Cross Roads: RISD + Brown
Come to Nick Green and experience the “Cross Roads” of RISD and Brown! Click here to check out the Cross Roads blog, and learn more about it. The event will take place November 5th 3:30pm-8:00pm on RISD’s Nickerson Green behind the Freshmen Quad. If you are interested in dancing, free style, live music and wild [...]
Join the A Better World by Design Committee
A Better World by Design is looking for students to apply to the 2012 organizing committee. Don’t pass up on this incredible opportunity to organize one of the best student run design conferences in the world. You can find out more information on the conference at www.abetterworldbydesign.com If you have specific questions look for Isaac [...]
Wanted: Hackers+Painters
The first monthly meeting for programmers and artists from Brown and RISD. Bring portfolios! There will be sweets.
..AND WE’RE BACK.
After a long, lovely summer, the RISD-ID.ORG team is back and ready to kick into into high gear for this school year. From New York City to Seattle, our summers have been diverse and well spent working at internships and traveling throughout the country and around the world. Kegan Tawney has a post coming that [...]
Retrospect on RISD-ID.ORG 2010-2011
With the 2010-2011 school year at a close, I thought it seemed fitting to take a moment to step back and reflect on this year in terms of RISD-ID.ORG, a blog started by Isaac Blankensmith and me earlier this year. When I opened the first Industrial Design department meeting in the Fall as the department [...]
Things Organized Neatly II
This week, sophomore Isaac Blankensmith went around 161 South Main and documented some of the new arrangements of tools in the woodshop. Check out the photographs below!
Scott Wilson | MINIMAL
In another post following up with the IDSA Northeast District Conference that took place on RISD’s campus earlier this month, Zach Jenkins (BFA ID ’13) caught up with Scott Wilson following his keynote presentation on the second day. Chicago-based MINIMAL and notorious for his massively successful Kickstarter project, TikTok + LunaTik Multi-Touch Watch Kits, Scott [...]
Town Hall Meeting Today
There will be an ice cream truck in the 161 South Main Parking Lot at 6:00pm. Come enjoy some ice cream!
Designer (n.) | IDSA NED
Designer (n.) – the inability to sit still and accept things for the way they are, the compulsion to create and make and do, as well as that never ceasing itch to change the status quo towards a higher, nonexistent goal. Image taken by @claudybee Claudia Bernett This was one of several realizations taken away [...]
Jackson Seidenberg | IDSA Student Merit Award Presentation
Jackson Seidenberg | IDSA Student Merit Award Presentation from RISD ID on Vimeo. Check out this video of Jackson Siedenberg’s presentation at the IDSA NED conference! Posted by Isaac Blankensmith | Date Posted:10 April, 2011
Samsung Art & Design Institute | Lecture at RISD
Hear Professor & Chair of the Product Design Deparment at Samsung Art & Design Institute, Yeong-Chun Park, Ph.D, speak about design desgrees and opportunites for study in Korea. Stop by the ID Gallery tomorrow 4/5 at 11:15am. Posted by Isaac Blankensmith| Date Posted: 05 April, 2011
Google Designers | Speaking at RISD
Google Designers Evelyn Kim (RISD GD ’04) and Willem Van Lancker (RISD GD ’10) are coming back to RISD to give a talk on design, technology, and their transition from College Hill to Silicon Valley. They will discuss the evolution of design at Google, their role in the User Experience team, Life at Google, and [...]
Make It Better Symposium
Next week, Rhode Island School of Design will be hosting a symposium on art, design, and the future of healthcare titled Make It Better. The event, spanning March 11th and 12th, is sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio and will bring accomplished artists, designer, and activists together with health care professionals, policy-makers, entrepreneurs, as [...]
Emily Rothschild and Tom Weis | Lecture at RISD
Emily Rothschild and Tom Weis will be speaking on March 4th from 11:30 – 12:30pm in the RISD ID Gallery. Posted by Isaac Blankensmith | Date Posted: 3 March, 2011
Things Organized Neatly
Posted by Carly Ayres | Date Posted: 24 January, 2010 This week, sophomore Wesley Chau, went around 161 South Main and documented the organization of tools found in the Wood, Metals, and Model shop. For every neat freak and compulsive cleaner, these shops are a dream of labeled tools, meticulously monitored clean up rituals, and [...]
Join the team!
If you are interested in being on the RISD-ID team send us an email: team@risd-id.org