Storyboard: Domenique Sillett Buxton The Trailblazer I was at a crossroads. And it was only 4th term. Halfway through my time at ArtCenter, I began to feel the idea of becoming a traditional illustrator begin to unravel. I met with my Associate Chair of Illustration Jon Conrad for an informal por...
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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...
Chris Birchby, founder of COOLA and Bare Republic, and an ArtCenter alumnus, joined ArtCenter College of Design's Board of Trustees in June 2021.
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...
Storyboard: Darin Johnstone The Plum Assignment Somebody once asked me if being a creative has ever made me feel like an outsider. The answer is: Yes. Most days that end in y. As an undergrad architecture student at Cal Poly Pomona, I was lucky enough to take an architecture class taught by a wo...
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...
User experience pioneer Maggie Hendrie is the dean of the Division of Media and Technology.
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: 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...
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...
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The Surface Design Research Lab houses an archive of surface design projects, a library of leading American Modernist monographs, publications and examples of the work of Charles and Ray Eames, modern surface design publications and a database of surface design influencers, designers and organizatio...
Meet alum Parker Kuncl (MFA 09 Media Design Practices)
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
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Meet user experience designer Madison Bucher (BFA 20 Interaction Design)
Transportation Design alum Patrick Hanenberger used his skills to build an impressive career as a production designer for animated films such as "Guardians."
It seems as if Frank Nuovo has always been a rock star of the design world.
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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...