Students are exploring the poster’s singular capacity to transform ideas into iconic picture planes combining typography and ...

Hands-on fall studios encourage students to incorporate contemporary technologies and platforms into their evolving creative ...

The core Graphic Design curriculum encompasses a range of analytical, formal, sensory and technical design experiences. Sophomores begin exploring visual principles of form, image, color and ...

The benefits we offer RISD employees include medical and dental insurance plans, a 403 (b) retirement plan with employer contributions, paid time off and many more. People who work here also enjoy ...

Through a program that builds on itself, students learn to think critically; to produce architecture through both reflection and invention; to build using a variety of materials; to understand the ...

Fall 2025 Regeneration Studio focuses on biomimicry research in structures, materials, mechanisms, and interfaces.

Digital + Media alumni pioneer new modes of artistic inquiry, pursuing rewarding work in cutting-edge research, academics, studio practice and more. Many graduates have contributed significantly to ...

Literary Arts and Studies draws on a wide range of literary traditions, genres, periods and theoretical approaches to let students pursue in-depth studies in literature and writing. Concentrators ...

Modeled on our EFS curriculum, this one-semester program for first-year students is a unique, immersive option for students beginning their RISD journey. In the first year of the program, sophomores ...

The three-year curriculum builds on fundamental areas underpinning the creative practice of architecture: representation and fabrication, technologies and professional ethics, history and theory, and ...

RISD was founded and nurtured by a small group of women well before any woman in America gained the right to vote. That year Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf urged 34 members of the Rhode Island Women’s ...

Landscape Architecture straddles the interface between the cultural and natural worlds, addressing design issues inherent in a range of typologies and scales, from specific sites to global systems.