For the last several years, RIT’s Industrial Design department has charged its senior year students with a challenging opportunity to collaborate with designers and design houses for its Metaproject. The program creates industry partnerships for students with different established companies, which in the past have included Umbra, Poppin, and Kikkerland. And it allows students the […]
Josh Owen
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RIT Industrial Design students to collaborate with Poppin
RIT’s School of Design announced Wednesday that office furniture and supply firm Poppin is the industry partner that participating students will collaborate with for this year’s Metaproject. The class of 22 senior ID students gathered in University Gallery for the reveal, buzzing nervously and making guesses at what type of product they would be asked […]
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Design matters: Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Even if you’re unfamiliar with the name “Vignelli,” you’ve certainly encountered multiple things designed by Massimo and Lella Vignelli. The New York-based, Italian power couple had their stylish fingers in every piece of the design pie for six decades, creating everything from brand identity, books, maps, tableware, clothing, furniture, to architectural design for companies as […]
