I hope you’ll find this addition to RISD’s communications network engaging and informative and begin to make it a part of your regular RISD reading. Although our.risd is open to “the world,” we intend for this blog to be a place for the entire RISD community — faculty, staff, students, alumni and parents — to find news and information on a variety of topics of particular interest to RISDoids.

For example, there was a great article on risd|works in the January 20 New York Times, but some folks may have missed it. our.risd gives me a chance to bring that piece to your attention.

Interested in ALL of the media coverage RISD has garnered lately? Check out the quarterly summary of placements by External Relations’ Jaime Marland and the lists of blog, print and broadcast coverage of John Maeda’s appointment as RISD’s 16th president.

We want to use our.risd as one more means of making information accessible. If there are topics you’d like to have addressed here, please don’t hesitate to contact our mailbox for suggestions (our-suggests AT risd.edu), me (eoneil AT risd.edu) or Christina Hartley (chartley AT risd.edu), director of Alumni Relations + Special Events.

Welcome!