2019 Fall – Retail Incubator Space in Greenville NC

This semester, students are designing a product display/presentation space in the historic Hughes Tobacco Warehouse in Greenville.  This space is designed to offer students and professors a place to meet with business people, to discuss ideas for product development. Portfolio 1 includes preliminary Quick Sketch Competency exercises, Music as Design Inspiration, Activity Space Studies, and … Read more

2018 Fall – Third Place – Ideation

The next step of the students’ design process is ideation – generating design ideas based on the research and program.  They completed several exercises to further this. The first exercise was Music as Design Inspiration, an exercise originally developed by Professor Becky Sweet, in which they drew while listening to a piece of music, translating … Read more