ITU
International Design Lectures
Design
the Life They Love, Ayşe
Birsel, Birsel
+ Seck, New York, USA
April
10, 2012 Tuesday, 15.30 pm, ITU Taskisla, Hall 109
Ayse
Birsel (BID METU, MID Pratt Institute) grew up in Izmir, Turkey. In 2008, Rhode
Island School of Design honored Ayse with an Athena Award for Excellence in
Furniture Design. Her work is in the
permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and Cooper Hewitt National
Design Museum. Ayse has received numerous design awards, including the IDEA
Gold Award and ID Magazine Excellence Award for her work. She runs a design company Birsel + Beck with
Bibi Seck . They work with Herman Miller, Hewlett Packard, Target, and Renault,
to solve problems and bring innovative solutions to market. Their award-winning
designs span the office, home, bath, retail and automotive sectors. Ayşe Birsel
is one of the committee members for the International Design Alliance (IDA)
Congress Bid, which was successfully won by Istanbul Tech. University (ITU) in
2010 , and will be hosted in Istanbul in November 2013.