In this issue, we recognize the people who use their talents to create products that improve lives and who enhance our professional community through their actions. We also celebrate the beauty of industrial design by admiring the product details, material innovations, and solution-oriented ingenuity at the heart of our trade. This begs the question: What is most important, the person behind the design or the product itself? Perhaps both, equally!
We highlight the recipients of IDSA’s 2021 Academy of Fellows and Education and Young Educator Awards. These annual appreciations are a moment to celebrate a few of the people in our community who have contributed in profound ways to the advancement of IDSA, to the education of future generations, and to the practice of industrial design itself.
We highlight the winners of the 41st International Design Excellence Awards who demonstrate industrial design’s impact, value, and vital purpose in our society.
