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Landscape Architecture Registration Examination preparatory course offered May 7-9, 2010. Instructor Ray Freeman to teach Section E. For more information and to register visit: Landscape Architecture Registration Examination.
This course would benefit candidates for the LARE who are taking the exam for the first time, are having difficulty with Section E, or need a refresher on [...]

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GREG HATEM IS A SPARK, A CATALYST, A FORCE BEHIND THE RESURGENCE OF DOWNTOWN RALEIGH. As founder and managing partner of Empire Properties, Greg has guided the company’s portfolio of projects, consisting of more than 40 rehabilitation projects with 550,000 square feet of retail and office space which have truly enhanced not only the [...]

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The College of Design community is sorry to share the sad news of the passing of alumnus and good friend Herbert P. McKim, FAIA, on Wednesday, March 3, 2010. Herb graduated in 1950 with a degree in architecture. Herb’s service to his profession, community, and the State of North Carolina was evident in the many [...]

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Graphic Design alumna Nida Abdullah’s concept/poster design is the winning entry for this year’s internationally renowned Full Frame Festival in Durham, NC which takes place April 8 - 11.
Upon graduation, Abdullah has worked at MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) and has most recently participated in the prestigious Project M, a social design [...]

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“Let There Be Light” — it represented the best of NC State. Joe Cox took the ideas from the physics of light, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering and turned them into art.
An Eye for Design (NCSU Bulletin) A grad student’s class project becomes an award-winning concept car that will be built and displayed at a [...]

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In 2009 a group of former and current College of Design and College of Textiles students with an interest in fibers and textiles came together to form The Common Seam Collective. The group strives to build and maintain their identity as artists, designers, and craftspeople, as well as a connection to the community that nurtured [...]

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Alumna Elizabeth Lundberg Morisette (94 BEDN) has had her work, “Abort” chosen to be included in a yearlong exhibit at the Washington DC headquarters of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The show, titled “Thoreau’s Legacy: Humans and Our Habitat” asked Artists to choose an essay from “Thoreau’s Legacy,” a book of essays on global warming in [...]

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February 15, 2010 (DURHAM, NC) – Dreaming of a new modernist house? An
exciting renovation? Thinking about architecture as a career? Have you
long admired a certain local architect or a really cool house?
George Smart, founder and director of Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH),
had announced the organization’s spring fundraiser schedule: a series of
Triangle dinners connecting the public with [...]

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Alumnus Ted Givens (’95 BEDA) was recently published in the Spring 2010 issue of Evolo Magazine for his project for a residential tower that turns pollution into water. The article is a critique of a new Morphosis project. Givens has also won four competitions in China in 2009 with RMJM in Hong Kong.

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Architecture alumnus Jason Dail of Jason Dail Photography was chosen to receive the “Bride’s Choice Awards” for 2010.
Raleigh, NC. - January 19, 2010 - WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced Jason Dail Photography has been selected to receive the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™ for Wedding Photography!!!!!
The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ recognizes and [...]

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Alumna Lindy Dobbins (’02 BGD) won the 2009 American Graphic Design Award for excellence in the packaging category. To view her winning design visit: http://www.gdusa.com/contests/agda/09/winners/types/se.php?x=pak415

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Art + Design alumnus Greg Lindquist (’03 BAD) was the critic’s pick in the March 2010 issue of ARTNews Magazine. To read the article, download it here.

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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art + Design Amanda Robertson was awarded one of two top Gertrude Cox Awards for Innovative Excellence in Teaching and Learning with Technology for her distance education conversion of Art + Design’s 219 Digital Imaging Course. Robertson is also a senior multimedia designer in DELTA
The judges had the following to [...]

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World-renowned Architect Eduardo Catalano passed away last week in Massachusetts. He was 92.
Catalano was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and came to the United States on scholarships to the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. Catalano taught at the Architectural Association in London until 1951 before relocating back to the United States in Raleigh, NC. [...]

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Architecture alumnus Curtis Fentress, FAIA was one of three recipients of the AIA 2010 Thomas Jefferson Award for Private-sector architects.
Fentress, founder of Denver-based Fentress Architects, is recognized for his deep expertise in nearly all types of public buildings. His portfolio is filled with well-received courthouses, museums, memorials, and other cultural facilities. He’s left an [...]

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