Degree:BS 90Advertising Got milk? Nearly as ubiquitous as milk itself, this advertising slogan sparked countless parodies and imitations as well as a variety of licensing deals. Its not surprising that an ArtCenter grad was one of the key creators behind the Got Milk? campaigndirector, writer and cr...
Storyboard: Jessica Muljadi The benefits of culture shock and keeping your finger on the pulse For me, growing up was like a never-ending series of culture shocks. My upbringing was not unique in the slightest, but I did do a lot of bouncing around between different habitats as a kid it often fe...
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.
Entertainment Design alum Edmund Liang is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in transmedia narratives and multi-sensory spatial experiences whose eclectic client list includes the Famous Group, Jim Henson Company, Dreamworks, Psyop, Imaginary Forces and Logan.tv.
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...
Storyboard: Vanessa Stump Finding the Yummy Nowadays, artful food pics are almost as commonplace as selfies. Whether its a famous chef you follow on Instagram, or just a friend who happens to collect photographic evidence of various tasty dinners, theres no escaping the fact that food photography ...
Devin Hawker Looking behind the curtain When I was growing up, going to the movies was a big deal. It seems hard to believe there was a time before Netflix and Apple TV, but I remember traveling nearly an hour to the nearest movie theater as a kid and submitting to this kind of grand vision that w...
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...
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: Joseph Watson Seeking Inspiration in Strange Places "The ArtCenter Way" One of my priorities as an artist is being open to outside influences. Sometimes Ill be influenced by random things like the color blue. Other times, I find myself influenced by objects: vehicles, airplanes, or mus...
Storyboard: Joann Jung Do dreamers ever get to where they need to be? I came to America from Korea when I was sixteen years old. The world was a much different place to me then. My mother was a painter. She was a fearless woman and the risk taker in the family. She believed that to be creative me...
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: 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...
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...
Program:GraphicDesign The College launched the Student/Space video series in fall 2013 to capture the essence of what it means to be an ArtCenter student by illuminating the art of making, from conception to completion. The idea was to capture the agony and ecstasy of creativity itself. So each term...
Program:ProductDesign alainamickes.com In the end, a leader is only as great as her team, and it has been an honor to be a part of the best team in the world. A self-described thinker, maker and former French baker, Summer 2016 Student Leadership Award-winner Alaina Mickes came to ArtCenter with pr...
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...
Program:ArtCenter at Night IndustrialDesign I get to fly airplanes and blow things up, says Jesse Ellico, an aerospace engineer for Orbital ATK, when asked to describe his job. s a little boys dream. The first thing Ellico tells students enrolled in his seven-week Introduction to Industrial Design ...
Degree:BFAIllustration thehettemagroup.com Phil Hettema, the president and creative director of The Hettema Group (THG), creates stories you can touch. Since 2002 THG has been interweaving compelling narratives with technology to create experiences with emotional resonance. Through close collaborati...
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...
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 ...
Program:ArtCenter at Night Right across the Arroyo, were making plans for a real close encounter, says Dave Doody, whose Art Center At Night seminar, Basics of Interplanetary Flight, is currently recruiting participants for a class thats literally out of this world. My team has been piloting the gan...
Program:Environmental Design behance.net/alvinoei Environmental Design student Alvin Oei is both a busy student, and a student leader. Early on in his ArtCenter career, he founded ArtReach, a student led mentorship program that brings free art and design education to local non profit organizations....
The Earth From Space: Derek Posselt CuratorJay Belloli interviewsDerek Posselt,Atmospheric Physics and Weather Group, Earth Sciences Section, NASA, JPL, Caltech. Jay Belloli: How did you become interested in atmospheric science?Derek Posselt: Ive always been interested in science from a very young...
Advertising alum Anthony Cardenas had a quick entrance into the world of advertising, including Super Bowl television spots for Mazda.