Hasta La Ideas

If one of your hobbies is to crash graduations, then you were likely aware that the Rhode Island School of Design had theirs this past Saturday. As we’ve heard, it’s always a good time, marked with good guest speakers and interesting tours of final projects. This year, Jonathan Ive received an honorary diploma, as did Flickr‘s Caterina Fake, artist Betty Woodman, and former school president Roger Mandle, with Ken Robinson delivering the commencement. So not a bad line-up in the slightest (sure beats this writer’s speakers, who we don’t even remember in the slightest, but we bet they encourages us to, at some point, “look around us” while also recommending we “think about the future”). Also, the RISD students have a great knack for cleverly altering their graduation gowns, which we’ve long been a fan of (and was the lead focus of the Providence Journal‘s “RISD Graduates 655 in Colorful Ceremony” yet they decided to run a photo of parents taking pictures — instead, we recommend looking on Flickr, where there are limited shots now, but sure to be more once all the graduates get over their celebratory hangovers around Tuesday or Wednesday). Congrats to all.