Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Student Profile: Jenna Escobar

Jenna Escobar is the latest SPM student to receive a co-op outside of the United States. During the summer, she will be on co-op with Schön!, a fashion magazine based out of London, England.
Originally from California, Jenna was an active member of her school’s yearbook and was always intrigued by design. Jenna came to RIT after [...]

Nick Gawreluk on “Widening the Horizon”

Nick Gawreluk has recently been published in Professional Printer Magazine, Malaysia’s premier printing and graphics communication magazine. A contributing writer to piworld.com, Nick often covers hot topics within the print industry on his blog, http://www.piworld.com/channel/nick-s-printspective. For Professional Printer, Nick discussed his co-op with Heidelberg in Germany and what he learned about the industry while he [...]

Introduction to Type Design

For the past two years, the School of Print Media has been very lucky to have Kris Holmes teaching Introduction to Type Design during winter quarter. She studied calligraphy and type design under Herman Zapf at RIT, then went on to open the type foundry Bigelow & Holmes with SPM’s own Charles Bigelow. Together they [...]

Student Profile – Arianna Valentini

Arianna Valentini, formerly an undergraduate in RIT’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, is now a 2nd-year graduate student in the School of Print Media. Her thesis topic was about the image perception of inkjet printed textiles. For her research, Arianna interviewed and administered an experiment to local boutique owners and their customers, to seek [...]