John Hendrix English Gothic Collection

Are you a Goth? Then you’re surely going to love our collection of images of English Gothic buildings, which we have recently added to RDID. The collection was photographed by RISD professor John Hendrix during the summer of 2009, and the images were optimized and cataloged by Visual Resources Center staff and our brilliant student [...]

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Raid the Icebox I with Andy Warhol on RDID

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China and North America in RDID

Our recent additions to RDID include the following: A collection of 62 images depicting the portrayal of Native Americans during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 39 images of art works in the collections of Chinese Emperor Huizong, from the Sung dynasty. To see these slideshows, remember to login to RDID with your RISD [...]

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Remote Collections in RDID

The RISD Digital Image Database runs on a piece of open source software called MDID, developed at James Madison University, which is used by many other institutions throughout the country to catalog and deliver digital images. Some of these institutions have made part of their digital collections freely available to other MDID users, by incorporating [...]

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French Posters, Chinese art, and much more now in RDID

The RISD Digital Image Database, RDID, continues to grow apace, thanks to requests from our very committed faculty. These are some of the image groups we have uploaded in the past month: Posters from German-occupied France during WWII 20th Century Chinese Art New Yorker Magazine Cartoons Marginalia in Medieval Manuscripts

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World Jewelry in RDID

This week we have added a number of digital  images of world jewelry to RDID. They include African work such as Dogon rings, Senufo ankle bracelets and Tuareg necklaces; Indonesian nose rings; Polynesian whale teeth necklaces and many other types of ornament. Click here to see a slideshow of these images. To login to RDID, [...]

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Art:21 images in RDID

We are very happy to announce that we have recently uploaded into RDID 143 digital images of artwork featured in the television series Art:21, Seasons 1 to 4. To find these images, login to RDID, click on Browse and select the Subject field in the drop-down box. Under subject, click on Art:21 (Television program), and [...]

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RDID Guide Online

The Visual Resources Center has created two step-by-step guides on how to use RDID, the RISD Digital Image Database: a faculty guide and a student guide. Both have in-depth instructions on how to browse and search our digital collections, how to download images for RISD projects, and how to view the RDID slideshows. Be sure [...]

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World Textiles in RDID

A collection of 54 images of contemporary textiles from around the world has been uploaded into the RDID database. They include images of work from Australia, Africa, Japan, Korea, Britain and the U.S. To see it, login to RDID, and click on this link to the World Textiles Slideshow. Enjoy!

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RISD Posters Added to RDID

We are very happy to announce that a collection of 360 posters created at RISD for various events has been added to the RISD Digital Image Database. The original collection is held in the Archives department at the RISD Library, and is described by our archivists as follows: “The posters document events and activities of [...]

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