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Design. Rewind. Repeat. 📹📼🎬
Josue Avalos (@josueavalosdesign) is an undergraduate Graphic and Experience Design student at the COD, and he`s driven to create meaningful work regardless of the medium.
"In the simplest sense, I love to create cool things. I try to wake up every morning and feel inspired by even the smallest things around me. For some reason, my best ideas always seem to appear from unexpected places. This idea to record with a VHS camera was a complete accident. I was searching for a (more modern) video camera for another project and stumbled upon my dad`s old camera, one he used before I was born. I decided to start playing with it and see what I could make."
🗣 Are you a student with a story to tell? We`re collecting student-generated content to showcase on our website and social media channels! Personal and studio projects and anything else that might tell the story of your life at the College of Design are welcome.
💌 DM us for more details!
Design. Rewind. Repeat. 📹📼🎬
Josue Avalos (@josueavalosdesign) is an undergraduate Graphic and Experience Design student at the COD, and he`s driven to create meaningful work regardless of the medium.
"In the simplest sense, I love to create cool things. I try to wake up every morning and feel inspired by even the smallest things around me. For some reason, my best ideas always seem to appear from unexpected places. This idea to record with a VHS camera was a complete accident. I was searching for a (more modern) video camera for another project and stumbled upon my dad`s old camera, one he used before I was born. I decided to start playing with it and see what I could make."
🗣 Are you a student with a story to tell? We`re collecting student-generated content to showcase on our website and social media channels! Personal and studio projects and anything else that might tell the story of your life at the College of Design are welcome.
💌 DM us for more details!
Clean desk? Never heard of it. 💅✨
We`re grateful for a lot of things, but we`re especially grateful to be a part of this Pack. 🦃♥️🐺
Happy Thanksgiving, designers.
We`re grateful for a lot of things, but we`re especially grateful to be a part of this Pack. 🦃♥️🐺
Happy Thanksgiving, designers.
In celebration of the newly opened Blow Up II exhibition at @ncstategreggmuseum, we would like to introduce Kikko - an inflatable character collaged from repurposed material from @pneuhaus. 🎈🐺
Architecture students Liz Braaksma, Katherine Brooks, and industrial design student Matthew Ramirez crafted Kikko as part of an independent study group led by Assistant Professor Shawn Protz.
Inflatable projects have a long history at the College of Design dating back to its founding in 1948. The often unique and whimsical experiments also serve as key lessons in designing with lightweight and soft construction methods featuring inflatable structures created by students and faculty.
In celebration of the newly opened Blow Up II exhibition at @ncstategreggmuseum, we would like to introduce Kikko - an inflatable character collaged from repurposed material from @pneuhaus. 🎈🐺
Architecture students Liz Braaksma, Katherine Brooks, and industrial design student Matthew Ramirez crafted Kikko as part of an independent study group led by Assistant Professor Shawn Protz.
Inflatable projects have a long history at the College of Design dating back to its founding in 1948. The often unique and whimsical experiments also serve as key lessons in designing with lightweight and soft construction methods featuring inflatable structures created by students and faculty.
The vibe is vibin’ 🍂🍁
Presenting “Sweet Dreams” by Team Memeow 🌠🍭🛌
🧑🎨 Avery Szakacs, Lucy Osborn, Sho Hernandez, Sophie Gabriel, Wylie Phu
🏷 @averyszart, @luxcorale, @marushape, @sophiecgart, @wyliesart
📓 ADN 460 - Creative Technology Studio II with Professor Iyare Oronsaye
“Our team settled on a story involving the wonders of the night, and how a familiar landscape can become unknown under the cover of darkness. We wanted the viewers to feel Benson’s emotions, the joys and fears that come with being a young kid exploring the house at night. We mapped out a rough storyboard with our updated story and went right into production. Avery redesigned Benson, and Sho redesigned Beary, our seemingly sentient bear.
