Graduate Spotlight: Brittany Privette, Furnitureland South Design Consultant

·      This week's graduate spotlight is on Brittany Privette, recent RCC graduate and now Design Consultant for Furnitureland South. 

  Upon completing her graduation Privette began a 3 week rigorous training course which consisted of a number of aspects including the expectations of a sales/interior design consultant at FLS. She spent a whole day training just on order entry which was definitely the most overwhelming and challenging part of the training. She also toured all 1.3 million square feet combined of the Distribution center, Outlet, Sleepland gallery, Showroom, and the Mart and learned a tremendous amount of information on the psychology of sales and how people work and why clients do the things they do. By learning these tools she stated that it,
"helped me to better connect and engage with clients.  One of the highlights I enjoyed in training was getting to see my passion for sales. I have been in sales for almost 4 years now and I had no idea how special sales was to me until I started working here.  I also didn’t realize how great I was at selling until I came to FLS. They gave me the opportunity to get the best possible sales training out there.  I was able to express sales differently through a new perspective all because of FLS training. This allowed me to see a clear perspective on who I am as a person and what I was meant to do in life. The training was not only “just” training for a new job, it was an emotional experience in my career I will never forget."

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·      Some of her clients thus far have been from New York, New Jersey, Florida, Michigan and North Carolina. She has also had the opportunity to shadow a few colleagues with their clients and accompany a colleague for an in home consultation located in Asheboro, NC.

·        "My continuing education on sales and design here at FLS has allowed me to tour the Baker furniture factory in High Point, NC and the main factory in Hildebran, NC right outside of Hickory, NC. FLS is always giving us the opportunity to enhance and broaden our knowledge of our products and new products for the future, allowing us to have the potential to be experts."

·        Currently, FLS has a TV show called “The Design Network” that is broadcasted on YouTube featuring Rebecca Robeson, Interior Designer.  Robeson is currently working on a project for young beauty guru, Talia Castellano, who recently died of childhood cancer at the age of 13. As a tribute to Talia;s life, Robecca is designing a bed/makeup room in Orlando for young cancer patients to come to and to be inspired by Talias strong will and courage. Furnitureland South is donating the furnishings for this project. Privette has assisted with the shopping for Robecca at FLS and find the appropriate furnishings she wanted. "This was a wonderful opportunity that I was pleased to have been a part of."

To schedule an appointment with Brittany for a design consultation you may contact her at:   brittanyprivette@furniturelandsouth.com or by phone at:  336-822-3000 ext 2766.

This Blog was written in contribution of Brittany Privette, Design Consultant for Furnitureland South, 5635 Riverdale Drive, Jamestown, North Carolina.  Edited and posted by Holly Barker, Department Head to Randolph Community College's Design Programs.

Barker Begins 10th Year in Design Education

 

As we begin the start of the 2013-2014 school year we would like to congratulate our Department Head, Holly Barker; for her 10 years of service to the Design Department.  Thank you for sharing your knowledge, talent, and creativity with many.  We love you! 

 

 

Photo Credits:  Greg Stewart, Retiree, Randolph Community College, Photography 2004

Portfolio Viewing

The Interior Design Program would like for you to come and celebrate the accomplishments of our Graduates!  Please join us for a Portfolio Viewing and Reception on Monday, May 6^th from 5:00-6:30 in the Design Center's Main Gallery.
Can’t make it?  You can also preview each students’ website and digital portfolio online!

Brittany Privette
http://bcprivette.wix.com/brittanyprivette

Claudia Wilson
http://claudiawilsondesigns.wix.com/claudia-wilson

Tonya Sink
http://tonyasinkdesigns.wix.com/portfolio

Megan Loflin
http://megannloflin.wix.com/megannloflin-1

Amy Wagner
http://abwagner123.wix.com/amywagner

Ariel Peet
www.arielmarshaedesigns.wix.com/portfolio

Gabby Donahue
http://gadonahuedesign.wix.com/gabrielle-donahue

Rachel Harris

http://rachelharrisdesigns.wix.com/rachelharris

A big thanks to Emily Reynolds for working with the students to develop online portfolios.  We look forward to seeing you at the reception.

