The Graduate Student Lounge Signage
RISD Graduate Experience
with Chris Cote & Elaine Lopez
2018

The Graduate Student Lounge was once an office space, but it’s been converted to be a place where grad students can go to get away from studio, or to have a gathering, or to meet with friends, or to, basically, use however they need. But many grad students did not know what they were allowed to do in the lounge. With designers Elaine Lopez and Chris Cote, we derived a solution that embraced the variability of the space. The signage system is a long run-on sentence that snakes across the win-dows listing many possibilities for the use of the lounge. In order emphasize that the Graduate Student Lounge wasn’t just an academic space, some of the possibilities listed were serious and some were humorous.