SPOKANE – No matter where you live, crime prevention is a key to community safety. How does design fit in the mix and help us stay ahead of the crime? The Design Institute at Washington State University Spokane is hosting “”Designing Products Against Crime: A Think Thief Orientation,” a lecture that will address those questions […]
SPOKANE – A team of Washington State University architecture, landscape architecture and interior design faculty and students are bound for China and Tibet this May to get a rare look at how people there design, furnish and occupy their homes. Led by Professor Nancy Blossom, director of the Interdisciplinary Design Institute at WSU Spokane, and […]
SPOKANE – Washington State University Interdisciplinary Design students are kicking off the spring semester with a charrette (an intense design and problem solving process of limited duration) to develop new ideas for a revitalized downtown Hillyard along North Market Street in Spokane. The 24 teams of four students will meet Jan. 10 at 2 p.m. […]
Matthew Cohen, an assistant professor of architecture in the Interdisciplinary Design Institute at WSU Spokane, will be the featured speaker at a free public seminar on April 21 from 3-5 p.m. in the Phase I Classroom Building Auditorium at 668 North Riverpoint Boulevard on the Riverpoint Campus. The presentation is a feature of the Third […]
Matthew Cohen, an assistant professor of architecture in the Interdisciplinary Design Institute at WSU Spokane, will be the featured speaker at a free public seminar on April 21 from 3-5 p.m. in the Phase I Classroom Building Auditorium at 668 North Riverpoint Boulevard on the Riverpoint Campus. The presentation is a feature of the Third […]
With deep green and purple walls and counters, wooden cabinets, stainless steel appliances and a spot for the dog dish, a kitchen created by WSU student Manda Glover has won first place in the National Kitchen & Bath Association 2006 Student Design Competition.The sophomore from Tacoma is majoring in interior design in the College of […]
Vancouver faculty and graduate students will hear strategies for winning grant proposals at a daylong seminar on Friday, March 31, in the Multimedia Classroom Building, WSU Vancouver. Topics will include: research and design of successful proposals; importance and roles of both program managers and reviewers; the writing process and a question-and-answer session. A panel of […]
The first week of school, Interdisciplinary Design Institute students at WSU Spokane are initiated, so to speak, into the institute through an intensive, 30-hour design challenge known as the Charrette.The Charrette is a design education tradition, being an intense project with “a tremendously difficult timeline,” said Keith Diaz Moore, Charrette coordinator and assistant professor of […]
SPOKANE, Wash. — Nicole Kelln, who graduated this spring with a bachelor’s degree in interior design from Washington State University, took the 2005 grand prize in the National Sustainable Design Competition sponsored by the International Interior Design Association. The competition organizers said they had an “overwhelming” number of entries and that the grand prize selection […]
Debuting Wednesday, March 30, at the CUB Gallery is a textile design exhibit by University of Nebraska, Lincoln faculty member and artist Vince Quevedo. His life-size sculptural garments depict the sins of greed, shown at left, anger, envy, gluttony, pride, sloth and lust.