Student industrial designers thrive at Appalachian

BOONE—End-of-semester projects in the industrial design program at Appalachian State University have names like Flow, Sip and Sprout, Cinnaway and Hollo Band.

“Students in the design studio conceptualize a product, design it, produce 20 units with packaging, branding, point of purchase display and write a business plan as if they were going to launch a company based on the product,” said Richard Elaver, an associate professor in the department and program coordinator. “It takes everything they have been doing in industrial design and puts them into a production mindset where they also think about the cost implication of a design.”The work of senior students in the product design studio is a culmination of their experiences in the product design concentration within the Department of Applied Design’s industrial design program.

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Published: Dec 10, 2015 2:31pm

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