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Apr 30, 2018

The Designer’s Responsibility

NC State Design graphic design students collaborate with the National Civil Rights Museum to develop a VR exhibition experience for the MLK50 celebration.

Apr 26, 2018

Faculty and Staff Nominations and Awards 2018

Congratulations to all of the hard-working faculty and staff members of the NC State College of Design who were nominated for and won awards this academic year!

Apr 25, 2018

Shaping the Landscape of a Designlife

Corey Dodd forged his own path through the graduate landscape architecture program, in part through the gracious assistance of the Rodney Swink and Juanita Shearer-Swink Landscape Architecture Graduate Student Award. Now he's eager to put his passion for cultural and historic preservation into practice.

Apr 19, 2018

Introducing Design Treks

NC State Design took twelve students to visit local design firms Perkins+Will, Spoonflower, and SAS to connect with NC State Design alumni and other professionals.

Apr 18, 2018

An Influential Studio for Non-Design Majors

Associate Professor Pat Fitzgerald works with his ADN-111 students to remove their barriers to being creative as well as apprehensions, and encourages them to be empowered by their designs.

Apr 13, 2018

iPAL Offers Faster Path to Architecture License

NC State is one of 21 schools nationwide to offer the Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure (IPAL) program, established in 2015 to streamline the path of becoming a licensed architect. The program condenses the licensure process into a shorter timeframe than the traditional path.

Apr 4, 2018

Giving to the College and Coastal Communities

Kevin Kane and Myra Kane, both alumni, have generously donated to NC State College of Design to further support the work of the Coastal Dynamics Design Lab (CDDL). The College has been an enabling factor in their lives and they feel good to give back in a way that will assist coastal communities in NC.

Mar 30, 2018

A Passionate Leader

Curtis W Fentress is more than a global designer and architect; he is a passionate supporter of students and programs at NC State College of Design. Fentress Architects are collaborating with airport design studio where students get real-world exposure + experience. This studio will exhibit at 2018 Venice Biennale.

Mar 23, 2018

Emerging Technologies Explored

Advance design studios intentionally push the boundaries of innovation, technology & research. Professor of Art + Design Patrick FitzGerald has found that this experiential “think and do” learning process delivers the best results for his students. Recently, FitzGerald led ADN 560 with AR, VR and mixed media for fun.

Mar 22, 2018

High Tech Studios Are A Step Above

NC State College of Design, high tech studios in airport design and tall buildings are supported by Fentress Architects and SOM. The studio has been invited to the 2018 Venice Biennale to showcase their work and expose their design talents to a global audience. Wayne Place, PhD provides leadership to these studios

Mar 22, 2018

The 13th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium

NC State Design was represented by thirteen Graduate students at this year's Graduate Student Research Symposium. The event includes more than 200 graduate students from across the University. Each poster submission is judged by a team of faculty and showcases outstanding quality and diversity of graduate research.

Mar 18, 2018

Gene Bressler Enters Phased Retirement

At the end of the spring 2018 semester, Professor and Department Head of Landscape Architecture Gene Bressler, FASLA will be entering phased retirement. Since 2006, Bressler has been at the helm of the Landscape Architecture program at NC State College of Design.

Mar 12, 2018

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Creates New Roles for Designers

Designers are known as image makers, but Todd Berreth is showing how designers can use technology & interdisciplinary collaboration to push design boundaries. NC State Visual Narrative Cluster: researchers who experiment with technology & communication to adopt innovative stories.

Mar 12, 2018

Diversity in Design

The Multicultural Design Student Association (MDSA) works to bring an understanding of different cultures to all, and encourages comradery and listening to someone with a different world view than your own.

Mar 8, 2018

Endless Opportunities

A quick Q&A with NC State College of Design student, Samantha Bratzke who is living the #Designlife in London for her study abroad experience at the University of the Arts London.

Mar 8, 2018

Ryan Williams shares his Disney Internship Experience

Ryan Williams, a graphic design senior, interned with the Disney College Program in Lake Buena Vista, FL. As part of the internship, he received a behind-the-scenes look at the Magic Kingdom and learned how to use his design skills in a job that wasn’t design related.

