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School of Design
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November 6, 2019
Rihanna and Bella Hadid love his sunglasses – now Chinese designer Min Shi wants to make Haze Collections a fully fledged lifestyle brand
The South China Morning Post features Min Shi '11 (industrial design), co-founder of eyewear brand Haze Collection.
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November 6, 2019
Hundreds attend RIT's National Portfolio Day
In support of the college admission process, prospective students from around the country received portfolio reviews from RIT faculty and reps from other leading art and design colleges.
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November 6, 2019
Community outreach project provides students with real-world experience
Twenty-five students from various majors collaborated with Veterans Outreach Center (VOC) to develop recruitment strategies for RIT’s annual EUREKA! design workshop.
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October 31, 2019
RIT students place second in national packaging design competition
Team Pacman, a group of undergraduate students from Rochester Institute of Technology, placed second among 54 entries from competing universities in the recent Paperboard Packaging Alliance’s national Student Design Challenge.
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September 26, 2019
Industrial designer's automated cleaning stove wins exclusive award
Shih-Hsuan Huang ’19 MFA was among 39 winners out of 4,000 entries in the student iF Design Talent Awards, one of the largest international design competitions for students and recent graduates.
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September 24, 2019
Alumna's internationally recognized design enhances workplace
The "Office Stretcher" by Xinyue Guo '18 MFA (Industrial Design) was a silver winner in the 2019 European Product Design Awards.
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September 16, 2019
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September 10, 2019
Posthumous Wendell Castle exhibition showcases his legendary career
Woodworking Network talks to Josh Owen, professor and chair, industrial design program, about the late Wendell Castle, father of the art furniture movement and former RIT artist-in-residence.
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August 29, 2019
RIT Metaproject 10 marks celebratory collaboration with Vignelli Center for Design Studies
RIT’s Metaproject is coming full circle. Since 2010, Metaproject has paired RIT student designers with a client partner in what has become a seminal project for the university’s nationally ranked industrial design program. This year’s project is honoring both the 10th anniversary of Metaproject and RIT’s Vignelli Center for Design Studies.
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August 27, 2019
Regional art teachers take faculty-led design master class
Middle and high school teachers acquired new technological tools to advance the digital components of their curriculums during a weeklong workshop taught by School of Design faculty.
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August 26, 2019
Recent Graphic Design alumnus achieves 'dream job' as art director
Since graduating in 2018, Jonathan Conrad has done design work all over the world, including for French fashion designer Christian Louboutin and Vogue Italia.
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August 19, 2019
RIT partners with RCSD for portfolio preparation workshop
College of Art and Design faculty and staff led a workshop educating Rochester City School District art teachers on portfolio requirements and the art of photographing portfolio pieces.