DESIGNlife News

M.Arch. Student Daryl Rackley was featured in an article about a doghouse he built for the ARC 590
Design Build class. It’s in the July/August issue of Bark Magazine. Green doghouses are discussed in general and Rackley’s specifically. A picture and a diagram of Rackley’s green doghouse is included.

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National Journal features Duke University’s Ocean Conservation Center
July 2, 2009 – Duke University’s only LEED Gold-certified building – the Ocean Conservation Center in Beafort, N.C. – is featured in a case study in this month’s Environmental Design + Conservation, a professional journal and premier source for integrated high-performance building dedicated to efficient and sustainable design [...]

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Beyond the Margins, is an international programme of six symposia and workshops exploring experimental typography to be held over 2009-2011 at locations in the UK, USA, Ireland and Poland, with the inaugural event to be held in Cambridge.
The symposia and workshops will initiate and support collaboration between practitioners and researchers from a range of disciplines [...]

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Alumnus Brandon Alley’s (BAD, BTTM 2007) elementary school (China Grove) recently had a book he wrote and illustrated in Art + Design Professor Susan Toplikar’s Illustration Studio called Gary’s Barbecue published for all of their classrooms and the library. Alley went to the school and read the book to the students Friday, May 29, 2009. [...]

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The Natural Learning Initiative was featured in NC State University’s Research and Graduate Studies magazine Results. To read “Putting Active Designs into Play” download the article here.

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Professor of Architecture Thomas Barrie was co-editor of The Journal of Architectural Education issue 62.2, Immateriality in Architecture, published November 2008. For the past 60 years, the The Journal of Architectural Education has served the scholarly publication of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. The The Journal of Architectural Education is published quarterly by [...]

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Associate Professor of Graphic Design Denise Gonzales Crisp lectured at California Institute of the Arts for their graphic design program. Gonzales Crisp also lectured at the University of California at Long Beach for their College of Fine Art Visiting Artist Lecture Series during the first week of March.
Gonzales Crisp’s essay “Discourse This! Designers and Alternative [...]

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Professor Emeritus of Architecture Henry Sanoff contributed the foreword and a chapter titled “Schools Designed with Community Participation,” to the book Schools of the Future: Design Proposals from Architectural Psychology edited by Rotraut Walden and published in English and German by Hogrefe & Huber Publishers.

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The Prague Institute is featured in the Office of International Affair’s new e-newsletter covering NC State’s international news, features and events. For more information, visit: http://www.ncsu.edu/bulletin/archive/2009/02/02-26/global.php

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The Prague Institute’s instructors Nina Smetanova and Ladislav Provaan were featured in the January 2009 issue of Women’s Wear Daily Fast magazine. The article talks about Fashion Design Schools in Prague. The article also features Fall 2009 students Charlotte Guice and Katelyn Wells. To read the article, download the pdf here.

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Professor Emeritus of Architecture Henry Sanoff wrote the foreword and contributed to the book titled “Schools for the Future. Design Proposals from Architectural Psychology,” which was published by Hogrefe & Huber Publishers.

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Associate Professor of Graphic Design Scott Townsend will present on his work in the presentation: “Cross-cultural Metaphor and the Online Environment: Projects: 2006-2008, Berlin, Tokyo and the U.S.” This ongoing conference brings together academics and practitioners concerned with literacy and information technology. The previous conference was held in Beijing, PRC.

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Professor of Graphic Design Meredith Davis is cited in the new book by Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit titled “Women of Design: Influence and Inspiration from the original trailblazers to the new groundbreakers” as a trailblazer. Davis, fellow and the 2005 national medalist of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, currently serves on the AIGA [...]

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During the last six years Associate Professor of Graphic Design Scott Townsend has created site specific/online projects in Prague, Berlin, Tokyo, Havana, Tijuana, etc. and also in the United States. A 12-page visual essay will be published on this work in the international journal Visual Communication (Sage; London and New York; Theo Van Leeuwen, Teal [...]

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Alumna Diana Razulis, graduate of the Anni Albers program, was featured in an article about her current career in Imprint Magazine.
Read the article here:
http://www.imprintmagazine.org/life/professionals_textile_designer_diana_martini

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