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The outstanding work of Brad Deal, Robert Brooks and ARCH 335 Design Build continues in its collaboration with MedCamps of Louisiana, Inc. Come celebrate the groundbreaking with us!

Interested in designing video games? Are you a developer or an artist/designer or just interested in games? This is the event to attend!! 3rd Annual 48hr LaTech Game Jam Where: School of Design – FJ Taylor Visual Arts Building, 1 Mayfield Ave., Ruston, LA 71272 When: March 23 (5pm) –... Read More

The School of Design invites everyone to the opening reception of the Annual Student Show at 5pm on Monday, March 19th. Over 500 works by undergraduate and graduate students were submitted to an outside juror. Of these submissions 48 works were chosen. Works on view include all levels of ceramics,... Read More

Firms from Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas are coming to Hale Hall to participate in Career Focus Day on Saturday, 17 March. This annual event serves as an opportunity for our students to start preparing for their professional futures by meeting with architects/interior designers, talking about their work and learning about... Read More

Congratulations to the LaTech SOD Graphic Design students and faculty earned awards and recognition at the 2018 ADDY Awards, hosted by the American Advertising Federation of Shreveport-Bossier. Dellanee Wade, MFA candidate, brought home a Silver, Gold, and 2018 Student Best of Show ADDYs for her (31ATE) campaign focused on building... Read More

The School of Design invites all faculty, staff and students to the opening reception for two new exhibitions in the Bethea and Moffett Galleries. Exhibition Dates: January 30- February 20, 2018 Chris Boyd Taylor (Bethea Gallery) Made for TV: TriColor Stands and the Fixins’ to Go With February 20, 2018... Read More

The School of Design is happy to welcome designer Brian Lee, Jr. to the Louisiana Tech University campus. Bryan is a Designer and Design Justice Advocate. He is the Founder/Director of Colloqate Design, a nonprofit multidisciplinary design practice dedicated to expanding community access to design and creating spaces of racial,... Read More

It was a great day celebrating the dedication of the first Rock Island Greenway Mural. A wonderful collaboration continues between Louisiana Tech University and the City of Ruston. Congratulations to Professor Nicholas Bustamante and his awesome students! Article here

Todd Maggio, Associate Professor of Graphic Design, contributed a chapter to the recent book entitled TOYS and COMMUNICATION. His chapter, “LMNOBeasts: Using Typographically Inspired Toys to Aid Development of Language and Communication Skills in Early Childhood,” was cowritten with Kerri Phillips and Christina Maddix in the School of Communication at... Read More

For the entire ten weeks of Fall Quarter, the Fourth Year Urban Design Studio have been devoted to the planning and redevelopment of Cross Bayou Corridor. The project is based on the concept of using the bayou as a focal point of downtown, rather than considering it as an edge.... Read More

Opening Reception: December 5, 5-7pm Exhibition Dates: Until January 16, 2018 The School of Design is excited to invite everyone to the opening reception of the 2017-2018 Faculty Show. This exhibit consists of collaborative works and individual research projects of faculty and staff in the areas of Studio Art, Graphic... Read More

The School of Design is happy to welcome architect/engineer Greg Otto to the Louisiana Tech University campus. Greg Otto is a principal at Walter P. Moore in Los Angeles, California. The office of Walter P Moore focuses upon structural engineering, enclosure and façade design, and infrastructure planning. The office has... Read More

The School of Design is happy to welcome architect Natalye Appel to the Louisiana Tech Campus for a lecture on Monday, 9 October at 5:30pm in the FJ Taylor Visual Arts Center, Room 103. Natalye Appel + Associates Architects is a small firm from Houston, with projects ranging from civic,... Read More

The School of Design is hosting PRINT THING #5, a state-wide symposium and workshop for undergraduate students and printmaking professors to meet, learn, collaborate and have some fun. Students and faculty from Nicholls State, McNeese State, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Baton Rouge Community College and Louisiana State University will... Read More

The Louisiana Tech School of Design is pleased to announce the 2017 Louisiana International Printmaking Exhibition, juried by Ben Hickey, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA. The 2017 Louisiana International Printmaking Exhibition presents a survey of contemporary printmaking, with artists from the United... Read More

