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.
Eva Anderson
Graphic designer Eva Anderson heads Glasswing Design. She teaches undergraduate students and is known for her leadership in environmentally conscious design.
Ernesto Aparacio
Aparicio has been a graphic designer in the publishing and corporate identity industries for more than twenty years.
Rafael Attias
Rafael Attias, a graphic designer and multimedia artist, teaches graduate and undergraduate students motion graphics and interactive design experiences.
John Caserta
John Caserta is an adjunct faculty member and thesis adviser. He is the founder of The Design Office, a work and project space for freelance designers in downtown Providence.
Rob Giampietro
Rob Giampietro is a designer, writer, and teacher. From 2003 to 2008, he was co-founder and principal of the award-winning design studio Giampietro+Smith.
Cyrus Highsmith
Cyrus Highsmith is senior designer at the digital type foundry, Font Bureau. He has been teaching typography and type design at RISD since 2000.
Amy Kalisher
An artist, writer, and freelance web and print designer, Amy Kalisher teaches Form + Communication as it applies to interactivity and the web.
Brandon Miller
Brandon Miller teaches undergraduate and graduate students, focusing on the role of graphic design in new media and interactive design.
Jacek Mrowczyk
Jacek Mrowczyk, graphic designer, writer and teacher is the co-founder and editor of a Polish design quarterly 2+3D.
Douglass Scott
Douglass Scott is Design Director at WGBH and is a teacher of typography, graphic design, and design history.
Andrew Sloat
Andrew Sloat, a graphic designer and videomaker, leads the critical thinking seminar in the graduate program. His studio is based in Brooklyn, NY.
Clifford Stoltze
Clifford Stoltze is founder/creative director of Stoltze Design in Boston, and helps senior design students put into practice what they teach.
Thomas Wedell
Thomas Wedell is a Senior Critic of Graphic Design and Academic Coordinator of Sponsored Research at RISD. He is a Principal in Skolos/Wedell Studio.
Anne West
Anne West is a writer, theorist, and independent curator. She holds research interests in phenomenology, poetics, and interpretive human studies.