Planning for Degree Project 📕 is about to start. If you're doing DP this spring 💐, please join us 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.

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.

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Please join us to Launch Amalgam #5

The fifth installment of Amalgam delves into the politics of alienation, exploring how these dynamics act as conduits for violence in its many forms.

The launch, moderated by Katherine Cooper, will feature a brief note by the editor and designer, Pouya Ahmadi, followed by readings from the issue and a conversation between the editor and contributors, Zoe Samudzi, Saman Sajasi, Stephanie Choi, and German Pallares Avita.

Livia Foldes is an art director, designer, and educator working at the intersection
of design and identity systems, with a focus on accessibility and emerging technologies.

This is the third of three lectures in the Fall 2024 Speaker Series.

Annika Hansteen-Izora is a multidisciplinary product designer, creative director, and writer based in Brooklyn, NY, on unceded Lenape land. Her work is rooted in one central belief: the future is where collectivity, care, and play are centered.

This is the first of three lectures in the Fall 2024 Speaker Series.

Please join us this week!
OPENING RECEPTION 6-7:30pm
WORK ON VIEW October 10-20, 2024

This year's GD Triennial theme is Expiration Date. Together we’ll be examining the intersection between graphic design and temporality, and exploring visual communication in a world of constant reproduction and redistribution. A poster for a concert… a flier for an event… The ephemeral nature of graphic design means there is an inevitable shelf life, and this exhibit is an opportunity to resurrect our formally “expired” projects.

Ece Canli is an artist, musician and researcher; born and raised in Turkey and based in Porto, Portugal. Her main tools of investigation include voice, sound, texts and artifacts.

This is the second of three lectures in the Fall 2024 Speaker Series.

This year's GD Triennial theme is Expiration Date. Together we’ll be examining the intersection between graphic design and temporality, and exploring visual communication in a world of constant reproduction and redistribution. A poster for a concert… a flier for an event… The ephemeral nature of graphic design means there is an inevitable shelf life, and this exhibit is an opportunity to resurrect our formally “expired” projects.
All work (class / personal / professional) is welcome!!!

https://forms.gle/wu97pBZkc2hvUWQv7

Julie Blanc is a graphic designer and CSS developer. She uses web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, javascript, epub) to design all kinds of publications, both digital and printed. She builds tools for multisupport editorial workflows, adapted to each project and facilitating collaboration. She has contributed to the development of Paged.js, a tool to use web technologies for printing. See some of her books.

Open to all current RISD students, faculty and staff.
More on Julie's work at julie-blanc.fr

💻📕✏️📷🎥 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) —