Senior Showcase | Kyle Dell’Aquila
Kyle Dell’Aquila is amazing. He’s also the feature for this Senior Showcase. If you ever have the opportunity, say privilege, to get a peek into his sketchbook, take it because it will blow your mind. The kid is truly skilled beyond words. Don’t stop at his sketchbook though, go straight to his computer and see [...]
Senior Showcase | Patrick O’Sullivan
For this Senior Showcase, we spoke with the fantastic Patrick O’Sullivan. The Tulsa, Oklahoma native traveled far to attend the Rhode Island School of Design here in Providence, but even farther last semester to Switzerland where he attended the Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne. When not hustlin in the studio or the wood and metal [...]
Senior Showcase | Oliver Henderson
Coming all the way from Portland, Oregon, Oliver Henderson is our latest Senior Showcase. Henderson is probably best well known for his tight spandex shorts, seen below. Why did you decide to become a designer? I wanted to be a designer because I love objects, I am completely materialistic even though I want to own [...]
Kaitlyn Schoeck | The Pill
Kaitlyn Schoeck, a junior here in the Industrial Design department, recently submitted to us her Metals II final, The Pill. The project was an exploration in making custom fit pieces, with different material components, that worked together to create motion. “With my decision to pursue an ambitious project for my final in advanced metals, I [...]
Senior Showcase | Erica Sellers
For this Senior Showcase, we spoke with Erica Sellers. Coming from New York, New York, Sellers concentrated in Glass as a complement to her Industrial Design degree. Through her work, Sellers hopes to synthesize her fine arts background within the context of functional design, alongside exploring technical glassblowing, and experimental processes using glass. Why did [...]
Senior Showcase | Brett Newman
For our second Senior Showcase, we spoke with Brett Newman. Newman hails from Salt Lake City, Utah and is an integral part of the community at 161 South Main Street. A shop monitor, class representative, and just all around amazing guy, Newman is never too busy to help out other students with their own projects, [...]
Marty Laurita | 30 Day Challenge
Marty Laurita (MID ’14) recently challenged himself to do a drawing each day for thirty days as a way to improve his sketching abilities. Experimenting with pencils, pens, and markers, Laurita drew his favorite thing — motorbikes. Below are some of his sketches from the 30 days, as well as his thoughts on the experience. [...]
Radish | Success!
Radish Food Truck, a Kickstarter project launched by Industrial Design sophomore Alec Balbala and a few friends, just reached its goal of raising $5,250 through 95 supporters on the crowd-funding website. From their Kickstarter Page: RADISH aims to bring back the folk kind of thinking and action that has always been inherent to being natives. [...]
Jonah Willcox-Healey | Stackable Chair
Jonah Willcox-Healey has been spending his Spring semester studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he has been taking a variety of design courses and traveling. You can check out some of the photos he has been taking while abroad on his blog. Below is a stackable chair he designed and made in Cohenhagen. In his [...]
Robbie Lilliquist | Manta Concept Lighting
Only Manta is a project done by Robbie Lillquist (BFA ID ’12), a junior here in the Industrial Design Department. A concept for potential lighting, Only Manta is a beautiful lamp that is inspired by the fish. A proud moment for James Cameron and his path breaking dive into the Marina Trench! While we still [...]
Jamie Wolfond | Fern Lamp
Jamie Wolfond, a Junior in the Furniture Department here at RISD, recently submitted his Fern Lamp to us. The lamp is crafted from laser cut steel, which is then bent and powder-coated with a walnut base. The perforations that allow for bends also provide a foothold for the wiring, seen in the below detail shots. [...]
Senior Showcase | Julia Jiao
As the Spring 2012 comes to a close, we decided to run our second annual Senior Showcase series featuring the fantastic class of 2012. Throughout the series, we will be speaking with RISD Industrial Design seniors about their work, process, and hopes for beyond graduation. Kicking off this year’s series, we spoke with Julia Jiao [...]
