Inventables Donates DesignAid – autographed by Orlando Bloom – to IDSA Design Foundation auction.
9/20/2005 – Chicago, IL
DesignAid, the invaluable tool for design professionals, provides research on new materials, process, technologies and innovations. Inventables networks with clients and industry experts, scouring trade shows, trade journals, press releases, developing relationships with manufacturers, and many other industry contacts to compile and deliver a quarterly collection of the 20 most interesting and applicable new developments (complete with in-depth research).
How does this design periodical become associated with Pirates of the Caribbean star, Orlando Bloom? Well, the key players in Cameron Crowe’s 2005 movie Elizabethtown, are Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin, and, yes, Inventables! In the film, Orlando Bloom’s plays an industrial designer who uses DesignAid to come up with new ideas and materials for his shoe designs.
Orlando Bloom autographed a copy of the innovative resource-cum-movie-prop, which Chicago-based Inventables donated to the IDSA Design Foundation online auction to raise funds in support of design education.
The Industrial Designers of America (IDSA) is the voice of the industrial design profession, advancing the quality and positive impact of design.
About Inventables:
Inventables educates new product developers about what’s possible and provides inspiration for next generation products. Inventables publishes a quarterly advanced-materials portfolio, called DesignAid, that covers provocative materials and technologies like liquid metal, gel magnets, and intelligent rope plus their possible applications. Actual samples of every item come packaged with the magazine to help spark creative new product ideas. Corporate design teams look to DesignAid to learn about new materials, manufacturing processes, and electrical mechanical components that will spur ideas for new products. A few customers include Herman Miller (Nasdaq: MLHR), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), BMW (BMWG.DE), NIKE (NYSE: NKE), Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG), and Black & Decker (NYSE: BDK). Visit www.inventables.comor call 312.274.9941 to learn more.
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