Exhibition

WaterColor: Inherent Elements of Space
Monday, Nov. 15 – Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011
Stomping Grounds Cafe, 303 Welch Ave., Ames

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students created in ART ID 469/569 Advanced Studies in Interior Design, on the topic of "Color Theory: Environmental Context." The course is taught by Assistant Professor Jihyun Song.

Healthcare Design Competition
ISU student project named a finalist

A project for Methodist Hospital in Omaha, Neb., created by a team of interior design and architecture students in Assistant Professor Jihyun Song's spring 2011 Healthcare Design Studio, has been named a finalist in Nurture's Collegiate Healthcare Design Competition. Bethany Luhrs and Rebecca Warren both received BFA degrees in interior design in May; Brittany Dieleman received a Master of Architecture in May and is now pursuing her MFA in interior design. Competition winners will be announced in September and awards will be presented at the Healthcare Design Conference in November.

2011 Hospitality Design Award

Four recent Iowa State University graduates won the top award in the student project category of the 2011 Hospitality Design Awards for Creative Achievement sponsored by Hospitality Design magazine.

William Reihmann, Honolulu; Laura Scallon, Chicago; Jennie Sorensen, Muscatine, and Kevin Wagner, Des Moines, won with their design proposal for Deck, a luxury resort hotel for South Beach in Miami Beach, Fla. Reihmann and Wagner received Bachelor of Architecture degrees, while Scallon and Sorensen received Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in interior design from Iowa State in May 2010. They developed their winning project as seniors in a spring 2010 interdisciplinary design studio class taught by associate professors Jason Alread, architecture, and Cigdem Akkurt, interior design.

This is the fourth year a student team from Iowa State has been a winner or finalist in the HD Awards competition. Congratulations!

Sherwin-Williams STIR Student Design Contest

Congratulations to Courtney Lautenschlager, first-place winner for residential design in the 2011 Sherwin-Williams STIR Student Design Contest! She created her design proposal—a luxury condominium in Mies Van Der Rohe's Lakeshore Drive apartments in Chicago—as an Honors project in Spring 2011. Her faculty adviser was Assistant Professor Jihyun Song. Lautenschlager graduated from the College of Design in May with a BFA in Interior Design. She will receive a $2,500 cash prize and her work will be featured in the 2011 edition of STIR magazine.

farmhouse Fraternity competition

Ronald E. Raikes Technology Center
As part of an independent study course this spring, 17 interior design students, organized into nine teams, created a memorial project honoring Ronald Raikes for the Iowa State Chapter of FarmHouse Fraternity. The teams developed designs to remodel the FarmHouse computer lab as the Ronald E. Raikes Technology Center. The competition was judged by the FarmHouse steering committee.

1st place: Maria Giles and Cassie White will receive $1,000 and implementation of their design
2nd place: Ali Dahl and Anya Robson will receive $500
3rd place (tie): Alison Berg, Melany Bjorkman and Brooke Smalley / Alexa Choles, Bethany Luhrs and Rebecca Warren will receive $250/team

Construction of the winning design will be completed during the summer, and the grand opening of the center will be held at Homecoming in October.