Posted January 16, 200619 yr From the 1/9/06 UC News Record: PHOTO: From left, Laura Rucker, Brittany Gervais and Jessica Copp work in a design classroom in DAAP. Media Credit: Robert Sexton DAAP programs rank among best in country By: Rachel Cassano Issue date: 1/9/06 Section: News The University of Cincinnati school of interior design was named the No.1 for the seventh straight year by professionals across the nation. http://www.newsrecord.org/media/paper693/news/2006/01/09/News/Daap-Programs.Rank.Among.Best.In.Country-1321915.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.newsrecord.org
January 3, 200718 yr UC grad has need for speed Mack native lead designer on Honda concept cars BY MIKE BOYER | [email protected] January 3, 2007 PHOTO: Designer Ben Davidson introduces the Honda Remix concept car at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November. Davidson was the lead designer on the Remix and a radical-looking Acura Advanced Sedan. The Associated Press / Reed Saxon PHOTO: The Honda Remix concept car features a wrap-around canopy resembling a fighter jet's. The car is featured on the January cover of Car & Driver magazine. The Associated Press / Reed Saxon As a 27-year-old just three years removed from the University of Cincinnati, Ben Davidson is traveling in some fast company - and he's enjoying the ride. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070103/BIZ01/701030330/1076/BIZ
January 3, 200718 yr Inside DAAP's transportation design program BY MIKE BOYER | [email protected] January 3, 2007 CINCINNATI - University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning has an international reputation for its architecture and interior design programs and is gaining increased traction for its 2-year-old transportation design track. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070103/BIZ01/301030008/1076/BIZ
February 4, 200718 yr Cincinnati makes Super Bowl Touch of home everywhere you look in Miami BY JON NEWBERRY | [email protected] February 3, 2007 IMAGE: Many Super Bowl graphics around Miami have a Cincinnati connection. Rendering Provided PHOTO: UC graphic-design student Dan Phillips of Green Township helped design logos for Super Bowl XLI. The Enquirer/Carrie Cochran CINCINNATI - Although the Bengals didn't even make the playoffs this year, Cincinnati will have a highly visible presence at the Super Bowl. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070203/BIZ01/702030343
February 4, 200718 yr It is difficult to believe DAAP can have such a high ranking with UncleRando pulling down all the other students...
February 4, 200718 yr I don't understand why the city doesn't collaborate with daap students more. They realize what a big asset UC is to the city and how important it is that we stay here but if these future "creative class" students don't have any involvement or attachment to Cincinnati they'll have no problem leaving down for good once they graduate. Oh yeah, and the urban planners definitely run daap :]
February 4, 200718 yr It is difficult to believe DAAP can have such a high ranking with UncleRando pulling down all the other students... HEY!!!!!!!!!!! :whip: :shoot: :shoot: :shoot: :shoot: :shoot: :shoot: :shoot: :shoot: :shoot:
April 30, 200718 yr UC's DAAP college receives $10 million gift April 30, 2007 | CINCINNATI BUSINESS COURIER UPTOWN - The chairman and CEO of J.C. Penney Co. Inc. and his wife have contributed $10 million to their alma mater, the University of Cincinnati, the school announced Monday.
April 30, 200718 yr Awesome! I feel like shopping at J.C. Penney's now. Penney's? :oops: :oops: :oops: I'm a little verklemp reading that!
April 30, 200718 yr Awesome! I feel like shopping at J.C. Penney's now. Penney's? :oops: :oops: :oops: I'm a little verklemp reading that! Hey I think your river is on fire, you might want to call the fire dept. :wink2:
April 30, 200718 yr Awesome! I feel like shopping at J.C. Penney's now. Penney's? :oops: :oops: :oops: I'm a little verklemp reading that! Hey I think your river is on fire, you might want to call the fire dept. :wink2: East River or Hudson? Both look pretty clear right now!
December 8, 200717 yr The world's a classroom College's co-ops become a model for other UC programs BY CLIFF PEALE | CINCINNATI ENQUIRER December 8, 2007 UPTOWN - Andrew Kreyenhagen is working on a car, but there's no engine or garage in sight. Instead, the University of Cincinnati junior from Milford sits with his laptop in a studio in the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, sketching and shaping and rotating a wheel as part of a project with General Motors.
April 20, 200817 yr Some DAAP work from Fashion Design and Planning are on display at the Macy's Fountain Place location. I don't really have any clue as to why they included the planning studio final boards from our Anyang, China project...but what the hey. My group's two boards on the two on the right...I mainly worked on the top-right one's content, in addition to both layouts.
April 20, 200817 yr I think it's so great how local companies really embrace UCs programs and work with them. That looks really cool.
