Please join us for the 2023 Senior Show!
SORT LATER
February 24–28
Woods-Gerry Gallery
Friday–Saturday 10–5pm
Sunday 2–5pm
Monday–Tuesday 10–5pm
Opening reception February 23
6:00pm–7:30pm
Faculty Search Finalist Talks
RISD GD is currently conducting a search for 2 new full-time faculty members, and the Search Committee has selected 7 finalists. Each finalist will be here in March to deliver a talk that is open to the entire RISD GD community (as well as participate in interviews, a teaching demo, and other activities). The 2 positions are “Assistant or Associate Professor in Graphic Design (with a focus on computation and digital practices)” and “Assistant or Associate Professor in Graphic Design (with a focus on typography, form-making, and history).” The Search Committee will take your feedback into consideration in their decision-making, so attendance at these talks is highly encouraged!
Position 1: Type, Form, History
Candidate A: Wednesday, March 1 / Candidate B: Monday, March 13 / Candidate C: Wednesday, March 15 / Candidate D: Tuesday, March 21
Position 2: Computation
Candidate A: Monday, March 6 / Candidate B: Thursday, March 9 / Candidate C: Monday, March 20
All talks are at 6:30PM in the GD Commons.
To celebrate the inauguration of President Crystal Willams, students and faculty contributed works and printed materials to “New Space(s),” a 2-day collective reading room installation in the GD commons.
The spring semester culminated with graduating seniors presenting their semester-long degree project. Get a sample of the projects by watching video trailers on Vimeo.
Each undergraduate junior exhibited their body of work from the entire academic year to the RISD community in a book-fair type format.
2022 MFA thesis students presented their completed body of work to critics and peers in mid-May. Pictured: Nick Larson
The RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition ran from Thursday, May 26th until June 4th. Exhibition identity by Sabrina Ji and Zoey Guo (MFA 2022). See the online exhibition.
OnX Variable is a custom typeface and website from Hwan Lee (BFA 2023). See the project.
2023 Senior Show: Sort Later
Please join us for the Graphic Design Senior Show!
on view @ Woods-Gerry Gallery Feb 24–28, 2023
F, S 10am–5pm
Su 2–5pm
M, T 10am–5pm
Design is a form of sorting. The designer takes disparate elements and strings them together; remixed and recombined. Charged with the unending task of forging new connections, we have tediously aligned type to page, gathered content for books, and compiled assets for websites. While discursive, sorting becomes a way to retain control. It implies a tangible end to the process. So often, each design decision leads to some envisioned ‘end.’ Sort Later is about letting go of ideas of finality and instead celebrating the work in progress, the liminal, and the unanswered.
Tide Machine pulls data from ocean tide stations across the world to display the rise and fall of water levels at your location. Created in Graduate Studio 2 by Lian Fumerton-Liu, MFA 2023 (with assistance from Colin Dunn).
Recycled Pages, an exhibition of photographs of in-situ paper-based collages by Ben Denzer (MFA 2023), was up in the GD Commons in early April. See photographs of the exhibition.
The 2022 Senior Show identity was designed by Mankun Guo, Samaaya Jayamaha, Alejandro Molestina, and Utkan Dora Öncül. See photographs of the exhibition.
Our 2022 Spring Speakers Series featured talks from Ryan Kuo, Upstatement and Studio Yukiko. Revisit lectures going back to 2014 on our Vimeo channel.
Code Lab, organized by faculty Minkyoung Kim and Marie Otsuka, ran weekly tutoring sessions and workshops throughout the spring semester. Photographs from an AR workshop offered by Halim Lee (MFA 2023), who also designed the identity system for Code Lab. More information on Code Lab.
The Black Biennial was a student-led exhibition that brought together Black artists, designers and makers. Jenni Oughton's (MFA 2023) An Incomplete Archive of Capturing Blackness solicited visitors to suggest stories or artists that they believe have been “written out” of traditional narratives of Black History. Identity by Zoë Pulley (MFA 2023).
Marigold, from MFA student Serena Ho, is a colored ornamental typeface inspired by the organic forms of the plant kingdom. See more and download.
A handful of seniors undertook their Degree Project last fall. Degree Projects are guided by an adviser and result in a variety of subject matter, scales and formats. Visit websites by Jada Akoto and Ji Yi.
The 2021 GD Triennial was on exhibit at Woods-Gerry Gallery in October 2021. See the website for a selection of projects.
Thank you for visiting. For information on how and when to apply to our programs, visit risd.edu