Storyboard: Albert Soto Shipyard to Shipshape: I Was Never Alone Before I ever heard about ArtCenter, I was studying mechanical engineering at community college. I spent three years there, but it felt like longer. I began taking ArtCenter at Night clases in the spring of 2012. It was an invigorat...
The Earth From Space: JT Reager CuratorJay Belloli interviewsJT Reager, Research Scientist, Surface Hydrology Group, Earth Sciences Section, NASA, JPL, Caltech. Jay Belloli: How you become interested in studying hydrology and the earth's water cycle?JT Reager: I was trained as an engineer, and I d...
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 ...
Storyboard: Julian Ryder Coming full circle Ive heard that in life people can have one of three things: they can have a job, they can have a career or they can have a calling. Im very fortunate to have had all three. The journey has been long. The calling came late. It all started in high school ...
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 ...
Storyboard: Sarah Ellis Out of the Foxhole and Into the Fire My mom was an ArtCenter illustration major who graduated in 1978. She took me to see the student galleries as early as when I was a year and a half old. By the time I was six, ArtCenter became a place I understood to be important in her ...
Storyboard: Gary Meyer Frightening Blankness, Failure and the Larger Tapestry of History Nothing is more daunting to a designer than a blank canvas. Why does this image fill creatives with such dread? Because it represents the beginning. Whats more is that the blank canvas represents questions: q...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
Storyboard: Ini Archibong A language without language As a kid growing up in Pasadena, I would frequently ride my bike to ArtCenter. I thought of it as the place where people designed cool cars. Many years later, I decided to leave the USC Marshall School of Business and start my first term at Art...
Merle Mullin Philanthropist and Director, Mullin Automotive Museum Merle Mullin enjoys showing, driving and racing Vintage cars along with her husband Peter. She is a co-founder/co-organizer of a biennial vintage car rally for women only. Its All About the Girls! is an exciting, much publicized ev...
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...
Meet ArtCenter Trustee and Alum Steve Hitter (BS 69 Product Design)
Graphic Design alum Daniel C. Young is a visual interaction designer with Google Creative Lab where he designs interfaces for what Google might need five years from now.
Meet photography alum Amanda Greene (BFA 97 Photography)
Alumnus Wei Cheng Chou (BS 15 Transportation Design) developed the idea for the Emora bracelet, which vibrates and lights up to alert the user to incoming calls, texts and also a change in mood for three other individuals, from a friend to a romantic partner
Alumnus Wei Cheng Chou (BS 15 Transportation Design) developed the idea for the Emora bracelet, which vibrates and lights up to alert the user to incoming calls, texts and also a change in mood for three other individuals, from a friend to a romantic partner
Learn about the graduation requirements at ArtCenter, including curriculum completion and transfer credit guidelines.
Meet honorary alum Wayne Hunt
Martin Lotti (BS 97 Product Design), Vice President for Jordan Brand at Nike
Meet Environmental Design (Spatial Experience Design) alum Stella Hernandez-Salazar.
Follow Justine Parish's inspiring journey from a childhood full of creativity to a thriving career in fashion and advertising. Learn how ArtCenter shaped her with discipline and mentorship, leading to unexpected opportunities in the industry.
Read ArtCenter Alum Tomo Ogino's (BFA 12 Graphic Design) narrative of courage and creativity.