DESIGN INFLUENCE NC STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2005 COLLEGE OF DESIGN 2005 CALENDAR February 6-March 11 April 23 CONTENTS Exhibition by Gail Peter Borden: [X]perience 2005 R. Stanhope Pullen Society Members Mechanisms University Event February 26 May 9-14 DEAN’S MESSAGE The Design Guild is an association of alumni, friends, Design Guild Dinner honoring Gail A. Lindsey, FAIA, Graduation Exhibition 2 Voices of Achievement/Voices of Design design professionals and industry leaders established Exploris in 1996 to promote design education at the NC State May 14 University College of Design through private contri- March 7 Spring Commencement RECOGNITIONS butions and gifts. The publication of Design Influence NC State University Founder’s Day is fully supported by Design Guild funds. May 19-21 4 Design Guild Award Honors Gail Lindsey March 13-April 2 AIA National Convention, Las Vegas 5 Rodney Swink Named Distinguished Alumnus We welcome your submission of alumni news Art + Design Painting Show Alumni & Friends Reception, Thursday, items in addition to your comments about this March 19, Mandalay Bay Resort publication. To receive our electronic newsletter, March 21 DESIGNlife, please send us your e-mail address. Architecture Lecture: Stanley Saitowitz May 19-21 FEATURES Early Childhood Outdoors Design Institute: 6 NC State Grads Work Magic [email protected] or address correspondence to: March 28 Design for Active Childhoods 8 Marching for the Pack Architecture Lecture: Branko Kolarevic www.design.ncsu.edu/cont-ed/ NC State University 10 A Match Made in Design School College of Design April 3-22 June 4-11 12 Design Connections Lead to Success Campus Box 7701 Graphic Design Exhibition Alumni & Friends Drawing Trip to Prague 14 Graphic Design Student Helps Launch Wolfgrid Raleigh, NC 27695-7701 www.design.ncsu.edu/cont-ed/ 16 NC State to Improve Affordable Housing Options for the Lumbee Tribe 919/515-8313 April 4 Architecture Lecture: Brad Cloepfil June 12-17 18 Sponsored Go Kart Studio Yields Good Results Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA Design Camp – Residential dean April 11 All ARCHITECTURE LECTURES are held in the auditorium 19 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS Carla Abramczyk Architecture Lecture: Adam Yarinsky June 20-24 in Kamphoefner Hall at 6 p.m. and are co-sponsored director of development Design Camp – Day by AIA-Triangle and the School of Architecture at NC April 20 State University. A reception follows the lecture. AIA CES Jean Marie Livaudais University Installation of 13th Chancellor July 10-15 credits are provided. 22 COLLEGE NEWS director of professional relations James L. Oblinger Design Camp – Residential Emily Freeman EXHIBITIONS are featured in the Brooks Hall Gallery. April 21 August 4-6 NOTES development assistant Spring Fashion Show, Kamphoefner Hall Courtyard AIA NC Summer Design Conference, Richmond VISITORS are encouraged to verify time and location Sherry McIntyre Alumni & Friends Reception, Time and of events, which are subject to change. For more 24 Alumni/Friends We hope you like the changes editor; director of communications April 23 - May 8 location TBA information, call 919/515-8313 or sign up for 26 Students to the official magazine of the Graphic Design: Senior Exhibition Craig McDuffie (BEDV 1983) DESIGNlife, an e-newsletter, at www.design.ncsu.edu 28 Faculty/Staff College of Design. Renaming (link to “news & events” from pull-down menu). designer the publication Design Influence OUR THANKS College of Design lectures and exhibitions 32 Design Guild Support captures the essence of the COVER are sponsored in part by Design Guild Dean’s Circle and 33 College Faculty & Staff Listing mission of the college — to Resolution Tree, by Jennifer Van Orden Benefactor members. (BAD 2004), commissioned for City of Raleigh’s expand as a center of influence First Night Celebration. Photo by Ian Quate, For more details, go to www.design.ncsu.edu/events. on design. senior in Art + Design. though that should satisfy the greater need. David Walker’s admonition reminds us that Over more than 50 years the College of What should have been leadership of our this begins with people. It is a challenge to Design has established a reputation of culture on the expression of renewal and structure the education of designers that relevancy to community need. There are DEAN’S MESSAGE optimism turned instead into competing extends the discourse on design beyond many examples of student and faculty projects egos and development intrigue. Finally, personal objectives into the preparation of that have made significant contributions to market forces reigned in the process and the most talented and creative individuals the life of individuals in small communities a significant opportunity for the design to engage the needs and interests of others. fulfilling the cooperative extension mission Voices of Achievement / Voices of Design professions to act as guides with enhanced It is necessary to prepare individuals of the