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School of Design
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April 15, 2025
Future100 Interior Design Undergraduate Winners
Interior design student Troa Vimahi is named a top-100 interior design undergraduate student by METROPOLIS.
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April 14, 2025
How the Science of Color Boosts Productivity at Work
The Wall Street Journal speaks to Kelly Jahn, adjunct faculty member in the College of Art and Design, about the impact of color on human psychology. (This content may require a subscription to view.)
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April 3, 2025
VFX Schools Adapt to Capture Industry Shift to VP and AI
Flip Phillips, professor in the School of Film and Animation, and Philip Szrama, assistant professor in the School of Design, speak to VFX Voice about new AI tech used for virtual production.
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March 27, 2025
A Symbol Reimagined: Merging Tradition and Technology in the Doomsday Clock
An essay by Juan Noguera, assistant professor in the School of Design, and Tom Weis, associate department head at the Rhode Island School of Design, published by PRINT.
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March 27, 2025
Student entrepreneurs spotlight artists with new social media site
Students developed Spotlight Creators, a startup meant to filter out ubiquitous, trend-chasing social media content in favor of original artwork. The goal of the site's co-founders is to create a welcoming online community for creatives to share more authentic work.
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March 20, 2025
Celebrating Women’s History Month through interdisciplinary research
The inaugural Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies symposium, hosted on March 28, will feature original work by individuals from across the RIT community.
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March 17, 2025
Creative career remix: Alumnus shapes Spotify's user experience
Chad Cooper '19 MFA (visual communication design) is a senior product designer - design systems for Spotify, where he helps deliver the audio streaming platform’s visual look and feel for more than 600 million users.
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March 10, 2025
Inequity and suffering bother me, says design pioneer who has changed lives
The New Straits Times speaks to Patricia Moore '74 (industrial design).
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March 3, 2025
RIT storytellers capture the heart and hustle of Special Olympics athletes
Students from various majors across RIT made a website providing wall-to-wall coverage of the 2025 Special Olympics New York Winter Games. This was the fourth year RIT partnered with Special Olympics to document the events.
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February 4, 2025
The redesigned Doomsday Clock finally has a look to match its message
Fast Company talks with Juan Noguera, assistant professor of industrial design, about redesigning the Doomsday Clock.
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January 31, 2025
Faculty member helps redesign ‘Doomsday Clock’
Juan Noguera, assistant professor in the School of Design, combined both traditional and modern techniques in the redesign of the infamous clock that made international headlines this week. The body of the clock was printed in RIT’s SHED.
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January 27, 2025
Behavior meets brilliance: Dean emerita retires with enduring impact on design research
Lorraine Justice's career journey was filled with leading, learning, and designing what's next. True to her innovative spirit, she plans to remain busy in her retirement from RIT by exploring AI's role in design and creativity.