Student Places Top Nine in Design Competition

The Interior Design Department is happy to announce that second year Interior Design student, Ariel Peet, placed amongst the top 9 finalists in the Bernice Bienstock Furniture Library's Design Competition, which challenged students to create a three-story unconventional youth shelter located in Seattle, Washington specially targeted for runaway youths aged 10-17 who are in crisis.

The first floor of the facility housed a sandwich shop and soup lunch shop featuring organize and locally harvested items operated by a creative and motivated team who mentor the teens as they learn responsibility and life skills. The second and third floors were identical and provided gender neutral rooms, a counselors' station, two lounges, and a computer/reading room.

Ariel developed the design concept of "Strength through Metamorphosis" which embodied the transition of life and strength through primary colors, patterns, textures, and lines.  She used a butterfly and its transformation as a centralized motif throughout the space.  The overall desired feel for the space was a feel residential and family oriented.

Ariel competed among the top four year design colleges in the nation.  Randolph Community College was the only 2 year program recognized in the top tier. 

You can view more of Ariel's project on her blog at:  http://arielmarshaedesign.blogspot.com/

We are super proud of you and your complishment!  Let's all join in congratulating Ariel!

85th Annual Academy Award's Greenroom Revealed

 

When the 85th annual Academy Awards is held this Sunday, February 24, the fortunate stars who hear their names announced after “And the winner is …”  will have a stylish, elegant lounge to relish their victory in backstage thanks to Los Angeles designer Madeline Stuart.

Billed as the "Architectural Digest's Greenroom" the room will be an Art Deco–style space inspired by 1930s-Hollywood glamour and, in particular, legendary art director and set designer Cedric Gibbons, who most notably designed the coveted Oscar statuettes.

Stuart tells Architectural Digest, “My goal was to create a space where contemporary stars wouldn’t be surprised to bump into Cary Grant or Katharine Hepburn.”

Stuart, who ranks among Architectural Digest’s AD100 and was named by Elle Décor as one of the leading 25 designers in the country, is the daughter of director Mel Stuart, known best for the 1971 classic film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. A leading member of the Los Angeles design community, Stuart is no stranger to designing for Hollywood’s elite as well as clientele from the world of business and finance.
More on the AD Greenroom at ArchitecturalDigest.com.

2013 Greensboro Junior League Showhouse Scheduled for Early Spring

The Junior League of Greensboro is excited to announce that “Greensboro’s Grandest House” – the Adamsleigh mansion has been selected as the 2013 ShowHouse. The Adamsleigh estate was designed and built for High Point textile magnate John Hampton “Hamp” Adams, a native of Adamsville, South Carolina and co-founder of Adams-Millis Corporation, the first company in High Point to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Adams also owned the vast property that is now known as “Adams Farm”, a large residential development not far from Adamsleigh.
The estate features 33 rooms, including 10 bedrooms, and totals 15,000 square feet. The estate covers 13.5 acres that include pools, a lake, tennis courts, a stone gazebo and a five-car garage.

Designed by Winston-Salem architect Luther Lashmit, who also designed Graylyn in Winston-Salem. Some have argued that Adamsleigh is North Carolina’s second most impressive house, behind Biltmore in Asheville.

This year's Junior League ShowHouse is a fundraising event benefiting Cone Elementary. The ShowHouse features a unique home with fabulous architecture, on loan for this event, which will be transformed by local designers and temporarily opened to the public.


Designers have been selected to transform their assigned room, reflecting their personal tastes and ideas. Landscape designers will update the surrounding outside areas of the home, creating attractive lawn and garden spaces for the public to explore. The house will be opened to the public, offering the designers an opportunity to showcase their decorating talents to the local community.