Mar 1, 2018

A Deserving Retreat

Department Head of Art + Design and Alumni Distinguished Professor Chandra Cox has taught at NC State College of Design for over 36 years. A Q&A about how time and technology have influenced design, the development of the Design Studies program, and what her plans for the future are.

Feb 26, 2018

New Technique Allows Printing of Flexible, Stretchable Silver Nanowire Circuits

Researchers at NC State have developed a new technique that allows them to print nanowire circuits on flexible, stretchable substrates.

Feb 22, 2018

Faculty Leads in Fulbright Scholars

NC State ranks among an elite group of globally engaged universities producing the highest number of Fulbright Scholars, which gives faculty members the opportunity to teach or conduct research abroad.

Feb 20, 2018

Study: Corporations Can Benefit from Altruism During a Crisis

Research finds that altruism – and social media – can help corporations cultivate trust with consumers on mobile devices during and after natural disasters, such as hurricanes.

Feb 19, 2018

Leaving her Mark

Industrial design major Katie-Gray Altmann has exemplified “think and do” throughout her time at NC State, and there is no doubt that she will have left her mark on the University.

Feb 13, 2018

Design Students Make Science Accessible

A collaboration between the College of Design and the College of Sciences is part of a multidisciplinary initiative aimed at interpreting complex scientific ideas with design, known as The Leading Strand.

Feb 9, 2018

Patrick Rand, FAIA, DPACSA, Receives Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award

Professor of Architecture Patrick Rand, FAIA, DPACSA, is one of the first NC State recipients of a Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award. The award is highly competitive and considered one of the most prestigious scholarships in the world. He will be teaching + conducting research at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland.

Feb 5, 2018

Envisioning Research: NC State Calls for Research Image Contest Submissions

NC State is calling on graduate students, postdocs, faculty and staff to take part in Envisioning Research, the university’s annual research image contest.

Feb 2, 2018

Alumni Team Wins Global Architecture Competition

Sarah Dickerson and Jessica Braverman, two NC State Design alumni, were part of a team recently awarded first place in the 15th annual Perkins+Will Global Design Competition. The Global Design Competition is an internal Perkins+Will challenge created to engage young design professionals throughout the firm’s 20 international offices and to encourage provocative and imaginative design.

Feb 2, 2018

Rethinking the Box

Graphic Designs students in GD 400 studio (Advanced Graphic Design Studio) were challenged to develop customizable secondary packaging through a collaborative partnership with Sealed Air. Thinking beyond traditional design to re-imagine and improve the experience.

Jan 31, 2018

Design & Health Research Consortium

NC State has been invited to join the fourth cohort of the Design & Health Research Consortium established by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. The College was selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants because of its commitment to researching the link between health outcomes and design interventions.

Jan 30, 2018

Design Alumnus Donates to the Gregg Museuem of Art + Design

Recently, College of Design alumnus, Harold (Harry) Bradley III [BEDA '81] donated ten works of art by artist James Augustus McLean (1904-1989) to the Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh, NC. The museum offers free admission.

Jan 30, 2018

Designing the Car of the Future

NC State students from across disciplines have partnered up by way of SolarPack, a multidisciplinary student club developed to design and build a solar car. SolarPack is made of five subteams including: design, powertrain, electrical, chassis, and business.

Jan 25, 2018

In Memory of Brian Shawcroft, AIA

NC State Design mourns the passing of Brian Shawcroft, AIA, modernist architect, photographer, and 1991 winner of the Henry Kamphoefner Prize for excellence in the Modern Movement of architecture.

Jan 25, 2018

I AM A Man | VR Civil Rights App

Associate Professor of Graphic Design Derek Ham, PhD, a 2017 Oculus Launch Pad competition winner for his Civil Rights VR app, I AM A Man, will be exhibited at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN this April.

Jan 19, 2018

Graphic Design Program Recognized as Top in Nation

The Graphic Design program in NC State’s College of Design is ranked in the top 1 percent of considered schools in the U.S., among public colleges in the U.S., and in the South! These rankings are from the Animation Career Review’s (ACR) Top 50 Graphic Design Schools and Colleges in the US–2018 Rankings.

