Sharon Joines
Sharon Joines is an Associate Professor of Industrial Design at NC State University. She is also a researcher and ergonomist, teaching courses in human centered design and ergonomics. Joines’ research is focused on quantifying the interaction between individuals, products, and their environment. She has addressed challenges in consumer markets, warehousing and distribution, medical applications, and manufacturing environments ranging […]
Teddy Cruz
Teddy Cruz is an architect and ‘activist’. He is recognized internationally for his urban research of the Tijuana-San Diego border, advancing border immigrant neighborhoods as sites of cultural production, from which he rethinks urban policy, affordable housing and civic infrastructure. His investigation of this geography of conflict has inspired a practice and pedagogy that emerges from […]
Bryan Bell
Bryan Bell is a current Professor of Architecture at the NC State College of Design. He is also the founder of Design Corps, who’s mission is to to provide the benefits of architecture to those traditionally un-served by the profession in order to create a positive change within communities. Design Corps utilizes design advocacy and […]
Skillet Gilmore
Skillet Gilmore is an artist, musician, former member of the Raleigh-based alternative country band, Whiskeytown, and production design supervisor at INDY Week. He began creating posters and other merchandise for his band, formed in 1994 and disbanded in 2000, which is how he discovered his knack for design. His posters aimed to catch the reader’s attention with graphics, […]
Brittain Storck
Brittain Storck is a professional landscape architect with a background in natural resource-based recreation projects, greenway and trail design, and active community design and planning. She’s Alta’s regional landscape architecture studio director and the board director of North Carolina Rail Trails. Storck has managed projects across the nation and cultivated an understanding of the complexities […]
Cecilia Mouat Croxatto
Cecilia Mouat is Assistant Professor and Director of the Graduate Program of Art+Design. Her background includes a PhD in Design, a Master in filmmaking and a professional degree in architecture. She is originally from Chile, where she worked for 25 years as an architect and visual artist. Mouat’s visual work includes experimental and documentary films, photography, […]
Michael Rock
Michael Rock is a graphic designer, professor at Yale School of Art and founding partner and creative director of 2×4. He has written the book Multiple Signatures and recently wrote an article for the New York Times entitled, The Accidental Power of Design. Michael Rock received his BA in Humanities from Union in 1981 before […]
Terry Irwin
Terry Irwin is the Head of the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. She was also one of the founders of the international design firm MetaDesign, which has worked with such brands as Apple, Nike and Nissan. She has been a practicing designer for more than 40 years and has taught courses at […]
Sasha Newell
Sasha Newell is a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at NC State University. He is interested in the contribution that design makes to the field of anthropology and how the integration of the two might provide more channels for practicing anthropologists. Newell’s personal research, on collecting and hoarding, looks at the effects of consumer and […]
