Collaboration
  • Student John Adams developed a project for VTech, the “Maitre-Smart Home Platform."
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  • In 2008 Fourteen industrial design students and two professors gathered at the VTech offices where they presen
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  • Sketches for a “medical intelligence agent” for VTech.
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  • Peter Fossick, director of the Collaborative Learning Center, and industrial design students share ideas.
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  • Peter Fossick conducted a one-on-one critique with a student designing for the collaboration with VTech.
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  • SCAD students and faculty gathered for a tour of VTech's offices.
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  • SCAD alumna Jesse Bizzoco designed for VTech a “Mee-go,” a personal phone and locator.
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With a diverse student population from all 50 United States and nearly 100 countries worldwide, SCAD always seeks opportunities for international collaboration. One of these international collaboration projects formed a bridge between SCAD and Hong Kong, even before the university's announcement of plans to open a Hong Kong location in 2010.

 

VTech, one of the world's leading consumer-focused technology companies and a worldwide leader in corded and cordless telephones and electronic learning products, gave SCAD students the assignment to design fresh and original concepts that will keep VTech at the forefront of the telecommunications industry. After seven weeks of intense preparation in the United States, 16 SCAD industrial design students traveled to VTech's global headquarters in Hong Kong to deliver their design concepts to the company's senior design team during spring quarter 2008.

 

In response to the quality of the student designs, VTech offered positions to three SCAD students, one as a full-time designer and two as design interns. In 2009, following the success of the initial program, 12 more students and two professors from SCAD's industrial design department traveled to Hong Kong to present new design concepts to VTech, centering around the idea of the "connected home." Those ideas will be evaluated and considered by the senior design team of the company for further product development.

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