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As a design leader in the tech sector, Jason Blythe has built a career anticipating and enhancing the way in which people use technology to search for information, shop online, and stream sports and entertainment.

A multidisciplinary team of students and faculty continued an RIT tradition of participating in Canstruction Rochester by making EVE from WALL-E out of more than 2,400 canned goods.

Projects out of RIT's new media design program were recognized in an international competition for student and emerging motion designers as they were showcased at a summit in Prague, Czech Republic.

Ricky Figueora taking over as the new director of RIT's School of Film and Animation headlines exciting promotions and additions to the College of Art and Design faculty.

What started as a concept for the School of Design’s annual T-Minus challenge has made a splash at Autodesk University 2025. The Autodesk MultiMeasure was the Factory Experience product chosen for the global software and technology company’s annual conference.

Many employees of RIT City Art Space have used their experience working in the gallery to prepare for fulfilling careers in museums, community art centers, and project and event management.

The interdisciplinary and collaborative Studio 930 program asks students to apply what they know, learn what they don’t, and design products that make life, or a single task, more efficient and accessible.

Rochester Beacon reports on RPL GO!, a new library vehicle in the Rochester Public Library system. The design was in part created by students in RIT's College of Art and Design.

As a lead product designer for the Walt Disney Company, Becky Yaeger '18 (new media design) and her team focus on the user experience (UX) of browsing, finding, and watching sports content across ESPN's apps and sites. 

The New York Times interviews Alex Lobos, director of the School of Design, about the product designs of appliances that consumers are looking for.

Sarah Bono '14 (graphic design) oversees the product design for ESPN’s app, website, and living room devices like TVs and gaming consoles. Wherever ESPN content is found digitally, Bono and her team likely had a hand in the creative process. 

More than two dozen students from RIT's visual communication design MFA program had creative work selected for the Graphis New Talent Awards 2025, a juried global exhibition of the best and boldest student work in categories of Advertising, Design, Film/Video, Photography, and Print. In total, the students and recent graduates captured 44 awards.