This year's talented designers include:
Patti Allen, Eric Cohler, Kara Cox, Jack Fhillips, Debby Gomulka, Lisa Kahn, Suzanne Kasler, Warren Kessler, Ann Legette, John Loceke, Jane Matteson, Leslie May, Randy McManus, Lisa Mende, India Miller, Leslie Moore, Jason Oliver Nixon, Bradshaw Orrell, Anita Phipps, Miles Redd, Cindy Smith, Megan Winters, and Tracy Zeller

The ShowHouse will be open to the public April 20-May 5, 2013.

For more information and for tickets refer to:  www.juniorleagueshowhouse.com

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer to Speak at RCC Feb. 19

            ASHEBORO (February 5, 2013) – Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David Hume Kennerly, who documented the war in Vietnam and was President Gerald Ford’s personal White House photographer, will be the guest speaker at a Canon Explorer of Light event at Randolph Community College’s Photography Imaging Center on Tuesday, Feb. 19. The event is being cosponsored by the RCC Photographic Technology department, the American Society of Media Photographers/North Carolina, and Canon. The lecture will begin at 7 p.m.; it is free and open to the public, but preregistration is requested because space is limited.

            Kennerly has been shooting on the front lines of history for more than 45 years, according to his biography. He has photographed eight wars, as many U.S. presidents, and has traveled to dozens of countries along the way.

            At 25, the Roseburg, Ore., native won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his previous year’s work that included photos of the Vietnam, Cambodia, and India-Pakistan Wars, and the Ali-Frazier fight in Madison Square Garden. In 1976, he was awarded two first prizes in the World Press photo contest for pictures from the final days of Cambodia. He has been presented with numerous other honors, including the Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Rebbot Award for “Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad” for his coverage of Reagan and Gorbachev’s historic first summit meeting in Geneva. He was named “One of the Most 100 Most Important People in Photography” by American Photo Magazine.

            Kennerly was nominated for a Primetime Emmy as executive producer of NBC’s “The Taking of Flight 847” and was writer and executive producer of a two-hour NBC pilot, “Shooter,” starring Helen Hunt, based on his Vietnam experiences. “Shooter” won the Emmy for “Outstanding Cinematography.” He is executive producer of the documentary, “Portraits of a Lady,” starring former Justice Sandra Day O’Conner, which made the short list of films eligible for the 2008 Academy Award nominations. He was executive producer of 2011’s “Bucksville,” an ultra-low budget film shot in Portland, Ore., featuring Tom Berenger.

            Kennerly is a graduate of the AFI Conservatory’s two-year film directing program and directed a commercial starring former mayor Ed Koch shot for New York Presbyterian Hospital.

            Kennerly has been a contributing photographer for Time Magazine, John F. Kennedy Jr’s George magazine, Life Magazine, and was a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine for 10 years. He has more than 50 major magazine covers to his credit.

            He has published several books of his work, including “Shooter,” “Photo Op,” “Seinoff: The Final Days of Seinfeld,” “Photo du Jour,” and “Extraordinary Circumstances: The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford.” In 2009, he produced “Barack Obama: The Official Barack Obama Inaugural Book,” with Bob McNeely, who was President Clinton’s official White House photographer. He provided many exclusive behind-the-scenes photographs of President and Mrs. Obama for the project. A major exhibition of photographs from the book was mounted in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., in 2009, and attracted more than a million visitors.

            Kennerly is on the Board of Trustees of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation, and the Atlanta Board of Visitors of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), and is a member of the board of directors of the Eddie Adams Workshop and the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles.

            To register for the Kennerly lecture at RCC on Feb. 19, go to http://kennerly.eventbrite.com. The Photography Imaging Center is located in the Administration/Education Center on the Asheboro Campus. Take the McDowell Road exit from Highway 220 Bypass/I73-I74 and follow the signs.

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Five U.S. presidents photographed by David Kennerly.

David Kennerly’s photo of the Ali-Frazier prize fight in Madison Square Garden.

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David Kennerly.