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My daughter, referred to as Grasshopper and Sensei in my blog, won the BlueGreen Innovation Challenge with her team of Industrial Designers from Rhode Island School of Design and Mechanical Engineer from M.I.T. They were written up by RISD! Students Propose Real-World Design Solutions Industrial Design students offer innovative ideas for supporting sustainability in Rhode…
The Brown | RISD Dual Degree Program draws on the complementary strengths of two world-class institutions and offers students the opportunity to develop and integrate diverse spheres of academic and artistic interests by pursuing degrees at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design over five years. My daughter attends RISD and her summer roommate,…
Please welcome my guest blogger, Sophie, who is sharing her art and design college search journey today! —– My name is Sophie. I have a bachelor’s in Allround Styling and Design which I obtained at Academie Artemis, located in the heart of the beautiful city of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. From there, I went on to…
My daughter is a sophomore at Rhode Island School of Design and she pulled together a team of Industrial Design majors to compete in the BlueGreen Innovation challenge in Rhode Island. Along the way, she added an M.I.T. senior engineering student to her team. They successfully competed and made the finalist round. They are one…
It’s that time of year when college students need to land a summer internship and in a poor economic environment that’s no easy task. So what to do? I am using my college student daughter as an example (without her permission). How To Land a Summer Internship Step 1: Create Your LinkedIn Profile You probably…
In all things, there is a silver lining. My mother’s funeral was an opportunity to see my old art teacher and his wife, Ed and Linda Buttwinick. Many decades ago, after getting kicked out of a company that I started (Mizanne GolfWear), my business school mentor at UCLA suggested that I take an art class…
We moved my daughter home from RISD in March because of COVID-19. The school kept changing the move out date so it was an abrupt departure that left my daughter and her friends reeling. They had a week to move out, then a week of regularly planned Spring Break, and then distance learning began. I…