After our character design was decided on, we moved on to our color script. We wanted to really focus on atmosphere and lighting, so we decided on an orange-blue color scheme with the warm orange serving as our light and the cool blue encompassing darkness and the unknown. After Wylie and Sophie modeled our base house in the Sims 4, Wylie got to work on the backgrounds. Each background you see is drawn, colored, and shaded by Wylie. Sophie did all of the rough animations for our short - Sho and Avery would then go in and clean up the animations that Sophie created. After the line art for the animations was drawn, Lucy, Sophie, and Sho colored in the flats. Sho and Avery then went in and added shading to these scenes. Post-production was spearheaded by Lucy, our editor. She put all our clips together, managed timing, and added sound effects. Most of the sounds you hear are foley from Lucy herself, such as Benson’s footsteps. Sophie created the music you hear in Garageband.
While we had designated roles, everyone did a little bit of everything; Wylie animated the close-up reaction shots, Lucy helped with coloring in flats for the animations and backgrounds, Sophie also aided in flats as well as cleaning up the animation and title/credits animation, Sho and Lucy aided in the creation of the color script, and Avery was the voice actor for Benson. We are extremely proud of our group, they all worked so hard and we think that effort is seen in our end result.”
Presenting “Sweet Dreams” by Team Memeow 🌠🍭🛌
🧑🎨 Avery Szakacs, Lucy Osborn, Sho Hernandez, Sophie Gabriel, Wylie Phu
🏷 @averyszart, @luxcorale, @marushape, @sophiecgart, @wyliesart
📓 ADN 460 - Creative Technology Studio II with Professor Iyare Oronsaye
“Our team settled on a story involving the wonders of the night, and how a familiar landscape can become unknown under the cover of darkness. We wanted the viewers to feel Benson’s emotions, the joys and fears that come with being a young kid exploring the house at night. We mapped out a rough storyboard with our updated story and went right into production. Avery redesigned Benson, and Sho redesigned Beary, our seemingly sentient bear.
After our character design was decided on, we moved on to our color script. We wanted to really focus on atmosphere and lighting, so we decided on an orange-blue color scheme with the warm orange serving as our light and the cool blue encompassing darkness and the unknown. After Wylie and Sophie modeled our base house in the Sims 4, Wylie got to work on the backgrounds. Each background you see is drawn, colored, and shaded by Wylie. Sophie did all of the rough animations for our short - Sho and Avery would then go in and clean up the animations that Sophie created. After the line art for the animations was drawn, Lucy, Sophie, and Sho colored in the flats. Sho and Avery then went in and added shading to these scenes. Post-production was spearheaded by Lucy, our editor. She put all our clips together, managed timing, and added sound effects. Most of the sounds you hear are foley from Lucy herself, such as Benson’s footsteps. Sophie created the music you hear in Garageband.
While we had designated roles, everyone did a little bit of everything; Wylie animated the close-up reaction shots, Lucy helped with coloring in flats for the animations and backgrounds, Sophie also aided in flats as well as cleaning up the animation and title/credits animation, Sho and Lucy aided in the creation of the color script, and Avery was the voice actor for Benson. We are extremely proud of our group, they all worked so hard and we think that effort is seen in our end result.”
First-year @ncstate_architecture student Ashtyn Thomas has been crowned Miss Lumbee 2023. Now, she`s advocating for representation, mentorship and cultural education while studying at the College of Design. 🐺👑
“By going into architecture, I want to show young women that you can step outside of the box. You may have to leave the community and find a new one, like I am doing at NC State, but that’s okay because it means Lumbees are making more representation for ourselves. And it means that Lumbee women are climbing and rising, like our ancestors would have wanted.”
🔗 Read "Representing an Amalgamation of Peoples" in our bio. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
First-year @ncstate_architecture student Ashtyn Thomas has been crowned Miss Lumbee 2023. Now, she`s advocating for representation, mentorship and cultural education while studying at the College of Design. 🐺👑
“By going into architecture, I want to show young women that you can step outside of the box. You may have to leave the community and find a new one, like I am doing at NC State, but that’s okay because it means Lumbees are making more representation for ourselves. And it means that Lumbee women are climbing and rising, like our ancestors would have wanted.”
