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: Betsy Everitt Glimpsing Through the Keyhole As a child, I was constantly making things. I loved to sew, cook and draw. Growing up, creation was a constant presence in our house. My dad was a designer who attended ArtCenter back when it was still located on 3rd Street. He was one of th...
Storyboard: Celeste Guarneri Sicilian Sensibility: Back-of-the-House at ArtCenter When I was a kid, my mom and dad owned and operated an Italian seafood restaurant. My old man was the head chef, and my mom was the head waitress and bookkeeper. In other words, I was a restaurant kid. My dad emigra...
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...
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: 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...
Storyboard: Frank Nuovo The Beat Goes On Some folks come to the creative path later in life. I knew that this path was the one for me as soon as I was old enough to draw a picture. I was born in Monterey, California: a place where all you needed to do to get inspired was take a walk to the neares...
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: Chris Hacker Design Across Generations It took me a long time to realize that it was my destiny to become a teacher. As an adult designer, I realized one day there had been some basic things missing in my own education. I felt compelled to go back to the drawing board and help others ...
Storyboard: Alvin Oei Stand in that room. Absorb its energy. Let it affect you. As a child, you feel things deeply. You havent yet learned to analyze the world you live in yet. As a result, your life is defined by sensation, by awe by a marvelous sense of possibility. Just for a moment, pretend y...
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 ...
Explore Rashaad Newsome's immersive 'Hands Performance' exhibition, featuring cutting-edge video art, movement research, and multimedia collages that fuse Black cultural production, AI, and Queer expression. On view through February 24, 2024.
Judy Skalsky Memorial Rooftop Garden provides a natural oasis for contemplation and a great location for art openings and intimate gatherings.
Phillip Sarofim is a member of ArtCenter College of Design's Board of Trustees.
A graduate of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, Paul Taylor has directed and supervised a wide variety of projects, from game cinematics, commercials, ride films to short and feature films.
In 1937 a naked Le Corbusier, in a confrontational act, infamously painted eight brightly colored murals over the walls of Eileen Gray’s groundbreaking E-1027 house, the modernist villa the architect designed on the French Riviera. The intrusion into her design infuriated Gray, who considered ...
Photography Labs ArtCenter’s state of the art photography labs enable students to print, process, scan and finish any image they conceive. The Digital Imaging Lab is equipped with workstations for high-resolution scanning. Hasselblad scanners, digital printing from desktop to wide format, an...
ArtCenter DTLA presents (Parentheses), a street-view window exhibition by BRD (Bridget Rosalia Driessen) and Hannah Kim Varamini (founders of Love’s Remedies, an artist-run initiative and the inaugural ArtCenter DTLA Residency Project 2020). For the closing projects of their 2020-21 residency...
Degree: BS 07 Environmental Design Chris Adamick (BS 07 Environmental Design) is the manager of Global Marketing, Store Design at Gap’s New York headquarters. He is an award-winning designer whose multidisciplinary, large- and small-scale work includes commercial, civic, educational and reside...
Co-founder of Brighton Collectibles, Terri Kohl is a member of ArtCenter College of Design's Board of Trustees.
Currently on view: Package Nocturnes examines the relationship of creative production within a capitalist economy based on easy disposability. Curated by artist Beth Fiedorek,
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.
2-YOKAI by Andy Fedak and Bruce Yonemoto combines animation, film, and installation to examine Japanese folklore and contemporary culture through the myths of Kappa and Nurikabe.
Entrepreneur Robert C. Davidson is a current member and Chair Emeritus of ArtCenter College of Design's Board of Trustees.
Degree:BA 80 Graphic Designclementmok.com Clement Mok is many things—digital pioneer, serial entrepreneur, software publisher and developer, author, design patent holder, even restaurateur—but beyond all else, Mok is a designer and his influence on the world is immeasurable. After gradu...