One of the key challenges facing any city globally, especially in hard economic times, is brain-drain... or failing to retain talented young people in one's community.
Jennifer Rose Packaging Solutions (JRPS) is a new green start-up specializing in tree-free sustainable paper packaging made from agricultural by-products.
Founded in 2001 by Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) graduates Ayako Takase and Cutter Hutton, and joined by fellow RISD alum Christopher Specce, this Kaiju Studios is a small business with big output for big-name clients, notably Gillette, Herman Miller and Samsonite.
Tucked away in an unlikely location – off a nondescript hallway of a building in downtown Providence – lurks Animal, a boutique motion picture design studio producing high quality digital media content.
AS220, the nonprofit art, design and innovation organization, partnered with the City of Providence and MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms to create the Providence Fab Lab at AS220 Labs.
EpiVax is a bioinformatics and vaccine design company dedicated to the development and implementation of computational immunology tools to benefit the biotechnology industry.
Times are challenging right now, there’s no denying it. But that’s not stopping Providence from forging a new vision for the future — and if you have an idea for a startup, you’re invited along for the ride.
Vol 1 Issue 1 Spring 2009
Podcast
Since 1985, AS220 has been at the core of Providence's art scene. From providing performance space...LISTEN
