A Project by Douglass Scott about Collecting Ephemera from American,
Canadian, & Mexican Railroads
Displayed in 69 Broadsides
in the Graphic Design Commons
Design Center
Rhode Island School of Design
1–14 November 2026

Gallery Talk with
Elizabeth Goodspeed
and Douglass Scott
Thursday, 5 November 2026
at 6pm

OBJECT POSTERS
By DS1 Students (sophomore studio)
In Unit 1 of DS1, Graphic Form, students explored the fundamentals of graphic design and its visual vocabulary. Through explorations with color, shape, image treatment, typography, and composition, students made abstract explorations of everyday objects. Students also situated their posters in space, documenting the final visual forms to support the visual concepts and formal qualities of the designs.

Slide show now showing in the GD Commons Projector Gallery. Class co-taught by @lmao_gan_ma @dvoritdvorit @rwp_included @py_a_md thanks to @fred_frown and the TAs @risd1877 @risd_gd

📰 EXXXXTRA,
on view until 10/31 in GD Commons.

Historically, newspaper ‘extras’ were any prints that interrupted the regular cycle, introducing additional copies when news was urgent or highly anticipated. EXXXXXTRA takes this idea a little further, exploring what exists beyond the first printing round, the original audience, and the physical boundaries of the page. An opportunity to reconsider the spaces a publication might occupy and what else it could become.

Featuring newsprint publications from RISD's Design Studio 4 (DS4), EXXXXXTRA transforms the gallery into an expanded publication of its own. Reprinted in collaboration with Newspaper Club, individual pages are rearranged, repeated, and spread throughout the space. As publications overlap and intersect, new relationships emerge, inviting visitors to read, explore, and make connections beyond the printed page.

Presented during RISD's 150th anniversary year.

Thanks to spring '26 & '25 DS4 faculty. Exhibition organized and planned by Kamber Lee with Deborah Khodanovich and Ramon Tejada, with support from Newspaperclub.

ADDITIONAL EDITIONS
Graphic Design MFA Biennial 2026
Opens Thursday, Oct 1, 7–9 PM
At Sol Koffler Gallery in CIT
Exhibit runs Oct 2–18

Graphic design is always representational — a file on a hard drive, a print, a series of instructions in code, form or language. Multiplicity is baked into the origins of our field; from the printing presses that established it as a profession, design has always thrived on dissemination, sharing, and redistribution.

The traditional gallery’s function is to show individual original artworks. But graphic design doesn’t fit this environment — when it remains singular, it shrinks from its purpose. In a medium intended to communicate, reproductions are louder and go farther.

With this exhibit, we create conditions for graphic design to travel. From this point of departure, the work moves outward through copies and editions made to circulate. It can be collected, shared, carried, passed on, displayed, reproduced, and placed in new contexts by the people who encounter it.

Sol Koffler Gallery, 169 Weybosett Street, First Floor, Providence, RI
Fall Hours: MON-SUN 12-5 pm
ADDITIONAL EDITIONS ONLINE

Renata Graw, Normal, Chicago
Friday, October 16th
12 pm / GD Commons
& Roundtable discussion @ 1:30 pm (by sign-up)

Richard Turley, Food.xyz, NYC/London
Friday, October 23rd
12 pm / GD Commons
& Workshop with students on Saturday, Oct. 24th (by sign-up)

Elana Schlenker, Studio Elana Schlenker, Pittsburgh
Friday, October 30th
12 pm / GD Commons
& Studio visits with MFA in CIT (by sign-up)

Plus, Saturday Software Workshops / GD Gallery Shows / Roundtables / Advising Days
Sign-up information will be sent to all students via email.
Check out risd.gd for more details.
Fall 26 events identity and poster design by Maham Momin

RISD Careers hosts a series of events that Students and alumni can attend, including a wide range of presentations, workshops, and recruiting events to enhance their career development.

See what RISD students, faculty and alumni are up to at RISD on campus in PVD and in the world.
Campus news and events!

Richard Turley, Food.xyz, NYC/London
Friday, October 23rd
12 pm / GD Commons
& Workshop with students on Saturday, Oct. 24th (by sign-up)

Richard Turley (b. UK 1976) is an English graphic designer and creative director whose irreverent, boundary-pushing work has made him one of the most influential figures in contemporary print and visual culture. Food is a creative consultancy.

More on Richard Turley and Food.xyz.

Fall 26 events identity and poster design by Maham Momin

Renata Graw, Normal, Chicago
Friday, October 16th
12 pm / GD Commons
& Roundtable discussion @ 1:30 pm (by sign-up)

Normal is a multidisciplinary graphic design practice based in Chicago, IL. Normal believes thoughtful design and collaboration strengthen our collective knowledge and define new ways of seeing, communicating, and experiencing the world. Normal is Renata Graw, Lucas Reif, Anthony Randazzo and Kim Upstill.

More on Renata and Normal

Fall 26 events identity and poster design by Maham Momin

How do you take your incredible RISD studio experiences and apply them to the professional world? Hear how students and alumni utilize their skills and creative thinking across numerous fields and markets, including art, design, social justice, sustainability, technology, business, healthcare and more. Discover how you can find opportunities, network with professionals, and develop career options that align with your interests. Learn how to prepare for what you want and how to access career resources to support you.

STUDENT RSVP
For more information, visit the Career Center

Group connecting faculty and students at RISD with each other, and with the folks at Are.na. Create private and public channels that use are.na to further shared interests: creating a digital studio culture, developing small software projects, supporting hybrid cross-disciplinary learning environments and more. The goal is to make new work and share it, and to connect the RISD community digitally in ways that reach beyond departments, classrooms and physical studios. RISD community members can ask to join, discuss with their faculty/instructor or write to ad@risd.edu

Research Group on Are.na
Invite link to join the Research Group on Are.na

Charles Broskoski is one of the founders of the software platform Are.na. For 15 years, Are.na has been a place for artists and designers and archiving enthusiasts to store media of all sorts and to connect with each other over those references. As software platforms have given way to advertising algorithms and commercial interests, Are.naruns on a membership model tailored to building knowledge “over time” in a distributed network. Charles will talk through the ideas behind the platform. More on Charles Broskoski.

Lecture: Tuesday, Oct. 6 from 6:15–7:30 pm in the GD Commons (Design Center 103).
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RISD Are.na Research Group will kick off in the GD Commons on Wednesday, Oct 7 from 9am until 11am. The research group is meant to collect students and faculty who share interests in hybrid learning environments, collaborative work (synchronous and asynchronous), independent software development, community building and more.

Bring your laptops and have an Are.naaccount set up. We will be joined by Charles Broskoski and Damon Zucconi of Are.na

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Research Group on Are.na
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