Appalachian student works across disciplines to bring designs to life
Feb 8, 2018
By Mary Anne SavageFrom her senior year of high school to her senior year at Appalachian State University, Sarah Bischoff, a senior apparel design and...
Inaugural Harb Scholarship awarded to interior design student
Feb 6, 2018
Emma Morris, a senior interior design major from Charlotte, has been awarded the inaugural Jane S. Harb Scholarship through Appalachian State Universi...
Appalachian State University design student takes home honors in international PAVE competition
Feb 1, 2018
Emma Morris, a senior enrolled in the Department of Applied Design’s interior design program, has received third place in the Planning and Visual Ed...
Innovation, surprise win students a place on the runway
Jan 9, 2018
You won’t find “Red Rocks at Sunset” and “Paris City Lights” listed on Amazon Books or as new Netflix series. They are the names of fashion-...
‘Selfies with Santa’ yields holiday donation to High Country United Way [Watauga Democrat]
Dec 18, 2017
Students, faculty and administration of Appalachian State University’s Department of Applied Design worked off some end-of-semester nervous energy w...
Department of Applied Design hosts 2017 Interior Design Educators Council Conference
Oct 30, 2017
The Appalachian State Department of Applied Design hosted the 2017 South Regional Conference for the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) this mon...
Interior Design professor participates in SAI Faculty Fellowship
Oct 17, 2017
by: Ellie HooperJeanne Mercer-Ballard, associate professor of Interior Design at Appalachian State University, was selected as a faculty fellow throug...
Appalachian State University students take home honors in furniture design competition
Sep 29, 2017
Two Appalachian students in the College of Fine and Applied Arts’ Department of Applied Design took home honors in the International Furniture&...
App State's new HOW Space is the university's latest evolution in innovation, interdisciplinary education [WNCMagazine.com]
Sep 18, 2017
“Solving difficult problems—what we call ‘wicked problems’—requires multiple perspectives,” says Assistant Professor of Management Mark Le...
AppLab 3.0 kicks off with IBM Design Thinking workshop
Sep 11, 2017
This fall, 30 Appalachian State University students enrolled in the first cohort of AppLab 3.0, a multi-disciplinary, six-credit Design Thinking cours...