Department of Graphic Design and Industrial Design

Department of Graphic Design and Industrial Design
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1950s

1958 Department of Product Design established

1960s

1968 L. Franklin Bost graduated

L. Franklin Bost graduated with a bachelor's degree in product design. He later became CEO of Spheringenics.

Fall 1968 Master's degree in product design first offered

1970s

1972 Richard Curtis graduated

Richard Curtis graduated with a bachelor's degree in product design. He later became managing editor for graphics and photography at USA Today.

1973 Department of Product Design renamed

The Department of Product Design was renamed the Department of Product/Visual Design.

1980s

1984 David Evans graduated

David Evans graduated with a bachelor's degree in environmental design. He later became Creative Director for National Geographic Film and Television and Senior Producer for the National Geographic Society.

1984 Department of Product/Visual Design renamed

The Department of Product/Visual Design was renamed the Department of Product and Visual Design.

1990s

1991 Department of Product and Visual Design divided

The Department of Product and Visual Design divided into the Department of Graphic Design and the Department of Industrial Design.

2010s

Summer 2010 Saul Flores completed "Walk of the Immigrants"

In the summer of 2010, student Saul Flores walked 5,000 miles across ten countries from Ecuador to Charlotte, NC, to bring awareness of Latin American issues. During this trip, he took over 20,000 photographs, and he donated sales from the images for the rebuilding of a school in his mother’s hometown of Atencingo, Mexico. The photographs were exhibited by the Libraries as the "Walk of the Immigrants." Flores graduated from NC State in 2012 with degrees in graphic design and business marketing.

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