Stories
After completing their degree programs, graduate students join a remarkable network of alumni making their mark in a diverse range of fields. In the stories below you will discover how RISD graduates continue to pursue the inquiry they begin here through dynamic practices with influential reach.
Read about RISD alumni in the world
On risd.edu you will find stories about alums from around the world and at various stages of their creative careers, including select press coverage from major media outlets.
RISD graduates go on to work at:
- Autodesk
- Adobe
- Alexander Wang
- Apple
- Calvin Klein
- Cartoon Network
- CBT Architects
- Cheim & Read
- Chronicle Books
- Coach
- Continuum
- Converse
- Cooper Hewitt
- Creative Mornings
- Department of State
- Design for America
- Discovery Education
- Dreamworks
- Eckhaus Latta
- Foster+Partners
- Frog Design
- Gensler
- Guggenheim Museum
- Harmonix
- Hasbro
- IBM Design
- IDEO
- Johnson & Johnson
- Kate Spade
- Kohler
- LAIKA
- Landor Associates
- Library of Congress
- littleBits
- Maharam
- Maya Lin Studio
- Microsoft
- Mighty Oak
- NASA
- National Park Service
- New York Times
- Nike
- Oscar de la Renta
- Owings & Merrill
- Panasonic Avionic
- Payette
- Pentagram
- Philips Healthcare
- Pixar
- Reebok
- Scientific American
- Skidmore College
- Smithsonian
- Sony Music
- Stanford University
- SYPartners
- Target
- Todd Oldham Studio
- Vice Media
- Whitney Museum
- Wieden+Kennedy
- Williams-Sonoma
- Ximedica
- Yale University
- YouTube
- ZGF Architects
- Zynga