DESIGNlife News

Landscape Architecture alumnus Richard C. Bell (1950) will address a special symposium on the work and influence of pioneering landscape architect John O. Simonds, to be held in the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, on November 6. For more information, visit:

http://wake.mync.com/site/wake/news|Sports|Lifestyles/story/43695/NC_Landscape_Architect_To_Address_Pittsburgh_Symposium

Centennial Campus spearheaded by dean emeritus Claude McKinney celebrated 25 years as a park for public and private entities to work together in an academic atmosphere. To read more visit The News & Observer article at: http://www.newsobserver.com/home/story/154078.html

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

http://www.newsobserver.com/lifestyles/story/153530.html

Wendy Redfield, associate professor of architecture, curated an exhibit of student work from a previous studio for the Lodi Project, a local gallery. Evocations of Space opens Friday.

Redfield, a registered architect, has been a faculty member since 1998. Her teaching was recognized nationally in 2004 with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture New Faculty Teaching Award. She practiced architecture in Charlottesville, Va., and San Francisco and continues to pursue design projects through the university’s extension and outreach program.

BASH was held on October 30 with a best costume contest with contestants dressed up in a whole slew of get-ups ranging from the Burger King to a black and white television. The winner for the single’s category goes to the Barrel Monster Girl. The winner’s of the group category goes to a loaf of sliced bread with a side of butter.

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 Graduate Programs
Leazar Hall 310

3:25 – 3:40
Financial Aid Q + A
Leazar Hall 310

3:40 – 5:30
Break-out Groups by Department: Program-specific Information Sessions
Various Locations

5:30 – 6:30
Mix-and-Mingle with Current Graduate Students
Restaurant TBD
7:00 – 8:30
Lecture: Monica Ponce de Leon
Kamphoefner Hall – Burns Auditorium

Since its inception over 25 years ago, Design Camp has exposed more than 2,000 high school students to the exciting world of design. Design Camp informs students about college study in design and raises awareness of the impact of art and design through a series of weeklong summer programs. Due to increased popularity, Design Camp has become an outreach program of CAM (Contemporary Art Museum). CAM joined the College of Design in February 2006, becoming the lead component in the college’s Art + Design in the Community Initiative.

Design Camp students work with College of Design faculty and graduate students on projects involving each discipline offered at the college– architecture, landscape architecture, industrial design, art + design and graphic design. Camp projects challenge students to explore their creativity and critical-thinking skills while pushing them to try a range of techniques and media. In addition to studio projects, students will attend presentations from highly respected design professionals.

2010 Camp Dates:

Design Camp/Overnight 1: June 20-26
Design Camp/Day: July 11-16
Design Camp/Overnight 2: July 25-31

For more information regarding Design Camp and Information for Potential Instructor’s, please download the pdf : Design Camp Information

Contact: Nicole Welch
CAM, Curator of Education
nicole_welch@ncsu.edu
919-513-2164
www.cam.ncsu.edu

Plans for our digital arts and humanities festival CHAT (Collaborations: Humanities, Arts & Technology), schedule for Feb. 16-20, 2010, are well under way!

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities has been busy building out a great schedule of discussions, exhibitions, performances and workshops through partnerships we’ve made across campus and the Triangle region. I’ve attached our first press release, which provides a festival overview, and you can visit our Web site for the latest updates: http://iah.unc.edu/chat.

Also, please see the notice below regarding one of our first CHAT festival events, the arrival of Clifford Owens, a visiting artist who features in John Bowles’ performance archive project. The Art department and Process Series will hold a number of events Nov. 3-Dec. 2 centered on Owens’s work that we hope you’ll be able to attend.

The 4th annual portfolio review provides an opportunity to students to personally meet with professionals in a low-pressure environment and get feedback on portfolio content and layout. It’s a perfect opportunity for underclassmen to learn about creating a portfolio and learning job skills, and for upperclassmen to tweak their portfolios to get ready for job-hunting.

The review will be held in Leazar Hall, with an intro and Q+A session in Burns Auditorium at 10 a.m. on Saturday, November 14.

Check out the blog for registration info and the tentative schedule.

Gregg Museum of Art & Design will have an opening reception Thursday, October 22 from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. for “Hang It Up!” an exhibition of work by NC State University students, faculty and alumni.

The exhibition will be up from October 22 - December 19. NC State University Student Body President Jim Ceresnak will speak at the opening reception.

Also on exhibit will be recent gifts of Native American Art from the Collection of Drs. Norman and Gilda Greenberg.

