

The collaboration began at the start of the spring semester with the industrial design program’s annual week-long design challenge, T-Minus. From seeing projects evolve from napkin sketches to beautiful renders during T-Minus, to getting to work more hands on with Juan Noguera’s studio over the past few months, this experience has been truly invaluable.”

Day in and day out we saw nothing but smiles, hard work, and creative problem solving from RIT’s industrial design students. “Students came in with energy, creativity, and tons of passion and actively worked with us to come up with ideas for viable products we could see ourselves designing in the future. What we ended up seeing far surpassed our expectations,” said Annaka Ketterer, community specialist at Autodesk. Going into this project, we were excited to see what students could come up with but honestly had no idea how everything would turn out in the end. “Working with RIT has been an absolutely amazing experience. During the T-Minus design challenge in January, all students in RIT’s industrial design programs broke into teams to brainstorm ideas for products to present to Autodesk.
