AIGA RISD

• 2012-02-05

  

  Linotype: The Film is a feature-length documentary centered around the Linotype type casting machine. Called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” by Thomas Edison, it revolutionized printing and society. The film tells the surprisingly emotional story of the people connected to the Linotype and how it impacted the world.

  Director Doug Wilson will give a post-screening talk about the making of the film.

  Tuesday, February 7th, 2011
  Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, RISD
  20 North Main Street
  Providence, RI 02903
  7:00pm (doors open at 6:30)

  Admission is free and open to the public. Limited seats available for RISD students—first come, first served. Come early to claim a seat.

  
  Presented by Monotype Imaging in partnership with AIGA Rhode Island and AIGA RISD. Additional support for the event provided by Sprintout and Schoolyard.

• 2012-01-30

  

  Why Designers Still Can’t Think

  AIGA RI board member + RISD grad Joe Marianek ’03 updates Michael Bierut’s classic essay “Why Designers Can’t Think” in this month’s issue of Print magazine—now available online!

• 2011-09-30

  [Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

  A recording of last week’s event — a lecture by Michael Bierut followed by a conversation between Michael and Doug Scott. Enjoy!

• 2011-09-21

  

  Michael Bierut: Write This Down
  This Friday, 9/23 at 6:30 pm 
  Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center
  Rhode Island School of Design
  North Main Street

  Free and open to the public.

  Since 1982, graphic designer Michael Bierut has carried a series of notebooks in which he writes incessantly and draws occasionally. These books are, in effect, the diaries of a working life that spans four decades. Michael will give a short talk about what these books mean to him, followed by a conversation with our own Doug Scott.

• 2011-05-02

  Vaughan Oliver’s weekend workshop at RISD

  The brief: create a thirteenth month and make a calendar for it

• 2011-04-22

  Lars Müller’s weekend workshop at RISD

  The brief: Transform the content of Une Petite Maison, a publication of the great architect and passionate bookmaker Le Corbusier, into a contemporary attractive publication. You are free to choose type, form and format, to search for evidence, to complement and reduce, to interprete and to add own thoughts–if your efforts are reflective and aim for an up-to-date communication of the architects historic work.
  
  Forget about the original and create you own product. Imagine your target audience to be young architects, knowing little about Le Corbusier and nothing about the “little house” and often ignoring the relevance of books for their search for knowledge.
  
  

• 2011-04-04

  

  An exhibition of posters by RISD Continuing Education students on view on the first floor of the Design Center, 30 North Main Street, Providence RI

• 2011-03-30

  

  Renowned designer/curator/critic/writer/educator Ellen Lupton is speaking in Rhode Island tomorrow evening

  Roger WIlliams University
  Global Heritage Hall Atrium
  1 Old Ferry Rhode, Bristol, RI 
  Thursday, March 31, 6-8 pm 
  *free and open to the public* 

  Find more info about the event here. 

• 2011-03-20

  Jan Van Toorn’s weekend workshop at RISD
  
  The brief: Make a poster addressing an issue of human rights

• 2011-03-08

  

  Excellent news: AIGA announced today that 50 Books / 50 Covers is back due to the “passionate voices in the design community”!!

  Many thanks to all who signed the petition in support of books!