Communications and Digital Media News

Two student groups and an adjunct professor earned accolades at the society's annual awards ceremony. 

He most recently co-authored Seeing Red: Nintendo’s Virtual Boy (MIT Press 2024) and co-edited Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons (MIT Press 2024) and The Routledge Handbook of Role-Playing Game Studies (Routledge 2024).

Lee Green's design of the beloved "Flower City/Flour City" logo is the centerpiece of a new documentary celebrating the impact of Rochester's 50-year-old visual mark. Free, public screenings of the film are scheduled into the fall.

Using never-before-shared archival documents, photographs, videos, and oral history interviews, the exhibition at George Eastman Museum explores how Kodak's Lambda members changed corporate culture and benefit policies to be more inclusive.

Recent photography graduate gained confidence and experience by spending a semester working in New York City thanks to the RIT in NYC study away program.

Like Indiana Jones, researchers at RIT’s Interaction, Media, and Learning Lab hope to save pieces of history before they disappear so that people can learn from the designs.

Twenty-three students from RIT's graphic design and visual communication design programs were recognized in the 2026 Graphis New Talent Awards, a juried showcase of emerging creatives around the world. A number of the honored projects from RIT designers will also be featured in the awards' companion publication. 

When the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute needed an animated short film explaining the climate impacts of food waste, they utilized the talent inside a budding student-run design studio within the College of Art and Design.

WHEC-TV highlights Tom Brenner '16 (photojournalism), who captured widely circulated photos of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secret Service agents, and includes comments from William Snyder, professor of photographic arts and sciences.

Tyler Mahan has learned how to balance Division I hockey and his academic programs. Now, he weighs professional hockey offers in North America and Europe against a career in finance at Deloitte.

TJ Hampton, a new media design major who will graduate in May, was hired as a product designer at Duolingo after completing two successful internships with the company.

The RIT Graduate Showcase allowed students to explain their research to their peers.