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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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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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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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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New Additions to RDID

Giacometti, Henry Moore, George Segal, Duane Hanson, Red Grooms, Native American Indians of the Pacific Northwest, Christo, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy, Nancy Holt, Michael Heizer… These are some of the artists whose work we have recently added to the RISD Digital Image Database. Login to RDID with your RISD username and password, [...]

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RDID Off-Campus

We are very pleased to announce that the RISD Digital Image Database, RDID, is now available to RISD faculty and students outside the RISD network. To access RDID, login with your RISD username and password from wherever you are, be it in the classroom or at home. You will be able to search for images, [...]

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RDID Additions: Contemporary American Art

We have been cataloging and uploading into RDID, the RISD Digital Image Database, a  fantastic collection of images of artwork by contemporary American artists. The works all featured in an exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Art in London in 2006, and they are a really varied group of paintings, installations, sculptures and photographs. [...]

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Hello world!

Welcome to the RISD Visual Resources blog. We are the team working in the Visual Resources Center at the Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of Design. We will be keeping you informed about everything new happening at the VR Center, including  the clippings folders added to the Picture Collection,  DVD titles added to the library [...]

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