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Moving At The Speed Of Trust, Sun Ho Lee

Masters Theses

Moving at the Speed of Trust is a workbook of strategies — practices, definitions, and techniques — to nurture community-building in support of inbetweeners who live between power structures and cultures and are often left out. Inbetweeners are those individuals whose lives are in transition through recent immigration or forced translocation from Asia to America.

These strategies revolve around threads of trust: kin, giggles, vulnerability, and shared experience. With these threads, we can question power. We can preserve stories, expand the ways we connect, shift perspectives on what is “standard,” and cultivate a community rooted in understanding. To understand each …

Making Then Meaning, Ben Denzer

Masters Theses

This is an artist talk contained within a book. It is 816 pages and 49 minutes long. Closed captions run across the spreads. A video of this talk can be watched on bendenzer.com/making-then-meaning

At RISD, I’ve been prompted to expand the scope and tools of my practice and to reflect on questions of meaning in my work.

I spend my days making things, but I’ve never really had good answers to questions of why I make the things I make, or what their meaning is. I don’t think there are simple answers to these questions.

I think meaning comes from …

Infinitely Incredible Configurations, Jenni Oughton

Masters Theses

As a designer, I am intent on charting out a radically different perspective on the future. To instigate movement beyond current design thinking centered on problem solving, I propose a shift toward design fiction—a deliberate and direct inquiry into the realm where design meets science fiction, and how that merges with reality. My practice uses science, speculative fiction, and technology as positive models to both generate prompts and spur design outcomes. I borrow from the author Isaac Asimov's three categories of science fiction narratives to instigate a way of structuring this design endeavor: What if ..., If only ..., If …

A Part Apart, Spenser Atlas

Masters Theses

I am fascinated by connections. Things that click, snap, slide, and hold. I care about the ways in which objects meet, looking for answers in the space between. What binds one thing to another?

I believe the world is presented to us in pieces. It’s hard to say how it all comes together. It's easy to believe things are shapeless and detached from each other. Connection is a bridge, a way of linking one thing to another that reveals interdependence, and eventually moves outwards to express a correlation between pieces, once assumed to be discrete and isolated.

This work is …

Material Encounters: Making Memory Beyond The Mind, Ariel Wills

Masters Theses

Can acts of making carry the memories of our embeddedness within the world? This thesis explores how making things can nurture a sense of kinship that cuts across the organic and inorganic, erasing the distinction between living and dead, material and spiritual. Through handwork such as art-making, sewing, knitting, cooking, woodworking, and beyond, the burden of remembering and of archiving is shared across human and non-human bodies, cultivated through practices of making, and through the materials themselves. By recounting the stories of my family’s experience as Jewish immigrants in the United States, I aim to reveal how their domestic practices …

Unbound 2019 Exhibitor Faqs, Risd Unbound, Fleet Library

2019 Print

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Unbound 2019 Brochure, Risd Unbound, Fleet Library

2019 Print

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Unbound 2019 Program, Risd Unbound, Fleet Library

2019 Print

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Unbound 2019 Brochure, Risd Unbound, Fleet Library

2019 Print

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Unbound 2019 Program, Risd Unbound, Fleet Library

2019 Print

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Unbound 2019 Program, Risd Unbound, Fleet Library

2019 Print

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Unbound 2019 Brochure, Risd Unbound, Fleet Library

2019 Print

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Unbound 2019 Brochure, Risd Unbound, Fleet Library

2019 Print

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Urgency Reader, Paul Soulellis, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Graphic Design

252 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. Edition of 110 numbered copies. Read more and download complete Urgency Reader 2019 here."Urgency Reader is a quick assembling of texts, risograph printed in Pawtucket, RI, and bound as a book at the last minute to launch at the Odds and Ends Art Book Fair at Yale University Art Gallery on December 6, 2019. Suggested topics from the open call included: urgency, craft, queerness, gender, transformation, kinship, race, survival ..."--cover wrapper. "Inspired by Omnibus News #1 (1969), Assembling (1970-87), and other assembling publications, Urgency Reader is an experiment in publishing as a …

Unbound 2018 Program, Risd Unbound, Fleet Library, Olivia De Salve Villedieu

2018 Print

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Unbound 2018 Exhibitor Biographies + Collection Descriptions, Risd Unbound, Fleet Library

2018 Print

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Unbound 2018 Exhibitor Faqs, Risd Unbound, Fleet Library

2018 Print

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Unbound 2018 Program, Risd Unbound, Fleet Library, Olivia De Salve Villedieu

2018 Print

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Unbound 2018 Program, Risd Unbound, Fleet Library, Olivia De Salve Villedieu

2018 Print

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Unbound 2017 Program, Risd Unbound, Fleet Library

2017 Print

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Unbound 2017 Exhibitor Biographies + Collection Descriptions, Risd Unbound, Fleet Library

2017 Print

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S., J.J. Abrams, Doug Dorst, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Graphic Design

xiv, 456 pages : illustrations. Konfidentiell letter (2 leaves) [insert between pages viii-ix] + Pollard State University : VMS accused of ... (1 leaf) [insert between pages 10-11] + Xerox copy of journal article (1 leaf) [insert between pages 20-21] + Newspaper clipping (2 pages) [insert between pages 32 -33] + Telegram (2 leaves) [insert between pages 54-55] + 1 newspaper clipping/memo (1 leaf) [insert between pages 68-69] + Letter from Desjardins (1 leaf) [insert between pages 86-87] + Letter from Jen (4 pages) [insert between pages 100-101] + 1 Brazil postcard [insert between pages 112-113] + 1 photograph of …

