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Fold it, twist it, cut it, stitch it, glue it, wear it. Welcome to Constructing Relationships - the first step to great design @ncstate.💡✂️📄
This exhibition showcases the first design project freshmen tackle when joining the College of Design. Students take a subject matter that they have intimately known for their entire life: their body and their relationships with the people around them, and they make them the sites of design interventions.
Students observe and document these “sites” with intent and purpose, creating a new and deeper understanding of otherwise familiar subjects.
Methods of abstraction and translation are integral to the design process, giving students the ability to take in familiar objects, situations, and contexts and output novel and poignant design interventions.
In this assignment students create a wearable/inhabitable structure that examines how we relate to one another. The primary material of construction must be paper. The pieces should raise the viewer’s awareness of interpersonal relationships in profound and nuanced ways.
How students choose to highlight concepts on connection/ interaction/similarity vs difference/ interdependence depends a great deal on what aspects they deem important and what they would like to communicate to you, their audience.
To conceive, develop, and materialize this project students have worked in groups of 2-3 over 4 1/2 weeks. Their concepts grew from the unique attributes of their group and their relationships, the context they find themselves in (i.e. joining a new community here at the College of Design in the midst of a society-wide loneliness epidemic), and their material research into paper.
Across this project students worked iteratively and non-linearly, exploring a variety of strategies that are commonly utilized in the design process.
Be sure to check out the exhibition in Brooks Hall whenever you’re on campus to get the full experience!
Fold it, twist it, cut it, stitch it, glue it, wear it. Welcome to Constructing Relationships - the first step to great design @ncstate.💡✂️📄
This exhibition showcases the first design project freshmen tackle when joining the College of Design. Students take a subject matter that they have intimately known for their entire life: their body and their relationships with the people around them, and they make them the sites of design interventions.
Students observe and document these “sites” with intent and purpose, creating a new and deeper understanding of otherwise familiar subjects.
Methods of abstraction and translation are integral to the design process, giving students the ability to take in familiar objects, situations, and contexts and output novel and poignant design interventions.
In this assignment students create a wearable/inhabitable structure that examines how we relate to one another. The primary material of construction must be paper. The pieces should raise the viewer’s awareness of interpersonal relationships in profound and nuanced ways.
How students choose to highlight concepts on connection/ interaction/similarity vs difference/ interdependence depends a great deal on what aspects they deem important and what they would like to communicate to you, their audience.
To conceive, develop, and materialize this project students have worked in groups of 2-3 over 4 1/2 weeks. Their concepts grew from the unique attributes of their group and their relationships, the context they find themselves in (i.e. joining a new community here at the College of Design in the midst of a society-wide loneliness epidemic), and their material research into paper.
Across this project students worked iteratively and non-linearly, exploring a variety of strategies that are commonly utilized in the design process.
Be sure to check out the exhibition in Brooks Hall whenever you’re on campus to get the full experience!
Designers aren’t *that* scary. Right?
Happy Halloween! 🐈⬛🎃🕯️
Going into this weekend feeling ✨💖 refreshed ✨💖
Thank you to all the designers who showed up to RefreshFest this week! We hope you found some books, got some stickers and pet some sweet sweet therapy dogs. 🐕 📚
Going into this weekend feeling ✨💖 refreshed ✨💖
Thank you to all the designers who showed up to RefreshFest this week! We hope you found some books, got some stickers and pet some sweet sweet therapy dogs. 🐕 📚
We can’t wait to see all the new faces coming to learn about our undergrad programs during open house this weekend! ❤️🐺
🗣️ Let us know in the comments what program you’re most excited to learn about!
We can’t wait to see all the new faces coming to learn about our undergrad programs during open house this weekend! ❤️🐺
🗣️ Let us know in the comments what program you’re most excited to learn about!
May your fall break be as peaceful as the sunrise through the windows of your favorite studio 🌅
May your fall break be as peaceful as the sunrise through the windows of your favorite studio 🌅
One minute and three seconds of Fall at NC State. 🍂🍁
When we say Design is for everyone, we mean ✨💖e v e r y o n e💖✨
Thank you for turning out for #NCStatePrideFest, Wolfpack! 🏳️🌈🐺🫶
When we say Design is for everyone, we mean ✨💖e v e r y o n e💖✨
Thank you for turning out for #NCStatePrideFest, Wolfpack! 🏳️🌈🐺🫶
The week might be ending, but great design is timeless. 🌅
What happens when innovative design meets cutting-edge analysis? 💡🔍
This year, NC State’s Master of Graphic & Experience Design (MGXD) students partnered with the @ncstate Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS) to reimagine how analysts tackle challenges at every stage of their careers.
While the students were eager to start the assignment, LAS wanted to ensure they had the tools necessary to tackle this complicated task. Led by Professor Helen Armstrong, the graduate students were divided into four groups and given a persona along with a fictional scenario.
Students also interviewed real-world intelligence analysts to understand how these pain points affect daily workflows. Taking this information, they set about their work via user experience (UX) design methods to research and develop innovative solutions that addressed user pain points and unique design criteria.
