{"id":192,"date":"2015-03-05T11:44:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T19:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flathed.com\/blogHED\/?p=192"},"modified":"2016-09-19T17:38:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T00:38:40","slug":"who-knew-first-national-id-day-is-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/2015\/03\/05\/who-knew-first-national-id-day-is-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Who knew? First National ID Day is today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idsa.org\/news\/design-news\/march-5-2015-declared-first-national-industrial-design-day\" target=\"_blank\">IDSA<\/a>] \u00a0March 5, 2015 is being\u00a0entered into the U.S. Congressional Record as the first National Industrial Design Day. U.S. Rep. Gerald E. Connolly declared\u00a0industrial design professionals \u201cimprove our lives in every way and are worthy of our recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, product design and related services generate billions of dollars in sales and the number of U.S. awarded design patents has reached an all-time high&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Industrial designers envision the products that fill homes, offices, hospitals, schools and roads&#8230; They work in tandem with engineering, manufacturing, marketing and management leaders\u00a0to create countless innovations used every day such as computers, mobile phones, music players, appliances, GPS, furniture, child safety seats and surgical equipment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Patent Office first recognized the term \u201cindustrial design\u201d in 1913. The profession attracted the attention of the American public in 1927 at the Exposition of Art in Trade in New York City, with the U.S. government hailing the craft as an important \u201cmodern movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flathed.com\/blogHED\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/idsa50.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-202\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flathed.com\/blogHED\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/idsa50.png\" alt=\"idsa50\" width=\"385\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/idsa50.png 385w, http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/idsa50-300x140.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>#IndustrialDesignDayUS \u00a0#IDSA50<\/p>\n<p>Read the full press release at http:\/\/www.idsa.org\/news\/design-news\/march-5-2015-declared-first-national-industrial-design-day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[H\/T IDSA] \u00a0March 5, 2015 is being\u00a0entered into the U.S. Congressional Record as the first National Industrial Design Day. U.S. Rep. Gerald E. Connolly declared\u00a0industrial design professionals \u201cimprove our lives in every way and are worthy of our recognition.\u201d In the United States, product design and related services generate billions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-designnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}