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App State Interior Design wins 5th place at Fashion Bash 2026 Sep 28, 2026

A team of Appalachian State University interior design students and faculty competed for their first time in the annual Fashion Bash, held in Charlotte on September 17.

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Industrial Design Alumni Day

Industrial Design Program celebrates 10 years Apr 6, 2016

On Saturday, April 2, the Industrial Design faculty welcomed more than 100 guests, including 50 program alumni, to celebrate the 10 year... Applied Design

Kern Maass

Associate Dean Kern Maass shares more on AppLab Mar 9, 2016

Dave Blanks spoke with Kern Maass to learn more about the purpose of AppLab and how the campus community can get involved.

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Sydney Surro models the winning dress

App State students compete in first Apparel Design Challenge [Blowing Rock News] Mar 1, 2016

Sophomores Sarah Bischoff and Sydney Surro teamed up to transform a set of scrubs into a vintage sundress in just five hours, beating out fo

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Activation of the bilateral amygdala

Interior Design professor studies hospital design and fear response Feb 29, 2016

Hessam Ghamari's findings were recently published in Health Environments Research & Design (HERD), a prestigious h

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Richard Prisco

Prisco Appointed Interim Chair of Applied Design Jul 15, 2015

Professor Richard Prisco has been appointed interim chair of the newly created Department of Applied Design at Appalachian State University.

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