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 [...]

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 [...]

Faculty Notes for February 2012

Professor of Architecture Georgia Bizios and Architecture Alumna Katie Wakeford’s book “Bridging the Gap: Public-Interest Architectural Internships” was reviewed by AIACC. Read the review at: http://aiacc.org/2012/02/16/bridging-the-gap-public-interest-architectural-internships/ ### Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Andrew Fox was profiled on Raleigh Obscura. Read the profile at: http://raleighobscura.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/andy-fox/ ### Architecture Professor Patrick Rand delivered two invited presentations to architects [...]

Alumni and Student Notes for September 2011

Alumni Todd Childers (BEDVD 1986) and Shelly Gruendler (BEDG 1994) presented at the Typo Berlin: Shift Conference. For more information about the conference visit: http://www.typoberlin.de/2011/ Ph.D. of Design candidate George Hallowell has co-written a children’s picture book called “Wagon’s Ho!” with prolific author Joan Holub. Charlotte Guice (BAD 2009) sets designs on Saturdays This past summer [...]

DESIGNlife Alumni Notes, January 2011

Todd Childers (BED 1986) will be presenting a paper on Typographic Distortion in International Style Typography at the TYPO Berlin 2011 Shift conference May 19-21, 2011. He presented his paper, “All Type Is Dimensional,” at the Association Typographique “The Word” Conference in Dublin, Ireland, on Sept. 12, 2010, the preeminent typography event in the world. [...]