Storyboard: Zach Leazer How a life in the Air Force prepared me for a life making movies The first time I ever directed anything, I was still serving in the United States Air Force. I know thats a weird concept, but just hear me out for a second. I was an airplane mechanic doing my first tour of ...
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...
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: 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...
Storyboard: Nathan Cooke Cheese, idealism and the ripple effect The other night, I experienced a weird epiphany while watching an episode of one of my favorite shows, s Table. In the episode, an earthquake strikes a small village in Northern Italy. The audience is told that a warehouse full of del...
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....
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...
Storyboard: Victor Lee Brown A Father-Son Bond, Forged by Creativity One of the first gifts I ever gave my son Ryan was a book called Diggers. Its a fairly rudimentary book about construction which, given the young mans budding interest in toy trucks, I figured to be an appropriate enough token. ...
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...
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: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...
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...
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 ...
A pioneer in online education, alumnus Bruce Heavin (BFA 93) is an artist, strategist and entrepreneur.
Fernando Olmedo is a concept designer and ArtCenter alum from the Entertainment Design department.
Ross LaManna is the chair of the graduate and undergraduate Film Departments at ArtCenter. He has sold screenplays and written for many studios, including Disney.
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Live concert and entertainment executive Ron Bension is a member of ArtCenter College of Design's Board of Trustees.
Sean Adams is the dean of the Division of Visual Art and Communication and former chair of the undergraduate and graduate Graphic Design programs at ArtCenter,
SKY is an exhibition that invites visitors to ponder both the provincial and universal elements of space above and around the Earth’s surface. This group exhibition will demonstrate how the unfolding realities exposed by new science are affecting change in the understanding of ourselves, our p...
Founded in 1930 and located in Pasadena, California, ArtCenter College of Design is a global leader in art and design education.
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Offered in partnership with ArtCenter alumni, Create Change forums and workshops are designed to inspire and inform, and help define ArtCenter's brand in China.
Business leader, educator and author Linda Hill is a member of ArtCenter College of Design's Board of Trustees.
ArtCenter alum Bruce Geyman (BS 65 Product Design) is the National Museum Curator for U.S. Geological Survey.