DESIGNxRI

Rhode Island may be a small state, but the size of the design community is great and palpable. In fact, Rhode Island has the 3rd largest percentage of creative sector jobs in the country, after New York and California.
The design industries in particular continue to grow: between 2007 and 2012, 500 new design businesses came online in the state, despite the recession. Further, Providence has the 3rd most industrial designers per capita, after Detroit and Cleveland. And a bevy of award-winning design schools and assets that continue to feed this concentration of creativity.