DESIGNlife News

Each year, the Design Guild - a body of alumni and friends in the design community - hosts a reception honoring College of Design scholarship recipients and their sponsors. This year’s gathering held Nov. 5 in the Belk Rotunda in Brooks Hall involved a record turnout and featured a visit by NC State University Chancellor [...]

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The student run Fish Market will have it’s first open call show of the semester on Friday, October 1, 2010 with doors opening at 6 p.m. As always, this months show will feature fantastic work from all College of Design disciplines. Music will be provided by DJ Chocolate Rice. You won’t want to miss it.
Fish Market [...]

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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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Welcome Back BBQ will be held on Friday, August 20, 2010 at 5:30 p.m. behind Brooks Hall. All College of Design students, faculty and staff are invited. This event is sponsored by the Design Guild.

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Join Landscape Architecture Head Gene Bressler, FASLA, and fellow alumni and friends for a reception during the 2010 ASLA Annual Meeting & Expo in Washington, D.C.
The Henley Park Hotel
926 Massachuessetts Avenue NW
(one block from the Washington Convention Center)
Friday, September 10, 2010
6:00–7:30 PM
please rsvp by September 3 to:
919.515.8320 or design.ncsu.edu/rsvp
We will honor new alumni fellow:
WHITNEY A. [...]

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The College of Design 2010 Intercom Research Exchange will take place on March 1, 2010 at 5:30 -8:00 p.m. in 311 & 312 Leazar Hall. Everyone is welcome. Learn what colleagues, doctoral & graduate candidates are thinking about and making happen. There will be refreshments from Neomonde.

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[Transcript]
Fall 2009 Commencement Address
December 19, 2009
ABOUT CAKES AND RAISINS
Dr. Paul Tesar
Professor of Architecture
Good afternoon – and a very good afternoon it is for all of us here!!! Such things as the weather cannot, must not, get in the way of events such as this. On the contrary: I think that a little adversity makes them [...]

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Guidelines for End of year Donations
As you are making your plans for the holidays and your final year-end donations for the 2009 tax year, we hope that you will include the College of Design in those plans. You may choose to support any of the academic programs, become a member of the Design Guild, [...]

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The Prospective Graduate Student Open House for the College of Design will be held on November 9 with a welcome starting at 2:30 p.m. in Brooks Hall.
Schedule
2:30 – 2:45
Welcome Prospective Students
Brooks Hall Lower Rotunda
2:45 – 3:15
Student-led Tours of College of Design
Start from Brooks Hall Lower Rotunda
3:15 – 3:25
Introduction to the College of Design [...]

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Finding Home
Morning Times Gallery
Rebecca Necessary (MArch 2007), photographer
Susanna Birdsong, writer
August 7th-31st
Opening Reception August 7th, 6-11 pm
10 E. Hargett Street, Raleigh
On any given night there are 12,500 homeless individuals in North Carolina. In cities across our state, we pass people sleeping on benches and we notice lines at shelters, yet the stories, faces and experiences of [...]

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REMINDER: If you want to participate in the Architecture Alumni Exhibition scheduled in March through April 5, 2009, please submit your boards to Professor Roger Clark by March 12, 2009. More details are on the 60th Web site.
POSTCARD ARTWORK WANTED: All students, faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends are encouraged to submit postcard artwork for [...]

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A.T. Stephens has moved from CAM, the Contemporary Art Museum Initiative, to a full-time assignment as a Teaching Assistant Professor in Design Studies with the College of Design. In addition to the two First Year Design Culture and Context courses he currently teaches and seminars he will introduce, Stephens will develop and work with others [...]

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The First Year Student Advocate Award 2008-2009 was given to the College of Design’s First Year Experience program. The concept for the award came from the desire to give recognition to persons and departments who embody excellence in service to students, who demonstrate availability and openness to students, and who use their roles to advocate [...]

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Join Department of Landscape Architecture Head Gene Bressler, FASLA, and fellow alumni and friends for a reception during the 2008 ASLA Annual Meeting & Expo in Philadelphia (all alumni, regardless of discipline, are invited to attend). Please RSVP at http://design.ncsu.edu/rsvp.html
Friday, October 3, 2008
6:30 to 8:30 pm
Hosted by WRT Design
Location: 1700 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19103
There [...]

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