Eleven members of RISD’s Class of 2008 — Philippe Previl (Painting; at left), James Ewart (Sculpture), Sam Gray (Graphic Design), Naushon Hale, Henrik Söderström, Da Sul Kim (all Furniture Design), Leo Livshetz (Industrial Design), Brian Briggs (Architecture), Winn Bauer (Ceramics), Colin Lynch (Glass) and Andy Cahill (FAV) — are featured as models in the August issue of Esquire, in “Intelligent Design,” the magazine’s preview of fall fashions for men. In May these not-quite-yet-alums took time from their busy end-of-semester schedules to be photographed (by Mischa Richter/ESP) in their studios and classrooms, with their artwork and around the RISD campus. In addition to wearing very expensive clothes very well, they offered their thoughts about the future of their particular disciplines and of art and design in general. Said furniture maker Hale: “Watch for an explosion in biomimicry, in which designers take patterns from nature — the beauty and simplicity of those systems that have been developing for millions of years — and apply them to new design concepts.”