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Move In The Internet, Jennifer Ziyuan Huang

Masters Theses

We work in front of computers and consume digital entertainment our leisure time. Our bodies need frequent consumption of varied movements for essential physiological processes, while screens cause prolonged stationary. Our bodies need good alignment to function well for a lifetime, while devices and chairs cause bad alignments. The goal of my thesis is to design objects to encourage body movements and good body alignments throughout the day. I hope to design for a sustainable state of well-being.

For my first project for the thesis, I looked into sitting. I designed a chair that allows people to switch between kneeling …

Indefinite Origin: Decentralizing Knowledge, Tong-June Moon

Masters Theses

The RISD Digital Commons notes that “graduate education is focused on producing original contributions to a field, based on research and advance practice."

What is collaborative thesis, and what value does it bring to the process?

Indefinite Origin, is a thesis advocating for knowledge to be decentralized and treated as a shared resource. Deviating from a focus on originality, it engages in the creation of knowledge as a collaborative effort. Design flexibility is practiced through intellectual humility, negotiating methodologies and welcoming chance. This thesis explores ideas from Furtherfield’s Do-It-With-Other (DIWO) or Do-It-Together (DIT)4 philosophies that promote synergy around commons5, cultural …

No Winners: Transgender Athletes In Cycling, Max Pratt

Masters Theses

Up until very recently, and in many ways still today, the world of cycling has been reserved for those with privilege. Professional racing has found itself in hot water, carrying gender discrimination, transphobia, and elitism throughout its avenues. Those in power are under constant pressure from all sides to make decisions that influence our entire industry.

This work explores the struggles of transgender and gender nonconforming cyclists in the context of competitive racing. Through documentary and design, we aim to bring these conversations to the forefront of the sport, and visualize what the future of cycling may look like for …

Inside The Bubble 2.0, Sunny Yuqing Ma

Masters Theses

As a designer, I use speculation to observe. I use design to express. I want to hit people's souls directly. I want to create unexpected sparks through relaxed storytelling.

A Family Game: Tell The Stories That Shape Us, Zhuoyan Xie

Masters Theses

There are a lot of books and theories on the market to help improve our communication skills and relationship with others. However, they hardly mention that the fundamental principle behind our relationship to others is how we understand and accept ourselves. The thesis aims to promote our understanding of our own identity and identities of our family members. It is worthy to mention that the thesis is conducted in a Chinese context. The thesis mainly learned from Non-violent communication and theories about identity, especially narrative identity. The deliverables are a set of narrative cards and prompts that can be played …

Zoomorphic Extended Body, Nicholas Tamas

Masters Theses

My thesis work is built around emerging technologies within the fields of prosthetic and robotics. The end result is a speculative proposal with how to expand the potential modes of use with these emerging technologies to extend and build upon their potential uses.

Kitsch Study And Chinese Kitsch Market, Jiaqi Ellie Liu

Masters Theses

From the old industrial age to the new information age, the accumulation of capital has led to the monopoly of the assets and technology of large enterprises, and the pressure of the middle class is increasing day by day.

At the same time, informatization has led to a substantial increase in the next round of energy and material needs, and therefore human needs for thinking, physical and emotional needs have also increased. Kitsch can meet the thinking and emotional needs of the public. Therefore, it has become the mainstream contemporary aesthetics.

Kitsch art & design are easier to be loved …

Things That Ignore, Sean Walker Hutton

Masters Theses

I make landscape and figurative paintings and prints that explore the symbiosis between the sublime and the quotidian. My work is guided by a theory of the sublime that is rooted in divine indifference, the notion that the divine attracts what it initially repels and that absence is presence. Much of my imagery is pulled from a cross country archive of personal photographs and a no-brow collection of film stills. Drawing comparisons between these sources and the ongoing history of landscape, I denaturalize subjects through a painterly appropriation of cinematic sensibilities in order to destabilize a fixed gaze, foster a …

The Beauty Of Collision, Yixuan Pan

Masters Theses

As a Chinese artist living in the United States, I’m researching the integration of Eastern and Western aesthetics, as well as the loss of identity that can occur when visual cultures begin to assimilate. My work endeavors to locate the connection between Eastern and Western arts through my own memories and experiences. From the age of five, I have studied calligraphy and traditional Chinese painting with my grandfather, who was a calligraphy professor. Today, I use the shapes of traditional Chinese hand fans as symbols of youth, drawing from memories of my mother and grandmother brandishing the fans to help …

Hard Work / Soft Work, Nicole Schonitzer

Masters Theses

I have never eaten a blancmange, or seen one in the flesh, or even talked to anyone about having eaten one, but the Blancmange, I’ve decided, is the mascot of my thesis. (You might say, “why does a thesis need a mascot?”, but I’ll tell you right now, this is already a better thesis for having one.) A pastel blob of a dessert originating from medieval Europe, it’s a gelatinous creamy mixture, chilled in a mold, that you can put nuts in or serve with cookies. It looks terrible, really truly. I mean, it looks great, the pinnacle of fancy—decked …

