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Brandon Alley’s (BAD, BTTM 2007) elementary school in China Grove, N.C., recently had a book he wrote and illustrated in Art + Design Professor Susan Toplikar’s Illustration Studio called Gary’s Barbecue published for all of their classrooms and the library. Alley went to the school and read the book to the students on May 29, 2009. All of the books mention Alley’s Art + Design degrees from the College of Design. Alley now works as a student services representative and the S.T.E.P. coordinator at NC State University’s College of Textiles. Fiquet Bailey (BAD 2000), creator of perfume and a makeup expert at her shop Luxe Apothecary, was listed in an article titled “Buying Local is a OneStop Shop at North Hills” in the July issue of Metro Magazine, a Raleigh-based publication. Liz Bradford (BAD/BTTM 2008) recently completed a one-year program at UC California Santa Cruz in scientific illustration. She is now an art intern at Dinosaur National Monument in Utah, where she is completing a dinosaur mural for the new visitor center, as well as detailed fossil specimen illustrations. Take a look at her new Web site: lizbradford.com. Phillip Campbell (MID 1993) invented a new type of fishing net that is ideal to use from high locations such as bridges and piers. The net collapses down from a large open hoop to three smaller sub-hoops for easy packing and transport. It is especially good for catch and release since it eliminates the use of gaffs. Visit www.popnetnets.com for more information. Campbell finalized a deal to license his company and patent rights to a huge U.S. sports
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and outfitting/fishing company called Frabill Inc. (www.frabill.com). Dave Carey (BEDA 1998) has earned the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) Accredited Professional designation from the U.S. Green Building Council. This credential recognizes professionals with extensive knowledge of LEED® standards for design, construction, and operation of high performance green buildings. Carey was recently promoted to project manager and has been with the HH Architecture since 2007. He is the project designer for the Raleigh Senior Center, a City of Raleigh project pursuing LEED® Silver rating. Other notable projects include the Sanderford Road Neighborhood Center for the City of Raleigh Department of Parks and Recreation and the Classroom & Bookstore Redevelopment at Fayetteville Technical Community College. Doug Clouse (BEDV 1988) co-wrote and designed a book on graphic design history that has been published by Princeton Architectural Press. The Handy Book of Artistic Printing: A Collection of Letterpress Examples with Specimens of Type, Ornament, Corner Fills, Borders, Twisters, Wrinklers, and other Freaks of Fancy is about artistic printing, a style of design used for advertising, product packaging, and the printed ephemera of daily life of the late nineteenth century.
Characterized by fancy typefaces, complex borders, and eclectic ornament, artistic printing was aligned with popular taste in architecture, furniture, and fashion. Later accused of ornamental excess, artistic printing fell out of favor and largely disappeared from histories of design. Clouse also wrote and designed the book MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan: Typographic Tastemakers of the Late Nineteenth Century, published last year by Oak Knoll Press. MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan was once the largest type foundry in the United States and produced many of the typefaces associated with nineteenthcentury graphic design. Amy Allgeyer Cook (BEDA 1990, B,Arch. 1991) has signed with PM Moon Publishing LLC to publish her middle-grade children’s novel, The Invisible Sister: Lux St. Clare~Book One. The book is set be released in 2010. Cook runs her own architecture firm in Boise, Idaho, focusing on residential remodel projects in the city’s famed historic North End. Visit www.lux-st-clare-books.com. Two friends, Sam Dirani (B.S. Animal Science 2001; MID 2008) and Matthew Mendler (B.S. Animal Science 2002) recently started their own production company, Good Enough Productions. Currently, they are developing a children’s show that focuses on teaching science through