University. Graduates of the College sight has been lost. The beauty of the artifacts who are most inclined to work alone to have made significant contributions to the designed has had little relevance to the participate productively on teams. understanding of green design in both the by Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA, Dean Over the past several years it has been Increased attention brings the scrutiny of expression that was needed. academic and professional settings. Alumni encouraging that design professionals have broad constituencies. It places a bright light The voice of design is dependent on the most have influenced the development of building been thrust into the public consciousness. on behaviors that constitute the nature of David Walker in a speech to a conference talented among us. It is dependent on the types from airports to research laboratories. The conditions for this attention have ranged design professionalism. As the achievements “Going Beyond Green” observed the commitment of the design disciplines to And, advances made through product from the desire to resolve the unfinished of design professionals are considered, it is importance of maintaining a proper promote those who address the issues of most development by a graduate of our College business of a response to a national tragedy important to derive the lessons that have perspective in design. He observed, concern to society. Similarly, if our College have influenced medical applications. at ground zero to the renewed appreciation been learned from the perspective of the seeks to be a true center of influence we must Environmental studies within the College for the role of the creative individual in the many constituencies affected by the work The competitive differences in the 21st seek out those who provide the example for have included water quality management as economic well being of our culture. The of design professionals. This measure, not Century will be people…it will not be our students to live a life of relevancy and well as view-shed protection contributing popular press, from The New York Times the self-congratulatory tendencies of a process. It will not be technology. It involvement. In the context of a university to the preservation of the quality of the to Time magazine, has chronicled the profession, will determine if the designer will be people…The stakes are high. with a land grant mission the College of Design North Carolina environment. Principles of individuals and decisions related to design has a voice in society. has a responsibility to do no less. Many issues universal design evolved within the College in such detail that even the eyewear of David Walker, from conference materials, demand our attention. These issues require of Design as a model for the nation. In certain designers became a story of interest. While the attention of the media has Going Beyond Green: Strategic Transformation the creative spirit of our graduates. How will short, the College of Design community is It has become apparent that the design highlighted the possibilities of the design Through Human Capital Planning, communities be designed to promote the comprised of individuals of considerable endeavor is distinct from either the hard professions it has also provided a case study November 2002 health and welfare of the citizens? What can be achievement and therefore we have become sciences and engineering and the humanities of the implications of work disengaged from done about the development of products that a community with an influential voice. and social sciences. Further, it is the rigor of the priorities of society. This increased We must never forget the designer’s charge respect green principles? How do designers the design process reflected in the integration attention has provided witness to teams of to work on behalf of others, to seek to address the needs of individuals with varying We owe it to our predecessors and to our of disparate sources of information and the most talented individuals completely enhance their possibility for success, and to physical and financial capabilities? Is there a descendants at the College to maintain materials and tested by the application of absorbed in formal investigations almost use our work to celebrate it when it occurs. strategy to promote understanding of an ever our commitment to addressing the most ideas to the most vital questions before entirely disengaged from the constituencies The talents of designers are much needed more complex world through communication? pressing issues of society. It is time to add society that distinguishes the role of the they intended to serve. While a nation waited in our world. If we wish our voice to be Can designers identify the deeper meanings our voice to all of the voices of the past even designer. How these questions are addressed for the expression of creative individuals to influential we must work beyond self- of contemporary life through their work? while we teach others to speak up.