DESIGNlife News

Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Kofi Boone, ASLA, will be presenting two papers at the
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2010 conference in Maastricht, Netherlands. The conference is a joint effort with ISOMUL, and International Landscape Architecture Organization. The two papers are “Triggers for Ecological Thinking: Alternative Pathways to Environmental Awareness in Community Design”, [...]

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Left to right: Matt Tomasulo, Rebecca Myers, Daria Khramtsova, Jeff Pleshek, and Maria Papiez. (photo by Melissa Jacobs, Urban Land Institute)
A joint team of design graduate students from the NC State College of Design and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill claimed the top spot in this year’s Urban Land Institute (ULI) Gerald D. [...]

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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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The 5th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium will take place on March 10, 2010 beginning at 1:00 p.m. in the McKimmon’s Center on NC State University’s campus.
Eleven graduate students from the College of Design will be participating during the poster session and competition. Those students are: Tim Bennett (Industrial Design), Peter Carrasquillo (Industrial Design), Brooke [...]

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January 12th Early Registration Deadline Approaching!
The third biennial NC State Master of Graphic Design graduate symposium is just around the corner. We want to hear what you have to say! http://www.ncsu.edu/graphicdesign/GradSymposium2010/
The time: January 22–23, 2010
The place: College of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
The topic: The rhetoric of authenticity within design [...]

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Assistant Professor of Industrial Design and Director of the Research in Ergonomics and Design Laboratory Dr. Sharon Joines was recently published in the NeuroRehabilitation Journal Volume 25, Number 3 for an article on “Enhancing quality of life through Universal Design”. To read the article visit: http://iospress.metapress.com/content/a817vv426rt1209t/?p=7fcf97a708bc43bebf67713be177dbf4&pi=2

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Director of the Downtown Design Studio Dr. Celen Pasalar contributed as a guest correspondent for an article in The News & Observer in regards to Raleigh’s City Plaza. To read the story visit: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local_state/story/156009.html

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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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The African American Music Trail Kinston, NC Pilot Study
Project Brief
NC State College of Design faculty were asked by the North Carolina Arts Council (NCAC) and Kinston Community Council for the Arts (KCCA) to develop a pilot process for locating a trail interpreting African American music heritage in Kinston, North Carolina.  The work was supported by [...]

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The Graphic Design department will be well-represented at the weeklong event called DesignInquiry this year. Denise Gonzales Crisp, Scott Townsend and Brooke Chornyak, a second-year graduate student, have been invited to participate.
People from the U.S. and Europe will be part of DesignInquiry, which will be held in mid-June in Maine. including Peter Hall (Metropolis Magazine), [...]

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MA Design Writing Criticism students from the School of Graphic Design, London College of Communications (sponsored by Represent) invited keynote speakers, Vicky Richardson, Peter Hall and Denise Gonzales Crisp, to present at Design Council on June 3, 2009. The themes for the event were Discoveries, Contexts and Meanings, respectively.
Quotations and photos are posted on the [...]

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Kristin Hawk (M.Arch. 2008) was the first recipient of the Kohn Pedersen Fox Traveling Fellowship in Architecture from the School of Architecture at NC State University. Hawk landed in Italy in late May and forwarded her blog address to keep up with her studies.

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Graphic Design senior Rachael Huston was honored April 22 as the outstanding poster presentation by a student at the 18th Annual NC State Undergraduate Research Symposium. The NC State Chapter of Sigma Xi recognized her achievement at the Annual Spring Banquet and presented her with a Certificate of Recognition.
She worked with Ph.D. student Matthew Peterson [...]

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The Awards Program will take place Friday, May 8, 2009 at 4 p.m. in Burns Auditorium. A reception will be following the award ceremony for recipients and their families.
Graduation will be on Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 1:30 p.m. in Stewart Theatre at the Talley Student Center. For more information for the University Graduation ceremony [...]

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