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/Type 2-Structure taught by Ty Drake
UpCity

ArtCenter ranked among the best Graphic Design schools

/Ini Archibong Photo by Franck Juery.
Architectural Digest

ArtCenter alum Ini Archibong listed in top 22 Black artists and designers

/Andrew Bernstein is the NBA’s (National Basketball Association) chief photographer and has worked with them for the last 42 years.
PetaPixel

ArtCenter alum Andrew Bernstein interviewed about iconic NBA photos

/Taught by Julien Bocabeille. This is a special class for third term character animation students to produce an animated short film.
Animation Career Review

ArtCenter listed among the top 10 Game Design programs in California

/Tiffany Book is a current student at ArtCenter College of Design
Animation World Network

ArtCenter student Tiffany Book awarded 2023 WIA Scholarship

/AKIKO STEHRENBERGER LIKES TO DRAW
Gallery Nucleus

ArtCenter alum Akiko Stehrenberger has opening reception at Gallery Nucleus

/To graphically visualize the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Yan Yan, student at Pasadena-based ArtCenter College of Design, created a data-driven newspaper reporting on the invasion and Ukraine’s subsequent refugee crisis with a real-time data prototype.
Communication Arts

ArtCenter student Yan Yan's graphic design project visualizes the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

/This research is part of the growing discipline of neuroaesthetics, or the study of how the arts and aesthetic experiences measurably change the body, brain, and behavior—and how this knowledge is translated into specific practices that advance health and well-being. It’s a topic we explore in depth in our new book, Your Brain on Art.
Fast Company

Board member Ivy Ross shows how sound and light are treating Alzheimer's Disease

/Chief designer at FAIIDA design studios, Abdulaziz Alobaid brings his 10 years experience in the American car design industry back to the region at his studio in Riyadh. Courtesy: Naif Alquba/The Work of Naif
Wired

ArtCenter alum Abdulaziz Alobaid works on making transport accessible to all

/The Twitter logo today is a more streamlined version of the Twitter bird (Image credit: Twitter)
Creative Bloq

Illustration alum Martin Grasser refines Twitter bird logo

/Designer Shreya Thakkar working on the Walker On Assist cane and smart walker
The Better India

Grad alum Shreya Thakkar creates canes for the elderly by sending SOS

/black and white portrait of Ricky Weaver
Detroit Metro Times

Faculty Ricky Weaver's photography is a hymn to Black feminist futurity

/Painter and mixed media artist Delbar Shahbaz embraces vibrant colors in symphonic palettes as an emblem of freedom and a gesture of courage—like nature emerging from a winter of revolution into a spring of power and liberty.
LA Weekly

Fine Art faculty Delbar Shahbaz featured in Meet an Artist Monday

/colorful Illustration by Anil Rinat
Fast Company

Advertising alum Mike Cessario's brand Liquid Death included in world's most innovative companies of 2023

/Estella Tse sits with plants in a garden nursery.
Forbes

Illustration alum and creative director Estella Tse is creating connection-worthy stories with VR/AR

/Helene Rother, General Motors
CBT News

Transportation alum Michelle Christensen ranked in top 20 female designers who changed automotive industry

/Installation view of Anthony Lee Pittman: Sons Like Me (photo Matt Stromberg/Hyperallergic)
Hyperallergic

Anthony Lee Pittman, founder of Compton Art & History Museum, was inspired by visiting ArtCenter growing up

/ artists Frank Ingerson (1879–1968) and George Dennison (1873–1966) are two of the most fascinating and admirable people you may have never heard of—until now.
Queer Forty

New book documents the life of artists Frank Ingerson and George Dennison in the early 1900s, which influenced the founding of ArtCenter

/Laura Cooper is perhaps best known for her handmade ceramics, but her elemental ethos expands beyond her work in clay into a sculptural idiom pairing it with stone, branches, roots, flowers, stainless steel, silk, textiles, water, paper, glue, and collected spider webs.
LA Weekly

Fine Art chair Laura Cooper featured in Meet an Artist Monday

/D’Wayne Edwards is the founder of Pensole Lewis College, the first academy in the U.S. dedicated to footwear design, and the first historically Black college in the country focused on design.
Rolling Out

Honorary degree awardee D'Wayne Edwards is paving the way for Black designers

/Robbie Nock at Creative Tech Week
Pasadena Now

Associate VP of Entrepreneurship and Professional Practice Robbie Nock on future of autonomous vehicles

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