UIC Design Students Launch 2017 EPD Projects on Kickstarter

Students enrolled in UIC Entrepreneurial Product Design (EPD) have launched their projects on Kickstarter. 

The UIC EPD course is a year long immersion in Design Entrepreneurship — a type of entrepreneurship that places emphasis on ideas and making to create and launch products. The class is co-taught taught by Craighton Berman, a designer that has successfully launched four projects on the Kickstarter platform and Ted Burdett, co-founder of Strand Design, whose breakthrough Fourneau Bread Oven received start-up funding on Kickstarter.  

Entrepreneurial Product Design is one of the 2016-17 Professional Track Options open to 4th year students in the Bachelor of Design (BDes) program in the UIC School of Design. Year 4 Options courses offer real-world professional experience through industry partnership. In addition to EPD, students select from course offerings in Interdisciplinary Product Development (IPD), Bio-Engineering IPD, Mobile App Design (MAD), and Design Thinking and Leadership (DTL). 

Help support UIC Design students by funding your favorite 2016 UIC EPD project. For more details visit the UIC EPD class blog. 

Photo: Stasis, a wall-mounted bookmark by Joel Levenson