From Verses to Raleigh Denim
Graphic Design Senior Rachael Huston was honored April 22 as the outstanding poster presentation by a student at the 18th Annual NC State Undergraduate Research Symposium. The NC State Chapter of Sigma Xi recognized her achievement at the Annual Spring Banquet and presented her with a Certificate of Recognition. Huston worked with Ph.D. student Matthew Peterson (BGD 1998, MGD 2007) on “Performative Educational Materials for Middle School Science,” under the supervision of Professor Meredith Davis. Huston wrote and received a grant from the Park Scholarship GRASP program to fund this work, which will be tested with students at the Centennial Campus Middle School.
by Sarah Yarborough Lytvinenko, student in art + design
What began as a project in our apartment living room in 2007 has now become a small business and our full-time job. Initially called “Verses,” Victor and I renamed our company Raleigh Denim last August, right before we landed our first order from Barneys New York. Since then, we’ve been fortunate and staying busy. Men’s Raleigh Denim is now sold in about a dozen Barneys New York stores around the country and we just launched the women’s in a handful of boutiques around the country. Locally, Stitch (Holly Aiken’s awesome store on Hargett Street), carries our men’s jeans and people are always welcome to come visit us at our warehouse downtown where we have an assortment of extra stock. A big thanks to everyone in the community for supporting us and helping us grow!
Ph.D. Student Traci Rose Rider, Assoc. AIA, LEED® AP, is co-founder and partner in Trace Collaborative, LLC. Her book, titled Understanding Green Building Guidelines, published by WW Norton & Company, was released August 24. She is focusing her studies on sustainability within formal design education. Rider is past-chair and consultant for the Emerging Green Builders (EGB) Committee of the U.S. Green Building Council, servicing students and young professionals. She was granted the individual USGBC Leadership Award in Education
Photo by Nick Pironio
Raleigh Denim will be featured in the October issue of Elle magazine. www.raleighdenim.com
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DESIGN INFLUENCE / FALL 2009
Work by six design students—Sam Davis, Michelle Ko, Claudia Povenski, Marie Hermansson, Margaret Jamison and Elena Page—was recently
on view for thirty days. This commission is the third one accomplished in Raleigh’s surrounding communities by Professor Raymond and his students during the past six years. The other two are permanent sculptures in Knightdale and Garner. During the ceremony welcoming Dr. Jim Woodward as NC State’s 14th chancellor, architecture graduate student Matt Robbins, introduced by Student Body President Jim Ceresnak, presented Woodward with a Finish the [Bell] Tower t-shirt (graphic design by Alex Ford). Visit Robbins’ Web site for more information about this grassroots effort to complete the Belltower: http://bells.ncsu.edu/.
installed in the atrium lobby of the new mathematics and statistics building, called SAS Hall, across the parking lot from Kamphoefner Hall. The students were under the direction of Assistant Professor of Art + Design Jan-Ru Wan, with additional support by David Knight, Vita Plume and Susan Brandeis. Art + Design Associate Professor Dana Raymond and his Basic Sculpture students were commissioned this semester to design, build and install temporary public sculptures in Cary, N.C. The exhibition of work is part of the 2009 Spring Daze celebration at Cary’s Bond Park, which is located on High House Road. The installation took place on Wednesday, April 22 with the Spring Daze Festival happening on Saturday, April 25. The sculptures, which are the corner “tips” of six house roofs, remained
Photo by Roger Winstead
ST U DENTS
a collaboration of engineering and design students, led by Tim Buie, industrial design, and Dr. Michael Young, computer science, has been made available to teachers and students in N.C. middle schools as part of the celebration of Blackbeard. The game,
for 2005 and was included in a group labeled as “The Re-Inventors” in Vanity Fair’s Green Issue, May 2006.
Photo by Elena Page
Notes
M.Arch. Student Daryl Rackley was featured in an article about a doghouse he built for the ARC 590 Design Build class. It’s in the July/August issue of Bark Magazine. Green doghouses are discussed in general and Rackley’s specifically. A picture and a diagram of Rackley’s green doghouse is included. According to the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources’ Web site, the video game completed by
now called Blackbeard’s Escape, was a big success during the video game showcase held at the end of the spring semester. Miles Holst, senior in Art + Design, was named a 2009 Indie Arts Award recipient for just being Miles! He has been director of the Fish Market, organized bicycle rides from the College of Design to First Friday, a design camp instructor, a local DJ, film aficionado and the director of many social gatherings—planned and spur of the moment. Read more about Holst in The Independent Weekly at http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/ Content?oid=oid%3A398646. Design Guild Board member Frank Werner with Adams Products forwarded an excerpt of the May 2009 Concrete Masonry News that highlights masonry competitions held at NC State, University of Southern California and Georgia Tech. STUDENT NOTES
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