Kyle Chambers | Bent Lam Chair
Kyle Chambers, a junior in the Industrial Design department, recently submitted to us his prototype for a bent lamination chair. Hailing from the Bay Area, Chambers came to RISD initially with the intention of majoring in painting, but discovered that he liked working three dimensionally over two dimensionally. Growing up with two architects as parents, [...]
2012 Industrial Design Senior Show
This past Thursday marked the opening of the Industrial Design Senior Show, celebrating the class of 2012. From wall-mounted bike holders to catheter underpants, the projects on display exhibited a wide range of diverse work, which is very representative of the department as whole. Below are some photos taken from the night of the opening [...]
Cardboard Chair | The Annual Children’s Review
Starting off the Spring semester with a bang, RISD Industrial Design sophomores were once again tasked with creating a child’s chair from cardboard. This project brought together teams of three to brainstorm, prototype and finish a chair in one week’s time. The chair had to be cut from one piece of 48″ x 80″ cardboard and [...]
Kyle DeHovitz + Isaac Blankensmith | Armada 3D Scanner
Armada is a collaboration between Isaac Blankensmith and Kyle DeHovitz Armada is a concept for a portable 3D scanner built to allow anyone to capture the physical forms of objects on the go. Armada can create a 3D scan of any object through triangulation between it’s cameras and cross-beam laser. Armada is a simple 3D scanner built [...]
Wintersession | Independent Study with TIP Muebles
This fall, Patrick Mankins (ID ’13) and Fernando Diaz Smith (ID ’13) worked with TIP Muebles, a cooperatively owned sustainably run furniture manufacturer in Oaxaca, Mexico. Through a series of material experiments, Mankins and Diaz developed a set of techniques which they then used as the basis for two table designs. Check out the images [...]
RISD STEAM Club at MIT Media Lab
This past Saturday marked the culmination of four weeks of Paper-Based Electronic Art Workshops run at RISD by High-Low Tech‘s very own Jie Qi. As part of her thesis project, Qi hosted these five-hour workshops on Saturdays and Mondays with RISD students and MIT students on each’s respective campus, sharing with them materials and techniques [...]
Senior Open Studios
Last Friday was Senior Open Studios, an annual event hosted by RISD’s Undergraduate Student Alliance. The event celebrates the graduating class of 2012, giving them the opportunity to showcase their work to students, faculty, staff, and administration who may not see their work otherwise. The event was open to the public, inviting the greater Rhode [...]
Max McGurl | Kitchen Island
Max McGurl (ID ’13) recently submitted to us his Kitchen Island, a table inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright. Like Wright’s furniture, it has a physically imposing presence due to its large size and dark stained wood. Also similar to Wright’s furniture, the edges of the island are chamfered to provide a more finished and solid [...]
Production Ceramics
Maeve Jopson BFA ID ’13 shared with us these photos she took during the final critique of the Production Ceramics Advanced Studio, which took place Thursday, December 15th in the ID Building. Check out some images of the students’ work below or click through in the gallery at the bottom of the post. Posted by [...]
Nash Palazzo, Lukas Scheurer, + David Lee | The DeLorean
The Transportation Design Studio was a new Advanced Studio to the RISD Industrial Design Department this Fall, taught by Matt Grigsby. The studio was offered to juniors and seniors, and focused on designing and modeling a vehicle. Students worked in teams on everything from fire engines to compact cars. Nash Palazzo ’12, Lukas Scheurer ’13, [...]
Sangho Kim | Transportation Solutions
Some of you might remember Sangho Kim BFA ID ’13 from the ID Sketching Series we’ve been running for the past few weeks. Kim just sent us some of his final renderings done for the Transportation Solution Studio he took this Fall. His project was to design a two-door sports coupe for the British carmaker, [...]
Maeve Jopson | Production Ceramics
Maeve Jopson BFA ID ’13 submitted to us her final project for Production Ceramics, titled “Unearthed.” Production Ceramics is one of the Advanced 6-credit Studio options offered to juniors and seniors in the ID department. The studio explores methods of production for slip-casting ceramic pieces for mass production. Posted by Carly Ayres | Date Posted: [...]