A core team of full- and part-time faculty extends the energy and ideas students bring to the studio to encourage generative thinking and making.
Jan Baker
Encouraging an inter-disciplinary approach, Jan Baker inspires her students in the field of book arts with hands-on experimentation.
Lucinda Hitchcock
teaches graduate and undergraduate students in areas of typography, environmental graphic design, visual narrative and meaning making.
Bethany Johns
Associate Professor Bethany Johns is the Graduate Program Coordinator in Graphic Design, located in RISD’s CIT Building at 169 Weybosset Street in downtown Providence.
Krzysztof Lenk
Designer and educator, specializing in information design and typography, has been professor of graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design since 1982.
Matthew Monk
Matthew Monk is a book designer and painter who explores systems, typography, and narrative through experimental collage and mixed media projects.
Bill Newkirk
Bill Newkirk is Professor of Graphic Design. He served as Dean of Foundation Studies from 1989 to 1996 and is currently Department Head of Graphic Design.
Akefeh Nurosi
Aki Nurosi is a full Professor of Graphic Design here at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her teaching concentrates on the subject of color and its application to design.
Hammett Nurosi
Hammett has degrees from the London School of Film and Technique, Ravensbourne College of Art and Design and Yale University.
Thomas Ockerse
Thomas (Tom) Ockerse educates (a word from the Latin root educare, meaning “to draw out”) — as teacher, designer, artist, poet, theorist, writer, publisher…
Nancy Skolos
Nancy Skolos is a Professor of Graphic Design and practices graphic design as a principal in Skolos-Wedell an Interdisciplinary Design and Photography Studio near Boston.
Hans van Dijk
Professor van Dijk’s expertise is in design methodology and strategy, design theory (semiotics), and typography. His research interest concerns Universal Web Design.
Franz Werner
Franz Werner is a professor at RISD and teaches undergraduate and graduate students in areas of form + communication, photo/video graphics and typography.