Student Experience

Jan 22, 2020

Industrial Design Program will host PENSOLE Academy for Spring 2020

PENSOLE Academy recently launched its L.E.A.D program, aimed at introducing students of color to footwear and functional apparel product-creation careers while providing the industry with a more diverse talent base. MID Alumna and Director of Education at PENSOLE Anna Smith created the program, which will host its master class at NC State this summer. Read…

Jan 3, 2020

DDes Students Shared Dissertation Work at Second Annual Symposium

Participants in the Doctor of Design (DDes) program shared the outcomes of their research projects at a symposium held in August 2019. The program, now admitting its third cohort, is a hybrid program for seasoned practitioners to further their careers in design. The symposium included a poster session to celebrate the first anniversary of the…

Jan 2, 2020

From Biology to Graphic Design: Andy Hilts Brings Modern Design to SAS

From Biology to Graphic Design: Andy Hilts Brings Modern Design to SAS Andy Hilts, a junior in the Graphic Design program at NC State’s College of Design (CoD), didn’t always consider a career as a creative. Now, his work is featured in a global campaign by one of the Triangle’s most prolific tech companies.…

Dec 13, 2019

Katie Brooks Transforms Fallen Leaves into Breathtaking Artwork

The world is your canvas. Meet Katie Brooks, a senior in the Art + Design program at the NC State College of Design with a minor in Arts Entrepreneurship from the NC State Department of Music. Katie regularly uses all kinds of leaves as her canvas — but it was actually a tree on campus by Park Shops…

Oct 4, 2019

Two Students Awarded Shawcroft Hand Drawing Competition Prize

In a change from previous years, two students were awarded the first place prize for the Shawcroft Hand Drawing Competition. The prize, named for Brian Shawcroft, AIA, a modernist architect, photographer, and 1991 winner of the Henry Kamphoefner Prize for excellence in the Modern Movement of architecture, emphasizes the late Shawcroft’s value of drawing as…

Oct 1, 2019

Bag the Pack Project Brings Sustainability to the Wolfpack

Students in the NC State Chile Sustainable Design Study Abroad Program developed "Bag the Pack," a project that creates reusable bags with a Wolfpack flair!

May 7, 2019

Students Design, Build Sustainable Garden

In one semester, NC State College of Design landscape architecture students designed and built a sustainable landscape on campus.

Apr 30, 2019

Design Your Graduation (Cap)

Check out how our NC State College of Design students stand out in a sea of red at commencement with these creative mortarboard designs.

Apr 22, 2019

A Pie With A Purpose

NC State's chapter of AIAS funded a trip to the SouthQuad conference in Knoxville - and had a little fun along the way.

Apr 12, 2019

Designing for Social Awareness

Darren Woodland, a graduate student in Art + Design, is pushing interactive innovation to develop an experience that tells the story of the Catawba Indian and their loss of land rights.

Apr 11, 2019

DDes Student-Practitioner Expands Conversation about Climate Change

Teresa Buckwalter, an NC State Design Doctor of Design student practitioner, who is exploring solutions to "give landscape architects a way of talking and interacting with people and rural communities that value those places and those people and their insights."

Apr 11, 2019

A Study Abroad Experience

Jecori Owens-Shuler, a senior in industrial design, had the opportunity to spend a semester in Prague, which was enhanced by the Chancellor’s Study Abroad Scholarship.

Apr 10, 2019

Reaching for his Dreams

A passion for medical devices has led Will Reuther [MID '19] to a promising journey including collaborating with researchers to design and develop a cutting-edge baby monitoring system and heading to medical school to become a doctor.

Apr 10, 2019

New CIP for Grad Programs in Architecture and Graphic Design

NC State College of Design’s graduate degrees in architecture and graphic design now have a STEM designation through the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP).

Apr 4, 2019

A Winding Road to Design

Stephen Waddell [BAD '19] has taken a non-traditional path to design from computer science to innovative technologies. He made the best of his time at NC State and shares his successful journey to design.

Mar 30, 2019

Design on a Deadline

Graphic design seniors developed an interactive symposium, 'reACT: Mobilizing the Everyday,' as a way of designing an experience that would introduce the complex issue of design mobilities.

Jan 23, 2019

Meet Shea Edwards

Learn about Shea Edwards, an architecture student who spent the summer participating in Study Abroad in Prague.

Jan 19, 2019

The Process to Design Elbow

Clara May, a graphic design student, combined interests in design, music, photography, publication, and urban typography to produce, Elbow, a custom publication.

Dec 17, 2018

A Winning Start

Chris Williams [BID ’17] recently won a footwear design apprenticeship with Adidas by competing and being one of the winners in the international Adidas Design Academy competition.

Dec 3, 2018

Breaking the Mold: Architecture Students Bring Building Materials to the Runway

Showcasing a collection of angular, geometric wearables made from rigid building materials such as cement, poster board, and Plexiglas, the architecture student design team of Cameron Elliott [BEDA ’18] and Samantha Lackey [BEDA ’18], took a decidedly unique approach to the 17th annual Art2Wear (A2W). The College of Design’s A2W fashion show is open to…