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Our own little champion

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:33:26 +0000

Please put your hands together for our design intern Cristina Del Rosario – it is with great pleasure that we announce that Cristina’s recent project, the One Motion Syringe, successfully beat out a multitude of other exciting concepts in Georgia Tech’s institute-wide Ideas 2 Serve competition.

From the Georgia Tech press release: “the I2S competition seeks to find “early-stage products or venture concepts that [are] focused on creating a better world,” according to the Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship (ILE), which produces the competition. Although housed in the College of Management, the competition is open to all Tech undergraduate and graduate students and recent alumni…

“This competition fills a niche that’s very valuable, not only to the College of Management, but also to Georgia Tech as a whole,” says ILE Research Scientist Dóri Pap. “It really showcases the Institute’s best examples of social entrepreneurship.”

Needless to say, we’re quite proud of Cristina and eager to point out that she was victorious not just once, but twice over: her concept was selected as both a Social Solution Award Winner and a People’s Choice Award Winner.

David VanArsdale

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:37:39 +0000

David founded People of Resource in the summer of 2009. He is a graduate of the School of Industrial Design at Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture. Prior to founding the firm, by day, David taught Industrial Design at Georgia Tech and was Creative Director and Co-Founder of thing farm. By night, he was a DJ and semi-pro reckless fixed-gear cyclist.

David’s work has garnered numerous design awards and recognition from blogs, publications, and design institutions. His firms have served a wide range of clients, from giants like Coca-Cola and Fossil Inc. to innovative start-ups like the Center for the Visually Impaired and No Brakes Atlanta.

The New Nerd Mafia

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:51:07 +0000

A recent article by Felicia Feaster in The Atlantan features People of Resource Chief, David VanArsdale, as a member of the so-called “new nerd mafia” (read: one of the “array of nationally recognized smarty-britches” designers and technologists coming out of Georgia Tech of late) alongside local luminaries, architecture professor Ellen Dunham-Jones, fashion designer Clint Zeagler, and video game design professor Ian Bogost.

You can find a link to the article to the right.

Pallet Adirondack Chair

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:38:14 +0000

This is a little promotional video we made for fellow industrial designer, Shelton Davis. He has developed an adirondack chair that is made from discarded pallets.

A PDF Booklet we created about the project is available for download in the sidebar of this post.

Imagining a Better Future

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:55:17 +0000

We were honored to be commissioned by Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture to design a poster to announce their Fall 2010 series of lectures, symposia, and performances.

The events feature some of our favorite designers and architects (Merrill Elam, Mack Scogin, Thom Mayne, Liz Diller, Peter Eisenman, and Rem Koolhaas, to name a few) and it was a true pleasure to work with the Dean of the College, Alan Balfour.

You can find links to the schedule of events and a PDF of the poster in the sidebar of this post.

Carolyn Stewart

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:34:59 +0000

Carolyn is a graduate of the School of Industrial Design at Georgia Tech. She spent time abroad in New Zealand studying design while developing a distinctly salty attitude.

Carolyn hails from Northeast Georgia

ATL to NYC x Pecha Kucha

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:03:42 +0000

Resource Chief David VanArsdale recently presented one of the initiatives he spearheaded as a Studio Instructor for Georgia Tech’s School of Industrial Design – a whirlwind trip to New York to visit some of the country’s top design firms.

David commemorated the presentation with a group photo which you can see above.