June 10, 200817 yr Probst named DAAP dean at University of Cincinnati http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2008/06/09/daily5.html
December 2, 200816 yr UC Students Win Top Honors in International Underwater Architecture Contest http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.asp?id=9245 University of Cincinnati architecture and interior design students recently led the world in an innovative 21st century competition – a global contest to design forward-looking underwater architecture. Just announced as the winners in France’s Archipelaego Competition were UC students: Sarosh Ali Jason Rohal Heather Vorst The three won the international competition, which was open to both architecture students and professional architects around the world in a contest “to encourage the public to preserve the oceans” by increasing public awareness of the need for their better management. For their efforts, the three students – all from UC’s nationally Top Ten-ranked architecture and interior design programs housed within the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning – will jointly receive the Jacques Rougerie Architecture of the Sea Award and share a cash prize of about $2,000. (The award is named for French architect Jacques Rougerie who specializes in designs sited in unusual spaces, like underwater. For instance, he has created designs for a proposed project that would be the world's first underwater museum to be located off the coast of Egypt.) Underwater construction efforts at the bottom of UC’s Olympic-sized lap pool When designing UC's winning competition entry in spring 2008, team member Jason Rohal, 21, of Cleveland, was one of a handful of UC students who literally immersed himself in the design process – by participating in underwater design and construction exercises at the bottom of UC’s Olympic-sized pool as part of an Extreme Environments design class. Rohal credits that hands-on, underwater experience for improving the group’s design for an eco-hotel/research center to be located on the Belize Barrier Reef, the second largest reef in the world. He said, “We most certainly couldn’t have come to such obviously good design decisions without that actual underwater experience. The scuba-diving exercises did inform our design. We also talked with researchers like UC surgeon Tim Broderick who have been part of NASA experiments where professionals work in a weightless atmosphere.” The UC students’ actual underwater design experiments led to a number of overall and quite specific design decisions for Ali, Rohal and Vorst. These include: A “Swiss cheese” or skinned frame upon which their eco-hotel/research center rests. The gaps or holes in that frame provide places for divers to rest or pull themselves along because users of extreme-environment shelters will need ways to conserve physical energy. Rohal stated, “We all got very tired very quickly when working underwater. So, we incorporated resting places and features to allow divers to pull themselves along into our design.” Special storage needs. “We couldn’t really believe all the equipment we had to put on for scuba diving and all the specialized gear we could have used,” said Rohal. That meant that any design had to incorporate easily accessible and plentiful storage. Suitable materials both inside and out. All materials inside the eco-hotel/research center need to be moisture resistant/slip resistant. The glass or polymer used to create the structures façade must be resistant to organisms that typically grow on objects underwater. Tidal energy is harnessed to supply the center electrical energy needs. If the idea of underwater architecture seems too futuristic – like Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” consider that underwater hotels and research structures already exist. The UC students’ designs simply take the concept one step further, creating an eco-hotel and research center combined wherein the proceeds from eco-tourism would fund needed research. For instance, in the case of this winning design in the Archipelaego Competition, the students deliberately chose to site their project along Belize’s Barrier Reef because greater research is needed there. It’s a reef that is still largely unexplored. Ten years ago, 90 percent of the species on that reef were still unidentified. For Rohal and his partners, the real payoff for their project would come if eco-tourism and research were to grow in that area. Said Rohal, “If someone were to ever develop a project based on our work, that would be amazing, absolutely great. We deliberately made it development worthy. It’s a modular design that could be built above water but then sunk and assembled below water. That would lessen the intensity of the effort and the expense – which is something that we learned in our own hands-on underwater construction exercises at UC. It’s much easier to build the requisite parts above water and then assemble completed pieces in place below the surface.” The three UC students learned a number of lessons from their project, completed in a spring quarter 2008 Extreme Environments course led by Brian Davies, associate professor of architecture. Said Vorst, “The most important thing I learned is to always keep in mind: Challenge is a positive, not a burden.” The project and the competition also provided her with the inspiration to consider incorporating water into building designs as a functional element to serve people. She explained, “Since working on this project, I’ve thought about incorporating water into buildings as a means of helping those who are physically challenged and have special needs. Many times, those with physical challenges actually have greater mobility and freedom when in the water. So, how can we incorporate water into buildings in a way that might help the physically challenged?” For Ali, the project and class were “a lot of fun. The challenge of designing for an underwater environment meant we couldn’t fall back on preconceived assumptions. We were pioneers, just taking carefully researched guesses, but there wasn’t a whole lot of existing built structures to guide us.” See a video of UC architecture and interior design students practicing an underwater building exercise. Read more on the top-ten rankings of UC’s interior design and architecture programs. Apply to UC’s undergraduate interior design and architecture programs.