For more information contact Zoe Starling, Curator of Education, Gregg Museum of Art & Design at 919-513-7244 or visit http://www.ncsu.edu/gregg

Are you an architecture student? Do you want to play a role in shaping the design future of Hillsborough Street? If so, please attend our design charette for the re-envisioning of the Unknown Gamer space in the Electric Co Mall on Hillsborough Street.

The event will be on Wednesday, October 28th from 5 until 7pm at Amore’s pizza. Free food will be provided by Amores and New City will provide trace paper, base plans, photos and will offer design facilitation. If the owner, David Revere, decides to go with a student’s design, that individual may receive an internship with New City Design Studio to see the project through to completion and help make their design dream a reality. This may also be the first in a series of design charettes.

Please RSVP asap to Jenn Halweil at ceo@legacyeventplanners.org if you are interested as space is limited. Also, include your credentials including your educational background, relevant experience, and why you wish to be a part of this project. If you know any architecture students that may be interested, please forward them this as well.

“Zoom Raleigh” developed under the direction of Associate Professor of Art + Design Pat FitzGerald and the Advanced Media Lab will be on display in downtown Raleigh from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday at the Urban Design Center and Fish Market Gallery at 133 Fayetteville Street. For more information visit: http://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/story/144525.html

Master of Industrial Design student Jon Yu was featured on Yanko Design for his “House///Gras” living wall clock. The design blog posted a DIY Grass Clock that Yu had designed for a summer studio project with Associate Professor of Industrial Design Bong-Il Jin. Read the article at: http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/09/21/diy-grass-clock/ as well as additional online coverage here.

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 a Creative Economies Grant.

Kinston is home to an extraordinary collection of musicians, performers and songwriters. Little Eva, writer and singer of “The Locomotion”, and Maceo Parker, long time bandleader for James Brown are both Kinston natives. Additionally, famous artists from Louis Armstrong to Ella Fitzgerald performed in town.

The design team was asked to develop preliminary concepts for interpretive public art in key locations, as well as interactive media. The concepts utilize publically owned sites through municipal and county license agreements with the NCAC.  Conceptual design will frame Request for Qualifications (RFQs) for artists to design commission work, including public art enhancements and interactive computer kiosks. Lessons learned from the pilot process will be extended to an eight-county region.
Design Team:
Kofi Boone, ASLA
Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture
NC State University, College of Design

Patrick J. Fitzgerald
Associate Professor, Department of Art+Design
NC State University, College of Design

Dr. Celen Pasalar
Director, Downtown Design Studio
NC State University, College of Design

Kiddee Charoenpanitkul
Design Intern (MLA 2009)

Darren Sandvik
Design Intern (MLA 2008)

Dean Marvin Malecha, FAIA, was recently quoted in the Staten Island Advance while speaking at a commencement ceremony in San Diego, CA. Malecha noted the important role that architects and designers have in the community. Read more at http://www.silive.com/homegarden/interiordesign/index.ssf/2009/10/national_kitchen_and_bath_mont.html

ATLANTA - To Kick off their 2009/2010 season, the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) partners with the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System to present a dual location exhibit featuring the work of world-renowned furniture designer and architect Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), arguably one of the most influential designers of the modernist period. Open to the public October 27-January 16, 2010, the exhibit will be housed at both the MODA galleries and Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System’s Central Library, the last major public building Breuer designed.

“I can think of no better place to celebrate the architectural work of Marcel Breuer than in one of his own buildings,” said Brenda Galina, executive director of MODA. ” We are honored to share this special exhibit with the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System and give Atlantans this unique opportunity to experience the work of this important and innovative designer.” Read more.

Press Contacts:

Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System
Kelly Robinson - 404 730 1865
kelly.robinson@fultoncountyga.gov

Museum of Design Atlanta
Amanda Leesburg - 404 842 0040
amanda@leesburgpr.com

University Open House is Saturday, October 17 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. There will be a booth and design representatives to answer questions at the Open House and at the College of Design (Brooks Hall).

The College of Design has a new electronic portfolio process for undergraduate students:
- Applications for studio based curricula must be received and complete by November 1 for consideration for Fall 2010 admission.
- Instructions for on-line submission of the portfolio and essay requirements can be found here.

In Digital Imaging Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art + Design and alumna Amanda Robertson and Associate Professor of Art + Design Pat FitzGerald have been exploring ways to teach a critique-based design course in an online environment. This course covers a wide range of concepts, theories and skills through a variety of industry-standard software applications. It is a freshman course required of all majors in the Department of Art + Design, yet has attracted students of all majors, classes and disciplines across NC State. It was developed this past year to be taught fully online as the first critique-based distance education course in the College of Design.

