How to choose the theme of RISD portfolio? What should be done for the hot theme portfolio? Since the outbreak of the epidemic in the United States, RISD Rhode Island School of Design also responded to the policy at the first time, completely stopped offline teaching, and within two weeks, all courses were transferred to online remote teaching. However, due to the type of courses in the art and design discipline of the university, which mainly focuses on studio form and practical material research, it also encountered many challenges in the specific implementation. In order to cope with the change of curriculum form, link teaching activities between teachers and students, and inspire students to think more deeply, RISD convened different discipline departments as a unified unit. Under the leadership of their respective supervisors, students used simple tools and materials around them to record their artistic creation during the closure of the epidemic.

　　 How to choose the theme of RISD portfolio? What should be done for the hot theme portfolio?

　　 Graphic Design

The work Dialogue - Spring 2020, co created by Corrine Ang, a graphic design tutor, and Jada Akoto, is a part of Ang's ongoing series of multimedia works "Telephone Game", which also invited more than 50 RISD students from different majors to participate.

　　RISD Rhode Island School of Design As a world-famous visual design discipline, under the leadership of Ramon Tejada, the assistant professor of the course, the students completed a series of course works. He believes that "in the current situation, graphic designers should reassess the significance of creative practice, and now more than ever before, creativity is needed to launch the process of world development.

Graphic design graduate Will Mianecki uses images and exploration data collected from online shopping platforms during the epidemic, as well as the comparison between artificial intelligence and online economy, to re explore the relationship between people and food and retail.

In the interview, he also mentioned that "since the remote teaching, many students have begun to seriously discuss with him the thinking of art and future development planning during the isolation period, which makes me feel more gratified for the past habit of relying on the guidance of teachers and laboratory tools, and instead of thinking by working hard."

Rachel Kim, a student majoring in graphic design, drew inspiration from a large number of media images and created the video work "Communication" about COVID-19's amazing propagation speed.

"This phenomenon is more common among graduate students. In the works created according to the epidemic situation, it is obvious that students associate the practice in the field of visual design and the current world environment. In this form, it is very meaningful for the development of the industry to see the change of students' style and the reflective and forward-looking theme." 。

　　 FAV Professional Film/Animation/Video

Sheri Wills, the discipline leader, believes that compared with other art disciplines, the tools and forms used in dynamic imaging disciplines can be more easily converted to the remote mode. The only problem is that ordinary laptops are unable to handle the super large files commonly used by FAV students.

Therefore, in the creation of students, the teacher also suggested that students who work at home should try not to use high-end cameras and other special devices, and can combine smart phones with hand drawn and flat images to tell their own stories.

Picture of "Smart Animator Cheap Mobile Bracket"

Animation lecturer Gina Kamentsky also developed a solution in the teaching process: she called it "Smart Animator Cheap Mobile Bracket", which is a convenient tool made of cardboard DIY, and can carry mobile phones to move in parallel or vertically during shooting.

RISD animation majors draw and build scenes by hand

The teacher also made her production process into a PDF tutorial (including images, hand drawings and small videos), which was widely used by RISD students around the world. Gina said, "With the simplest tools, we can still make meaningful works of art, which is also conducive to grasping the really important parts in the creation process."

RISD Animation major study abroad Students' hand drawn scene renderings

How to choose the theme of RISD portfolio? What should be done for the hot theme portfolio? In addition to the above two disciplines, teachers and students of different majors in RISD also extended their different thinking on professional dimensions to solve the problems created by isolation, create works with the theme of "epidemic", carry out regular seminars, and help students carry out more extensive professional research through different forms of courses and activities. If you want to know more students, please look for natural light.

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