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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!

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