John Rex Endowment Awards Grants to Three Nonprofits to Support the Healthy Weight of Children
RALEIGH, N.C. (July 17, 2012) – The John Rex Endowment announces the approval of three healthy weight grants totaling more than $525,000. The Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education, the North Carolina State University Natural Learning Initiative, and WakeMed Health and Hospitals will receive grants for projects that include overweight and obesity prevention strategies [...]
Student and Faculty Notables for May 2012
Graphic Design senior Chelsea Amato was selected to receive the Green Brick Award from the Office of Sustainability at NC State. Read more about her contributions to sustainability at: http://www.ncsu.edu/faculty-and-staff/bulletin/2012/04/green-awards-galore-for-nc-state/ WILA (Women in Landscape Architecture) and SASLA co-hosted the 2nd Annual Innovation Gallery Show at the Urban Design Center on May 4, 2012. They presented [...]
In Response: Weaving by Ann Roth and Vita Plume
On view from May 31 – September 6, 2012. Closing Reception Thursday, September 6 from 6-8 p.m. Two contemporary weavers respond to objects from the Gregg Museum’s permanent collection with works of their own. Vita Plume uses portraits taken in the Appalachians in the early 1900s by photographers like Doris Ulmann, Bayard Wooten, Paul Buchanan [...]
Design Guild Award Dinner 2012 Recap
Images from the 15th Annual Design Guild Award Dinner honoring Philip G. Freelon, FAIA at the Raleigh Convention Center on April 21, 2012. Stay tuned to watch the video online. Coming soon!
Graphic Design and Industrial Design capstone exhibition opening April 26
The Department of Graphic Design and Industrial Design senior capstone exhibition will be held in Brooks Hall beginning April 26 with an opening reception at 4:30 p.m. The exhibition is open to the public and will be up until May 4. The format for the show’s presentation will be “salon-style” and will host semester-long capstone [...]
Animation Fest and Game Development Showcase set for April 27
Animation Fest Set for April 27 Art + Design students will be showcasing their final projects during Animation Fest set for April 27, 2012 beginning at 7 p.m. in Burns Auditorium. Please come out and support our new media & animation students during this spectacular event. Refreshments will be served so plan to stay after [...]
End of semester events for spring 2012
Mark your calendars for some updated events. Additional information will be added when it becomes available. April 20-27 – Process Photo exhibition for Art2Wear in the Allred Gallery April 21 – Design Guild Award Dinner honoring Philip G. Freelon, FAIA at the Raleigh Convention Center beginning at 6 p.m. April 21 – Studio Collective ‘Drafted’ [...]
Faculty and Student Updates for April 2012
Scotford awarded two research grants Professor of Graphic Design Martha Scotford has recently been awarded two research grants for her work on Ernst Reichl, an award-winning German-born American book designer in the 1930s to 1970s. From the Bibliographic Society of America she received the Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book [...]
Facebook, Twitter, DesignLife background and cover image collection
Calling all students, faculty and alumni! Do you want to showcase your work on the college’s social media /web presence through the background image for our Twitter feed, cover image for our Facebook page and background image for DesignLife? Send in submissions and you might be featured! Requirements: every month we will rotate out the [...]
Food systems and design brings students together at the Downtown Design Studio
The Downtown Design Studio hosted The Student Ideas Exchange in Food Systems and Design on March 29, 2012. The ideas exchange is the first in a series of exchanges to be hosted by the Downtown Design Studio to bring a diverse group together to hear presentations of student work and to foster a conversation with [...]