In The Muck And The Mire, Orli Swergold

Masters Theses

At the core of my practice lies my fascination with my body; how I exist in relation to others and my surroundings, how much space I take up, how close I am to others, how much distance exists between us. I am interested in intimacy and bodily contact, which I explore through objects that bridge the gap between human embodiment and otherness. My works, made out of paper pulp, simultaneously stimulate a hyperawareness of one’s own body and a dissolution of the self. Their human scale immediately places them in relation to the viewer and creates space for empathy. As …

The Glob, Spring 2021, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

The Glob was a one-off student newspaper created for the course Words, Images and Ideas, ILLUS 3412-01, taught by Ernest A. Bryant III. Students contributed 1-2 pages each of writing and images on topics such as COVID-19, fashion and style, risograph printing, and more.

Oral History Transcript | Interview With Peter Prip, April 2, 2021, Peter Prip, Ingrid Neuman, Risd Archives

RISD Oral History Project Transcripts

No abstract provided.

Rainbow Book, Perri Litke, Special Collections, Fleet Library

8th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2022

No abstract provided.

Solutions Human Centered Approach To Conservation, Illustration Department, History, Philosophy, + The Social Sciences Department

Illustration Course Work & Materials

"These essays were were written and illustrated by students at the Rhode Island school of Design in February, 2021. Their perspectives are entirely personal and reflect their efforts within a 5.5-week fused studio/seminar course that was centered on the Sixth Mass Extinction and how biodiversity is changing because of humans. Discovering that science communication is more than delivering just the facts, students were invited to research a topic of personal interest that is relevant to human impacts on biodiversity. Through analysis of data and other scientific information, each sought to synthesize their research and opinions on their topic through a …

7th Annual Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2021 Poster, Special Collections, Fleet Library

7th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2021

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7th Annual Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2021 Virtual Reception, Special Collections, Fleet Library

7th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2021

Slides presented in the recording of the 7th Baker & Whitehill Annual Student Artists' Book Contest Virtual Reception, held via zoom Wednesday, February 24th, 2021 at 6:30pm. Hosted by RISD Dean of Libraries Margot Nishimura, Special Collections Librarian Claudia Covert, guest juror Nafis White, MFA '18 PR + DM, President of the New England Chapter of the American Printing History Association (APHA) Alice Beckwith, Special Collections Associate Ariel Bordeaux, and RISD Libraries Administrative Coordinator Amy Doyle. Honorable mentions and award winning entries announced.

Grand Purchase Prize If We Could Make It Out Alive by Jonathan Dewanto, BFA, …

7th Annual Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2021 Virtual Reception Presentation, Special Collections, Fleet Library

7th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2021

Slides presented in the recording of the 7th Baker & Whitehill Annual Student Artists' Book Contest Virtual Reception, held via zoom Wednesday, February 24th, 2021 at 6:30pm. Hosted by RISD Dean of Libraries Margot Nishimura, Special Collections Librarian Claudia Covert, guest juror Nafis White, MFA '18 PR + DM, President of the New England Chapter of the American Printing History Association (APHA) Alice Beckwith, Special Collections Associate Ariel Bordeaux, and RISD Libraries Administrative Coordinator Amy Doyle. Honorable mentions and award winning entries announced.

Grand Purchase Prize If We Could Make It Out Alive by Jonathan Dewanto, BFA, …

Oral History Transcript | Interview With Timothy Mcfate, February 21, 2021, Timothy Mcfate, Andrew Martinez, Risd Archives, Andrew Martinez

RISD Oral History Project Transcripts

No abstract provided.

Oral History Transcript | Interview With Liisa Silander, February 21, 2021, Liisa Silander, Jennefer Liese, Risd Archives

RISD Oral History Project Transcripts

No abstract provided.

Pipilotti Rist : Your Eye Is My Island / Pipirotti Risuto : Anata No Me Wa Watashi No Shima; ピピロッティ。リスト : あなたの眼はわたしの島, Makiguchi Chinatsu, 牧口千夏, Oko Goto, 後藤桜子, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Art History

2 volumes : color illustrations. "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Pipilotti Rist : your eye is my island, held at Kyōto Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, April 6, 2021 - June 20, 2021 and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, August 7 - October 17, 2021. Text in Japanese and English. Catalog and text volumes held together with cloth elastic band. Text volume has clear plastic spiral binding. Catalog volume perfect bound. Library has ""Second edition published on August 25, 2021"" --colophon of text volume. SEI"

It Is What It Is, Richard Kraft, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

