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Tuesday, 06 November 2007 |
by LINDSAY TIGAR
Lifestyles Editor
There are certain items like a toothbrush, a desk chair, silverware and a hair brush that most people use on a regular basis.
Without industrial designers, those types of products wouldn’t exist.
The senior industrial design studio at Appalachian State University has put together an exhibit featuring the work of students, faculty and alumni at the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design in Hendersonville.
Assistant professor Banks C. Talley and professor Eric Reichard have been organizing the event since the summer.
Talley said the main purpose of the exhibit is to promote the industrial design department and to showcase pieces of work.
 Senior industrial design major Robert M. Ward (l) and assistant professor Banks C. Talley (r) of the department of technology prepare a model for the exhibit ”Industrial Design: From Concept to Creation” on display in Hendersonville today through Jan. 25. Photo by Lindsay Diedrich
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He also believes the exhibit could help clear up some misconceptions about what industrial design actually entails.
“Most people have a confusion about industrial design,” he said.
“Architects design buildings, and we do products. The key thing is that
anything mass produced, we do.”
The exhibit will feature a wide range of industrial design products,
from ballpoint pen sketching to three-dimensional renderings.
“Most don’t know that someone designed your toothbrush, your shoes,
your backpack, your knives and forks, the dental floss case you use,”
he said. “Someone actually draws that out and creates it.”
Talley has been involved in the industrial design major since its inception at Appalachian State in 2004.
He is impressed with how far the major has come in only three years.
“When I got to Appalachian, what used to be the drafting and design
program was very small,” he said. “There were nine in the fall of 2004,
and now there’s 17. There were two women, now there’s 13 - one African
American, and now there’s four.”
Senior industrial design major Bobby Ward has many of his personal pieces featured in the exhibit.
“I have several sketches drawn from anything from a messy line drawing
to refined sketches,” he said. “I also have a flower base that’s made
out of aluminum.”
The exhibit will include sketches as well as physical objects including
a chair, a pizza cutter, two lamps, a pair of bookends, a golf bag
holder, and more, Talley said.
For Ward, watching his sketches turn into an actual product is part of the reason he decided to pursue industrial design.
“It’s really neat getting to see something you’ve made from an idea to
something you put on paper to something you create with models, just
roughly on the computer, and then to have something to say you’ve
made,” he said. “It’s really great to create your own thing and say
‘wow,’ that’s something I created.”
Ward believes his major gives him a wide spectrum of career opportunities.
“Originally when I came into the major, I thought about cars, but being
involved in the major has opened my eyes to other things,” he said.
“There are plenty of opportunities. It’s a really broad field, - there
is so much out there for me to do.”
The exhibit, “Industrial Design: From Concept to Creation,” opens today in Hendersonville and will run through Jan 25.
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