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Design next to a window today. You won’t regret it. ✍️🪟🌨️

Design next to a window today. You won’t regret it. ✍️🪟🌨️ ...

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Design is a love language, pass it on.
Happy #ValentinesDay, Pack. 💖🐺

🎨: Caroline Coyle [B.Arch] for the 2024 Shawcroft Drawing Competition.

Design is a love language, pass it on.
Happy #ValentinesDay, Pack. 💖🐺

🎨: Caroline Coyle [B.Arch] for the 2024 Shawcroft Drawing Competition.
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Happy Wellness Day, Pack! 🧘🐺

No classes today = the perfect time to recharge. But what about the days when your to-do list feels overwhelming?

Welcome to our first Mental Health Minute - a new series where we share quick tips to support your well-being. Today, our embedded counselor, Emily, introduces the 45-15 rule: work for 45 minutes, then take a 15-minute break to reset. 

Small pauses can make a big difference in your focus and stress levels. 😎

📩🧠 Do you have a topic you’d like us to cover relating to being a design student and wellness? Let us know in the comments or send us a DM!

Happy Wellness Day, Pack! 🧘🐺

No classes today = the perfect time to recharge. But what about the days when your to-do list feels overwhelming?

Welcome to our first Mental Health Minute - a new series where we share quick tips to support your well-being. Today, our embedded counselor, Emily, introduces the 45-15 rule: work for 45 minutes, then take a 15-minute break to reset.

Small pauses can make a big difference in your focus and stress levels. 😎

📩🧠 Do you have a topic you’d like us to cover relating to being a design student and wellness? Let us know in the comments or send us a DM!
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Listen to the bricks. 🧱

Listen to the bricks. 🧱 ...

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Spring? Is that you?

Spring? Is that you? ...

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🖼️✨ How is AI reshaping artistic authorship, agency and expression? 

output:reflect:input: explores these questions through interactive and traditional media, showcasing work by artists Pat Fitzgerald (COD’s Director of Graduate Programs in MADTech), Ian Boyd (MAD ‘24) and local  artist Allison Coleman. Special thanks to Lee Cherry and Mike Cindric for their contributions.

📍 Birdland, 706 Mountford Ave, Raleigh, NC
🗓️ Exhibition: Feb. 1–23, 2025
🎉 Free opening reception: Feb. 1, 3–5 p.m.

Step into this evolving dialogue between art and AI, produced by @the.grid.project. Learn more about the show at the link in our bio!

🖼️✨ How is AI reshaping artistic authorship, agency and expression?

output:reflect:input: explores these questions through interactive and traditional media, showcasing work by artists Pat Fitzgerald (COD’s Director of Graduate Programs in MADTech), Ian Boyd (MAD ‘24) and local artist Allison Coleman. Special thanks to Lee Cherry and Mike Cindric for their contributions.

📍 Birdland, 706 Mountford Ave, Raleigh, NC
🗓️ Exhibition: Feb. 1–23, 2025
🎉 Free opening reception: Feb. 1, 3–5 p.m.

Step into this evolving dialogue between art and AI, produced by @the.grid.project. Learn more about the show at the link in our bio!
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Just another mocap Monday. 🕺🎥🎬

Just another mocap Monday. 🕺🎥🎬 ...

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Obsessed. ❄️🐺❤️
📸: @design.con.cept

Obsessed. ❄️🐺❤️
📸: @design.con.cept
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POV: It’s 2003, and you just set your AIM away message because it's time to kick it with your friends in the studio. 🐺🤘

📸 Feeling nostalgic? #HowlBack, and tag us in your favorite throwback pic from your time at the COD!

POV: It’s 2003, and you just set your AIM away message because it`s time to kick it with your friends in the studio. 🐺🤘

📸 Feeling nostalgic? #HowlBack, and tag us in your favorite throwback pic from your time at the COD!
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Our 🧠 is saying don't slip on the bricks but our ❤️ is wondering which hill is best for sledding.

Seriously, though. Please be careful with the bricks.

Our 🧠 is saying don`t slip on the bricks but our ❤️ is wondering which hill is best for sledding.

Seriously, though. Please be careful with the bricks.
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student drawing on ipad

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