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!

Please come celebrate the hard work of GD'23
Schedule + rooms: follow this link

Please join us Thursday late afternoon for DP 2023 Open House walkabout
See this link for room information

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!