entertainment. Their first project shows that humor can take many forms; through story development, creative filming, as well as set and prop design, Dirani and Mendler are able to take themselves and the viewer to some unlikely places, but will certainly put a smile on your face. Visit www.meetmattandsam.com and be on the look out for the new children's show this fall. Bay Area green architect Chris Downey (BEDA 1984) lost his sight last year and changed his career niche to designing architecture for the sight impaired. Read more about his incredible story in both The Architectural Record (July 2009; http://archrecord.construction.com/news/ newsmakers/0907Chris_Downey.asp) and The San Francisco Chronicle on May 2, 2009 (http:// www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ c/a/2009/05/02/DDMN179UU5.DTL). Downey is featured in the fall NC State alumni magazine column “It’s My Job.” Harry Griffin (BAD 2000) is employed by Binders Art Supplies and Frames in Charlotte, N.C. Matt Griffith (M.Arch. 2002) successfully completed his registration exams and is a registered architect and a member of the American Institute of Architects. Griffith in an intern architect/designer and project manager at Frank Harmon Architect, P.A. in Raleigh, and is currently an adjunct assistant professor at the School of Architecture. Douglas Hall, AIA (BEDA 1986, B.Arch. 1988) co-founding partner of BBH Design, accepted the Business Leader Media’s Top 100 Small Businesses in North Carolina award in June. The firm was ranked 12th out of 280 nominations recognizing leadership, community contributions and financial success. The firm was the top-ranked architecture firm. As Partner of Design, his concept proposal for the creation of a national laboratory guideline for planning
and design was accepted by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL) in Washington, D.C. The AIA, I2SL, and BBH Design hosted the first open meeting to discuss the guidelines in conjunction with the AIA 2009 National Convention in San Francisco. Kenyon Worrell, AIA, CSI (BEDA 1999, B.Arch. 2003) was promoted to Senior Associate at BBH Design. Worrell is also the Process Director for the firm. BBH Design staff members Frank Giordano (M.Arch. 2006), Chris Bailey (BEDA 2007, B.Arch. 2008) and Toni Prate (M.Arch. 2008) attained LEED® accreditation. Will Hall (BGD 2004) is senior art director at Pop and Company, a game development company in NY. He has been involved in creating Flash games and mediarich applications for cable network sites, a series of games for the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim and is exploring new media (such as iPhone) to generate GPS integrated, location-dependent games. Hall works on original properties, developing mood boards to establish the look and feel, and hiring animators to accomplish the task. He credits design school with teaching him to immerse himself in the medium for which he designs. That is exactly what he continues to do as he develops work for MTV, Adult Swim (Cartoon Network), Nickelodeon, the History Channel, and Turner Classic Movies. Mary Taylor Haque, RLA, ASLA, (MLA 1978) is a registered landscape architect and Alumni
Distinguished Professor of Horticulture at Clemson University. Using a service-learning model, she and her students and colleagues have partnered with USDA, the Sustainable Universities Initiative, and community partners to design children’s gardens across South Carolina. A primary focus area of her research and outreach has been sustainable schoolyard habitats for K-12 schools. These outdoor classrooms incorporate design principles centered on sustainability and resource management as well as usefulness as a learning and play environment for children. She is a 2005 John Glenn Scholar in Service Learning and a recipient of the American Society for Horticulture Science Outstanding Undergraduate Educator Award. In 2006 she co-authored a book with Lolly Tai, Gina McLellan and Erin Knight that received two separate awards in 2007. The Pennsylvania/Delaware Chapter of ASLA presented the President’s Award and the S.C. Chapter of ASLA presented the Honor Award of Excellence for Communication to Hague. Ned Irvine (MPD 1993) was awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor in art at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Laura Joines (M.Arch. 1987) won the coveted 2008 AIA Central Coast Chapter Honor Award for the sustainably designed Teixeira House in San Luis Obispo, California. Kevin B. Jones, ASLA, RLA, (M.Arch. 1995) is a partner in Witmer-Jones-Keefer, Ltd. with Brian Witmer, ASLA, RLA, ULI, LEED® AP (University of Georgia ’94), and Dan Keefer ASLA, RLA, ULI (West Virginia University ’00). Located in Bluffton, S.C., adjacent to Hilton Head Island and Savannah, Witmer-JonesKeefer, Ltd. specializes in Commercial/Mixed Use Design, Master Planned Communities, Traditional Neighborhoods, New Urbanism Design, Waterfront Planning, Conservation Design, Private Residential, Resort Design in the ALUMNI/Friends NOTES
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