There's only one finger we commonly know as the Bird, and most of ours can fly just fine. But for your other eight fingers, consider the Pinky Wing, a creation of New York City native and RISD-trained designer Emily ...READ»
We admit, we miss real, live photo albums. Nothing pulls at the heartstrings faster than leafing through a lap-sized book, the pages familiarly fragrant, the snapshots charmingly faded with time. And yet, the conveniences of ...READ»
If you read our site regularly, you know that we’re kinda’, sorta’, okay, absurdly obsessed with unconventional timepieces. What can we say? We think there’s poetry in rethinking something as fundamental as the way we process ...READ»
Exploring a carefully curated and labeled collection of natural specimens at the Providence design school is like using an analog search engine that yields incredible real-life results.READ»
Students at the Rhode Island School of Design will show off their work at this year's International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York, which convenes this Friday and runs through Tuesday. The exhibition, titled Immaterialize, ...READ»
He's just started as president of the Rhode Island School of Design, but we'd love to appoint designer John Maeda to another position we just invented: Official Ambassador Between Academia and Business.
The man is firmly ...READ»
This past weekend, The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a compelling op-ed piece which told the inspiring tale of two young students who started a national, youth movement for energy reform in India. It started out as a ...READ»
RISD alum Shepard Fairey's first solo show is opening this weekend at Boston's ICA and, as a RISD student, I can hardly wait to go. And not to simply see the Obama poster. (Although it would be fun to calculate just how many millions ...READ»
Marcel Wanders talked about the fairy tale that informed the design of the new Mondrian Hotel in Miami, and the fear he has to face down every time he begins a new project. John Maeda spoke of design's hidden return on investment -- ...READ»
John Maeda is a highly networked, Web-enabled thinker who also happens to be an artist, designer, and author -- probably the closest thing to a Renaissance man the digital world has produced. As the new president of the Rhode Island School of Design, can he help reconcile the design world's competing impulses: creativity and pragmatism, uniqueness and marketability?READ»
