Interior design students sweep top nat'l honors
Drawing on a cornucopia of talent and inspiration, WSU students won the top three honors in a recent national competition. Challenged by the Retail Design Institute to design a grocery store that would compete with businesses like Whole Foods Markets, Chung Yung (Simon) Ho, Gwen McConn, and Natasha Palewicz won first, second, and third place honors while Meagan Phillips received one of the two honorable mentions.
(WSU Today, 6/2009) Read More »
WSU Interior Design Program Ranked in Top 10 Nationally
WSU Spokane’s graduate program in interior design ranked ninth in the nation in a recent list released by DesignIntelligence, a bimonthly journal for architecture and design professionals. Rankings are based on surveys of professional design firms.
(WSU Today, 1/2009) Read More »
2007
Groundbreaking slated for July, WSU students plan smart housing
Thanks to another collaborative effort between Habitat for Humanity-Spokane and the Interdisciplinary Design Institute at Washington State University Spokane, a July groundbreaking is slated for eight sustainable, low-costing housing units that were designed by six WSU students last fall.
(WSU Today, 6/2007) Read More »
Energy sustainability, solar house gets new westside home
A solar home designed and built by a group of Washington State University students gets a new home this week at Shoreline Community College, where it will serve as a demonstration project on zero-energy building.
(WSU Today, 5/2007) Read More »
LEEDing the way
Interior Design senior Lauren Hall says she wants to "open people's eyes" to the possibilities of "smart design." Aesthetics and profit are important, she says, but just as important is design "that communicates with the surrounding environment and responds to a global responsibility for efficient design." Hall is intently focused on spreading the word about sustainability -- so intent that she sat for and passed a design-and-build examination usually only tackled by professionals.
(2/2007) Read More »
Design Institute faculty, students to explore living and housing conditions in Tibet
A team of Washington State University Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Interior Design faculty and students are bound for China and Tibet this May, to get a rare look at how people there design, furnish and occupy their homes.
(WSU Today, 2/2007) Read More »
Plans for the future, students to design new downtown Hillyard
Washington State University Interdisciplinary Design Institute students are kicking off the spring semester with a Charrrette (an intense design and problem solving process of limited duration) to develop new ideas for a revitalized downtown Hillyard, along North Market Street in Spokane.
(WSU Today, 1/2007) Read More »
2005
Interior Design major showcases talent
Sophomore Dana Vaux, a nontraditional student, said she was one of the 127 people who entered the contest, and received an honorable mention.
(Daily Evergreen, 2/2005) Read More »
2003
WSU Spokane student takes first in lighting design competition
Jamie M. Herring, of Washington State University Spokane's Interdisciplinary Design Institute, was awarded first place in the student category of Cooper Lighting's 26th Annual Source Awards, a national lighting design competition.
(WSU News, 6/2003) Read More »
WSU Spokane Interior Design faculty wins national award for second time
The Interior Design Educators Council has named work by WSU Spokane Assistant Professor of Interior Design Matt Melcher Best in Show for the second time.
(WSU News, 4/2003) Read More »
2002
Interior Design Program names new Director, Blossom also to serve Interdisciplinary Design Institute as Assistant Director
In a move that reflects growth at Washington State University Spokane's Interdisciplinary Design Institute, the new director of WSU's Interior Design program will also serve as Assistant Director of the Institute. Professor Nancy Blossom comes to WSU Spokane from The George Washington University, where she directed the Interior Design program.
(WSU News, 9/2002) Read More »
2001
Interior Design professors, designer receive Best In Show for Holley-Mason Project
Washington State University Spokane faculty members Matt Melcher and Nancy Clark Brown, with local designer Juliet Sinisterra, won Best In Show for Interior Design at the 2001 Interior Design Educators Council International Conference.
(WSU News, 4/2001) Read More »