5 volumes : chiefly color illustrations,. "On inauguration day January 20, 2017, artist Richard Kraft began issuing Donald Trump colored cards, just as a soccer referee penalizes players who transgress the rules and code of conduct. For four years, Kraft scoured the news and Trump's Twitter feed every day, notating and assigning each of Trump's transgressions a colored penalty card (at first, yellow and red, as in soccer--and then Kraft devised magenta, purple, and crimson for ever-escalating offenses). Kraft issued almost 10,000 cards to Trump, half of them in 2020. In this set of five artist's books, totaling over 1600 …

2021-2022 Risd Course Announcement, Risd Registrar's Office, Risd Archives

RISD Course Catalogs / Announcements

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Understanding Antisemitism : An Analysis-In-Process By Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (Jfrej): A Grassroots, Membership-Based Organization In New York City, Rachael Schragis, Rebecca Katz, Erin Brownstein Mcelroy, Audrey Sasson, Jews For Racial & Economic Justice, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 poster : illustrations (black & white and color). Starting in 2018 and into early 2021, more than 70 JFREJ members participated in a cultural organizing project to understand, struggle against, and imagine a world free from antisemitism. JFREJ members and artists Rachel Schragis and Rebecca Katz facilitated this process, which involved JFREJers of all ages and backgrounds, including members of our Mizrahi & Sephardi, Jews of Color, and Poor & Working Class Caucuses. A 40-page pamphlet on the subject by JFREJ was produced to accompany the poster. Library does not have the pamphlet. Offset printing. Flowchart. Gift of Angela …

Insurrection Nation, Alejandro Cartagena, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

56 unnumbered pages : all color illustrations (portraits). Cover title. Publication information from publisher's website. Limited edition of 200. Photos taken January 6, 2021, Washington, D.C. SUMMARY: Color photographic portraits of the faces of 1440 individuals who took part in the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. "The looting, the destruction, the deadly violence. President Donald Trump was right: Insurrection is upon us..."-- author's webpage. Stapled.

Dear Laurie, Dear Gülşah, Gülşah Mursaloğlu, Laurie A. Palmer, E.S. Kibele Yarman, Umur Publishing, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

108 unnumbered pages : color illustrations + 1 poster. Cover title. Edition of 500: 300 in English, 200 in Turkish Coptic bound with wrap-around cover that unfolds to become a poster. "'Dear Laurie, Dear Gülşah' is a publication that brings together the correspondence between A. Laurie Palmer and Gülşah Mursaloğlu across disparate geographies, from April to September 2020. Within this transformative year that bore witness to a global pandemic, anti-racist protests, downfalls of power figures and monuments and fires around both continents, the letters both reflect on the present moment and offer insight into the artists' practices and long-term projects."--Letter …

Lunar Volvelle, Monica Ong, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volvelle : color illustrations ; 19 x 19 cm + 1 card (2 unnumbered pages Edition limited to 50 numbered copies, signed. Artists' book in the form of a volvelle, a chart made of concentric paper wheels. "To see the current lunar phase, begin by rotating the sun disc until the pointer rests on the desired date. Count the number of days since the last new moon or use an almanac to determine the day of the lunar cycle and move the moon disc to that number. As the moon reveals its ever-changing shape, so too does the poem …

Neighborhood Garden, Katie Baldwin, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

20 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Edition of 100 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "... created by Katie Baldwin in 2021, while she was a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan. Long bicycle rides through the city were the inspiration for these images. Between highways, concrete, rivers and canals, small gardens were found. This book is Risograph printed on French Paper at Directangle Press by Josh Dannin in Bethlehem, New Hampshire. Baxter Stults expertly prepared the files for this project in Knoxville, TN. The edition was bound in Huntsville, AL."--colophon. Pagination includes cover. Colophon on page [3] of cover. Black …

Grave To Cradle, Hannah Batsel, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

10 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Cover title. Edition of 35, signed and numbered by the artist. Trifold book cover which when opened displays the wingspan of a moth screenprinted on cloth. "This book was printed as part of an In Cahoots residency in Petaluma, CA, in October of 2019. It was assembled in Chicago, IL, in February of 2021"--Colophon. "Inspired by real-life bagworms, insects that construct different cocoons based on the materials available in their environments, and an actual cemetery in Petaluma, CA, 'Grave to Cradle' is a short magical realism story about insects that synthesize not only physical …

Pattern Unseen, Insiya Dhatt, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

20 unnumbered pages : all illustrations. Title from cover. Edition of 5 copies. Laser cutting, engraving. Woven strip binding. The woven strip binding was developed by Claire Van Vliet. Book in matching paper folder. Enclosed in folded Japanese Kozuke paper, burgundy with printed silver square pattern. "The pandemic brought out some of our best and a lot of our most flawed patterns. Patterns in in life may be best described as those behaviors or ways of acting or responding to a certain object or situation. These patterns are repeatable, we are born with some, and others we develop due to …