Eli Silver (BRDD 2021, Furniture Design, Engineering and Physics) is among a team of faculty and students from Brown University’s School of Engineering that designed a do-it-yourself ventilator, that can be quickly assembled using 3D-printed and readily available parts.

Sherenté Harris (BRDD 2023, Painting, Ethnic Studies) is recognized by TeenVogue as one of five young trans activists fighting for their communities.

Isabel Sicat (BRDD 2016, Illustration, Political Science) and partner Aiala Rickard (RISD 2017 AP) of the Philippines-based apparel label Toqa have temporarily set aside fashion to produce sustainably sourced, washable face masks.

Laura Jaramillo (BRDD 2020, Furniture Design, Gender and Sexuality Studies) exhibits her chair, First Blood, in Masc., an intimate seven-person exhibition at Newport's Coastal Contemporary Gallery. The exhibition "frames masculinity as not necessarily a man problem, rather, 'a relational problem, one that can’t be viewed in a vacuum outside of the influence of culture or interpersonal relationships.' The holistic group show complicates the traditional 'men vs. women / good vs. bad' narrative about patriarchy, instead visualizing its impact on all aspects of life, including romantic and familial relationships, understandings of ethnicity and race, queer identity, economics, power and dis/empowerment."

Seabass Immonen (BRDD 2023, Apparel Design, International Relations) this year's Director of the Design Board for Fashion @ Brown, had garments in the annual runway show, as part of Brown's Fashion Week. “'So much of the handiwork in these garments looks purely artistic, but at the same time so much math, critical thinking and communication go into the process.”

As part of the first annual Black Hair Show, Brown Black Hairitage club leaders, including Kira Dubose (BRDD 2022, Film/Animation/Video, Psychology), invited students, faculty, stylists, and community members to celebrate the societal impact of Black hair.

Brown student Manuel Camarillo walks the catwalk in garments designeed by Seabass Immonen (BRDD 2023, Apparel and International Relations) during the Fashion @ Brown Tenth Annual Runway Show. [ Image from The Providence Journal / Kris Craig]

Rémy Poisson (BRDD 2022, Illustration and Literary Arts) and Jake Ruggiero (BRDD 2022, Illustration and Biology) are featured in the Brown Daily Herald for their exhibition, "This is Your Life," displaying works from their RISD Wintersession Collaborative Study Project.

Nadia Wolff (BRDD 2021, Textiles & Literary Arts) performed in a work at the opening of the exhibition Roots and Roads at Franklin Street Works on Saturday, Feb. 8th.

Students in the Dual Degree Program were invited to submit work that responded to the theme “Many Years Later.” Their pieces spoke to concepts of time, memory, routine and change using a diverse array of media, from sculpture to stop-motion animation.. ~Brown Daily Herald

The work of the 2018 Stanford-Brown-RISD iGEM team, which includes BRDD 2021 students, Emilia Mann (Apparel Design, Engineering) and Javier Syquia (Graphic Design, Chemistry) is featured in CNET, Popular Mechanics, and SPACE.

Danning Niu (BRDD 2020, Interior Architecture, East Asian Studies), 2019 RISD Museum Andrew W. Mellon Summer Intern in Asian Art, created a 3D virtual reality exploration of the Kanzeon Raijin Gate in Edo, Japan, as seen in an 1820s print.

Yunni Cho (BRDD 2021, Interior Architecture, Urban Studies, Cognitive Neuroscience) presented at TEDxBrownU in October 2019. In her talk, I Am Not a Robot, Yunni explores how creativity makes human beings irreplaceable​ by artificial intelligence.

Developed at Brown University, a new augmented reality system places virtual objects within real-world backgrounds on cell phone screens and lets people interact with those object by hand as if they were really there. Jiaju Ma (BRDD 2021, Industrial Design, Computer Science) is a co-author on the research paper.

MSCHF, Brooklyn-based product design company, with creative directors, Lukas Bentel (BRDD 2015, Furniture Design, Computer Music and Multimedia) and Kevin Wiesner (BRDD 2015, Industrial Design, Engineering) were recognized for their 'Jesus Shoes" project in New York Post

Javier Syquia (BRDD 2021, Graphic Design and Chemistry) is featured in VO1SS and explains how he connects the dots as a Dual Degree student.

In her thesis, “Cultivating Aesthetic Play: A Case for Culture in Dementia Memory Care,” Alicia Valencia (BRDD 2015) asserts that “the ability to perform aesthetic judgment still remains even as language skills and memory weaken.”

Nikolas Bentel (BRDD 2017, Industrial Design and Modern Culture and Media) is featured in dezeen.

New York designer Nikolas Bentel has created a handmade porcelain pipe for smoking marijuana with an unconventional wiggle form. The Wiggle Pipe follows a series of absurd projects by Bentel, who is a resident of the New Museum's design incubator.

Felipe Di Poi Tamargo (BRDD 2017, FAV and Comparative Literature) is named among New Faces: Creators.

The 2019 Just for Laughs festival is currently underway in Montreal, and today the festival gave Vulture the very first look at its annual list of up-and-coming comedians to highlight for its “New Faces” showcase.

One of the selected textiles was designed by Sarah Nicita (BRDD 2020, Textiles and Cognitive Science) and fellow BRDD student, Hillary Brame (BRDD 2020, Furniture Design and Development Studies), contributed to the reupholstering of the chairs.

Sebastián Niculescu (BRDD 2020, Sculpture, Ethnic Studies) performs, Tired Selena, part of the exhibition, “Y’all Better Quiet Down,” organized by Vaccaro and Nelson Santos this summer at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, New York. Niculescu's work is reviewed in Artforum.

The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) presented its Creative Economy Awards in June. The Steel Yard was recognized for their leadership and work within the city of Providence and Rhode Island. Jenny Sparks (BRDD 2015, Sculpture and Geological Sciences), Client Relations Manager at the Steel Yard, was among the recognized group awarded.

A Unique Program Pays You to Visit Museums as a Guest Critic

A conversation with Maia Chao and Josephine Devanbu, the founders of Look at Art. Get Paid., a program that pays people who wouldn’t otherwise visit art museums to visit one as guest critics of the art and the institution.

Ying Bonny Cai (BRDD 2018, Apparel, East Asian Studies, and Economics), Sara Kahn, (BRDD 2016, Furniture Design and Computer Science), Allison Morgan (BRDD 2016, Apparel Design, History of Art and Architecture, and French), and Anrui Aaren Zhu (BRDD 2019, Apparel Design and International Relations) are among this year's RISD and Brown Fulbright Scholar award recipients