An immersive installation exploring deep-sea ecology, extraction, and human-nature kinship through video, sculpture, and sound by Patty Chang and David Kelley. On View at ArtCenter College of Design from September 18, 2025 to January 24, 2026
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.
Google design executive Ivy Ross is a member of ArtCenter College of Design's Board of Trustees.
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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...
Storyboard: Elizabeth Gray Bayne Chocolate Milk and Other Wonders of Being Human Though I loved movies growing up, I never thought that I would become a director. Instead, I spent most of my childhood reading about science, taking art classes and writing and illustrating my own stories. Like many...
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...
Student Stories Be passionate about what you do. Be thorough and thoughtful doing it. Be a leader. Make something. Make a difference. These are core ArtCenter values that we ask our students to embrace. Meet some of our remarkable students to discover how they embody these qualities.
From the classroom to the cafeteria to our community garden, ArtCenter's sustainability initiatives underscore the importance of careful and continual stewardship of our natural, capital and human resources.
Our alumni are forever connected through a shared transformative educational experience. From every walk of life and every corner of the globe, our alumni inspire, lead and create change.
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Kevin Bethune Founder and Chief Creative Officer of dreams design + life Kevin Bethune is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of dreams design + life, a think tank that delivers design and innovation services using a human-centered approach. Kevin's background spans engineering, business and ...
Southern California is a hotbed of innovation where the future is imagined and field-tested. Our distinguished faculty of more than 400 instructors is at the center of this vibrant creative economy.
Storyboard: Judy, Mindy Ruthie Sunwoo Family hat trick a creative sisterhood Its not unusual for sisters who are close to share experiences and do things together. But, the Sunwoo Sisters wrote a new chapter in the history of ArtCenter. Mindy, Judy and Ruthie Sunwoo all graduated from ArtCenter a...
Abigail Dergarzarian: Creating a culture of collaboration Acknowledging the social isolation that comes from the intense ArtCenter student experience, Fall 2020 Student Leadership Award Winner Abigail Dergarzarian was searching for community when she started an AIGA (American Institute of Graphic D...
Storyboard: Pablo Meyer Learning How to Be a Three-Dimensional Thinker I grew up in Mexico in the 1960s. As a child, life was busy. Family activities took up a great deal of my time, and I attended a Montessori Schoolin which children were encouraged to develop their own creative skills at their o...
Storyboard: Vincent Zhang Michelle Kim Sharing a Brain and Embracing the Unknown Vincent Zhang and Michelle Kim, current ArtCenter students, are Co-Organizers of the upcoming TEDxACCD event November 4 Beauty of the Fall an exploration of failure. No pressure. Storyboard brought them together to...
Storyboard: Norman Kerechuk The Wisdom of a Thirteen-Year-Old The first time someone called me a designer, I couldnt have been older than thirteen. Growing up, every kid in my neighborhood had a bike. My friends and I would buy and sell parts, make our own prices and trade with other kids in our ...
Storyboard: Matt Ravenelle Serving humanity through design I grew up in a family of physical therapists. My brother and I, being creatives, were the odd ones out. And yet, there was always a shared understanding that whatever we did as a family was intended to help people. In certain areas of the...
Storyboard: David Cawley From the woodshop to the 3D lab: My journey as a maker My job as a creative is to keep up with technology as it changes. I always wanted to be ahead of the wave. The problems we face remain the same. Its our means of solving problems that have changed. Ive been a maker fo...
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...
Storyboard: Victoria Berry, Patricia Bravo Luc Limbourg ArtCenter Europe Forever In this edition of Storyboard, we meet the co-chairs of ArtCenter AlumNetwork Europe Victoria Berry, Patricia Bravo and Luc Limbourg. This trifecta of connectors talks about bonds forged and an idea that sparked a c...
Storyboard: Marina Chang Orrin Shively Marriage of East Meets West in California Orrin Shively: I grew up in Europe and Marina grew up in Asia. Our union truly was the East meeting the West out in California. Marina Chang: Before I ended up at ArtCenter, I was at UCLA for four years, where I maj...
Storyboard: Jacques Perrault Rebuke to Tradition I was born in rural Oregon and I grew up in a town just outside of Bend called Tumalo. As a kid, my old man was a contractor. He was a working-class guy who spent his whole life building houses. Construction and practical know-how was something tha...
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...