Randolph Community College Interior Design students Latasha Driver of High Point, Jenni Booth of Greensboro, and Melissa Stanley of Asheboro won first place recently in the Unity in Style competition at the High Point Design Center. The competition was part of a term project in the students’ Residential Design II class, under the direction of instructor Ann Smith-Palenchar. Two teams and a total of six students from RCC participated.
“Student selected fabrics, finishes, and furnishings for the project using manufacturers within the High Point Design Center,” said Holly Barker, program head for the Interior Design program at RCC. “Floor plans, elevations and perspective drawings were visually presented to illustrate the design intent.” Students were asked to furnish and accessorize a great room, dining room, and hearth room and were given a specific floor plan.
Judging was a jury process based on innovation and creativity, competency of the design solution, appropriateness of the design solution for the client selected, use of product, and presentation/rendering of work. The jury consisted of Carol Jollay, Jollay Design Associates, High Point; Madge Megliola, Megliola Design Associates, Greensboro; and Toby Morrison, The Design Studio, Sanford.
The competition was open to upper-level students in two-year associate degree programs and junior and senior students in four- or five-year undergraduate programs in schools in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and West Virginia. “The competition was fierce, but our students were in it to win,” said Barker. As first-place winners, Drive, Booth and Stanley will travel to High Point for the High Point Design Center’s Annual Winter Event on Feb. 19 to meet with design professionals and showroom managers, said Barker. The students will be presented with a $1,000 award check.
Randolph Community College’s Interior Design program is one of the oldest community college interior design programs in North Carolina and has an excellent reputation in the design community. The program is based on the foundations of the principles of sustainability with an equal representation of residential and commercial design. “The consistently high placement statistics for our alumni attest to the level of knowledge, ability, and quality of education our students receive with the Interior Design major,” said Barker. For more information on the Interior Design program, call 336-633-0318 or go to www.randolph.edu/interiordesign/.
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