Jan 18, 2018

A Legacy of Dedication

The first funded NC State College of Design faculty award endowment, The Gene Bressler Landscape Architecture Faculty Award Endowment was made possible through generous gifts from colleagues, former students, professionals, and friends of Gene Bressler.

Jan 18, 2018

Fish Market

NC State Design students carve out space for themselves in Downtown Raleigh with the Fish Market Gallery, which has predominately curated work by students and allows them creative freedom with their artwork.

Jan 10, 2018

The Dean Becomes the Student

NC State Design's Dean Hoversten stepped into the shoes of design students by spending a day in the Materials Lab and building his first bench. It was an opportunity to develop camaraderie and collaborate with the Materials Lab's knowledgeable staff.

Dec 20, 2017

Submit Your Work Now for the School of Architecture Alumni Exhibition

Architecture alumni are encouraged to submit presentation boards of their work for an National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) alumni exhibition to be held mid-February.

Dec 20, 2017

Design for Good

Design It Forward, taking design thinking to make social change. A unique course by College of Design, IBM, Institute for Nonprofits and deserving clients.

Dec 18, 2017

Fall 2017 Commencement Address

Fall 2017 Commencement Address by Alumni Distinguished Professor of Art + Design, Emerita Susan Brandeis. Read her Inspiring words of wisdom.

Dec 10, 2017

A Journey to Design

Laura Wyker is in the midst of a process of reinvention, stepping beyond a career in teaching high school science to explore her talents as a designer.

Dec 6, 2017

Where Design and Culture Collide

NC State Design alumni Natalie Buda-Smith, Griffin Friedman, and David Rice, apply design thinking to optimize the Library of Congress’s internal processes.

Dec 4, 2017

A Winning Experience

What started as an interesting opportunity turned into a great learning experience for Justice Dunne, a junior in Art + Design, by participating in the Triangle VR Hackathon. Challenge participants form groups and work together to create a video game from scratch in just 48 hours.

Nov 27, 2017

Design Inspiration | Kathleen Rieder

Associate Professor of Art + Design Kathleen Rieder bolsters her students’ critical thinking & intellectual curiosity. She inspires interesting questions.

Nov 17, 2017

Design Inspiration

Roger Clark, FAIA, Distinguished Professor of Architecture Emeritus has been influencing & inspiring students for decades.

Nov 8, 2017

Cementing a Partnership

Written by Meghan Palmer. Published in Designlife Magazine in November 2017. How something is made can impact how it’s designed—a principle Associate Professor of Architecture Dana Gulling impresses upon students in her studios, where young architects learn to bridge technology and design as they innovate ideas for new structures. For Greg Lucier, Research Assistant Professor…

Nov 3, 2017

Always a Designer

Few people can attest that they knew the career path they would take before they entered elementary school. Brian Leonard knew at an early age that he would be a designer and a maker. He never wavered from this path, and he calls it, “a blessing.” “I knew at the age of 5 that I…

Oct 23, 2017

Cultural Influence in Design

“I’ve been to 32 countries in total through my travels. Places like Paris, London, all throughout Italy, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, and Greece; however, I’ve never been to Southeast Asia,” says Sarah Casaday, who is a teaching assistant for an architecture history course, an active member of the Architecture Graduate Student Association, and who will be…

Oct 20, 2017

Design Team Participates in LexisNexis Hackathon

Students from NC State Design recently participated in the annual LexisNexis Hackathon. Teams work around 5 problem statements to improve or extend the functionality of existing LexisNexis software products

Oct 12, 2017

In Memoriam of Angelo Abbate

Words by Fernando Magallanes.   Delivered at the October 11, 2017 Public lecture. Department of Landscape Architecture The memorial service for Angelo will be on Nov. 4th at 2 pm in the Chapel at Croasdaile Village. The chapel is located to the right of the main building where many of you joined him for dinner as Japan Fellows. We recently…

Oct 4, 2017

A Designer’s Journey

Sharon Marcussen, an alumna with both an undergrad and a graduate degree in Art + Design shares her design journey with design students.

Sep 28, 2017

Sleigh the Holiday Card Competition

Let's share some Design love! NC State Design students are invited to submit a holiday greeting card design that will be used by the College for holiday mailings in our first 'Sleigh the Holiday Card Competition'.