243 results for “Car classic”
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Michelle Christensen: Making history as Acura’s first female exterior car designer
Transportation Design alum Michelle Christensen became the first woman to design a supercar, overseing the exterior design of Acura's smash-hit 2016 NSX.
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Jack Telnack
Storyboard: Jack Telnack A Ford Man When I was a kid, Dad used to take me to the Ford Rotunda in our hometown of Dearborn, Michigan. Being an autoholic from an early age, I remember when I first saw the 1941 Lincoln Continental on display. I was five at the time. The car was designed by Bob Gregor...
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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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Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery | Exhibitions
Located at ArtCenter's South Campus, the Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery showcases innovative exhibitions that connect art, design, and innovation in a vibrant architectural space.
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Storyboard: Shiro Nakamura
Storyboard: Shiro Nakamura Note Perfect: The Harmony of Car Design Though many know me as a man who designs cars, it is also true that I possess a deep and lifelong love for music. Music and design are more similar than many people may realize. The improvisational creation of jazz is akin to the ...
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Jay Sanders
The executive director of the undergraduate Transportation Design Department since 2013, Jay Sanders originally joined ArtCenter in 1994 and has since supported the College in various capacities.
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Pearlyn Lii: Graphic Design Student Story
Program:GraphicDesign The College launched the Student/Space video series in fall 2013 to capture the essence of what it means to be an ArtCenter student by illuminating the art of making, from conception to completion. The idea was to capture the agony and ecstasy of creativity itself. So each term...
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Alaina Mickes: Product Design Student Story
Program:ProductDesign alainamickes.com In the end, a leader is only as great as her team, and it has been an honor to be a part of the best team in the world. A self-described thinker, maker and former French baker, Summer 2016 Student Leadership Award-winner Alaina Mickes came to ArtCenter with pr...
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The Clayton Brothers: Illustration Alumni Story
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...
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Jesse Ellico: Art Center at Night Industrial Design Faculty Story
Program:ArtCenter at Night IndustrialDesign I get to fly airplanes and blow things up, says Jesse Ellico, an aerospace engineer for Orbital ATK, when asked to describe his job. s a little boys dream. The first thing Ellico tells students enrolled in his seven-week Introduction to Industrial Design ...
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Phil Hettema: Illustration Alumni Story
Degree:BFAIllustration thehettemagroup.com Phil Hettema, the president and creative director of The Hettema Group (THG), creates stories you can touch. Since 2002 THG has been interweaving compelling narratives with technology to create experiences with emotional resonance. Through close collaborati...
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Ini Archibong
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...
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Mark Ryden: Illustration Alumni Story
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 ...
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Harry Cocciolo: Advertising Alumni Story
Degree:BS 90Advertising Got milk? Nearly as ubiquitous as milk itself, this advertising slogan sparked countless parodies and imitations as well as a variety of licensing deals. Its not surprising that an ArtCenter grad was one of the key creators behind the Got Milk? campaigndirector, writer and cr...
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David Doody: ArtCenter at Night Faculty Story
Program:ArtCenter at Night Right across the Arroyo, were making plans for a real close encounter, says Dave Doody, whose Art Center At Night seminar, Basics of Interplanetary Flight, is currently recruiting participants for a class thats literally out of this world. My team has been piloting the gan...
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Joe Tseng
Joe Tseng, ArtCenter trustee, alum and founder of Platinum Capital PM Inc., blends design, real estate, and cultural vision to lead impactful community projects.
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Cruising J-Town: Cars and Culture of the Nikkei Community
On View July 31 through December 14, 2025 ArtCenter College of Design in partnership with The Japanese American National Museum (JANM), presents Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community. From drift racers to fish truck drivers, this exhibition reveals the vital role that cars...
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Inae Song
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...
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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: Frank Nuovo
Storyboard: Frank Nuovo The Beat Goes On Some folks come to the creative path later in life. I knew that this path was the one for me as soon as I was old enough to draw a picture. I was born in Monterey, California: a place where all you needed to do to get inspired was take a walk to the neares...
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Lorne Buchman: Faculty Stories
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...
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William G. Davidson: Product Design Alumni Story
Degree:BS 57 Product Design William “Willie G.” Davidson served as senior vice president and chief styling officer for Harley-Davidson until he retired in 2012 at the age of 78. Grandson of the founder and son of the former president, Davidson found a way to apply a sense of tradition t...
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Al Van Noy: Product Design Alumni Story
Product Design alum Al Van Noy has spent the past twenty-four years as Head of Innovation for Adidas gear, overseeing a large team of designers, technologists and sports scientists responsible for anticipating industry trends and creating products designed to make us stronger, faster, better and, ye...
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Storyboard: Brad Kappel
Storyboard: Brad Kappel Creativity in motion When I was a kid, my dad was a commercial pilot for American Airlines. I was young and hyperactive with too many ideas bouncing around in my head. To keep me busy, my dad made sure that I knew the models of every airplane he ever flew. This was the firs...
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Storyboard: Scott Yu
Storyboard: Scott Yu Leaving the world brighter than you found it As far back as I can remember I always wanted to draw cars. Years later, that very same compulsion would turn into a full-on devotion to sustainable design thinking. I came from a typical immigrant family. My father was a dentist w...
