NCSU College of Design Art2Wear Program Attracts NYC Fashion Expert Creating A New Hothouse for Fashion Design and Innovation
Art2Wear [A2W] is one of the largest and most innovative student fashion shows in the country, featuring student creations ranging from ready-to-wear to couture garments. Celebrating its 11th year, the event now attracts 4,000 people. As A2W has gained national momentum, its reputation as a leading-edge fashion event caught the attention of renowned NYC author [...]
Braverman, Hammon and Dodge place first and second in graduate research symposium
Graduate architecture students from the College of Design won first and second place in the Humanities and Design category of the 7th Annual North Carolina State University Graduate Student Research Symposium which was held at the McKimmon Center on March 20, 2012. Master of Architecture students Jessie Braverman and Shawna Hammon took first place for [...]
Tsai Lu Liu Named New Department Head of Graphic Design and Industrial Design at NCSU College of Design
Contact: Angela Brockelsby Tel: 919.513.7684 Email: angela_brockelsby@ncsu.edu FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Raleigh, NC — March 26, 2012 — North Carolina State University’s College of Design announced today that Tsai Lu Liu, IDSA, associate professor of industrial design at Auburn University’s Department of Industrial and Graphic Design, has been named Department Head of Graphic Design and Industrial [...]
Spring has officially sprung: Some natural thoughts by Jesse Turner and Sarah Werner, NLI design associates
BY JESSE TURNER and SARAH WERNER, Natural Learning Initiative Follow on Twitter @naturalearningi or Like on Facebook. It’s been a weird winter, if you could even call it that. Raleigh has hardly seen a skiff of snow, wool coats remain closeted, and last week oak trees were already budding. It’s early March and the ornamental [...]
Raleigh Reset on March 16 in conjunction with the 9th Annual Urban Design Conference
Join the College of Design for the Raleigh Reset: Rapid-Fire Presentation Event organized by the NC State University College of Design with the City of Raleigh Urban Design Forum on Friday, March 16, 2012 beginning at 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.at the Architect Bar and Social House on 108 1/2 East Hargett Street. This event [...]
Flores reflects on using design methods to give back
By SAUL FLORES, Caldwell Scholar and Graphic Design Student GOOD Design for good is a combination of trust, thought, and action, shaped by the experiences of a designer and then given meaning in the context of its solution. When fueled by pure motivations, and then leveled by a methodological approach to sustainability, and finally executed [...]
North Carolina State University entry “The Mind of Molly Mouse” wins Best in Show for Disney Imagineering’s 2012 ImagiNations competition
February 3, 2012 — Glendale, CA – The winners of the annual Walt Disney Imagineering ImagiNations Design Competition were announced on Friday, February 3 at Imagineering headquarters in Glendale, California. The ImagiNations Design Competition is a program designed and sponsored by Walt Disney Imagineering to encourage university students to consider careers in creative and technical [...]
Matthew Monk Appointed Academic Dean at Vermont College of Fine Arts
By MORGAN NEDERHOOD, College of Design RALEIGH, NC – On July 1, 2012, Alumnus Matthew Monk (BEDV 1985) begins his appointment as the academic dean at the Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) in Montpelier, Vermont. Monk, currently a professor of graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), earned his Bachelor of [...]
CAM Raleigh Presents Born Digital January 28-April 30, 2012
CAM RALEIGH PRESENTS BORN DIGITAL A MAJOR EXHIBITION ON INTERACTIVE DIGITAL DESIGN AND NEW MEDIA TRENDS On view January 28–April 30, 2012 Raleigh, December 2011— CAM Raleigh’s newest feature exhibition, Born Digital, invites visitors to physically explore digital culture and movement-driven artwork—to exercise their creativity and act on their curiosity. Opening January 28, 2012, the [...]
Landscape on the Edge: A Cooler and Greener Middle East
By BILL TAYLOR, ASLA, Principal at Carol R. Johnson Associates Inc. Landscape architecture, as in the design of cultivated gardens and parks in the Middle East and the greater Arab world, is a far different practice than most consultants in Europe and the West experience today, where conditions are less demanding on materials and the [...]
