On was an interdisciplinary graduate periodical established by RISD graduate students in 2006. It featured essays and student work that related to a general issue theme. On was intended as a quarterly publication, but it is unclear if further issues beyond the first were ever published.
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Critical Encounters: Kicking the Machine | a discussion between Todd Oldham and Wendy Goodman
Todd Oldham and Wendy Goodman
Hacking traditional manufacturing processes and manipulating materials in unexpected ways defined Todd Oldham’s fashion design methodology—characterized by reinterpreting and reimagining embroidery, wool, crystals, dyes, sequins, and even historic textile manufacturing methods. Oldham and Wendy Goodman, design editor at New York magazine, reflect on this intensive design process in the context of the 1990s, and discuss how Oldham’s innovations to garment-making standards reverberate today.
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Critical Encounters: Kicking the Machine | a discussion between Todd Oldham and Wendy Goodman
Todd Oldham, Wendy Goodman, and RISD Museum
Hacking traditional manufacturing processes and manipulating materials in unexpected ways defined Todd Oldham’s fashion design methodology—characterized by reinterpreting and reimagining embroidery, wool, crystals, dyes, sequins, and even historic textile manufacturing methods. Oldham and Wendy Goodman, design editor at New York magazine, reflect on this intensive design process in the context of the 1990s, and discuss how Oldham’s innovations to garment-making standards reverberate today.
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Non Books
Desmond Pang, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
Graduate student, year of graduation 2016. Major: Graphic Design. Class: Graduate Studio II. Faculty: Bethany Johns,Lucinda Hitchcock.
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Non Books
Desmond Pang, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
Graduate student, year of graduation 2016. Major: Graphic Design. Class: Graduate Studio II. Faculty: Bethany Johns,Lucinda Hitchcock.
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Non Books
Desmond Pang, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
Graduate student, year of graduation 2016. Major: Graphic Design. Class: Graduate Studio II. Faculty: Bethany Johns,Lucinda Hitchcock.
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Non Books
Desmond Pang, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
Graduate student, year of graduation 2016. Major: Graphic Design. Class: Graduate Studio II. Faculty: Bethany Johns,Lucinda Hitchcock.
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Non Books
Desmond Pang, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
Graduate student, year of graduation 2016. Major: Graphic Design. Class: Graduate Studio II. Faculty: Bethany Johns,Lucinda Hitchcock.
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Make every day count: longing, vision, & painting
Sarah R. Pater
Images are non-verbal holders of narrative and meaning in Western culture. Historically, painting served this function—a job that we now generally give to digital photography and cinema. One task for contemporary painting, then, might simply be as a self-reflective metaphor for the experience of vision that is mostly lost in photographic technologies: seeing as looking plus touching. Paintings are simultaneously objects and images—corporeal material constructions and visceral illusionary fields. Given the current state of rapid image production, consumption, and instrumentalization, painting’s insistence on singularity and a more ‘composed gaze’—one that asks the viewer to re-read—stands out as significant and potentially liberating.
Boredom is ubiquitous, inconspicuous, and quiet—yet it is the most basic and relentless human state. Like other emotions, it serves a specific, positive biological function: alongside curiosity, it propels us to do something. The discomfort of boredom is meant to provoke us to engage with the world. In this way, boredom is an essential condition of our humanity.Boredom, however, can also be instrumentalized. Might the restoration of embodiment to looking and the sensation of time be a productive and empathetic antidote to perpetual distraction?
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Bottom of the Lake = Fond du Lac
Christian Patterson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
68, 175 pages : illustrations (some color). Bottom of the Lake is a 256-page facsimile of the artist's family's telephone book for his hometown of Fond du Lac, printed in 1973, soon after his birth. The book includes found markings and reproductions of inserted materials, along with Patterson's own drawings, photographs and marginalia. Bottom of the Lake is a book within a book that carefully combines the original, found, fact-based phone book with the artist's highly subjective re-imagination of his hometown; it playfully juxtaposes different documentary forms and ways of seeing to create a deeply personal, darkly humorous other book. In addition, the experience of the book is extended beyond its pages by an interactive feature -- a telephone number attached to the book that connects users with over 100 experiences mixing field audio recordings, found archival audio and performances that re-imagine and re-create the artist's hometown. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.
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What is Temporal Art? A Persistent Question Revisited
John Powell
This article examines the fourteen conditions constituting Levinson and Alperson’s taxonomy of conditions for temporal arts. It claims that some of the conditions and several of the lists of arts exemplifying them need revision. It recommends adding a new condition concerned with the effects of the passage of time on gardens, environmental sculpture, and outdoor installations. The article concludes that gardens may be a model for understanding and appreciating other arts sharing the same bi-(multi-) modality.
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Gina Raimondo | RISD Inauguration
Gina Raimondo
Governor Gina Raimondo presents greetings from the state of Rhode Island. The Inauguration of Rosanne Somerson, RISD’s 17th President. October 9, 2015 | Providence, Rhode Island
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Presentation of Awards + Scholarships
Rhode Island School of Design
Presentation of the following awards and scholarships: Helen Byram Scholarship, Josephine & Bernard Chaus Scholarship, Rebecca Mellman Henry Memorial Scholarship, Joseph Piselli Memorial Scholarship, Esper A. Shwaery '23 Memorial Scholarship, Mary Bowen Polk Scholarship, Louise A. Shuster Memorial Scholarship, Textron Fellowship and Raul L. Lovett Scholarship.
