Meet alum and ArtCenter Student Leadership Award Recipient Yanqi Li (BS 21 Product Design).
Degree: MFA 12 Media Design Practices Professionally speaking, alumnus Matthew Manos was precocious. At age 19 in 2008 he founded his own design studio, verynice, a service free to nonprofits seeking to use design as a tool for problem solving. By 2012, with a full-time staff of two, verynice was pr...
The Sinclaire Pavilion is an inviting, open-air space for students to get away from the normal hustle and bustle found inside the neighboring Ellwood building. Designed in 2001 by interdisciplinary architecture and design studio Hodgetts + Fung, the 3,000-square-foot pavilion includes informal gath...
Alum James Paick (BFA 04) created Scribble Studios, an entertainment design firm specializing in character, creature and concept design for video games, TV and film.
Founded in 1930 and located in Pasadena, California, ArtCenter College of Design is a global leader in art and design education. With a current enrollment of approximately 2,310 students (61% female and 39% male, representing more than 50 countries), the College has a student/faculty ratio of 9 to1....
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,...
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: 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...
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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Degree: BFA 12 Illustration Ariel Lee earned her BFA in Illustration at ArtCenter in 2012. That same year, she beat out a field of established professionals as a winner in Design Observer’s 50 Books/50 Covers for her children’s book, Mark & the Jellybean Monster, created as a st...
Advertising alum Anthony Cardenas had a quick entrance into the world of advertising, including Super Bowl television spots for Mazda.
Environmental Design alum Kimberly Marte has worked on quiet a few impressive cars since graduating and is the current Senior Lead Designer for Color and Materials at Tesla Motors.
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.
Transportation Design alum Patrick Hanenberger used his skills to build an impressive career as a production designer for animated films such as "Guardians."
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
Advertising alum Lou Danziger has worked as a designer, art director and consultant since 1949, bringing his talents to a diverse list of institutions, including Microsoft, the NEA, ARCO and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Industrial Design alum Neeti Kailas was named by Rolex as a Young Laureate for her work developing a hearing screening device for newborns in India.
Co-founder of Brighton Collectibles, Terri Kohl is a member of ArtCenter College of Design's Board of Trustees.