340 results for “USDTIn today”
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Today is Your Birthday
A multi-space installation work by Los Angeles artist Eli Smith, Today Is Your Birthday is an inquiry into the labor of both forgetting and remembering across generations. This series of scripted spaces, closed to the public and presented virtually, is a post-immigration story for a post-Trump real...
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Mia Ferrera Wiesenthal
Meet Mia Ferrera Wiesenthal, an Associate Professor and Industrial Design Consultant. Learn how she facilitates connections between students and industry professionals and her perspective on the importance of design in today's world.
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Alumni Stories
Edgar Arceneaux: Fine Art Alumni Story
A Los Angeles native, Edgar Arceneaux was named one of the 30 most exciting artists in North America today by Artnet News at the end of 2015.
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Storyboard: Shiro Nakamura
Storyboard: Shiro Nakamura Note Perfect: The Harmony of Car Design Though many know me as a man who designs cars, it is also true that I possess a deep and lifelong love for music. Music and design are more similar than many people may realize. The improvisational creation of jazz is akin to the ...
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John Wu Artist's Statement
Artist's Statement Dads Hands Are Smaller John Ziqiang Wu Dads Hands Are Smaller is a story of my family, also a story of the gift of art. I had no intention of it becoming an art project. But, through the process of making the works, I became inspired to see art in new ways. I had a family emer...
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Alumni Stories
Matthew Manos: Built a successful business by giving work away for free
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...
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Storyboard: Yuri Shimizu Abelson
Storyboard: Yuri Shimizu Abelson Making Everyday Objects Not So Everyday I am lucky enough to share a personal and creative partnership with my fellow ArtCenter grad, Mike Abelson (BS 97 Product Design). Together we are the minds behind Postalco, a brand influenced by the elevated practice of Jap...
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Storyboard: Julian Ryder
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 ...
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Storyboard: Peter Miller
Storyboard: Peter Miller My strange relationship with structure I grew up enamored with science. I got my first surfboard when I was nine years old, and let it be known that marine biology became my favorite class in middle school. I was fascinated by the empirical nature of the sciences: the nuts...
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Storyboard: Sean Adams
Storyboard: Sean Adams Design as Public Service Unlike many of my contemporaries, being creative was never part of my plan. Both sets of my grandparents came from a long line of politicians. They used to say, A life without service is not a life. It was expected by both of my parents that I would...
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Storyboard: Gordon Bruce
Storyboard: Gordon Bruce How to Design a World What is design? Its a trade, its a profession, its a state of mind. More than anything, design is a key to unlocking continuity and cohesion within the bigger picture of life. Growing up with an industrial designer for a father, I was exposed to the ...
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Storyboard: Gloria Kondrup
Storyboard: Gloria Kondrup My Journey to Type Heaven I was supposed to be a lawyer. During my last semester of high school, I acted as special executive intern for the Mayor of New York. I was a student in the citys accelerated public education programs, and after high school I was supposed to go...
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Storyboard: Phil Hettema
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 ...
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Storyboard: Nolen Niu
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 ...
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Storyboard: Norman Kerechuk
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 ...
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Nino Yuniardi
Storyboard: Nino Yuniardi Its all about contrast When I was in 9th grade, I discovered the artwork of Salvador Dal and Tino Sidin. I was compelled by the mystery of Dal's shapes and the hallucinatory mood he summoned. I was awestruck by his work and dumbfounded as to how he brought these otherworl...
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Storyboard: Tracy Wong
Storyboard: Tracy Wong Scared out of my wits The catalog scared me. The student gallery scared me. The lingering nightmare of not getting in and spending my entire career working a high-speed copier at Kinkos scared me. Being surrounded by the most gifted art and design students in the world that...
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Dennis Juett
Storyboard: Dennis Juett Power to the pencil I was always around graphic design, even as a child. My dad was in the business. One of my favorite things to do as a kid was take apart watches and put them back together. At fifteen, I was doing the same thing with cars. By the time I reached high sc...
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Kristen Ding
Storyboard: Kristen Ding On the right (interactive multimedia) track Its crazy to consider that coming into college I had little idea what graphic design was, given what an integral role design has played in shaping my creative journey. My passion has turned into designing digital products such as...
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Eunice San Miguel
Storyboard: Eunice San Miguel Trusting myself the key to everything My mother likes to say that Ive been drawing since I was two years old. The way she tells it, she would put paper in front of me, give me markers and crayons, and then watch as I sketched an entire world. There was nothing analyt...
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Merle Mullin
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...
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Silvia Fuentes
Storyboard: Silvia Fuentes Amplifying the voices of the voiceless ArtCenter was where I became passionate about social issues. It was where I learned that advertising, my chosen field of study, could be used to amplify the voices of the voiceless. Toward the end of my senior year, I began to drift...
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Recent Pasts
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...
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Storyboard: Nathan Cooke
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...
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Jane Kobayashi and Daria Kobayashi Ritch
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,...
