06/26/2012Students in a spring Sculpture studio taught by Professor Ellen Driscoll are creating public art for Kennedy Plaza as part of a major initiative funded by the NEA.
Tags: alumni, governmental, local/regional, graduate, interdisciplinary, Industrial Design, nonprofits, partnerships + collaborations, public engagement, research, Landscape Architecture, Painting, students, Sculpture
06/21/2012Inspired by recent interaction with Asia’s top creative leaders, President John Maeda reflects on his own experiences as an artist and designer of Asian descent.
Tags: Apparel Design, alumni, global, Industrial Design, STEAM
05/07/2012When AIGA’s CEO Ric Grefé visited RISD this spring, he provided invaluable feedback on designing for political advocacy and public service communications.
Tags: Furniture Design, innovation, Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, public engagement, research, STEAM, students
05/01/2012As part of SmART Schools, a research-based K–12 reform initiative, Industrial Design faculty member Amy Leidtke is leading two mini-institutes this spring to help Rhode Island math and science teachers incorporate art and design into their lesson plans.
Tags: academic collaborations, local/regional, Brown, faculty, interdisciplinary, Industrial Design, partnerships + collaborations, STEAM
02/14/2012RISD is the only art and design school in the US to be engaged with the National Science Foundation’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).
Tags: governmental, Digital + Media, Film-Animation-Video, Foundation Studies, faculty, Furniture Design, Industrial Design, Landscape Architecture, STEAM
02/08/2012When Sami Nerenberg 07 ID discovered that a small group of like-minded people shared her dream of using design to foster social change, she joined their effort to launch a national design movement on college campuses.
Tags: alumni, Brown, entrepreneurship, innovation, interdisciplinary, nonprofits, Industrial Design, partnerships + collaborations, public engagement, social responsibility, STEAM, students
12/06/2011Tino Chow 09 ID, cofounder of the multidisciplinary design studio Big New Ideas, spoke about dreaming and designing at TedxHunstville.
Tags: alumni, entrepreneurship, innovation, interdisciplinary, local/global, Industrial Design, public engagement
11/18/2011A new healthcare internship program at the Department of Health and Human Services grew out of RISD’s 2011 Make It Better symposium.
Tags: governmental, interdisciplinary, internships, Industrial Design, public engagement, STEAM, students
11/16/2011RISD Exposé, the student-run gallery and pop-up shop, is now in its third year of featuring fine art and design work by RISD students, both for browsing and for sale.
Tags: Architecture, Ceramics, local/regional, Film-Animation-Video, entrepreneurship, Furniture Design, interdisciplinary, Illustration, Industrial Design, Interior Architecture, Jewelry + Metalsmithing, Landscape Architecture, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, students, Sculpture, Textiles
11/15/2011The RISD Career Center held its first-ever Entrepreneur Mindshare on Saturday, November 12. Billed as part TED conference and part boot camp, the all-day event was designed to get RISD students and alumni energized about creative entrepreneurship.
Tags: Architecture, alumni, entrepreneurship, Illustration, Industrial Design, partnerships + collaborations, public engagement, Printmaking, students