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From Verses to Raleigh Denim by Sarah Yarborough Lytvinenko, student in art + design

What began as a project in our apartment livingroom in 2007 has nowbecome a small business and our full-time job. Initiallycalled “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 ofboutiques 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 communityfor supportingus and helpingus grow!

Raleigh Denim will be featured in the October issue ofElle magazine. www.raleighdenim.com

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 ofRecognition. Huston worked with Ph.D. student Matthew Peterson (BGD 1998, MGD 2007) on “Performative Educational Materials for Middle School Science,” under the supervision ofProfessor 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.

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 byWW 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

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for 2005 and was included in a group labeled as “The Re-Inventors” in Vanity Fair’s Green Issue, May 2006.

Workbysixdesign students—Sam Davis, Michelle Ko, Claudia Povenski, Marie Hermansson, Margaret Jamison and Elena Page—was recently a collaboration ofengineering 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 ofthe celebration ofBlackbeard. The game,

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.

installed in the atrium lobbyofthe newmathematics and statistics building, called SAS Hall, across the parking lot from Kamphoefner Hall. The students were under the direction ofAssistant Professor of Art + Design Jan-Ru Wan, with additional support by David Knight, Vita Plume and Susan Brandeis. P hoto by E lena P age

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 ofthe 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” ofsix house roofs, remained During the ceremonywelcoming 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/. now called Blackbeard’s Escape, was a big success during the video game showcase held at the end of the spring semester.

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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 ofRackley’s green doghouse is included.

According to the N.C. Department ofCultural Resources’ Web site, the video game completed by Miles Holst, senior in Art + Design, was named a 2009 Indie Arts Award recipient for just being Miles! He has been director ofthe Fish Market, organized bicycle rides from the College ofDesign to First Friday, a design camp instructor, a local DJ, film aficionado and the director ofmany social gatherings—planned and spur ofthe 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 ofthe May 2009 Concrete Masonry News that highlights masonry competitions held at NC State, University ofSouthern California and Georgia Tech.

Industrial Design graduate student Matthew Gilbride won 2nd place at the New York International Auto Show’s World Traffic Safety Symposium Design for Safety Competition. Industrial Design graduate student Michael Laut won 3rd place and Industrial Design graduate student Kathryn Asad placed 4th. Under the direction ofAssociate Professor of Industrial Design Bong-il Jin, NC State students have placed in the competition for six consecutive years.

Peter Carrasquillo, a graduate student in Industrial Design, has a concept for a wakeboarding boat entered into the MDRA (Marine Design Resource Alliance) boat design competition. The results ofthat competition are still pending. This project, first and foremost a styling exercise, was from Bong-Il Jin’s 2009 Summer Studio.

Second year graduate industrial design student Michael Rall was selected as one ofthree Grand Prize winners from the U.S. in LG Surfaces inaugural LG Surfaces and Beyond Student Design Challenge. In April, the winners received an all-expenses-paid trip to Milan, Italy, to join winners from Europe and Asia and exhibit their finished concept at Zona Tortona’s “That’s Design!” show that drew more than 80,000 designers and exhibitors from around the globe.

DESIGN IN FLUEN CE / FALL 2009 On March 18, 2009, Alberto Rigau, a graduate ofthe Master ofGraphic Design program at the College ofDesign, was awarded first place in the Humanities Category ofthe Fourth Annual Graduate Research Symposium at NC State University. His final graduate project research “In what ways can design address consumption induced behaviors and provide a set oftools to help consumers manage, control, and personalize fiscal activities?” tries to understand the consumer’s relationship to credit card use in its broader sense—in its ecology—and evaluates the ways in which design can address consumption-induced behaviors through tools that help manage, control, and personalize fiscal activities. Three areas offocus were identified to frame a series ofdesign explorations: system defaults, choice and feedback. A study in system defaults reiterated the importance ofmetaphors in a consumer’s understanding ofnumerical information. A study in choice revealed some ofthe problems associated with abstracting a consumer’s relationship to money. To understand the larger implications ofa consumer’s actions, this second study explores the context ofspending-related choices. A study offeedback demonstrated the possibilities ofan interactive system in managing personal behavior. A balance between reminders, rewards and encouraging messages proved promising in building a platform that not only reprimands a person, but also provides the necessary motivation to move forward in a controlled manner. As a whole, the investigation explores moments, opportunities and conditions for a design intervention to bring about reflective thought about spending habits as they are occurring. For more information about his project, please e-mail alberto@estudiointerlinea.com or visit his Web site: www.estudiointerlinea.com.