💻📕✏️📷🎥 Please join us: INDESIGN

This fall, we are running a series titled SOFTWARE SATURDAYS, which will serve as an intro to using some of the leading software used in the field and which you should get to know to develop your coursework. These are open to everyone. There is no need to sign up. Just show up for the workshops you are interested in. Workshop run by Ramon Tejada.

💻📕✏️📷🎥 Please join us: ILLUSTRATOR

This fall, we are running a series titled SOFTWARE SATURDAYS, which will serve as an intro to using some of the leading software used in the field and which you should get to know to develop your coursework. These are open to everyone. There is no need to sign up. Just show up for the workshops you are interested in. Workshop run by Vishakha Ruhela.

💻📕✏️📷🎥 Please join us: PHOTOSHOP

This fall, we are running a series titled SOFTWARE SATURDAYS, which will serve as an intro to using some of the leading software used in the field and which you should get to know to develop your coursework. These are open to everyone. There is no need to sign up. Just show up for the workshops you are interested in. Workshop run by Anther Kiley.

💻📕✏️📷🎥 Please join us: AFTEREFFECTS

This fall, we are running a series titled SOFTWARE SATURDAYS, which will serve as an intro to using some of the leading software used in the field and which you should get to know to develop your coursework. These are open to everyone. There is no need to sign up. Just show up for the workshops you are interested in. Workshop run by Saachi Mehta.

Please join GD staff, faculty and student representatives outside on the canal, and inside the GD Commons for ice cream and conversation and to connect with your faculty advisors.

—Sophomores 3:30 to 4:00pm
—Juniors 4:00 to 4:30pm
—Seniors 4:30 to 5:00pm + Grads welcome too!

We're all so excited to see you and your work tomorrow for Sophomore Reviews!

Here is the schedule for the day (which will also be printed and posted on the door to each room) —

Check out our lineup of RISD GD electives slated for this fall: 9 electives and 4 workshops. These are spread out throughout the week and will accommodate many different kinds of schedules, from sophomores to degree project to thesis.

Browse the full list

Iman Raad is a Brooklyn-based visual artist, designer, and educator. Across his diverse work, Raad brings together a sweeping reimagining of traditional Persian art amidst the interruption of images and narratives in the internet era. Oscillating between disparate areas of knowledge, Raad references a culture indexically rooted within his thoughts. Curiosity is given a place to breathe. Images are fractured or incomplete. Moments from different art histories are filtered into a language of comfort and contented longing; a repetition of imagery and color whose intention is to keep you in a disturbed reality. Through this prism of layers and colors, Raad has found a necessary platform to touch on both the complexities and beauty of cross cultural expression today. Aside from visual art, Raad is also an internationally acknowledged graphic designer—representing the contemporary Persian design and typography movement.

IT TAKES A VILLAGE

opening reception Thursday evening
6-7:30pm

come celebrate the class of 2024
open until Tuesday, March 12

Calling all Degree Project Proposals
plus PIZZA

Check out our lineup of RISD GD electives slated for this spring: 14 electives and 5 workshops! These are spread out throughout the week and will accommodate many different kinds of schedules, from sophomores to seniors to thesis.

Browse the full list

Please join us for the first talk in the RISD GD Fall Speaker Series!

Counter Forms is a platform that champions emerging, discursive, antipodean type designers. Driven by typographic research, education and advocacy, we publish original typefaces and texts towards a more accessible, diverse and equitable future. Counter Forms was made on/across/between the stolen lands of many Sovereign people including on Wurundjeri and Whadjuk lands. We acknowledge and honour Ngati Whatua and Te Kawerau a Maki. We recognise that our practices are situated on unceded land and that colonisation continues today. We seek to wrestle, reckon and confront these ongoing injustices.

Dominic Hofstede, Founder and Design Director
Vincent Chan, Founder and Type Design Director
Robert Janes, Founder and Technical Director
Sasha Wilmoth, Aboriginal Language Advisor
Wei Huang, Mastering

Zoom link will be emailed on the morning of the talk.

Slavs and Tatars is a faction of polemics and intimacies devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. The collective’s practice is based on three activities: exhibitions, books and lecture-performances. In addition to launching a residency and mentorship program for young professionals from their region, Slavs and Tatars opened Pickle Bar, a slavic aperitivo bar-cum-project space a few doors down from their studio in Berlin-Moabit, as well as an online merchandising store: MERCZbau.

Hakopian is an Armenian writer, artist, and researcher born in Yerevan and residing in Glendale, CA. She is an Associate Professor in Technology and Social Justice at ArtCenter College of Design. She was a 2021 visiting Mellon Professor in the Practice at Occidental College, where she co-curated the exhibition Encoding Futures: Critical Imaginaries of AI with Meldia Yesayan at Oxy Arts. Her book, The Institute for Other Intelligences, was released by X Artists’ Books in December 2022. She was the guest editor of the spring 2023 issue of Art Papers on artificial intelligence, co-edited with Sarah Higgins. With Avi Alpert and Danny Snelson, she makes up one-third of Research Service, a media collective that pursues performative and practice-based forms of scholarship.

To celebrate the launch of their incredible new book Overlap/Dissolve, Nancy Skolos and Tom Wedell have staged an exhibition of their poster work in the GD Commons. They will be joined by Jennifer Liese, director of the RISD Center for Arts & Language, who edited the book, for a talk on Wednesday September 20, 4:30pm, GD Commons. Please join us for this very special event!