-- ISD-up.com -- Presentation of the association --

The purpose of the ISD-up association is to in general promote the design and the students of the Institut Supérieur de Design of Valenciennes in particular.

Registered in the own statutes of the association, this sentence summarizes together the actions taken by the various volunteers who constitute the association. Active since February 2002, ISD-up tries each day to fill this objective through its presence on the web.

At the origin, the financing of ISD-up was made up from benefits resulting from the sale of tee-shirts to the students from ISD. Each year indeed, the ISD-up association is given the responsability to produce a tee-shirt and to market it so that the benefits finance the only source of expenses of the association, namely the hosting of its internet site.
Along the years, the slip of our public, which opens each week a little more towards the professional world (thanks to the newsletter) opened new sources of potential financing: companies through sponsoring and patronage.

If you wish to help our association you can contact us on this page.

The following companies already contribute to the financing of our association.

If you would like to join this list and help our association, you can contact us at this page.

December 2001 : 5 students (including 3 seniors) imagine the concept of the site and the association on the basis of the report that the communication of the school on the web is insufficient.


Nicolas in front of the first version of the news		Gregory (first association president), Nicolas and Olivier		Laurent, Nicolas and Thomas in deep thinking about the concept		Thomas with the money box from the first t-shirts

December to January : the team is put to work and builds the first version of the site still stammering but having the merit to exist.
February 2002 : official laucnh of the association and of the Internet site. The launch rolled at the time of an evening organized by the association at the Phenix of Valenciennes. Were present student parents, the students themselves and part of the teaching staff.


Edouard and Thomas behind the open bar		Thomas, master of ceremony in front of the first version of the site		Thomas mixing		The fiesta in full blast. Some have the t-shirt n°1

April 2003 : the site evolves, moves graphically and ergonomicaly as well as possible to satisfy the needs for the students of ISD. New headings appear and the traffic of the site increases.
September 2003 : creation of the newsletter of information. Sent weekly to a public made up of the students of the school but also to many industrialists, researchers and professionals of the design.
April 2004 : Beginning of the thinking of the version 3 of the site, development of the schedule of conditions and realization of the graphique chart.
August 2004 : After the pilot phase study of version 3, beginning of programming and the development.
February 2005 : launching of version 3 (current version) of the site with many ergonomic and functional evolutions. This version reinforces the more professional positioning of the site and its contents. Appearance in particular of an English version much richer and newsletter in English language to improve our audience and our relevance.