Faculty/Staff

A L U M N I / F R I E N D S

Roy Abernathy, AIA (BEDA 1990, M.Arch. 1992) is new President and CEO of Jova/Daniels/Busby, an architectural, interior design and planning firm located in Atlanta. Abernathy has years of experience as both a consultant and architect. He is described as a sought-after lecturer on work place performance, business architecture and the future of facilities performance.

Michael Beaman (BEDA 1998, B.Arch. 1999) is teaching at Northeastern University, School of Architecture as an adjunct professor, and Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Career Discovery program as a principle instructor. In addition, he is working on two houses in North Carolina, and academic research projects. He also collaborates with Boston architecture firm Studio Luz (studioluz.net) and with a number of architects on exhibits including 2005 Rotterdam Biennale, 2004 Young Architects Forum at the Architecture League of New York, and Exhibitions at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design.

Matt Checkowski (BGD 1998) is making his codirectorial debut with “The Alibi” starring Steve Coogan, Rebecca Romijn, Selma Blair, James Brolin, Sam Elliott, Jaime King, John Leguizamo

and James Marsden. “The Alibi” is scheduled for release in the spring of 2006.

Elizabeth L. Boyle (BGD 1999) is director of creative services at United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta. She is also teaching at Portfolio Center in Buckhead (http://www.portfoliocenter.com) and serves on the AIGA Atlanta board.

Todd Childers, (BED in Visual Design 1986) who also earned an MFA from California Institute of Arts, has just received tenure and has been promoted to Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the School of Art at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

CBS News featured fashion designer and College of Design alumna Natalie Chanin (BEDN 1987), and Project Alabama, the company she founded. Project Alabama creates high-end women’s embroidered apparel which is hand-made in Florence, Alabama, using recycled t-shirts. The line is featured at Barney’s New York and Brown’s in London. Chanin visited with College of Design students last semester to discuss her work.

Frost Bank Tower, designed by Duda/Paine Architects, was recently awarded the 2004 Impact Award for Design Excellence by the Downtown Austin Alliance. Turan Duda (BEDA 1976) is design principal of Duda/Paine Architects.

Andrew Hartman (BED in Product Design 1989) is Senior Design/Account Manager for New Business with Philips Design in the Netherlands. He is also a product design instructor at the Design Academy Eindhoven (http://www.designacadem.nl/).

Laura Hutfless (BGD 2004) served as Miss Garner 2005. She placed in the Top 10 Finalists and received the Miss America Academic-Scholar Award (for her 4th consecutive year—holding a Miss America record) during the Miss North Carolina pageant in June. Hutfless organized a Christmas Cheer Tour that collected more than 1,000 toys for North Carolina hospitals and orphanages and a Country Music Celebrity Auction that raised more than $20,000 for the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA). She personally collected a variety of autographed memorabilia donated by country music artists that were auctioned off in honor of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week held February 27-March 5, 2005. The auction was named the “largest volunteer-led fundraiser in the history of the organization” and she was named “Volunteer of the Year” from volunteers across the nation and 13 other countries. She is scheduled to speak at the NEDA Conference in Denver in September. Recently, Hutfless was named to the UNC Eating Disorders Board of Visitors. While at NC State, Hutfless was named to the USA TODAY All-USA College Academic Team.

Elizabeth Lundberg Morisette (BEDN 1994) has recently shown her woven work in sev eral venues including The Hoyt Institute, New Castle, Penn.; The Blackrock Center for the Arts, Gaithersburg, Md., and The Weinberg Center in Frederick, Md. Her work has also been included in several national fiber shows, including Fiber Directions 2005, Wichita, Kansas; Nothing New, St. Paul Minnesota, and A Tribute to Fiber Art, Apex Gallery, Washington, D.C. Upcoming shows

include, The National Juried Bead and Fiber Exhibit, Frederick, Md., September 3-October 30, 2005, and RE/COLLECTIONS, at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Va., November 5-December 31 2005. She has also started on a master’s degree in Community Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Vincent Edward Gardner (BED in Product Design 1987, MID 2002) won in the Michelin Challenge Design January 9, 2005. Each year Michelin establishes a theme for designers all over the world. Their design entries are reviewed by an international panel of top designers and those selected have their drawings, scale models or vehi cles featured at the North American International Auto Show as part of the Michelin Challenge Design exhibit. The 2005 Challenge focused on vehicles and vehicle designs that demonstrated the influence of German design, the events, people and icons that have inspired the international automotive design community. Gardner’s design “The Hauler” is a neo-Bauhaus experiment in a long-haul truck design. His visual form was inspired by the Ulm School of Design philosophy that good design is simple. Modularizing the functions as an expression of the form is Ulm to the fullest. He was also an invited guest lecturer at Appalachian State University Visiting lecture series in the Industrial Design Department. His lecture focus was on global design and the role software like Alias studio tools play in world design scene. The College of Design would like to congratulate all winners of the AIA North Carolina Design Awards competition. All three Chapter Award winners have a con nection to NC State, as do many design award winners. The annual AIA North Carolina Design Awards banquet was held Saturday, August 6, at the Jefferson Hotel in downtown Richmond.

Congratulations to all this year’s winners including FreemanWhite which received the Firm of the Year Award. John L. Atkins, III, FAIA, (B.Arch. 1966) received the F. Carter Williams Gold Medal, the highest honor the AIA NC awards its members. The medal is awarded in recognition of a distinguished career of extraordinary accomplishments as an architect. Paul Davis Boney, FAIA, (BEDA 1977) received the prestigious William H. Deitrick Service Medal for performing extraordinary service to the chapter, pro fession and community. AIA AWARDS

2005 Design Award Winners

Honor

Johnston County Industries, Inc. Clearscapes, PA Steve Schuster (BEDA 1973)

Merit

Open Air Classroom at Prairie Ridge Frank Harmon, Architect (Associate Professor)

Chowan County Courthouse State Historic Site Restoration HagerSmith Design, PA Michael Hagar (B.Arch. 2969) and Jim Smith (BEDA 1974)

National Institute of Statistical Sciences Headquarters O’Brien/Atkins Associates, PA John Atkins III (B.Arch. 1966) and William L. O’Brien (B.Arch. 1962)

Poland/Defeo Residence Ellen Cassilly Architect, Inc. (Visiting Faculty)

Morganton Depot Renovation HagerSmith Design, PA Michael Hagar (B.Arch. 2969) and Jim ? (BEDA 1974)

Strickland Ferris Residence Frank Harmon, Architect (Associate Professor)

Winners John Atkins (left) and Paul Boney (center) pictured with Immediate Past President of AIA NC Steve Schuster who presented the awards.

Unbuilt Merit

North Carolina A & T State University The Freelon Group, Inc. Phil Freelon (BEDA 1975)

Villa Al Bahar Kenneth E. Hobgood, architects (Visiting Faculty)