Graduate Film alum Mego Lin is a cinematographer who has shot music videos for Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, The Knocks, Mike Posner, Tori Kelly, Tinie Tempah and Scott Stapp among others.
ArtCenters shops are equipped to support sanding and buffing, rubber-mold making, plastic casting, sandblasting, spray-painting, plaster fabrication and more
Storyboard: Jane Kobayashi and Daria Kobayashi Ritch Bonding through beauty and creativity With 30 years of experience under her belt, creative director Jane Kobayashi has become a force in graphic design, as a partner of 5D Studio with awards from shows such as Communication Arts, Mead, and AIGA,...
Yoshio Ikezaki: ELEMENTS has been made possible by a major gift from Dr. Frank Ellsworth; a grant from the Pasadena Art Alliance; a grant from The Japan Foundation; and through the generosity of the Williamson Gallery Patrons.
Degree: BS 07 Environmental Design Chris Adamick (BS 07 Environmental Design) is the manager of Global Marketing, Store Design at Gap’s New York headquarters. He is an award-winning designer whose multidisciplinary, large- and small-scale work includes commercial, civic, educational and reside...
Currently on view: Package Nocturnes examines the relationship of creative production within a capitalist economy based on easy disposability. Curated by artist Beth Fiedorek,
Rob ClaytonIllustration, 1988 Christian ClaytonIllustration, 1991 claytonbrothers.com The Clayton brothers are Rob and Christian Clayton, who have been collaborating since 1996 on paintings and installations which entwine their styles and palettes. Rob, born in 1963, and Christian, born in 1967, b...
Degree: BS 15 Interaction Design Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Inae Song was drawn to the multidisciplinary Interaction Design program at ArtCenter as a field of possibility, a place to envision the future of design even beyond existing technologies and, she says, to apply without constrain...
Storyboard: Mario Ascencio No bad days! I can pinpoint the exact moment when I knew I wanted to be a librarian. Picture it! Thirty years ago this year, I was 17 years old, a high school student from Huntington Park working a job at a public library in Maywood. At the time, the position was just t...
Degree:BS 12 Environmental Design designbyini.com Ini Archibong was studying at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California when his life pivoted. His passion for business was being overtaken by his passion for art, which he had studied at Polytechnic School, a preparat...
Art Center president (and theater director) offers expert advice to creatives upping their presentation skills Its a chilly Wednesday morning in late November, and its showtime for a dozen students in Petrula Vrontikis Creative Presentations and Critiques class. Gathered in semi-darkness in the nea...
Degree:BFA 87Illustration markryden.com Mark Ryden was named the godfather of Pop Surrealism by Interview in 2010. He first garnered attention in the 1990s when he ushered in this new genre of painting with a host of followers in his wake. He has created a singular style that blurs the traditional ...
Storyboard: Nolen Niu A jones for furniture I like to tell people that I furniture when I first visited Europe. Of course, theres a considerable divergence between American and European design. American furniture places a great deal of emphasis on comfort and practicality, whereas Europeans are ...
Storyboard: Matt Haligman The unpredictability of the creative life Heres a scenario for you: Imagine youre the smartest person in the room. Then, one day, imagine that this changes... dramatically. Youre no longer the smartest person in the room. Not even close. In fact, the proverbial is now f...
At age 50 I made a life-changing decision: as soon as my youngest child was old enough to drive, I would go back to school.
Degree: BFA 11 Film Even the savviest of semioticians might have a hard time decoding the sources of inspiration informing John X. Carey’s approach to Dove’s “Real Beauty Sketches,” the most watched Internet commercial of all time. Carey drew his ideas from a diverse and unex...
Transportation Design alum Patrick Hanenberger used his skills to build an impressive career as a production designer for animated films such as "Guardians."
Advertising alum Anthony Cardenas had a quick entrance into the world of advertising, including Super Bowl television spots for Mazda.
Degree: MFA 09 Media Design Practices Graduate Media Design alumnus Jonathan Jarvis GMD ’09 received ArtCenter’s prestigious Young Alumni Innovator Award for his innovative professional and creative work. While at ArtCenter, Jarvis made a splash with The Crisis of Credit Visualized, a v...
Photography and Imaging alum Karen Beard founded Shestock, a stock photography agency that offers compelling and visceral female-centric images created exclusively by professional women photographers.
Multimedia artist and Graduate Art alum Matt Sheridan's large-scale paintings-in-motion are often displayed in public locations around the globe.
Storyboard: Marina Chang Orrin Shively Marriage of East Meets West in California Orrin Shively: I grew up in Europe and Marina grew up in Asia. Our union truly was the East meeting the West out in California. Marina Chang: Before I ended up at ArtCenter, I was at UCLA for four years, where I maj...
The Shops at South Campus South Campus’ creative complex is supported by a new shop featuring cutting-edge facilities for building and prototyping. The Shop at South Campus is the newest addition to ArtCenter’s collection of maker spaces. Before it opened, Illustration and Fine Art stu...
Degree: BFA 84 Graphic DesignMFA 97 Media Design Practices With ArtCenter degrees in two different disciplines, Rebeca Méndez' (BFA 84 Graphic Design, MFA 97 Media Design) life and work stand as a testament to defying the conventions of those fields and expanding the definition of what i...