Andrew Blauvelt, Walker Art Museum, Design & Culture Work
John Seeley Brown, Annenberg Center, Entrepreneurship/Science
Paul Dourish, UC Irvine, Computer Science
BJ Fogg, Stanford University, Human-Computer Interaction
Ric Grefé,  AIGA Executive Director , Graphic Design
Christopher Ireland, Cheskin , Design & Market Research
Somi Kim, BIG, Olgilvy & Mather, Brand Innovation
Davis Masten, Cheskin, Design & Market Research
Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Music/Open Source Culture
Bill Moggridge, IDEO, Industrial Design
Nathan Shedroff, Experience Design
Bruce Sterling , SF/Design Writing/Futurism
Eric Zimmerman, gameLab, Game Design

	Hewlett Packard Labs
	Cheskin
	Sun Microsystems Laboratories

Art Center's Media Design Program (MDP) fosters innovation at the intersection of design, culture, and technology.

Media Design, as we define it, reworks communication and interaction. Media Designers operate strategically, defining opportunities and deploying the most appropriate media types for the message or activity - whether motion-triggered projections or bumper stickers, their work lives in contexts as different as skateboard parks, emergency rooms, and literary journals. Media Designers create transmedia communication systems informed and inspired by design research into communities, cultural spaces, and theoretical perspectives. The Media Design Program (MDP) is shaped by an internationally renowned faculty and visiting experts spanning diverse and complementary disciplines. We are designers and technologists, critics and culture workers, researchers and makers.

First-year students enroll in the Super Studio, a team-oriented group project using entrepreneurial and research-centered design and development practices. There are required and elective courses in the history and theory of media, narrative and experimental video, print and electronic typography, image making, interactive objects and spaces, database design, interactive scripting, motion graphics, and print. Second-year students refine their critical thinking, visual communication, and interaction design, culminating in a fully articulated masters project. This tangible outcome must demonstrate an understanding of transmedia design, utilize the methodologies modeled in Super Studio, and contribute to the creation of new knowledge through design.

The MDP believes that the most powerful design has deep meaning when intelligently situated, and balances creative exuberance with practical innovation. We require that students understand where their work fits within the design disciplines and media trends, global marketplaces and the biosphere, politics and popular culture. This grounding allows MDP students to develop an informed personal vision, the foundation for a leading design practice.