LAS mentors met with students multiple times both virtually and in person to answer questions and to give feedback on prototypes created.
Learn more about the four prototypes developed by Professor Armstrong`s students in our bio!
What happens when innovative design meets cutting-edge analysis? 💡🔍
This year, NC State’s Master of Graphic & Experience Design (MGXD) students partnered with the @ncstate Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS) to reimagine how analysts tackle challenges at every stage of their careers.
While the students were eager to start the assignment, LAS wanted to ensure they had the tools necessary to tackle this complicated task. Led by Professor Helen Armstrong, the graduate students were divided into four groups and given a persona along with a fictional scenario.
Students also interviewed real-world intelligence analysts to understand how these pain points affect daily workflows. Taking this information, they set about their work via user experience (UX) design methods to research and develop innovative solutions that addressed user pain points and unique design criteria.
LAS mentors met with students multiple times both virtually and in person to answer questions and to give feedback on prototypes created.
Learn more about the four prototypes developed by Professor Armstrong`s students in our bio!
Once more, @ncstatelaep students are bringing home national awards! 🏆🐺
The Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning is thrilled to share that student teams won @nationalasla awards for the fourth year in a row. Since 2020, student teams in the Master of Landscape Architecture program have won 12 awards nationally.
✍️ About the Projects:
📸 The Long Marsh Forward: Adaptive Regeneration of Belville’s Riverfront
🏆 Honor Award | General Design
🎓 Students: Ryan Anderson, Associate ASLA; Hannah Clarke, Student ASLA
🧑🏫 Faculty Advisors: Andrew Fox, FASLA; Claire Henkel, Associate ASLA
📸 Riverside Revival: Urban Design Strategies for Coastal Development
🏆 Honor Award | Urban Design
🎓 Students: Jules Mainor, Student ASLA; Anna Desmone, Student ASLA; Jui Dudhiya, Associate ASLA; Tatiana Veloso, Associate ASLA; Omori Yui, Student International ASLA
🧑🏫 Faculty Advisors: Andrew Fox, FASLA; Claire Henkel, Associate ASLA
🔗 Learn more about the winning projects in our bio!
Once more, @ncstatelaep students are bringing home national awards! 🏆🐺
The Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning is thrilled to share that student teams won @nationalasla awards for the fourth year in a row. Since 2020, student teams in the Master of Landscape Architecture program have won 12 awards nationally.
✍️ About the Projects:
📸 The Long Marsh Forward: Adaptive Regeneration of Belville’s Riverfront
🏆 Honor Award | General Design
🎓 Students: Ryan Anderson, Associate ASLA; Hannah Clarke, Student ASLA
🧑🏫 Faculty Advisors: Andrew Fox, FASLA; Claire Henkel, Associate ASLA
📸 Riverside Revival: Urban Design Strategies for Coastal Development
🏆 Honor Award | Urban Design
🎓 Students: Jules Mainor, Student ASLA; Anna Desmone, Student ASLA; Jui Dudhiya, Associate ASLA; Tatiana Veloso, Associate ASLA; Omori Yui, Student International ASLA
🧑🏫 Faculty Advisors: Andrew Fox, FASLA; Claire Henkel, Associate ASLA
🔗 Learn more about the winning projects in our bio!
Happy #919Day to everyone who drives around Raleigh telling their friends, "Hey, I know who designed that!" 🌆🐺
We all do that, right? 🤔
J.S. Dorton Arena is easily one of the most iconic buildings in Raleigh, designed by architect and founding professor at the School of Design, Matthew Nowicki. Sadly, he was killed in an airplane crash before the construction phase, and local architect William Henley Dietrick supervised the completion of the arena using Nowicki`s innovative design. Incorporating an unusual elliptical design by Matthew Nowicki, the arena was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1973.
The building`s structure is unique, featuring a cable-supported saddle-shaped roof in tension, held up by parabolic concrete arches in compression. The arches cross about 20 feet above ground level and continue underground, where the ends of the arches are held together by more steel cables in tension.
📸: @ncsulibraries Special Collections
Happy #919Day to everyone who drives around Raleigh telling their friends, "Hey, I know who designed that!" 🌆🐺
We all do that, right? 🤔
J.S. Dorton Arena is easily one of the most iconic buildings in Raleigh, designed by architect and founding professor at the School of Design, Matthew Nowicki. Sadly, he was killed in an airplane crash before the construction phase, and local architect William Henley Dietrick supervised the completion of the arena using Nowicki`s innovative design. Incorporating an unusual elliptical design by Matthew Nowicki, the arena was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1973.
The building`s structure is unique, featuring a cable-supported saddle-shaped roof in tension, held up by parabolic concrete arches in compression. The arches cross about 20 feet above ground level and continue underground, where the ends of the arches are held together by more steel cables in tension.
📸: @ncsulibraries Special Collections
Reds, whites, rains. 🔴⚪️☔️
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