Please come celebrate the hard work of GD'23
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Please join us Thursday late afternoon for DP 2023 Open House walkabout
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Junior Reviews are an annual event at RISD GD, giving each student an opportunity to display work and share their progress in the program. It's also a moment for the department to see and assess the results of our curriculum.

Each student gets a small area (wall and table space) in the Design Center to display their work. Faculty and other guests visit students throughout the afternoon. The conversations are friendly, informal, and an opportunity for feedback and encouragement, as well as on-the-spot advising for future areas of improvement. Students: think of this review as your final unit in the Design Studio sequence, with the prompt: “How do you share your unique design voice and perspective?” You get to shape an experience for your faculty audience that reflects who you are as a designer, and what’s important to you.

Read more about how to prepare, plus times/locations

Sophomores Reviews end the year with each student presenting work from their sophomore courses and gaining an overview of where they are in their progress through the RISD GD program. Sophomore Reviews also give the department an opportunity to see and assess the curriculum in action.

Students receive feedback and encouragement from faculty, as well as on-the-spot advising for future areas of improvement. Students: think of this review as the final Design Studio unit for the year, with the prompt: “How do you present a year of work in 20 minutes?” You get to design an experience for your faculty audience that reflects where you are now in your education, and what you’re making.

Read more about how to prepare, plus times/locations

Check out our lineup of RISD GD electives slated for this fall: 12 electives and 5 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

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.

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.

Calling all Degree Project Proposals
plus PIZZA

Please join us for our yearly Open Studios evening! Bring work to GD Commons by mid-day Friday, see your student representatives with questions!

Check out our lineup of RISD GD electives slated for this spring: 13 electives and 6 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

Join Mohawk Paper, Kirkwood Printing, and Taylor Box for coffee and inspiration! Attendees will see our latest materials and swatch books. This will include our Collections kit, the Beautiful swatch book and our New Sustainable printed samples. There will be Paper Basics Guides, bindery examples, and Taylor box will share packaging ideas!

Hello everyone signed up for Degree Project this spring! It's hard to believe, but planning for Degree Project 📕 is about to start. If you're doing DP this spring 💐, please join us on Zoom for a kick-off discussion 📽️ about the upcoming semester. We will have a short information session to explain the process this year, attendance is required; please let us know if you can't make it.

https://risd.zoom.us/j/5829756233

In this workshop students will participate in a crash course of methods employed by UX professionals. Bringing a user centered mindset students will explore techniques such as user interviews, usability testing, design thinking and rapid prototyping. This one day intensive will give students interested in the UX field a chance to try and test out real world techniques. The workshop follows a talk the night before which students are strongly encouraged to attend.

Materials Needed: Bring something to write with, and a notebook

sign up here

Come listen to Chief Design Officer Stephen Schroth of KeyBank share his thoughts on shaping and building design organizations, and how design can be a change agent for large companies. Aaron Simmons, Sr Design Strategist and RISD faculty will interview Stephen and invite a larger discussion with students about the role of design in current professional practice.

Public Trust
The fight for America’s Public Land

Q&A Following film showing
with Prof. Angelo Baca, Diné / Hopi Tribal Nations, HPSS
Open to RISD Community.

As an extinction crisis looms and climate change continues to be one of the greatest threats our planet has ever faced, America’s 640 million acres of public lands support biodiversity and carbon sequestration. It’s essential that we fight for their protection by preventing the slashing of the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, fighting the potential permanent destruction of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
in Minnesota, and stopping the de facto
sale of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
—one of the last wild places in America.

Directed by David Garrett Byars