NC State College of Design
Good design matters. It touches everything around us. It drives innovation. And it has the power to make life better for everyone.
We make sense of the world for the benefit of the public. Our rigorous programs prepare students to develop solutions that serve the greater good, and our research has life-changing impact.
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There’s no Ctrl+Z on paper. ✏️
Industrial design professor Byungsoo Kim built TRACE, a system where students and AI sketch together on the same page. A pen plotter draws the AI’s ideas right next to the student’s, in a different color, so every mark shows who made it.
The goal: keep early ideas loose and hands-on, and make AI’s role in the design process visible. 🖊️🤖
Full story at the News link in bio.
Housing in the Triangle is a design problem, a policy problem and a money problem. 🏠
This fall, Raleigh’s mayor, county and city housing officials, developers, and architects came together at NC State for Room to Grow, a free public symposium on what’s holding back housing production and which solutions might work.
Read the full story at the News link in our bio.
Presented by @ncstate_architecture, @aiatriangle, and @ncstatepappas.
Three minutes, one red pen, endless ways to be part of the Pack. #NCStateRedWhite
Congratulations to Ethan Hall, a fifth-year student in NC State’s School of Architecture, on winning the 2026 Pendulum Prize! 🎉
His Forest Hills Branch Library in Durham extends the park through and over the building, using a sloping green roof, constructed wetlands and elevated walkways to manage flooding and open the library to its neighbors.
Swipe to see the work ➡️ and find the full story at the News link in our bio.
Fall 2026 Duda Visiting Designer Public Lecture: Mark Johnson, FASLA.
Johnson co-founded Civitas in 1984 and has guided its growth into an international leader in urban design and landscape architecture. He is known for challenging assumptions and finding connections between urban issues that others tend to miss.
Wednesday, October 28, 6 to 7pm
Burns Auditorium, College of Design
Free and open to the College of Design and the broader community.
Part of the School of Architecture / AIA Triangle Joint Lecture Series, supported by the Duda Visiting Designer Program, in collaboration with the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning.
POV: campus is empty except for some crunchy leaves and the resident hawk.
Weld it. Cut it. Build it. Step inside the Materials Lab. 🔥🔧
🔗 Become a maker at the link in our bio.
“There’s an audience out there for you, it’s just a matter of finding those people.”
Three @ncstate_madtech student animations that began as senior capstones ended up on screen at ICON13`s Motion Commotion in Baltimore.
For Lily Barber, Sophia Vaughn and Sophie Gabriel, it was an opportunity to put deeply personal work in front of an audience beyond NC State for the first time, as well as fight the inner voices that make many creatives hesitate to share.
Read the full story on their experiences and animations at the News link in our bio.
What does it mean to be a graphic designer today?
In his new book, “Graphic Designers After Graphic Design,” @ncstate_gxid assistant professor and host of @surfacepodcast Jarrett Fuller explores the increasingly blurry boundaries of the discipline through interviews, case studies and profiles of designers working across publishing, research, performance, art and more.
Ultimately, the book is designed to serve as a lifeline to those despairing about the “death of graphic design.”
Read about the ideas behind Fuller’s new book at the News link in our bio.
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