Critique is a fundamental part of most design courses. Through critique, students learn how to design by processing the feedback received on their work and that of their colleagues, and by critically analyzing and intuitively applying this feedback as part of their approach in subsequent designs. Critique is fluid and impromptu; it is most successful when several individuals participate simultaneously. Given this, it has until recently been a challenge to effectively teach a critique-based design course fully online. [Read more →]

Alumni well represented in AIA South Atlantic Region Awards. Congratulations to all.

Honor Awards:

Prairie Ridge Ecostation
Frank Harmon Architect PA
Frank Harmon, FAIA, Professor of Architecture

McKinney Ad Agency
Duda/Paine Architects, LLP
Turan Duda, AIA (EDA 1976) (President, Design Guild)

Park Shops (on NC State Campus)
Mathematics + Statistics Building (SAS Hall on NC State Campus)
Laurel Park Elementary School
Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee, PA
Irvin A. Pierce, AIA (EDA 1968)
Douglas M. Brinkley, AIA (EDA 1974)
H. Clymer Cease, Jr., AIA (EDA 1974)
Donna Ward Francis, AIA (EDA 1978; M.Arch 1984)
Jeffrey S. Lee, FAIA (EDA 1975)
H.M. Nance, Jr., PE (BS Civil Eng. 1967)
Chadwick S. Roberson, AIA (EDA 1993)
Dennis E. Stallings, AIA (EDA 1984; M.Arch 1988)

Hudson
Clearscapes, PA
Steven D. Schuster, AIA (EDA 1973)

Bio-manufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise Facility (BRITE) at NCCU
O’Brien Atkins Associates and The Freelon Group (2 awards for Freelon Group)
Wiliam L. O’Brien, Jr., FAIA (EDA 1962)
John L. Atkins III, FAIA (EDA 1966)
Philip G. Freelon, FAIA (EDA 1975)
Timothy F. Winstead, AIA (EDA 1981; B.Arch 1983)

Art as Shelter, NC Museum of Art
Tonic Design with Mike Cindric
VIncent Petrarca, (EDA 1994, B.Arch 1999)
Heather Washburn, AIA, (EDA+BID 1998; B.Arch 1999)
Mike Cindric, (M.Arch 1989)

Merit Awards:
Leazar Hall Renovation and Addition (on NC State Campus)
Cannon Architects
Susan Cole Cannon, AIA (EDA 1978)
Roger Cannon, FAIA (M.Arch 1979)

Brick Design Award:
Durham County Regional Library Prototype: North Branch
The Freelon Group
Philip G. Freelon, FAIA (EDA 1975)
Timothy F. Winstead, AIA (EDA 1981;B.Arch 1983)

Industrial Design Senior Ali Sutton-Settimi won the $5,000 Formula scholarship for “Esteem” in the 2009 MDRA Boat Design Competition.

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Bachelor of Product Design alumnus Franklin Bost was promoted to Professor of Practice at the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.

Associate Professor of Graphic Design Scott Townsend will be on a short residency at the National Museum in Lithuania in early October in conjunction with his exhibition. Townsend will also be speaking at Vytautas Magnus University, Art History and Criticism department in Kaunas, Lithuania on his recent works and projects in the Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, United States, Cuba and Lithuania.

Professor of Graphic Design Denise Gonzales Crisp was a visiting lecturer at the College of Art and Art History at the University of Missouri in St. Louis, MO on September 24.

Gonzales Crisp will be a main stage presenter at the ATypI International Typography Conference in Mexico City on October 29.

Professor Emeritus of Architecture Henry Sanoff was appointed by the Commissioner of Labor to the NC Agricultural Safety and Health Advisory Council as a representative for migrant health and housing advocacy for a two year term. The 15 member council consults and advises the Commissioner on policy matters in agriculture-related industries.

Sanoff also has an article in a German publication: Schulen und Kindertagesstatten entitled, “Schulhausbau. Der Stand der Dinge” in the June 2009 issue.

Art to Wear 2010 needs a logo and is holding a student design competition. The winner will receive $200 and the winning design will be used for programs, posters, t-shirts and more. The winning student designer will also be heavily involved with the creation of the promotional materials. The deadline for submissions is November 6 at 5 p.m. Send submissions to ncsuarttowear@gmail.com