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Designlife Magazine

The official annual magazine for the College of Design.

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Designlife Magazine Cover 2023

Spring 2023

What’s Inside:

The Class that Started it All
Exploring our Spaces
A History in Pictures

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2022 Designlife Magazine Cover

Spring 2022

What’s Inside:

Celebrating the Think and Do the Extraordinary Campaign
3D Printed Ceramics
Bringing Drone Technology to Landscape Architecture

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Designlife Magazine Spring 2021

Spring 2021

What’s Inside:

Design Identities: Celebrating Black Alumni
Derek Ham Brings Art + Design into Focus
Remembering Marvin Malecha

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Designlife-Spring-2020-Cover

Spring 2020

What’s Inside:

Henry Johnston and Design + Build
Design Camp Celebrates 40 Years
Designing VR That Heals

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Designlife-2018-2019-Cover

2018-2019

What’s Inside:

Innovative Airport Design
The Legacy of Abie Harris
Design Thinking in Law

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Designlife-2017-Cover

Fall 2017

What’s Inside:

Designing for Resilient Communities
Impacting Education with Design
Design Through a Child’s Eyes

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Designlife-2016-Cover

Fall 2016

What’s Inside:

Celebrating a Legacy: Phil Freelon
Learning from the Real World
Marvin Malecha: A Tribute

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Designlife-2015-Cover

Fall 2015

What’s Inside:

Stories + Designs from Informal Cities
Turning Negative into Positive
Teaching the Future of Design

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Designlife-Winter-2014-Cover

Winter 2014

What’s Inside:

Designing for the Veterinary Industry
Sustainability Redesigned
Graphic Design for Athletes

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Designlife-2014-Cover

Fall 2014

What’s Inside:

Design on Demand: Aly Khalifa
Mia Blume: Designing for Pinterest
Q&A with Dare Coulter + Tina Govan

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Designlife-2013-Cover

Spring 2013

What’s Inside:

Introducing: Tsai Lu Liu
The Accidental Designer
Raleigh Denim in NYC

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Spring 2012

What’s Inside:

Art2Wear 2012
Disney Imagineering’s Best in Show
Tsai Lu Liu Named GD/ID Department Head

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Design-Influence-2011-Cover

Fall 2011

What’s Inside:

Service-Learning in Ghana
Q&A With Dean Malecha
AIA Center for Architecture

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Design-Influence-Fall-2009-Cover

Fall 2009

What’s Inside:

Ph.D. Program Celebrates 10 Years
Students Become Walt Disney Imagineers
Architecture Students and Designing Music

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Design-Influence-Spring-2009-Cover

Spring 2009

What’s Inside:

60th Anniversary Celebration & Reunion
Why We Need Doctoral Studies in Design
Festival of Quilts

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Design-Influence-Spring-2008-Cover

Fall 2008

What’s Inside:

Q&A with Kristin Hawk
The Visible Man
Holly Aiken’s Creative Success

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Spring 2008

What’s Inside:

Designing Play with a Purpose
Destination Prague
Yates Mill County Park Heroes

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Fall 2007

What’s Inside:

A New Vision for CAM
Smart Educational Design
Fine-tooning a Design Career

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Spring 2007

What’s Inside:

HGTV Dream Home – NC State Edition
Cotton Steers Folbot to Success
First in Sustainable Design Competition

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Design-Influence-Fall-2006-Cover

Fall 2006

What’s Inside:

Art + Design in the Community
The Rededication of Leazar Hall
Karl Zeeso and Designing Cars of the Future

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Design-Influence-Spring-2006-Cover

Spring 2006

What’s Inside:

Chris Jordan: Design’s Go-To Guy
Light-Inspired Place
Celen Palasar: Scholarship + Outreach

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Design-Influence-Fall-2005-Cover

Fall 2005

What’s Inside:

Seeing Possibilities at the School for the Blind
Kelaine Vargas Brings Nature to the City
Molding Automotive Designers

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Design-Influence-Spring-2005-Cover

Spring 2005

What’s Inside:

Affordable Housing and the Lumbee Tribe
Studio Sponsorship and Go-Karts
Design School: A Love Story

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Design-News-Fall-2004-Cover

Fall 2004

What’s Inside:

Old Buildings that Motivate Young Students
Students Win Masonry Design Challenge
Art + Design Gets Advanced Media Lab

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Design-News-Spring-2004-Cover

Spring 2004

What’s Inside:

Richard Curtis Receives Design Guild Award
Urban Design Dilemma: A Student Approach
Designing with Compassion

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Design-News-Fall-2003-Cover

Fall 2003

What’s Inside:

Green Policy for the College
Charette for Town of Manteo
Breathing Will: Okinawa

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Design-News-Spring-2002-Cover

Spring 2002

What’s Inside:

Filling the Void: Discussing NYC Skylines
Tuesday Morning: Artists Search for Meaning
Responding to Tragedy Through Graphics

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Fall 2001

What’s Inside:

Community Growth Strategies Initiative
Natural Learning Initiative
The Center for Universal Design

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Spring 2001

What’s Inside:

The School of Design Becomes a College
Student Work Showcase
Berlin +/-

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Summer 1999

What’s Inside:

The End of an Era
102 Doors: A Typological Morphology
Teaming the Product Jungle

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Winter 1998

What’s Inside:

Critical Global Issues Facing Designers
50th Anniversary Plans
Building Towards Diversity

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Summer 1998

What’s Inside:

Designing for the 21st Century
Lifelong Learning
School of Design 50th Reunion

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Summer 1995

What’s Inside:

Design Department Reunion
Landscape Architecture and Ecotourism
The Partnership for the Sounds

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Winter 1994

What’s Inside:

The Harwell Hamilton Harris Lecture Series
Passages by Kermit Bailey
Ben MacNeill: the Suburban

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