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  • Building Bridges for International Innovation

    07/11/2011
    RISD partners with Japanese font developer Morisawa to explore creative leadership and innovation through art and design.

  • Students’ Design in National Media Blitz

    07/12/2011
    Working with Associate Professor Leslie Fontana, ID students designed a prototype that’s now featured in the Progressive Insurance TV ads promoting its new Snapshot device.

  • Maeda Brings Creativity to World Stage

    06/23/2011
    At the 2011 Aspen Ideas Festival, President Maeda will speak to a global audience about the fundamental value of art and design.

  • RISD Leads Congressional Briefing

    06/21/2011
    A Congressional briefing, led by RISD, raises awareness about the importance of integrating art and design with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education as an essential component of the national innovation agenda.

  • Designs to Make a Difference

    05/10/2011
    As the first RISD student to win the highly coveted Gensler Diversity Scholarship, Nathalie Jolivert BArch 12 hopes to gain valuable architectural experience to bring home to Haiti after graduation.

  • Building a Better Buggy: RISD Students Reach for the Moon

    04/01/2011
    On April 1-2, a team of six RISD students participated in this year’s NASA Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, AL, competing against teams from nearly 90 schools and colleges to design, build and race lightweight, human-powered vehicles over lunar-like terrain.

  • Creativity Cubed

    03/29/2011
    Professors Markus Berger and Peter Dean lead a collaborative triad between RISD, Brown University and a team of RISD alumni in thinking outside the box – or in this case, redesigning the box entirely to creatively repurpose shipping containers.

  • Responding to Natural Disasters

    03/23/2011
    The RISD community came together on March 22 to consider the triple disaster in Japan and the role artists and designers can play in helping people to process and recover from this type of event.

  • The State of the Art in Healthcare

    03/22/2011
    Nearly 500 policymakers, healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, activists, academics, artists and designers came together at RISD for Make It Better, a two-day symposium that envisioned new and evolving roles for artists and designers in solving complex healthcare challenges.

  • Seduced by Sugar

    03/11/2011
    Alumna Melissa Armstrong’s latest rock candy sculpture is on view through April 8 in a show called Science is Fiction.

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At RISD there's nothing unusual about suddenly finding a doorknob on a tree trunk, shown here across from Carr House,
the charming home of Student Life offices and the student-run Carr Haus Café.