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Professor Emeritus of Architecture Henry Sanoff was invited to lecture on School Design at Drexel University in Philadelphia on October 29.
Sanoff’s book, “Democratic Design: Participation Case Studies in Urban and Small Town Environments” was published by VDM.
Architecture Teaching Fellow Katrina Stoll’s book and project from the Venice Biennale was noted in the November 2010 issue [...]

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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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Three design professors from the NC State University College of Design participated as panelists in the artist selection for the All-America Park Public Art Project on October 29th.
Assistant Professor Kofi Boone, Associate Professor Fernando Magallanes of the Landscape Architecture Department and Assistant Art + Design Professor McArthur Freeman all took part. Boone and [...]

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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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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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Santiago Piedrafita, Head of the Department of Graphic Design and Industrial Design at the NC State University College of Design, will be one of the featured conversationalists for TEDxNCSU, part of the prestigious TEDTallks series, on Oct. 23.
Piedrafita will be engaged in a conversation on the topic of “What Really Matters?” with Dr. John [...]

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Matthew Gilbride’s “Elements” provides lighting, heating, and cooling features in a scalable package.

Those with an eye for design know how to spot patterns.

One obvious pattern: yet another industrial design student from the College of Design has placed in a prestigious product design competition.

The Design Lab Competition sponsored by Electrolux asked design students to imagine [...]

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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 Product Innovation Lab - a graduate-level course co-founded by Professor of Industrial Design Haig Khachatoorian was - was recently chosen by Forbes Magazine as one of the Top 10 innovative business school courses in the United States.
Khachatoorian founded the course 15 years ago with colleagues Dr. Mitzi Montoya, formerly of the College of [...]

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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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Congratulations to Industrial Design student Steven Ryan Valenziano for winning the Undergraduate Research Award (one of thirty awards for the university). Steven presented his work on Universal Design Cookware: Making Cooking Safer and Easier for Everyone at 19th Annual NC State Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium. Steven received his award at the Sigma Xi Scientific [...]

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Studio Collective is an annual event in which the College of Design opens its doors for the community and university to visit the studios, see work displayed, and meet students. It is a unique opportunity to see a design exhibition in the very place where the work is done and to gain insight as to [...]

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Industrial Design students under the direction of Associate Professor of Industrial Design Bong-Il Jin have placed first, second, third and fifth in the New York International Automobile Show. The students will be invited to accept their scholarships and give a brief statement about their projects at the World Traffic Safety Symposium on Friday, April 9, [...]

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