Van Dyke, Hill and Dean Dixon set to lecture in Department of Graphic Design and Industrial Design speakers series
Tuesday, September 4, 6:30 p.m., Burns Auditorium Benjamin Van Dyke Related Projects: Triangulation (Word Design and Posters) Untangle Me (Installation) Benjamin Van Dyke is Associate Professor and head of Communication Design in the Visual Studies department at The State University of New York at Buffalo. In 2006, Van Dyke was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to [...]
Alumni Notes for May 2012
Dave Wofford (BEDV 1994) of Horse & Buggy Press has been working with Duke doctoral candidate Courtney Fitzpatrick on a year long fine press book collaboration of Fitzpatrick’s 17 month journey to the remote Amboseli basin of Kenya. Maji Moto, the fifteenth Horse & Buggy Press, is now available for sale along with a gallery [...]
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 [...]
Traditional folk art transforming lives through international art market
Introduction to Folk Artists from around the world Nearly two years ago when David Evans (BEDV 1984) decided to take on a project documenting the Sante Fe International Folk Art Market, he didn’t know he would meet extraordinary people like Janet Nkubana. Evans connected with Nkubana, an artist from Rwanda, who learned to weave traditional [...]
Spring Commencement 2012 – Evans explains the importance of saying YES
Award-winning Creative Director, Executive Producer and Photographer David Evans (BEDV 1984) gave the commencement speech for the spring graduating class of 2012 in Stewart Theatre on May 12, 2012. With a graduating class of nearly two hundred students, it is the largest graduating class in the history of the college. Below is a transcript of [...]
“Handing out the keys to the spaceship”: Changing the Game at NC State University
April 24, 2012 (Raleigh, N.C.)—Though the James B. Hunt Jr. Library is still under construction on North Carolina State University’s Centennial Campus, it is already—as promised—giving students pioneering, hands-on experience with technologies that they would not have a chance to work with at any other university in the world. NC State’s Digital Games Research Initiative [...]
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 [...]
