Rhode Island

Tia Blassingame is using her craft to investigate racism in America

Using old-fashioned printing methods, Blassingame’s work focuses on historical and contemporary racism. >
Grow edible algae in your home

The Coral is an indoor micro-algae farm designed to welcome algae into our everyday lives. >
Subverting the gendered implications of wearable tech

TELEXST aims to turn the gendered nature of wearable tech on its head. >
The Skin I’m In by Nicole Buchanan

The photographer’s work gives a voice to minority students. >
Permanent Alien focuses on stories from the Asian American diaspora

“What if we made a comic featuring people who looked like us for people who look like us?” >
Falling: Representing depression through art

This artist depicts her longstanding experience of mental disorder in disturbing style. >
Bo-Won Keum

Graphic Designer

Bo-Won Keum is a storyteller and graphic design graduate from The Rhode Island School of Design. >
IDENTITY: The prosthetic replacements for fingerprint authentication

Design student creates rubber fingertips to better protect your privacy. >
A lamp for space-starved city dwellers

RISD graduate Matthew Lim has designed the Tack light – a portable lamp that can be magnetically attached to a wall-mounted plate. >
Tia Blassingame: Combating racism through letter press printing

Designer and book artist Tia Blassingame uses the printed word to give her thoughts on racism in the United States a form of authority. >
Trailer: Tia Blassingame on the texture of racism in the United States

Recent graduate Tia Blassingame explores the relationships between race, history and perception in her work. >
The texture of racism & slavery in the United States – a talk by Tia Blassingame

"I made a headscarf that talks about the accumulation of wealth through slavery, as the black body as gold but also seeming worthless." >
Andy Chen on an inside-out process to social design

For Andy Chen, design should be used to build empathy and to bring about social change. >
Andy Chen

Graphic Designer

Andy Chen is a graphic designer and ethnographer who advocates for marginalised populations. >
Lauren Mackler

Graphic Designer

Lauren Mackler is a French-American graphic designer and artist. >

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