BBC Sounds Radio Featuring Ariana Martinez (BRDD 2017)
Ariana Martinez (BRDD 2017) works across mediums including sculpture, installation, narrative audio, and print media to convey the impact of geography, architecture, and infrastructure on individual and collective experience. In “The People Who Feel,” featured on BBC Sounds, they share an audio piece reflecting a part of their experience while reporting in Puerto Rico. (BBC Series 18 Segment 1:45 - 6:05 )
Friday Five with Nadia Wolff
Miami native Nadia Wolff is a Haitian-American artist, designer, poet, and maker whose work beautifully blends culturally significant themes of gender, sexuality, race, and identity. -DesignMilk, Photo credit: World Red Eye
Sherenté Harris (BRDD 2023) Presents at URI TEDx Talks
Sherente Harris, 18, of Charlestown, a member of the Narragansett tribe and a first-year student in a dual degree program at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University. Harris, who identifies as both a man and a woman, will talk about the struggles of “two spirit” people, as well as indigenous invisibility. - Providence Journal
Meet the winners of Visualize 2030: Anisa Holmes (BRDD 2016)
Anisa Holmes (BRDD 2016, Graphic Design, Economics, and Developmental Studies) wins Visualize 2030, a data storytelling contest in collaboration with the World Bank, the United Nations Foundation, and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, Google Cloud.
Parallels: The 11th Annual Dual Degree Exhibitiondoesn’t disappoint. Featuring the eclectic work of dozens of current Brown/RISD dual degree students, the exhibition includes everything from furniture and a virtual reality piece to drawings, paintings and prints. - Ramon Solis MLA 19, RISD Media
These Squiggle Glasses Are the Future Millennials Want, Designed by Lukas (2015) and Nikolas (2017) Bentel
A brand called Bentel Brothers, who appear to be the designer-inventors of viral art stunts and wacky products like meat grown from celebrity tissue samples, has debuted a new "purposefully nonfunctional" line of "Squiggle Glasses." - Jael Goldfine, Paper Mag
Ariana Martinez (BRDD 2017) Featured Work, "Night Rider," on BBC Sounds
In "Night Rider," featured on BBC Sounds, Ariana Martinez shares an audio piece about their childhood experience of frequently moving and being in transit to a new uncertainty. (BBC Series 17, 8:31-16:40)
The colors of the midterm elections? Purple, green, and gold
The Center for American Politics and Design reads the tea leaves of midterm campaign design–and finds some surprises. The Center for American Politics and Design, a new group of designers and creative directors including Susan Merriam (RISD 2014) of Graj + Gustavsen, Kevin Wiesner (BRDD 2015) and Lukas Bentel (BRDD 2015) of Hello Velocity, and Will Denton and Seth Kranzler of Channel Studio, explore the visual culture of campaign season through an analysis of campaign branding in the midterm elections.
