International Center for Creativity
Ohio | Dublin
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Cedarville University
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The ICC is set in the northwest suburb of Columbus, Ohio. Columbus is one of the country’s best-kept secrets, but judging by its rapid growth, the secret may be out. It has been ranked as the number one “up and coming tech city” by Forbes Magazine, the number one city for entrepreneurial capacity growth by the State Science and Technical Institute, it is home to one of the top zoos in the country, was ranked the number one library system in the country by Library Journals, was named America’s best place to raise kids by Business Week, and is in the “Top Ten Most Liveable Cities” rankings by CNN/Money Magazine.
Further Columbus is a “sports town,” being home to the Memorial PGA Tournament hosted by Jack Nicklaus, the Columbus Blue Jackets NHL Hockey Team, the Columbus Crew MLS Soccer Team, the Columbus Clippers Triple A Affiliate baseball team to the Cleveland Indians, and the multi-year Big Ten and National Championship winning teams of The Ohio State University. Huntington Park and Nationwide Arena have been named “best sports venues” as well.
With a vibrant arts and music community, miles and miles of walking, biking and jogging trails, affordable housing, world class shopping and dining, and a modern and accessible international airport (CMH – John Glenn International Airport), Columbus is a special place to learn, grow and live whether just for your school years or for many years to come.
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BA Industrial and Innovative Design, Masters of Arts in Innovation, MBA Concentration, Innovation + Entrepreneurship, Digital Badge Certificates
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To develop God honoring, human-centered creative problem solvers who move fluently between physical products, digital platforms, AI, business models, and the human experience.
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The International Center for Creativity is a Columbus, Ohio-based think tank and partnership that designs, develops, and delivers innovative curriculum, professional training, and design and creativity consultation for universities, entrepreneurs, artists, and corporations. The ICC has most recently partnered with Cedarville University to deliver a cutting-edge BA in Industrial and Innovative Design that is growing year over year into one of the nation’s most formidable programs.
Proving that most great ideas start on napkins, the ICC was conceived in a 2001 coffee shop meeting between Jim “JD” Orr, an industrial designer, Tom Balliett, a designer and entrepreneur, and Jim Stevenson, a marketer, and entrepreneur. Over coffee that morning, the three discussed a gap in the educational marketplace to recapture the heart, soul and imagination of design through inspiring young people with not just the artistic talent, but also the vision and integrity to reshape the future of industrial design.
While advances in CAD were transforming the production environment, it was proving to be a potential impediment to the ideation and concepting environment. Industry wanted rapid visualization skills, hand-crafted work that would translate to digital environments, and mostly, people with creative problem-solving skills.
On that June day, on a sidewalk table in Worthington, Ohio, the journey started to reinvent the industrial design education process…a journey that eventually led to a first-of-its-kind partnership with Cedarville University
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Frequently Asked Questions
Briefly stated: just about anything that applies to creating new, three-dimensional products, spaces and things that take you places. In the areas of consumer product design, the following description was sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor:
“Industrial designers develop the concepts for manufactured products, such as cars, home appliances, and toys. They combine art, business, and engineering to make products that people use every day. Industrial designers focus on the user experience in creating style and function for a particular gadget or appliance.”
Broadly applied, industrial designers also imagine and design new architectural spaces, both interior and exterior for businesses, public spaces, healthcare, schools and universities, hotels and hospitality and residential homes. They also can apply their skills to creating landscapes, both real and imaginary, in the form of video gaming and the movie industry. Industrial designers typically do the following:
- Consult with clients to determine requirement for designs.
- Research who will use a particular product, and the various ways it might be used.
- Sketch out ideas or create renderings, which are images on paper or on a computer that provide a better visual of design ideas
- Use computer software to develop virtual models of different designs.
- Create physical prototypes of their designs.
- Examine materials and production costs to determine manufacturing requirements.
- Work with other specialists such as mechanical engineers or manufacturers to evaluate whether their design concepts will fill a need at a reasonable cost.
- Evaluate safety, appearance, and function to determine if a design is practical.
- Present the design and demonstrate prototypes to clients for approval.
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