04/30/2013RISD’s Critical Making Task Force is leading efforts to pursue selected goals set forth in the Strategic Plan, including the notion of establishing an interdisciplinary center with shared equipment.
Tags: Film-Animation-Video, Foundation Studies, faculty, interdisciplinary, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, research, Liberal Arts
04/19/2013RISD Cycling – the school’s first and only varsity sports team – is competing in this weekend’s Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference event in Providence.
Tags: Furniture Design, graduate, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, students
04/17/2013Scott Stowell 90 GD, winner of a National Design Award, has managed wildly successful branding campaigns for iconic television networks and popular print publications.
Tags: alumni, entrepreneurship, Graphic Design
01/29/2013RISD has launched a new Academic Commons Program (ACP) to galvanize teaching and learning initiatives across campus.
Tags: collaborations, English, Foundation Studies, faculty, graduate, Graphic Design, interdisciplinary, History of Art + Visual Culture, Industrial Design, partnerships + collaborations, research, Literary Arts + Studies
01/24/2013As an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School, RISD alum Jonathan Arena 09 GD has organized the first-ever Harvard xDesign conference.
Tags: academic collaborations, faculty, Graphic Design, Industrial Design
12/06/2012Prospective students visiting for Graduate Studies’ annual IN FOcus program respond especially warmly to Open Studios.
Tags: Architecture, graduate, Graphic Design, Interior Architecture, Photography, students, Textiles
10/25/2012“Designtrepreneur” Joe Gebbia 05 GD/ID, cofounder of Airbnb, spoke at RISD last week to launch the Career Center’s Mindshare 2012.
Tags: alumni, entrepreneurship, innovation, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, students
10/31/2012Dick Jones, a new exhibition featuring the RISD library’s latest acquisition to its Archive of Graphic Design and Illustration, celebrates America’s golden age of advertising.
Tags: alumni, graduate, Graphic Design, students
09/06/2012RISD is working to raise funds for an endowed scholarship in honor of Professor Emeritus Malcolm Grear, an internationally known graphic designer who was also one of the school’s most highly respected teachers.
Tags: alumni, faculty, Graphic Design, students
08/17/2012In the spring studio Communicating Medical Risk, Brown undergraduates teamed up with RISD art and design majors to look at better ways of disseminating medical information.
Tags: academic collaborations, Brown, Film-Animation-Video, Graphic Design, interdisciplinary, Illustration, Industrial Design, partnerships + collaborations, research, STEAM, students