The new, young President of the Rhode Island School of Design is trying to create a generation of artreprenuers, designers who are also entrepreneurs.

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The one in 20 applicants who manages to get in--like those at Parsons in New York or the Rhode Island School of Design--has a leg up.

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When Shepard Fairey was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design in the late 1980s, a friend asked him how to make a stencil.

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John Maeda of the Rhode Island School of Design (formerly of the MIT Media Lab) and Jon Gebbia of AirBnB sat down together to talk about creativity within business.

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The original trio who formed the band in 1974 Byrne, drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth attended the Rhode Island School of Design, giving Talking Heads an art-school mystique.

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He later finished his degree at the Rhode Island School of Design, where honed his design skills, built out sport utility vehicles from spare parts and fleshed out the idea of what would become the basis of the C-1.

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He and his team are taking the next few weeks to gather interest from students and backers alike, before fully opening the platform in September to students and recent alumni at its first five schools, Arizona State University, Dartmouth College, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Michigan and University of Washington.

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The genesis of the modern-day share economy is best traced to San Francisco in 2008, where Chesky and Joe Gebbia, recent Rhode Island School of Design graduates who had fled west, thought they could make some pocket cash by housing attendees at an industrial design conference on air beds in their apartment.

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