The inauguration of John Maeda the 16th president of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) will take place this Friday. Why do I think he is the kind of presidents we have all been dreaming of? First, just look at his inauguration online guest book, created for the campus community to add their thoughts, best wishes, [...]

In the most recent issue of T, The New York Times' style magazine, Alice Rawshorn asks the interesting question Is Design Still a Boys' Club? In the course of discussing whether or not this is still the case, she notes, "Some 64 percent of last year's design undergraduates at the Rhode Island School of Design [...]

A website was created by Aaron Perry-Zucker, a student at RISD, to allow designers that support Barack Obama to create and disseminate posters of support called Design for Obama. I created the above poster and submitted to the project. Please go and review the growing lot of posters for download for this cause at Design for Obama.

... at Massey University's Design School in Auckland for three years.John Maeda arrived at the RISD from MIT. ... intentions. What is interesting in the article is the criticism of the fashionable 'design led thinking' notion.While the corporate world ... powerful than to have creativity. Designing is a doing word and theorising about design can lead to anemic results. In many ways I think it is important ...

RISD ID Seniors Sanis Kim and I (Sarah Kim) were lucky enough to be in Finland during their annual Helsinki Design Week.  We got to see examples of Finnish/Scandinavian design at exhibitions throughout the "Design District" of Helsinki as well as at Kaapelli (Cable Factory). More pictures on–> Facebook

... spades? Yep. User-generated content and judging? Sure. And some truly original takes on the Obama design oeuvre as an added bonus. All of which are sure to pop up on t-shirts at the local Urban Outfitters by the end of the week. The Rhode Island School of Design is apparently the sponsor. And while there?s no word on whether or not alumnus and poster-art revivalist Shepard Fairey is ...