Mann (BRDD 2022, Engineering, Apparel Design) and several other Brown students and recent alumni are recognized by the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP) as "outstanding graduate students" who have "potential to make significant contributions in STEM."

Goodspeed (BRDD 2016, Graphic Design, Cognitive Science) is recognized as one of "the graphic designers who have earned the most admiration from the creative community in 2026."

As a Softgood Engineer at NASA, Nicita (BRDD 2020, Textiles, Cognitive Neuroscience) helped create the acoustic blankets that line the interior of Artemis II's Orion crew cabin.

The Brown Daily Herald praises the 18th annual Brown|RISD Dual Degree exhibition for highlighting "the talent of BRDD students - and the tight-knit community they have formed."

Available through Penguin Random House's Kokila imprint, the debut book by Kang (BRDD 2021, Illustration, Literary Arts) is "a tender and vulnerable exploration of love and loss that follows two boys as they take their first trip back to the lake without their father."

Through a longstanding partnership with the Hyundai Motor Group, RISD offers a Biodesign Studio course wherein students "[experiment] with biopolymers ... to create green bioplastics that might someday replace less Earth-friendly materials used in the automotive industry."

In conversation with RISD News, Anderson (BRDD 2024, Sculpture, Modern Culture and Media) speaks with RISD News about finding spaces of belonging during his time on College Hill.

Nicita (BRDD 2020, Textiles, Cognitive Neuroscience) is the first author of a new paper published in Nature Scientific Reports that explains how traditional handweaving techniques may offer a framework for the production of cutting-edge robotic textiles.

Awarded by the Society of Arts + Crafts, the John D. Mineck Furniture Fellowship grants an unrestricted $25,000 prize to an early-career furniture artist.

Working with Brown Professor Nancy Jacobs and a team of fellow students, Gorman (BRDD 2028, Textiles, Independent Concentration in Sustainable Infrastructure) traveled to Uganda to contribute to a new museum highlighting the endangered Grey Parrot.

RISD News interviews Bentel (BRDD 2017, Industrial Design, Modern Culture and Media) about "life after college and lessons learned at RISD that still resonate."

The Dual Degree alumni used RISD's Jacquard loom to collaboratively create a double self-portrait.

Pozo (BRDD 2027, Printmaking, Urban Studies) spent the summer researching the process and history of quilting, as well as making paper with fabric scraps and recycled paper.

"A true conversation piece," Bentel's Loopy Chair takes its place alongside iconic designs including Knoll's Wassily Chair and Herman Miller's Eames Lounge Chair.

Co-founded by Chen (BRDD 2023, Industrial Design, Behavioral Decision Sciences) and Zoe Lee (RISD 2024 ID), BEAM is a research studio for climate transition.

Hong (BRDD 2026, Interior Architecture, Urban Studies) earned funding from both RISD's Maharam Fellowship and Brown's Royce Fellowship to research and support affordable housing in Provincetown, MA this summer.

RISD News highlights the Brown|RISD Dual Degree Capstone Presentations delivered on May 28 and 29, 2025, in Brown's Lindemann Performing Arts Center. Covering a wide range of academic and artistic ground, the presentations explored how the graduates' unique backgrounds help them take risks, build relationships, and contribute to the world.

Each year, seniors majoring in Apparel Design present a collection in the department's high-profile runway event. Dhar (BRDD 2025, Apparel Design, History) is among this year's highlighted designers.

Dipp's (BRDD 2022, Painting, English) artwork Concession No. 3 (Trumbull, Capitol) is featured in The Golden Thread II, a "remarkable survey of what’s happening in [fiber art] at this very moment."

Co-founded by Lukas Bentel (BRDD 2015, Computer Music & Multimedia, Furniture Design) and Kevin Wiesner (BRDD 2015, Engineering, Industrial Design), MSCHF is the subject of a new monograph from Phaidon Press.

For the second year in a row, RISD's team of printmakers has won Boston's Iron Printmakers competition in Boston. Teams created an edition of ten prints incorporating four "mystery ingredients" and four printmaking methods in a single day. Ire Asojo (BRDD 2026, Printmaking, International and Public Affairs) was the team's lead for screenprinting, while Daniella Pozo (BRDD 2027, Printmaking, Urban Studies) led the intaglio process.

As part of a RISD Wintersession course called Craft of Making Murals, Amelia Cumming (BRDD 2025, Illustration, Environmental Sciences and Studies), Justine Kang (BRDD 2027, Illustration, Comparative Literature) and their classmates designed and painted four walls at the Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School in East Providence.

The Brown Daily Herald praises —ing, BRDD's 17th annual exhibition, for "[highlighting] the time-intensive process of producing masterful artworks" and "[exemplifying] the hard work required to create a student-led art exhibit."Anay Agarwal (BRDD 2028, Furniture Design, Undeclared) and Alyssa Gorman (BRDD 2028, Textiles, Undeclared) are quoted in the coverage.

Kang (BRDD 2021, Illustration, Literary Arts) has been awarded the 2024 Ezra Jack Keats Fellowship, which allows authors and illustrators of children's literature to spend a summer in residence at MacDowell.