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School of Design
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January 15, 2021
New economy majors connect with emerging careers
Analytical thinking, complex problem solving, creativity, resiliency, and flexibility are among the top skills needed for emerging careers by 2025. Anticipating these rapid changes in the workplace—further accelerated by lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic—RIT is seizing on the opportunity to guide students to “new economy majors” that are multidisciplinary, transformative, and future-focused.
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January 14, 2021
Alumni spotlight: Google designer Jason Blythe
Jason Blythe '02, '05 MFA has had a hand in advancing the look and functionality of Google's most popular services.
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January 12, 2021
Burger King Is Rebranding With A Retro Look
Simplemost references a tweet by Mitch Goldstein, associate professor in the School of Design.
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January 5, 2021
BSSP's Sinan Dagli on LeBron, the Warriors, and Reintroducing the ESPN App to the Masses
Muse by Clio talks to Sinan Dagli '09 (new media design), a group creative director/partner at BSSP.
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January 4, 2021
Remote start students exhibit work on RIT's China campus
Nine College of Art and Design first-year students took advantage of RIT's international remote start option, and concluded the semester by exhibiting sculptures created in their 3D Design class.
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December 7, 2020
Students design responsive, resilient office spaces amid pandemic
With health and safety in mind, RIT interior designers created office designs equipped to stay active during COVID-19 and handle other unexpected events.
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December 4, 2020
RIT Cary Collection acquires archive of prominent printing historian; establishes research grant
RIT's Cary Graphic Arts Collection has received a donation of books and printing equipment from the estate of a noted historian of typography and early printing technologies. Stephen Saxe was an expert on American type foundries from the 19th century and a founding member of the American Printing History Association.
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November 30, 2020
RIT designer creates solution to protect chemical respirator users during the pandemic
Dan Gabber, digital fabrication specialist in RIT’s College of Art and Design, has developed a creative solution for users of chemical respirators who also must protect against the spread of COVID-19: valve covers.
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November 30, 2020
Alumnus turns collaborative RIT experiences into 'rewarding' career
Marty Pietras '17 (3D Digital Design) is a 3D materials artist for Sony, where he textures environments for PlayStation game titles.
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November 25, 2020
Making a difference through design
Sales from t-shirts designed by faculty Carol Fillip and Lorrie Frear are benefitting Music is Art, a non-profit organization founded by Goo Goo Dolls bassist Robby Takac.
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November 5, 2020
Students take top placements in annual Paperboard Packaging Design Challenge
The RIT student-designers on Team Frears placed second in the 2020 Paperboard Packaging Student Design Challenge for their packaging designs of a toolkit for educators to be distributed by the national program Trees into Cartons, Cartons into Trees, (TICCIT).
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October 23, 2020
Research team wins Catalyst Award in first year of international challenge
David Borkholder, Linwei Wang, Caroline Easton, and Adam Smith, part of RIT's Personalized Healthcare Technology signature research initiative, recently won a Catalyst Award from the National Academy of Medicine for their project, “Improving Health for the Aging through Daily Vital Signs Monitoring.”