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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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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World-renowned Architect Eduardo Catalano passed away last week in Massachusetts. He was 92.
Catalano was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and came to the United States on scholarships to the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. Catalano taught at the Architectural Association in London until 1951 before relocating back to the United States in Raleigh, NC. [...]

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The National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is requesting the applications for its 2010-2011 Study Abroad grant program. Both members of Phi Kappa Phi, as well as non-members are eligible to apply. Phi Kappa Phi is a national honor society establishedin 1897 to recognize and promote academic excellence in all disciplines of higher education. [...]

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Are you planning to study abroad in the upcoming Spring or Summer Semesters?
There is a terrific scholarship opportunity open to any college of design student who has reached at least your junior year and who is planning to study abroad. It does not matter where you are going, but only that you have a desire [...]

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Application deadline is February 3, 2010
Each year the North Carolina State University chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is invited to nominate one of its graduating seniors for a Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship. You are among a small number of outstanding NC students who are being invited to apply for this [...]

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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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Associate Professor of Graphic Design Kermit Bailey is the principal investigator on research titled “Mapping Cultural Legacy in The South Park-East.” Bailey received one of the University Extension, Engagement, and Economic Development Grants for $10,000.

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Associate Professor Vita Plume (Art + Design) is exhibiting her work in a group exhibition, Lieux de mémoire at the Moulin de la Chevrotiere, Deschambault-Grondines. This is one of three exhibitions that make up this year’s International Biennial of Linen in Portneuf, Quebec (on the St. Lawrence River, 30 minutes west of Quebec City). The [...]

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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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Department Head Gene Bressler, FASLA, has been appointed by Governor Bev Perdue to serve on the North Carolina Board of Landscape Architecture.
Head of the Center for Universal Design and Adjunct Architecture Faculty Member Sean Vance, AIA, has been appointed by the Governor to serve on the North Carolina Board of Architecture.
Both begin their terms effective [...]

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AIA Triangle President Mark Reyer (BEDA 1991; M.Arch. 1994) and golf tournament coordinator Rich Roberts present Dean Marvin J. Malecha with a check from AIA Triangle that represents the proceeds from their annual golf tournament and this year’s winter social Architini. The funds are to establish a new scholarship for the benefit of students studying [...]

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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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Architecture student Jayne Goethe was awarded a University Honors Program Undergraduate Research Award for her proposal which will fund a project to be performed during Summer 2009. Goethe will be helping to start a summer camp for kids in an eastern European community this summer.

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Kristin Ann Cunningham and Amy Gardner Schlosser were chosen as Caldwell Fellows for the Class of 2012. Caldwell Fellowships are the only university-wide merit award for first-year students at NC State. Through a rigorous selection process each spring, about twenty-five new Fellows are selected from among the freshman class. Fellows receive a three-year tuition allotment, [...]

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