AIGA RISD

• 2010-10-17

  MAKING MEANING PRESENTATION

  

  A presentation of excellent visual narrative pieces by Making Meaning students in the RISD Auditorium, Tuesday at 1:10. Shown here: a project by Anther Kiley MFA 2013.

• 2010-10-11

  Typographic Light Animation

  “iPad light painting” plus stop frame animation by Dentsu London

• 2010-10-09

  Designing Transactions

  A mobile device that swipes credit cards—don’t even have to work at the genius bar. More to the point, nice video ad.

• 2010-10-05

  Shohei Shigematsu / Richard Saul Wurman

  Shohei Shigematsu, architect, partner at OMA and director of OMA*AMO NY, will be speaking tonight at 5pm at the Chace Center Auditorium.

  Richard Saul Wurman, architect and graphic designer known for his work in information design and for creating the TED conferences, will be speaking at 7pm in the RISD Auditorium.

• 2010-10-03

  RISD grad student project wins A Better World By Design conference contest

  

  The Grocery Loop, an ongoing collaborative project by Lindsay Kinkade, Erika Tarte, and Beth Weaver.

• 2010-09-30

  THE NY ART BOOK FAIR 2010

  

  Printed Matter presents the fifth annual NY Art Book Fair, November 5–7 at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. Free and open to the public, the Fair hosts over200 international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists and publishers from twenty countries, offering the best in contemporary art book publishing.

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  The NY Art Book Fair includes special project rooms, screenings, book signings, and performances, throughout the weekend. Other events include the third annual Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference, and The Classroom, a curated series of informal conversations between artists, together with readings, workshops and other artist-led events.

  If you don’t have a car, there are still $1 tickets from Providence left on Megabus.

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  The Physical Book

  A series of events “exploring the physical components that comprise the machine we know as the book.”

  Today at 5:30pm, Sam Ellenport, of the Harcourt Bindery in Boston, will talk about the art of the book: Bookbinding through Five Centuries: Bottlenecks and Breakthroughs at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.

• 2010-09-19

  2010 AIGA Boston Fellow Award: Matthew Carter

  

  At 6pm, this Friday 9/24 at the Cambridge Public Library.

  Also speaking: David Berlow and Cyrus Highsmith, Font Bureau, Tobias Frere-Jones, Hoefler & Frere-Jones, Frank Romano, Museum of Printing, and Ben Rubin, Ear Studio.

• 2010-09-16

  Four RISD graduates win ADC Young Guns 8

  

  

  

  

  Shown here: Work by RISD Young Guns (from top) Jessica Walsh 08, Joe Marianek 03, Michael Freimuth 03,  and Nikolay Saveliev 07.

• 2010-06-22

  AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers 2010

  

  

  Shown here: 50 book winner “Rethinking the Romans,” Jae Jeon, MFA 2010.