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...
Interior design professor awarded Universal Design Grant
Aug 11, 2017
Alex Poorman, associate professor of interior design in the Department of Applied Design at Appalachian State University, has been awarded the Interna...
Expanding Awareness: Appalachian hosts design camp for area youth
Aug 10, 2017
For the first time, Appalachian State University design educators held a summer camp for high school students in North Carolina—introducing the...
Interior design faculty member named IIDA-Carolinas 2017 Educator of the Year
Jul 14, 2017
Associate Professor of Interior Design Alex Poorman has received the Carolinas Chapter of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) 20...