December 19, 200816 yr Creative Juices Flowing for UC Students Producing Orange Bowl Designs http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.asp?id=9365 The FedEx Orange Bowl on Jan. 1 will throw a spotlight on a season of hard work and accomplishment by the University of Cincinnati Bearcat football team. The event in Dolphin Stadium in Miami, Fla., will similarly throw a spotlight on the design work of three UC graphic design students who – thanks to the university’s Top Ten cooperative education program – have had the unexpected opportunity to help design the banner graphics that will fill the stadium inside and out (decks and walls, locker rooms, players’ benches and more). These approximately 350 large-scale banners will also be on view throughout Miami, at Miami International and the Fort Lauderdale airports, on downtown streets and at hotels. (Cooperative education, or co-op, is where students alternate academic quarters with quarters of paid, professional work related directly to their majors. UC is the global founder of co-op, having founded the practice in 1906. UC co-op is ranked in the nation’s Top Ten by U.S. News & World Report, and design students at UC graduate with about 18 months of paid, professional experience on their resumes.) These UC design co-op students helping to create the graphics for use during the bowl game are Laura Fahey of Bridgetown in Cincinnati, Ohio Ryan Taeuber of Western Hills in Cincinnati, Ohio Jen Vitello of Maplewood, N.J. Laura Fahey Helping to complete the banners by prominently placing the UC logo front and center on the pieces has been exciting, according to graphic design junior Laura Fahey, 21, of Bridgetown, who is currently on co-op working for Infinite Scale Design Group in Salt Lake City, a firm that specializes in sports-related environmental graphic design. “The banners will be all over the place, and it’s been my role to make sure the varying sizes are correct, the logos are all correct, the colors are all correct. You have pressure to get it right because people will be seeing this work when it’s at an extremely large scale once the banners are produced. They’ll see them at varying angles. It’s exacting design work because when we work on it on a computer screen, it’s very small. You can’t let anything slip,” Fahey explained. In other words, no fumbles. Fahey added that it’s just a great perk that she’s now doing this with her own university team’s logo and colors to work with. “I’ll definitely be watching the game at home come Jan. 1 with my family. I’ll be seeing work I helped with on national TV. It’s all going to be on view at its final large scale.” And, yes, she admitted that she’ll be pointing out to everyone the graphic work that she’s helped with. Jen Vitello Fellow student Jen Vitello, 21, of Maplewood, N.J., said she’ll be doing the same. “Oh yeah, I’m planning on pointing out to my family and friends what I worked on as we watch the game.” Vitello is in the second of two co-op quarters at Infinite Scale. She began working at the firm during spring quarter and had a hand in developing the initial concepts for the Orange Bowl banners. Back then, she had no idea that the eventual logos she would swap out in the final design would be that of UC. “It’s been exciting to work here from the start, but we’re just ecstatic now that UC is playing in the Orange Bowl,” she said. Ryan Taeuber Ryan Taeuber agreed, “I’m glad it’s our team we’ve been designing for.” Taeuber, 25, of Western Hills in Cincinnati, co-opped at Infinite Scale back in the summer, helping to create the early conceptual designs and the design system for the Orange Bowl. He admitted that during his summer co-op, he did fantasize that UC would be in the bowl game. Said Taeuber, “I’m into sports. The Bengals and UC are my teams. I did think, early on, how cool it would be to have UC logos on the designs we were helping to create. And now, it’s happening. I just get to be glad for our team.” He stated that he’s likely to watch the Jan. 1 game with friends, but he might have some difficulty concentrating fully on the football: “I’m a sports fan as well as loving graphic design. Being able to view our designs on such a grand scale will be awesome. It will be a real struggle to look at our work, watch the football game and root for UC [all at the same time].” Right after the Orange Bowl game, Taeuber will head back to Infinite Scale Design for a winter-quarter co-op where he’ll contribute to designs for the Super Bowl. UC alumni lead the making of Orange Bowl designs It’s not only current UC co-op students at the firm who are excited to be part of the team creating Orange Bowl designs for a game that will be the biggest day yet in the 118-year history of UC football. Infinite Scale Design Group, which specializes in creating branded environments for the most prominent of sporting events and organizations (like the National Football League, New York Yankees and U.S. Tennis Association), frequently recruits its own design team members from UC’s internationally ranked design programs. That means UC alumni are leading the Orange Bowl design effort. They are Amy Lukas, a firm partner, originally from Middlefield, Ohio Travis Lee, lead designer, originally from Eldorado, Ohio Zach Norman, lead designer, originally from Pickerington, Ohio Dan Phillips, designer, originally from Western Hills (Green Township) in Cincinnati, Ohio Lukas has directed all the designs for the Orange Bowl project, while the rest of the team has headed up different aspects related to stadium and street-level banners and graphics. Lee and an installation team from Roe Fabricators will install the graphics.
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