🔗 Read "Representing an Amalgamation of Peoples" in our bio. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
Weatherly is a sophomore in Design Studies, and she believes design is an avenue to tell stories that uplift others. 🎨📚✨
To her, being a student in the Design Studies program has enabled her to maximize a multitude of passions involving illustration, entrepreneurship and storytelling.
Recently, Weatherly illustrated her first children’s book titled, “Young Andy Gets a Trombone.” Based on a true story, the book showcases how Andy Griffith got interested in becoming an entertainer – from wanting to be a trombone player to working to achieve his dream.
🐺🗣️ Are you interested in sharing your design philosophy? DM us to be featured in the next installment of NC State Creatives!
Weatherly is a sophomore in Design Studies, and she believes design is an avenue to tell stories that uplift others. 🎨📚✨
To her, being a student in the Design Studies program has enabled her to maximize a multitude of passions involving illustration, entrepreneurship and storytelling.
Recently, Weatherly illustrated her first children’s book titled, “Young Andy Gets a Trombone.” Based on a true story, the book showcases how Andy Griffith got interested in becoming an entertainer – from wanting to be a trombone player to working to achieve his dream.
🐺🗣️ Are you interested in sharing your design philosophy? DM us to be featured in the next installment of NC State Creatives!
Fall is for sketching outside and you can’t convince us otherwise. 🍂🫶🍁
Have a safe (and spooky) Halloween, Wolfpack! 👻🎃
The Designlife Podcast is back! 🎙🐺
In this episode, we discuss the impacts of studying abroad as a designer with Kermit Bailey. Kermit is an Associate Professor of Graphic & Experience Design at the COD, and was also one of the founding faculty members of NC State’s interdisciplinary study abroad program in Ghana.
He subsequently used his experiences overseas to support his research on how graphic design can be used as a cultural mediation tool.
In this episode, Kermit dives into the origins of the program, student and faculty experiences in a new culture, and how study abroad as a concept has evolved since its early days at NC State in the mid-1990s.
Subscribe to the Designlife Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also find a direct link to this episode in our bio.
The Designlife Podcast is back! 🎙🐺
In this episode, we discuss the impacts of studying abroad as a designer with Kermit Bailey. Kermit is an Associate Professor of Graphic & Experience Design at the COD, and was also one of the founding faculty members of NC State’s interdisciplinary study abroad program in Ghana.
He subsequently used his experiences overseas to support his research on how graphic design can be used as a cultural mediation tool.
In this episode, Kermit dives into the origins of the program, student and faculty experiences in a new culture, and how study abroad as a concept has evolved since its early days at NC State in the mid-1990s.
Subscribe to the Designlife Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also find a direct link to this episode in our bio.
At the College of Design, paper isn’t just a medium - it’s a lifestyle. 📄📰🔖
This year’s First Year Experience Paper project was all about connection – the connections we make with others, with our surroundings, and with ourselves.
First-year students in the College of Design were tasked with creating a wearable or inhabitable structure that examines how we relate to one another.
Pieces created by the students were meant to raise awareness of interpersonal relationships in new and nuanced ways, and were primarily constructed using paper or fiber with minimal fasteners, adhesives or support.
We interviewed a few of the students about their designs and explored what connection meant to them. You can see a display of the projects in the Brooks Hall Gallery, and learn more about selected projects - 🔗 in bio.
At the College of Design, paper isn’t just a medium - it’s a lifestyle. 📄📰🔖
This year’s First Year Experience Paper project was all about connection – the connections we make with others, with our surroundings, and with ourselves.
First-year students in the College of Design were tasked with creating a wearable or inhabitable structure that examines how we relate to one another.
Pieces created by the students were meant to raise awareness of interpersonal relationships in new and nuanced ways, and were primarily constructed using paper or fiber with minimal fasteners, adhesives or support.
We interviewed a few of the students about their designs and explored what connection meant to them. You can see a display of the projects in the Brooks Hall Gallery, and learn more about selected projects - 🔗 in bio.
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