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Five Questions With: Lisa Carnevale

5Q 02/16/2024

Lisa Carnevale | Vice president of innovation initiatives, R.I. Commerce Corp. 1. What are your priorities for Rhode Island’s federally designated Ocean Tech Hub?...

ELLIE BROWN has been named DESIGNxRI's new executive director. / COURTESY DESIGNxRI

DESIGNxRI names Brown new executive director

Art & Culture 07/07/2022

PROVIDENCE – A design educator, artist and nonprofit development professional with experience on both coasts will now take charge of DESIGNxRI. The nonprofit that supports...

LISA CARNEVALE will step aside as co-founder and executive director of DESIGNxRI. / PBN FILE PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

DESIGNxRI’s Carnevale to step aside as executive director

Business Services 03/22/2022

PROVIDENCE – After close to a decade, DESIGNxRI’s co-founder and executive director will be stepping aside. The nonprofit that supports Rhode Island’s design industry announced...

DESIGNxRI provides seed grants to 8 design firms

Art & Culture 03/17/2022

PROVIDENCE – Eight local design businesses have received seed grants through DESIGNxRI’s 2022 Providence Design Catalyst program, the organization announced Thursday. DESIGNxRI said it is...

Providence, DesignxRI open 6th annual design business grant program

Art & Culture 11/09/2021

PROVIDENCE – The city of Providence is once again teaming up with DesignxRI to offer grants and other resources to Providence design-focused small businesses. Major...

GROWING STAFF: Scott J. Pacheco, left, owner and president of Scott James Furniture & Design in Tiverton, with his father, Rob Pacheco, head bed builder. Although the company shut down for two months at the start of the pandemic in March 2020, it has done well since then, Scott Pacheco said, especially “doing a lot more work in the wealthier coastal neighborhoods for people leaving New York,” which has resulted in more full-time employees now than before COVID-19 hit. / PBN PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

New model for collaboration

Art & Culture 10/01/2021

Rhode Island has a long, rich and diverse history of design, which arguably started with Samuel Slater. In 1789, the 21-year-old textile mill apprentice...

DESIGNxRI announces 2021 Design Catalyst cohort

Art & Culture 03/19/2021

PROVIDENCE – DESIGNxRI announced its 2021 cohort for the Providence Design Catalyst program Friday. The 10 local design businesses will receive a combined $140,000 in...

DESIGNxRI and Providence announced the launch of the fifth Providence Design Catalyst program on Thursday.

DESIGNxRI, city launch 5th Providence Design Catalyst program

Art & Culture 01/28/2021

PROVIDENCE – DESIGNxRI and Mayor Jorge O. Elorza announced the launch of the fifth Providence Design Catalyst competitive grant program on Thursday. The program will...