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Students leveraged the variety of makerspaces in RIT's brand-new SHED facility to create arts-integrative work responding to a theme of "Play."

RIT’s presence is widespread in the second edition of Mastering Type, hailed as a crucial guide to typography for print and web design. It is due out in 2025.

Ipek Koprululu ’24 MFA headlines a host of visual communication design MFA students to be honored in competitions recognizing design excellence around the world.

Digital and interactive experiences produced by RIT new media design students were recognized in MODE Fest, an international motion design competition, for a third consecutive time. 

The College of Art and Design welcomes new hires to its faculty roster while longtime faculty Alex Lobos assumes a role as director of the School of Design.

Shehzil Malik '14 MFA (visual communication design) is an award-winning illustrator and designer focused on themes related to human rights, feminism and her South Asian identity.

Jake Mathew '04, '06 MFA has completed high-profile motion design projects throughout his career — the latest was animating the main on end titles for Ms. Marvel.

Non-profit partners from RIT's annual interdisciplinary workshop have recently implemented ideas developed by teams of students working to use their skills for social good.

Erin Sarofsky BFA ’98, MFA ’00 is executive creative director and owner of Sarofsky Corporation and is being honored by the College of Art and Design.

Accomplished alumni are returning to campus to discuss the future of technology, art, and design as part of the Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival on April 23. The Imagine RIT Futurists Symposium is from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Wegmans Theater, RIT MAGIC Center. It will also be available to watch as a livestream.

Nate Rohman, academic advisor for RIT's graphic design and studio arts BFA programs, will be honored April 12 at the Celebration of Teaching and Scholarship ceremony.

RIT is extending a special graduate tuition scholarship program to recent alumni as the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year. The program helps alumni who graduated during the pandemic enhance their skill set for the new economy through master’s degrees that build upon collaboration, analytical thinking, complex problem solving, and flexibility.