We love to demand everything without facilitating the foundation for technology, without being acquainted with its patience and human resources, without paying its price. We, as a society, are not even aware of the price we pay by ignoring the fact that creative ideas are a form of human intelligence. [...]
The team “Magnum Opus” which is consist of our graduate students Koray Benli and Deniz Camus with Güneş Biliciler from Business Administration Department ranked as a winner team of “Ideatrophy 2014” that is Unilever’s marketing design challange. They will also represent Turkey and METU within “2014 Unilever Future Leaders’ League” [...]
Güner Mutaf, one of the two founders of the Department of Industrial Design at Middle East Technical University (METU), passed away on February 13, 2014. His funeral was held on February 15 in Ankara, in the presence of his loving family, colleagues, friends and students. His contribution to our workplace [...]
ICSID Turkey members meeting was hosted by METU Faculty of Architecture, Department of Industrial Design on the 8th of February 2014. Representatives from 11 member organizations of ICSID from Turkey participated in the meeting. Within the framework of ICSID Membership, main issues discussed in the meeting were future projects to [...]
Check out our new bullet-in with lots of news from the link below: http://id.metu.edu.tr/content/docs/idbulten_10.pdf
Select student projects from METU Department of Industrial Design are being exhibited at Turkey Innovation Week, which is being held at Istanbul Congress Centre between November 28th and 30th. Exhibited Projects: Curve desk lamp by Fatma Köstekli - Graduation Project in collaboration with Arlight, 2013 Horizon Refrigerator by Ümit Can Koralay [...]
Department of Industrial Design staff member Dr Owain Pedgley recently completed his major book collaboration with Dr Elvin Karana (TUDelft) and Dr Valentina Rognoli (Politecnico di Milano). The 400-page publication entitled ‘Materials Experience: Fundamentals of Materials and Design’ is published internationally by Elsevier. It brings together chapters from 24 authors [...]
Recent Industrial Design PhD graduate Dr Sultan Kaygın Sel has been invited to Cebit 2014 in Istanbul, by the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology, to exhibit her All-in-One (AIO) PC Mass Customization Project. The project formed part of her practice-based PhD study and was supported by the Ministry through [...]
A selection of student projects of METU Department of Industrial Design is being exhibited at Tokyo Designers Week 2013 between the dates 26 October- 4 November 2013. Since 1986 Tokyo Designers Week gathers gathers excellent design and art work of organizations, schools, and designers from all over the world in areas [...]
Maria Luisa Rossi, MFA Design Chair and Professor in College for Creative Studies, is giving a seminar, titled "Imagining and Designing for the Future: How to Read Changes, as the Future Accelerates Needs and Perspectives", in Kubbealtı, METU Faculty of Architecture, on November 7th, 2013, at 16:30. The seminar is open to anyone interested.