It Is Almost That (Box), Siglio Press, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Graphic Design

8 booklets, 1 leaf , 2 sheets : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. A boxed set of nine folded and saddle-stitched booklets with photocopies or silkscreened dust-jackets signed by authors / artists. Found Pages from Antinova's Memoirs / Eleanor Antin -- Nude film / Fiona Banner -- Time / Ann Hamilton -- Inspection / Jane Hammond -- Psychic / Susan Hiller -- Dorchester boxers / Helen Kim -- A house of dust / Alison Knowles -- Notes for the translation / Molly Springfield -- Hexen II; 4 diagrams / Suzanne Treister -- From the journal Notes on living locally …

Shv, Irma Boom, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Graphic Design

[2136] pages : illustrations (some color). Book commissioned by Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, chairman of SHV Holdings, and designed by Irma Boom in editorial collaboration with art historian Johann Pijnappel to celebrate the centenary SHV. Edition of 500 copies in English and 300 copies in Chinese. Printed by Rosbeek, Nuth, Netherlands. Three sheets of stamps are mounted inside the front and back covers. Decorated fore-edge papers with a poem in Dutch and a color illustration of a field of tulips. SHV Energy is a family-owned multinational organization that consists of a group of specialised energy companies

Charles Meunier's Plaquette, 1900, La Relieuse | The Bookbinder : A Rare And Beautiful Depiction Of The Bookbinder In Medallic Art., Henry Morris, Charles Meunier, Maurice Favre, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Graphic Design

1 folded leaf; 1 pewter plaquette. Text written and plaquette created by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press. 1 folded leaf in blue cloth case stamped in silver. Pewter plaquette fits in frame in case. The promotional plaquette of bookbinder Charles Meunier is a reproduction of a work by Maurice Favre exhibited in 1903. It depicts a bookbinder at her sewing frame. Lettered on reverse "Aux amis la maison du livre 1900, Ch. Meunier." (To the friends of the 1900 book house, Ch. Meunier.). Gift of the Joseph Paulsen family. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition …

Poesia Concreta : Indirizzi Concreti, Visuali E Fonetici. | Concrete Poetry: Concrete Addresses, Visual And Phonetic., Carlo Belloli, Ernesto L. Francalanci, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Graphic Design

155 p. ill. 23 cm. Esposizione a cura di Dietrich Mahlow e Arrigo Lora-Totino. Ca' Giustinian, Sala delle Colonne, 25 settembre-10 ottobre 1969. (Exhibition curated by Dietrich Mahlow and Arrigo Lora-Totino. Ca 'Giustinian, Sala delle Colonne, 25 September-10 October 1969.) On cover: Mostra di poesia concreta. (Exhibition of concrete poetry.) At head of title: La Biennale di Venezia. (The Venice Biennale.) Catalog by Carlo Belloli, Ernesto L. Francalanci.

Future Books: Industry, Government, Science, Arts, Vol. I Overture, Marjory B. Milne, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Graphic Design

volumes illustrations (some color) portraits 30 cm. Editor: Marjorie B. Milne. Produced by Adprint. Cover illustration and design by G.A. Adams. Printed in photogravure by Harrison & Sons Ltd. London. Cover, binding and offset printing by Jerrold & Sons Ltd. Norwich. Advertisements in letterpress by W.S. Cowell Ltd. Ipswich; Alabaster Passmore & Sons Ltd. Maidstone; Thos. Forman & Sons Ltd. Nottingham. The photogravure and offset parts have been printed on Mellotex Paper made by Tullis Russell & Co. Ltd. Markinch Scotland. Information graphics. Casebinding. Library has Volume I. Overture & volume IV. Transformation.

Future Books: Industry, Government, Science, Arts, Vol. Iv Transformation, Marjory B. Milne, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Graphic Design

volumes illustrations (some color) portraits 30 cm. Editor: Marjorie B. Milne. Produced by Adprint. Cover illustration and design by G.A. Adams. Printed in photogravure by Harrison & Sons Ltd. London. Cover, binding and offset printing by Jerrold & Sons Ltd. Norwich. Advertisements in letterpress by W.S. Cowell Ltd. Ipswich; Alabaster Passmore & Sons Ltd. Maidstone; Thos. Forman & Sons Ltd. Nottingham. The photogravure and offset parts have been printed on Mellotex Paper made by Tullis Russell & Co. Ltd. Markinch Scotland. Information graphics. Casebinding. Library has Volume I. Overture & volume IV. Transformation.

Women And Work, Gertrude Rosenblum Williams, Isotype Institute, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Graphic Design

128 pages : illustrations (some color, including maps) ; 22 cm. Series: The new democracy "Designed and produced by Adprint Ltd London ; Copyright 1945 by Adprint Ltd London ..."--title page verso. "First published by Nicholson & Watson in association with Wells Gardner Darton & Co Ltd, London, 1945"--title page verso. Contents: The scope of women's work. The wartime revolution -- The rise of the "dependent" family -- The effect of marriage -- Law and custom -- The work women do. Changes in numbers and jobs -- The middle-class woman -- Woman's dual role. Differences in pay -- Do women …

Human Problems In Industry, Norah M. Davis, Marie Neurath, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Graphic Design

127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. Series: New democracy. "With 12 pictorial charts in colour designed by the Isotype Institute and 80 photographs." "Designed and produced by Adprint Ltd. London"--title page verso. Contents: Introduction -- Choosing jobs and workers -- Doing the job -- Warning signals -- Why we work -- Outlook for the future."Reading list": page [128]. Includes bibliographical references. Added Author: Marie Neurath, designer.