DESIGNlife News

January 6 - February 5, 2011 - Assistant Professor of Art + Design Jan-Ru Wan has a solo exhibition at UNC-Wilmington’s Boseman gallery. Re Materialization will run till February 5. http://appserv02.uncw.edu/news/atuncw/annview.aspx?id=6330 The Boseman gallery is located on the second floor of the Fisher University Union on the UNC Wilmington campus.
January 31, 2011 - Landscape Architecture lecture [...]

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January 24, 2011 (RALEIGH, NC) – Joe Cox, George Bireline, Herb Jackson, and Edith London are only four of the 11 prominent North Carolina artists, both living and deceased, whose portraits and works will be featured in a special exhibition at Lee Hansley Gallery in Raleigh beginning March 13.
Entitled “Black & White/Color & Light,” the [...]

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Architecture fans’ weekend trip includes Wrights’ Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob
January 24, 2011 (DURHAM, NC) – Responding to demand to repeat last year’s Frank Lloyd Wright / Fallingwater Architecture Tour, Triangle Modernist Houses and director George Smart are offering another weekend excursion for architecture enthusiasts: a trip to Frank Lloyd Wright’s world-famous Pennsylvania houses on April [...]

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Design Influence, the once- or twice-yearly printed magazine of the NC State University College of Design, is now available online, beginning with the Fall 2010 issue.
The online magazine is a way for more of the public to become engaged with the work and the ideas coming out of one of the country’s premiere design colleges, [...]

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The installation ceremony of W. Randolph “Randy” Woodson on Oct. 26 included a few key references to the College of Design, one of eleven colleges that comprise NC State University.
Woodson, the 14th chancellor of the University, in his installation speech made reference to the College when he said: “When we look across the history of [...]

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Ryan Whitley and Matt Hirsch, first-year students at the NC State University College of Design, wanted to make a splash at the Free Expression Tunnel on campus. But a splash of such dimensions would require a lot of paint and quite a bit of help.
When all was said and done, it took 9 hours, 20 [...]

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Ron Kuhr of Raleigh, a retired NC State professor of entomology, has a 41 year-old son with autism, a diagnosis that has grown in prevalence from one in a thousand to nearly one in a hundred children over the past few decades.Everyone is anxious to know: How will autistic children learn to cope with daily [...]

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A graphic design project to preserve the cultural heritage and history of a Raleigh neighborhood is being recognized by the city’s Central Citizens Advisory Council.
Kermit Bailey, an associate professor of graphic design at the NC State University College of Design, began working with the organization over a year ago through a City-funded contract to [...]

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August 2010 Home of the Month Article in The News & Observer http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/28/649117/bridge-house-over-troubled-waters.html
College of Design Alums Rob and Beth Mangum featured in the September 2010 issue of Our State Magazine. http://www.ourstate.com/articles/weaverville
Young Inventors Cause A Stir. Six pre-teens worked with industrial design professors and graduate students to conceive, prototype and develop presentations about their new [...]

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The fall homes tour season is getting underway and residents across the Triangle, North Carolina and the East Coast are in for a remarkable experience with the first annual American Institute of Architects Triangle Homes Tour on October 2, 2010.
The AIA Triangle Homes Tour features nine architects and ten homes that represent the value that [...]

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A luncheon event with a keynote address by Bill Reed, AIA, LEED will take place at the McKimmon Center on Thursday, September 9, 2010 from 12 - 1:30 p.m. The luncheon will be in conjunction with the 6th Annual Tradeshow for the North Carolina Building Industry.
Reed will focus on integrated and regenerative design. For more [...]

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“Southern Roots of Mid-Century Modern” exhibition is ongoing at the Gregg Museum of Art and Design August 19 through December 18, 2010. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, September 9 from 6-8 p.m.
The exhibition will feature works by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Eames, George Nelson, Marcel Breuer, Eero [...]

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SAVE THE DATES!
Friday, February 11, 2011
4th Annual Growing in Place Symposium
Marbles Kids Museum
Saturday, February 12, 2011
8th Annual Urban Design Conference
Raleigh Marriott City Center
Stay tuned for details!
Register for Natural Learning Initiative Workshops at www.naturalearning.org
Research to Practice: Maximizing Child Outcomes in the Outdoors Symposium for Early HS and HS Programs.
Sept. 28-29, 2010
College of Design, NC State [...]

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The Installation of Chancellor W. Randolph Woods as the fourteenth chancellor of the university will take place on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at Reynolds Coliseum. For more information visit: www.ncsu.edu/chancellor-save-the-date

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The Quimby Colony is a non-profit urban Artist in Residence program located in Portland, Maine’s newly designated Historic Art’s District.
At present, we are accepting applications from artists and designers working in Fashion, Costume, or Textile Arts.
Accepted artists will be provided with studio space, room, board, a travel stipend, and the opportunity to meet other artists, [...]

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