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❤️✍️ A special message from our delightful facilities maintenance supervisor, Rob Watson:
"If during Design Camp, Summer Sessions One or Two, Immersion Week or FDOC – if you had a seat and it was neat – there are some names I`d like you to know:
Sophia Cooper, Landon Seitz, Eli Tilly, Juliet Heller, and Caleb Zander.
It was these five students who made it happen! From Brooks Hall, Kamphoefner Hall, Leazar Hall, and the first floor of 111 Lampe Drive, members of the summer crew:
🗑️ Filled the dumpster with discarded projects and trash several times over.
♻️ Recycled what they could, saving usable things like protectors, drawing pads, markers, and pencils that students left behind.
🪚 Made a goodie table for Design Campers out of leftover supplies.
🪑Moved hundreds of studio desks (which weigh approx. 161 lbs. each) so Lorenzo Wortham from Housekeeping could strip and wax floors.
🎨 Set the entire 3rd floor of Leazar Hall for Design Camp,
🔁 then reset it all for fall 2025 with the help of Design Camp Counselors.
Overall, the Summer Crew completed over ✨190✨ tasks around the college, both big and small.
A huge, undiluted, authentic, genuine THANK YOU to all of them for all they did this summer. If you see them, you should thank them too!" 🙏
🎨 Our (unofficial) fall color palette:
🍂 Cape Palliser
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🌌 Night Rider
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📔 Akaroa
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📐 Manatee
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🐺 Wolfpack Red
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Kicked off the semester the best way we know how: food, friends and gathering in the Pit.
Thanks for coming out to celebrate with us at the Back to School Barbecue! Here’s to an incredible semester ahead. 🍖🐺
Our 🧠 says it’s Monday, but our ❤️ is still stuck on Saturday.
Thank you to all of the folks who showed up to make buttons, take photos, and learn all about the joy of design at #Packapalooza!
We can’t wait to see you again next year. 🐺🤘
The crush might have canceled but there’s still:
✨ Free concerts and performances
🍔 Local food + vendors
🎉 Street festival vibes
✍️ Design ambassadors to tell you all about the COD
🐺 The whole Pack.
See you at #packapalooza!!!
Lights. Camera. HOWELL! 🎥🐺
Chancellor Kevin Howell joined Dean Mark Hoversten to tour our Virtual Production Lab, one of the newest and most dynamic spaces on campus. From architecture and UX design to augmented reality and virtual production, it`s great to have the new chancellor`s support in what’s next in design and beyond.
It`s day 3️⃣ of the semester and campus is about to get so much sweeter🍦🐺
Today is the Student Org Fair + Ice Cream Social – complete with ✨free✨ @ncstatehowlingcow ice cream!
It`s also the perfect opportunity to meet the student groups that make campus life so much richer.
At the COD, there’s a place for every interest:
🏛 Graduate + professional orgs (AGSA, PhDSA, AIAS, SASLA)
🎨 Creative + collaborative orgs (AIGA, Art2Wear, SIGGRAPH, UX/UI Tech Club, Fish Market Gallery)
🌱 Service + advocacy orgs (Freedom by Design, MDSA, NOMAS, NAMLA, Women in the Shop)
🤝 Student life + leadership orgs (Design Council)
Whether you’re passionate about architecture, graphics, landscapes, wearable art, industrial design, UI/UX, or building inclusive communities, these groups give students the chance to connect, collaborate and lead.
Stop by the steps of Leazar today to meet them in person, or follow along here as we spotlight our orgs throughout the semester.
POV: it’s day two in the studio and you just got assigned the desk with this view 😮💨
Sketchbooks ➡️ OPEN
Happy #FDOC, designers! We`re so excited to have you back. ✍️🫶🐺
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