Get to know your summer tour guides!!!
June 30th, 2009 11:39am by Antonio PetersJake Cooper
Class Year: 2012
Major: Graphic Design
Hometown: Trumbull, CT
Summer plans: Apart from working as a tour guide for RISD this summer, I’m also a RISD Pre College Hall Monitor. I guess it’s a RISD tradition to be up late in Providence - our job is to stay on watch until 5 AM.
What do you do in your free time: I like to design t-shirts for Threadless, they’ve got this great program where if your design gets produced you’re given a $3000 scholarship to your school. Apart from that I love to write (I’m “concentrating” in English) and play guitar. I’ve been playing since I was twelve and began recording since my high school days.
Favorite project at RISD: In one of my classes we had to make a painting while simultaneously taking a shower. It was so hard to work around the constant pounding of the water on the paper, but the end designs came out great. Little hint though: don’t use WATERPROOF ink (sorry custodial staff)
What you like best about RISD: I love RISD’s ability to constantly reinvent what art means to me. RISD really opened my eyes to new approaches and thought processes and helped me apply them in my work. I’ve always felt that RISD taught its student to really consider art for what it is, and to teach us the true value of what it is that we do. RISD really taught me that art is more than just a form of expression, and that art is an entirely what you make it.
Future plans: I’d love to be a published author, and design t-shirts in the future. As well as take my graphic design background and introduce it into a fine arts setting…………..And then there’s always the big dream of being layout editor/photographer/graphic artist for MAXIM and GQ Magazine….If you have any questions about visiting or Admissions, feel free to contact me.
Antonio Peters
apeters@risd.edu
AIM: risd1877