Furniture Design News

RISD teams’ innovative sustainability projects win Terra Carta Design Lab competition top honors.

Students are turning waste into materials ready for cross-disciplinary use and experimentation, from blotter paper to cotton muslin. 

From the Furniture Design department’s Grounding Space exhibition at WANTED to participation in NYCxDESIGN events across the city, RISD work stood out at this year’s exposition.

The artist’s installation at the upcoming Boston Public Art Triennial is an extension of the delicate womb-like sculptures that made her career.

The end-of-semester rite of passage teaches students to discuss their work, give and receive constructive criticism and push the boundaries of their burgeoning practices.

Portfolio reviewers attend the annual event in search of talented designers and visual communicators with unique creative points of view. 

Former RISD president Rosanne Somerson and alums Ginger Gordon, Joyce Lin and Alexis Tingey included in article about women woodworkers.

Kailyn Bryant’s interactive painting, The World Is on Fire, empowers viewers to speak their truths, even in the worst of times.

A spring semester studio explores the design process as a comprehensive arc, from research and ideation through development, prototyping and implementation.