Bob & Fred: Getting to HA!

 

Bob’s Your Uncle and Fred present their integrated approach to industrial + graphic design, marketing, content, packaging… and FUN!

Monday, November 12, 2007, 7-8 PM drinks/8-9:30 PM discourse, AS220, 115 Empire Street, Providence, RI

In 2005, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) graduates Matt Grigsby and Joe Gebbia teamed up to introduce the first free sustainable materials library. The results of their labor, Ecolect.net, launched last week at the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design/Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) Connecting '07 World Design Congress.

Roberto Verganti, a Professor from Management of Innovation at Politecnico di Milano and currently a visiting Professor at Harvard Business School, will present results from his research on Design Driven Innovation. Join us for this  interactive learning session where we discuss how Design Thinking influences the growth of companies.

November 6, 2007  ID Gallery at 161 South Main Street, Providence, RI.

Lecture at 5:10.

Harvard Business School Case Study Session: Bang & Olufsen at 6:20.

To sign up for the Case Study Sesson, you must RSVP to IDSA@risd.edu in order to receive the class material(limited seating). 

Students in RISD’s Apparel Design and Textiles departments are pairing up for a garment design project supported by the Italian Trade Commission (ITC) and nearly 20 Italian fabric and yarn mills. In the fall semester studio course, teams of students from the two departments are using fine Italian materials to create small collections around the guiding theme of global travel.

Since 1999, the Innovation Studio series at Rhode Island School of Design [RISD] has been examining difficult large-scale environmental and infrastructure problems, working to shift the attention of the design disciplines to present-day concerns, and working with a larger public to solve those challenges.

 

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Target Corporation have partnered to engage in a project focused on investigating new design opportunities based on experience, services and products. This project is sponsored by the Division of Graduate Studies at RISD and explores new models and structures for design research.

 

Inclusion By Design, a tenant at the Center for Design and Business, is featured in a Providence Business News article by Natalie Myers about their work with Southside Community Land Trust.

In a recent issue of The Journal of Ambulatory Care the challenges of collaboration and patient centered healthcare is noted and examined. A recent collaborative partnership between MGH and RISD explored such ambulatory care systems.

Susan A. Baird reports in the Providence Business News.

The Center for Design and Business is pleased to welcome The Story Hat. Founders Rob Travalino and Kevin Mowrer, former Hasbro employees launched the company in late 2001 and have since created several story based media properties. The most notable Story Hat property to date, the Dragon Booster animation series was recently ranked the number one boy's action animation series and is distributed to over 46 countries.  

Work from the partnership of RISD’s Furniture Design Department and CRYSTALLIZED™ – Swarovski Elements — a division of Swarovski, the world’s leading manufacturer of cut crystal will be showcased at one of the leading industry events, the 2007 International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York.

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Sarah Milroy reports on the growing influence of design from Bruce Mau's Massive Change to the design based MBA at Roger Martin's Rotman School of Management.

ABC Carpet & Home held a party with the Sundance Channel to celebrate the launch of Robert Redford’s THE GREEN, an environmental weekly television destination premiering April 17th. 

eMotive, a partnership project between faculty and students from RISD and Brown School of Engineering is developing alternative, environmentally responsible transportation for developing nation.