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Student Stories
Student Stories Be passionate about what you do. Be thorough and thoughtful doing it. Be a leader. Make something. Make a difference. These are core ArtCenter values that we ask our students to embrace. Meet some of our remarkable students to discover how they embody these qualities.
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Storyboard: Gale Morris
Storyboard: Gale Morris Designing with hands that wont do what you want them to I grew up during of WWII. As kids, we built models of Jeeps, tanks and B-25s. Then I started making models of cars, which led to an organization known as the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild. My first attempt at age 12 br...
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C.C. Ybarra
Storyboard: C.C. Ybarra A passion for youth Ill be the first to tell you that I dont have an arts background. However, Ive always considered myself a lifelong student. My early experiences in the middle-class public school district I was raised in were both good and bad. I truly was exposed to th...
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Storyboard: Richard Holbrook
Storyboard: Richard Holbrook How I went from being practically unemployable to being my business I would be the first to tell you that my path to ArtCenter wasnt exactly well-considered. I grew up in a blue-collar family in Orange County. True to my SoCal roots, surfing, motorcycles and cars were...
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Dennis Juett
Storyboard: Dennis Juett Power to the pencil I was always around graphic design, even as a child. My dad was in the business. One of my favorite things to do as a kid was take apart watches and put them back together. At fifteen, I was doing the same thing with cars. By the time I reached high sc...
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Llia Yu
Storyboard: Llia Yu Designing imaginary worlds As a concept artist, my job involves designing imaginary worlds. If youre playing a game and you find yourself blown away by the level of detail thats been paid to the environment and the characters, remember: that stuff doesnt happen by accident. In...
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Errol Gerson
Storyboard: Errol Gerson From South Africa with Love of Learning Picture this: Im sitting in a grad school classroom in 1971. My professor poses a question, Who would like to NOT complete the thesis for this class? My hand shot into the air like a rocket. My professor then requested that I pay hi...
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Alvin Oei
Program:Environmental Design behance.net/alvinoei Environmental Design student Alvin Oei is both a busy student, and a student leader. Early on in his ArtCenter career, he founded ArtReach, a student led mentorship program that brings free art and design education to local non profit organizations....
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Storyboard: Bob Dirig
Storyboard: Bob Dirig It's the greatest job in the world Think of all the stuff you throw away each day. Almost all of it has no inherent value, right? Try telling that to an archivist. For instance, several years ago, the Library at ArtCenter College of Design received a substantial donation fr...
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Storyboard: Phil Hettema
Storyboard: Phil Hettema How to Graduate from Disneyland to Art School I'm a native Southern Californian, born in Pasadena, who was born right around the time that Walt Disney introduced his pet project, something called a "theme park", to the world (... yes, it was a long time ago!). I was a shy ...
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Storyboard: Pearlyn Lii
Storyboard: Pearlyn Lii What do people do in difficult times? They invent their way out of it. My parents grew up in a very rural, underdeveloped part of South China. In fact, they even met in the same village. They were young and in love, though there was always the question of where the next mea...
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Mari Nakano
Storyboard: Mari Nakano Two streams I was raised in a fairly traditional Asian-American family. As far as a career, I believed I had two options: become a doctor or a lawyer. A creative career was out of the question. I mean, where was the stability in that? Part of being a true creative means br...
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Mike & Hailey Warsaw
Storyboard: Mike Hailey Warsaw Drive and focus across generations For this special Storyboard, we speak to designer, alum and trustee Mike Warsaw (BS 1990) and his daughter Hailey, a current student in her third term at ArtCenter. Mike: Going through high school, I loved to draw and make things....
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Dave Marek
Storyboard: Dave Marek The four-year old that caught the car I have a little thing I call the ten-second rule. I didnt invent this concept, but I try to adhere to it most of the time. The ten-second rule dictates that a customer generally knows within ten seconds whether or not they like somethin...
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Earth From Space: Derek Posselt
The Earth From Space: Derek Posselt CuratorJay Belloli interviewsDerek Posselt,Atmospheric Physics and Weather Group, Earth Sciences Section, NASA, JPL, Caltech. Jay Belloli: How did you become interested in atmospheric science?Derek Posselt: Ive always been interested in science from a very young...
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Josh Willis
The Earth From Space: Josh Willis CuratorJay Belloli interviews Josh Willis, Oceanographer, NASA, JPL, Caltech. Jay Belloli: Josh, how did you become interested in studying oceanography?Josh Willis: Well I failed out of physics. I was planning to get a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Califor...
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Storyboard: Gail Howland
Storyboard: Gail Howland It takes a lot of work thats not creative to be a creative When I told my colleagues that I was considering getting my second degree at ArtCenter College of Design, some of them couldnt quite wrap their head around the concept. They were familiar with ArtCenter and were aw...
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Storyboard: Katie Sprague
Katie Sprague Finding true north Throughout the course of my life, Ive found myself continually returning to one simple question: Why have I devoted my life to this crazy thing called Brand Strategy? Why did I decide to go back for a second round of college in my 30s? Why, indeed. Even as a k...
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Storyboard: Jacques Perrault
Storyboard: Jacques Perrault Rebuke to Tradition I was born in rural Oregon and I grew up in a town just outside of Bend called Tumalo. As a kid, my old man was a contractor. He was a working-class guy who spent his whole life building houses. Construction and practical know-how was something tha...
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Ophelia Chong
Storyboard: Ophelia Chong Chance encounters of the fluid kind I believe that everyone is capable of having at least six careers in their lifetime. How does one do that? Remain fluid and open to what the universe throws at you. I was born in Canada and became an American citizen 20 years ago. As a...
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Eunice San Miguel
Storyboard: Eunice San Miguel Trusting myself the key to everything My mother likes to say that Ive been drawing since I was two years old. The way she tells it, she would put paper in front of me, give me markers and crayons, and then watch as I sketched an entire world. There was nothing analyt...
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Chris Hacker
Storyboard: Chris Hacker Design Across Generations It took me a long time to realize that it was my destiny to become a teacher. As an adult designer, I realized one day there had been some basic things missing in my own education. I felt compelled to go back to the drawing board and help others ...
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Hannah Bon
Storyboard: Hannah Bon The purest form of self-expression I came to ArtCenter with an unwavering love for film and a talent for production design. Production design was a way to collaborate and form friendships with other students, but what I really wanted to do was direct. The film department at ...
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Matt Ravenelle
Storyboard: Matt Ravenelle Serving humanity through design I grew up in a family of physical therapists. My brother and I, being creatives, were the odd ones out. And yet, there was always a shared understanding that whatever we did as a family was intended to help people. In certain areas of the...
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Joseph Watson
Storyboard: Joseph Watson Seeking Inspiration in Strange Places "The ArtCenter Way" One of my priorities as an artist is being open to outside influences. Sometimes Ill be influenced by random things like the color blue. Other times, I find myself influenced by objects: vehicles, airplanes, or mus...
