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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Alumni updates for April 2012
Hart featured in Arch Daily Alumnus Kevin Hart (BEDA 1973) and his firm Kevin Hart Architecture were featured in ArchDaily for the Menlo School MAC project and World Architecture News for transforming tilt-up concrete boxes to high-tech offices. Both projects can be found online at: http://www.archdaily.com/211338/menlo-school-mac-kevin-hart-architecture-2/ and http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=11320 Wolf elevated to AIA College of Fellows [...]
San Francisco Bay Area Design Team awarded Second Place in the Sacramento Capitol Mall Design Competition
The interdisciplinary team consisted of architectural designers Geoffrey Barton and Virginia Alexander, urban designer Lou Huang, and landscape designer Darryl Jones. Three of the competition team members received degrees from NC State University College of Design and are located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Virginia Alexander (M.Arch 2009) currently works as a designer at [...]
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 [...]
WalkRaleigh continues campaign with new goal
If you haven’t heard already about WalkRaleigh, it’s been impossible to miss. Beginning with an urban guerrilla way-finding campaign earlier this year culminating with coverage from BBC News, The Atlantic Cities and the News & Observer, this simple way of encouraging walking around the city through way-finding signs has gotten so popular that it has [...]
WILA and SASLA hosting second annual Innovation Gallery Show May 4
WILA (Women in Landscape Architecture) and SALSA (Student Association of Landscape Architects) will be co-hosting the second annual Innovation Gallery Show on May 4 at Raleigh’s Downtown Urban Design Center. Students in all College of Design departments and schools are invited to participate and submit their innovative design work dealing with a broad range of [...]
