“Fatkid”
I hope you aren’t thinking IDSA ever had anything to do with ID Magazine. That is (sorry, was) a completely separate entity with zero connection to ISDA. IDSA also doesn’t send out mass mailings for anything - we do everything electronically (gotta be green, you know).
As for the money IDSA brings in that you are amazed by… please don’t confuse gross $ with net $. It takes a lot of money to publish Innovations magazine, put on an annual conference and 5 District conferences, run a web site (we’re working on it, trust me), maintain the Design Foundation (which raises money for scholarships among other things), sponsor the Catalyst program (which speaks “design” to Business), publish DesignBytes weekly, etc., etc.
George