design Award & Competition with her graduation project "Vitalink Smart Glove" developed in collaboration with Arvento. For more information about the project and competition; https://competition.adesignaward.com/design.php?ID=42383
Our guest lecturer, Prof. Dr. Stuart Walker from ImaginationLancaster design research centre, will give a seminar, entitled "Design for Life: Creating Meaning in a Distracted World" on April 19th, 12:30, at Kubbealtı, Faculty of Architecture. We hope to see all those interested in the seminar.
Özgür Mutlu Öz, Senior UX&Industrial Designer in Arçelik will be giving a seminar called "Stories of Design Management in Arçelik" via video conferencing on Monday, April 4th 2016 between 15:00-16:30 at Kubbealtı in the Faculty of Architecture, within the scope of the course ID480 Introduction to Design Management. We hope [...]
UTAK 2016, 2nd National Design Research Conference will be held between 21-23 September at Middle East Technical University. We hope to come together for sharing works carried out in the field of design, within the themes ‘Responsibility, Context, Experience and Design’. For further details, the conference website can be accessed [...]