Our 2013 graduate Adem Önalan has won the Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2013 with his graduation project "Life Box" developed in collaboration with Designum Design Consutlancy. "Life Box" is an air-droppable, rapid-response disaster recovery box that turns into a four-person inflatable shelter and contains relief goods. It has been [...]
Our 2013 graduate Salih Berk İlhan has won the "Best of the Best" award in Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2013 with his brush-dustpan design "Ropo" that he developed during the 2nd grade studio course. Inspired by the traditional tumbler toy "Hacıyatmaz", Ropo manages to always stay balanced. The design aims to [...]
Middle East Technical University (METU) has been ranked #6 among the top educational institutions in America and Europe in Red Dot Design Ranking 2013. Our department is rated above the globally renowned design schools such as Pratt Institute (USA), Royal College of Art (UK) ve Rhode Island School of Design [...]
Course registrations are now open, and you can find the information on courses, sections, and schedule below. For Undergraduate students: http://id.metu.edu.tr/en/people/undergraduate-program/registration-information For Graduate students: http://id.metu.edu.tr/en/people/graduate-program/registration-information
29th of June - World Industrial Design Day will be celebrated at METU Faculty of Architecture, together with METU Alumni Day. A selection of 2013 graduation projects will be exhibited at the Faculty Exhibition Hall. Third Year Students` projects on "Glass Packaging with Double Life in Collaboration with Gürallar Art-Craft" will be exhibited at [...]
2013 Thesis and Course Performance Awards were announced at the Architecture Amphitheater July, 6th, 2013. Res. Assist. Yekta Bakırlığlu received Thesis Award with his master thesis “Biomimicry for Sustainability: An Educational Project in Sustainable Product Design” supervised by Assist. Prof. Dr.Çağla Doğan. Thesis Awards were given by The Graduate School [...]
METU Departement of Industrial Design Graduation Projects Exhibition will be held at METU Culture and Cogress Centre, between June 4th - 6th, 2013. This year, the exhibition will also include other themed exhibitions consisting of the works of 3rd year, 4th year and graduate students prepared for different courses. We would to see [...]
The project “Sustainable solutions integrating bathroom accessories with bathroom tiles” which was conducted at METU in collaboration with Kaleseramik received third prize in “Social Benefits” in the Turkish European Corporate Social Responsibility Awards. The award winning project was carried out during the fall of 2011 in the third year industrial [...]
Jodi Forlizzi from Carnegie Mellon School of Design is going to give a seminar, namely "The Death of User-Centred Design", on May 22th, 2013, Wednesday, at 14.00, in METU Facualty of Architecture, Kubbealtı. As METU Department of Industrial Design, we welcome everybody interested in the seminar.
Many congratulations are due to our Master`s student Nur Yıldırım, who has received several awards and accolades for her Stream Beam Espresso Machine, designed during her ID535 Design for Interaction course project. The brief was to design a product that would create a barista experience in the home. International Design [...]