We’ll be sending out a post RISD By Design event survey soon, but in the meantime would love to hear from any of you who may want to share some feedback about the weekend -  and if you didn’t come, maybe you’d like to let us know why. Post a comment here, or write to me directly at chartley*at*risd.edu. Thanks!

If you missed out on being a part of this year’s RISD by Design, or if you just want to relive the fun, visit our photo gallery. It was a beautiful weekend and an exciting time to be back on campus!

Hey, are you interested in purchasing a fine art print of those fabulous campus maps by Aaron Meshon ‘95 IL you saw on our materials, around campus, and on t-shirts (even our banner on this site) ?

Well, they’re still for sale, for $120 ($100 for the print and $20 for shipping).  Just contact me at crobinso **at** risd.edu for more information on how to go about getting your hot little hands on one!  For more information about brilliant artist Aaron Meshon, click here.

Alum and Alumni Council member Joe Gebbia ‘05 ID/GD set up a table at the Alumni and Student Art Sale this past weekend to promote his newest venture, AirBedandBreakfast (something we’ve mentioned on the site before) and produced some pretty interesting promo boxes:

In his words, “The limited edition boxes were produced by the team at AirBedandBreakfast.com; the peer-to-peer travel site that encourages hosts to provide breakfast for guests each morning. 5% of proceeds on Saturday went to support the RISD Student Leadership Scholarship. As the first recipient of the award back in 2003, it was a welcomed cushion to my tuition payments. You can imagine it felt good to give a little something back.

The project was art directed by myself and AB&B co-founder Brian Chesky (ID ‘04). We collaborated with illustrators, photographers, copywriters, a design shop that includes Scott Thorpe (MFA GD ‘05), and a very cool printer, General Printing, run by Fred Fassett (Arch ‘69).  He’s on the alumni council.

More images, and the hilarious jingles, can be found at http://www.airbedandbreakfast.com/obamaos and http://www.airbedandbreakfast.com/capnmccains”

If you didn’t get a chance to make it to the inauguration of RISD’s 16th President, John Maeda, do the next best thing.  Visit our Inauguration Station at the old risd|works, at 20 Westminster Street (across from the library) this Saturday from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm.

We’ll have lots of gorgeous materials with the START HERE theme, put together by Michael Rock’84 GD and other alums at 2×4, a NYC-based award winning design studio, including START HERE t-shirts and screen printers, so you can have your own personalized version of our shirt.

We’ll also have photos from the day, so you can see what you missed, hot coffee to perk you up, tables to sit at and rest your aching feet, and an Ask Me station, to pick up any materials you might have forgotten to grab at registration.

Come join us!

If you’re planning on parking in or around the RISD campus this Saturday, be aware that Saturday evening, beginning around three, will kick off the annual Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Foundation Flames of Hope, an annual Waterfire event sponsored by the Foundation to raise awareness about breast cancer.

While we’re thrilled to have a Waterfire going on for visitors to enjoy, Waterfire also comes with street closings and lots of increased traffic to the area.  Please be aware that after 4:00 pm it will be increasingly difficult to navigate the area surrounding the river.  Organizers have let us know that the Rhode Island Convention Center offers parking that is nearby, convenient to the highway, out of the way of blocked streets, and generally NOT prone to being filled to the point of unavailability.

The changing color of the leaves and the crisp night air always means that Fall is here and school has started. I used to walk along Benefit Street shuffling through the leaves on my way to class. I still am nostalgic about my time at RISD and being part of a community of passionate artists. It was a great experience. I come back because I love the RISD experience, I love to learn and art brings people together. I’m looking forward to seeing what students are doing, how design technology is evolving and seeing other alums. Lots to do, lots to see, lots of wonderful experiences to remember.

Friday, October 10
3:30 - 4:30pm
Moore Terrace

Come enjoy the cooler weather and local cider with visiting Professors Emeriti on our new Moore Terrace (between the Chace Center and Memorial Hall: access from Benefit Street stairway next to Mem Hall, Second floor of Chace Center, or College Building archway). We will supply the cider, hot coffee and snacks, and the Professors will supply the many years of priceless wisdom and beautiful memories of RISD.

Here’s a picture of Lorraine Howes and Linda Bowab I took at the Spring luncheon for Professors Emeriti!

How does our work at RISD function in the world once we leave? If you were speaking with children interested in art & design, what would say about your experiences in this field? How does our work draw us to opportunities we cannot anticipate? Come hear recent graduates Brooks Hagan ‘02 TX, Naomi Kaly ‘06 D+M,Carmen Montoya ‘07 D+M and Meredith Pingree, ’03 SC, start the conversation on Friday, October 10th, in a panel discussion moderated by Interim Dean of Graduate Studies Chris Rose. The discussion, along with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, will take place in the newly designed internal atrium at the Westminster Lofts in the Peerless Building (150 Union Street), a half block away from Tazza, from six to eight pm.