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Beginning with next week’s inaugural lecture on Sept. 16, the Vignelli Center’s Design Conversations Lecture Series presented by Design Milk will feature a wide variety of diverse designers whose compelling work has made important impacts on the design world.

For Metaproject 11, senior industrial design students will spend the semester designing products for Staach, which focuses on functional sustainable design. Founded by Seth Eshelman '06 (industrial design/graphic design), the company designs and domestically manufactures sustainable products including furniture, interiors, and built structures.

Jennifer Whitlock shared artifacts from and information about the Vignelli Center's archives as part of the Design Educators Typography Intensive, hosted by the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography.

Design Milk features Josh Owen, Distinguished Professor and director of the Vignelli Center for Design Studies.

Josh Owen, an internationally renowned designer, author and faculty-researcher who has led RIT’s industrial design program to national prominence since coming to the university a decade ago, has been named the new director of the Vignelli Center for Design Studies and the Massimo and Lella Vignelli Distinguished Professor of Design.

R. Roger Remington, in celebration of his 57 years at RIT, was presented the Massimo and Lella Vignelli Distinguished Professor Medal.

Students in the Cross Media Workflow course collaborated with the Vignelli Center for Design Studies to produce an innovative and sustainable cross-media project. 

Designer Michael Burke donated 26 promotional posters from the 1972 Olympics. 

While he’ll soon step away from the day-to-day at the university to which he has dedicated nearly six decades, R. Roger Remington wants people to know, “I’m not going anywhere.” The Vignelli Distinguished Professor of Design and longest-serving faculty member at RIT will retire in May after 57 years at the university.

Renowned filmmaker Gary Hustwit spent a day in 2013 photographing Massimo and Lella Vignelli. Now, a selection of images from the project are on view through April 15 in the Vignelli Center.

Vignelli Distinguished Professor of Design R. Roger Remington will deliver the 2020 commencement address at RIT's partnering school in Germany.

Jennifer Whitlock is a panelist at the March 11 Archives by Design Symposium in New York City.