Professor Brad Deal’s film documenting the Arch335 design/build project “Pisces” will be featured the the 4th Annual Short Films Walk in NYC on October 11. SOD and Louisiana Tech University in the big city…check it out! http://www.grnewsletters.com/archive/adff/Short-Films-Walk-October-11-2107-430790601.html?u=f94

The School of Design is happy to welcome artist/musician PEELANDER YELLOW (aka Kengo Hioki) to the Louisiana Tech campus. While perhaps best known as the leader of the “Japanese Action Comic” punk band Peelander-Z, known for color-coordinated costumes as well as on-stage antics such as human bowling and other forms... Read More

Congratulations to Professor of Architecture Guy Carwile and his students for earning Honorable Mention for their submission to the Charles E. Peterson Prize! During the winter quarter of 2017, five students from the Architecture Program in the School of Design at Louisiana Tech University measured and produced HABS (Historic American... Read More

Raluca Iancu, Assistant Professor of Studio Art (Drawing and Printmaking), will exhibit “Vicarious Trauma” upstairs in CoolSpace @ artspace. Iancu’s art explores disaster, tragedy, memory and vulnerability. The focus of her artspace exhibition will be the installation piece, “It’s Not Easy to Stop a Train.” This is immersive art that... Read More

Congratulations to architecture students Daniel Campbell and Chase Emery Johnson for earning Third Place in the Open Category of the 2016-17 ACSA/AISC Steel Design Competition! Their project, Summit Climbing Retreat, was selected from 188 design submissions, a 2% award rate. The faculty sponsors were Professors Kevin Singh and Pasquale De... Read More

Join us as we celebrate the completion of the 2017 ARCH 335 design build studio and the dedication of their project: the Pisces Bridge that spans Lake Alabama at the MedCamps campground. The event is schedule for Friday, 19 May at 2:30pm at Camp Alabama, located at 2090 Highway 145... Read More

Congratulations to our Master of Architecture degree candidates! These students celebrate with an exhibition of work as a prelude to commencement exercises on 20 May. The closing reception is scheduled for Friday, 19 May from 6:30pm until 8:30pm in the FJ Taylor Visual Arts Center Galleries.

The School of Design and AIGA Louisiana Tech University are happy to welcome designer Justin Shiels to campus. In addition to reviewing the portfolios of the senior graphic design students, he will present a public lecture on Thursday, 11 May at 5pm in the FJ Taylor Visual Arts Center, Room 103.... Read More

More or Less, an exhibition of artwork by Louisiana Tech School of Design BFA candidates, will be on view at the F. Jay Taylor Visual Arts Center galleries on the Louisiana Tech University campus from May 8th-12th, 2017. The exhibition is a capstone project by ten senior Bachelor of Fine... Read More

The School of Design celebrates the excellent accomplishments of our students at the annual SOD Awards on Friday, 5 May at 3:30pm in Wyly Auditorium. A reception follows at the Co:Lab Building.

Congratulations to Alaycia Moore, a dual degree Studio Art/Graphic Design major, for taking top honors (and a wad of cash!) at The Great Makers Show last week! The Event was part of the University’s Makers Month and supported by the Innovation Enterprise at Louisiana Tech.

The Louisiana Tech University School of Design is pleased to announce the following exhibitions and thesis presentations in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts Degree.    Please join us for the opening reception, lecture, and Q and A with these MFA candidates: The Human Animal... Read More

The world of books has a monumental influence on popular art, and movies are some of the most complex homages to the written word. Explore the dazzling world of science fiction and fantasy books brought to life through the medium of movie art as we welcome a collection of movie... Read More

The College of Liberal Arts hosted its 2017 Academic Excellence Luncheon for outstanding students within the College. The School of Design is proud to have these six great students (and excellent humans!) representing us so very well for the event. STUDIO ART – Graduate: Adrianna Speer STUDIO ART – Undergraduate: Sarah Prescott GRAPHIC... Read More

Please join the Louisiana Tech University School of Design for the Opening Reception of the 2017 Annual Student Exhibition. This year’s juror for the exhibition is Graphic Designer, Jude Landry. In a blind jurying process Landry reviewed over 500 works submitted. 53 works including Ceramics, Drawing, Graphic Design, Interior Design,... Read More