Industrial Design News

Spanning Architecture and Industrial Design, the fall course builds on cutting-edge atmospheric water-generating technology. 

New grants totaling over $1.6 million fund the study of everything from inclusive research approaches to carbon exchange in the Antarctic’s Southern Ocean to automated 3D textile manufacturing.

RISD alums Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo and Sasha Gordon make the 2026 Art & Style list, and Pave Robotics, co-founded by Mason Landon Smith, is included in the Manufacturing & Industry category.

The empathic industrial designer and educator discusses how his own identity enables him to find unique solutions and effect positive change.

Fall 2025 Regeneration Studio focuses on biomimicry research in structures, materials, mechanisms, and interfaces. 

The unconventional designer creates unexpected, humorous objects with stories to tell about consumer culture. 

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 Providence to Pakistan, this year’s Maharam fellows are putting their creative problem-solving skills to good use.