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...
Advertising alum Sean Ohlenkamp discusses life as Creative Director at Leo Burnett Toronto and working across digital, film, photography, print, illustration, design and product design platforms.
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,...
Illustrator John Parra (BFA 97 Illustration) on growing an artist.
ArtCenter Exhibitions announces the launch of Recent Pasts, a two-part project to be presented online and at ArtCenter DTLA. Recent Pasts considers the changes and perpetual re-calibration in arts education and institutions in the 21st century; and in the social, political, economic, and cultural c...
Fine Art alum Jorge Pardo is a MacArthur Genius award winning artist whose work resides at the intersection of art, architecture, design, painting and sculpture.
2020 MFA Virtual Exhibition curated by Adam Stamp. Featuring ArtCenter Graduate Art alumni.
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Storyboard: Mike Shinoda Carving our own lane A few years ago, I discovered a book which has since become a favorite. Its called Category of One by Joe Calloway. To paraphrase, the theme is: dont be the best one in your lane. Be the only one in your lane. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with vid...
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 ...
Understand ArtCenter's grading policies, including GPA calculations, term and cumulative GPA impact on academic progress, scholarships, and honors. Learn how grades are assigned and calculated for academic success.
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...
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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.