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...
Live concert and entertainment executive Ron Bension is a member of ArtCenter College of Design's Board of Trustees.
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...
Storyboard: Bob Dirig It's the greatest job in the world Think of all the stuff you throw away each day. Almost all of it has no inherent value, right? Try telling that to an archivist. For instance, several years ago, the Library at ArtCenter College of Design received a substantial donation fr...
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: Jahee Kim Lee An Invisible Support System as a Way of Teaching I was born into an old-fashioned Korean family. My father was a pastor and my mother was a social worker. My mother wore traditional Korean clothing called and was determined to only wear grey and beige Hanbok, to honor th...
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...
Thank You! The Accelerate Campaign was about building capacity space and resources to ensure society has the art and design talent it needs to open possibilities and solve complex problems with imagination, creativity and courage. Together, we surpassed the largest fundraising goal in the Colleg...
Storyboard: Clement Mok Junkie for change I have a confession to make. Im a junkie for change. In the forty years of my professional career, Ive changed career paths like a model changes outfits in a fashion show. Some people call this A.D.D. I like to think of it as making the most of my creativ...
Storyboard: Patrick Nguyen Where I found my creative community My dad and I share a troublemaking spirit. Were both stubborn. Were both interested in the of life, as in: Why are we bound to this creative path? So, I was a creative kid. Oddly enough, I also happened to excel most in my math class...
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...
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...
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...
Storyboard: Victor Lee Brown A Father-Son Bond, Forged by Creativity One of the first gifts I ever gave my son Ryan was a book called Diggers. Its a fairly rudimentary book about construction which, given the young mans budding interest in toy trucks, I figured to be an appropriate enough token. ...
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...
Welcome to the ArtCenter media page. Here, you can access the overview and download photos and short films. Learn to create. Influence change. Our mission is simple, but an education at ArtCenter College of Design is anything but. The epicenter of creativity and innovation, ArtCenter is the place...
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...
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 ...
A pioneer in online education, alumnus Bruce Heavin (BFA 93) is an artist, strategist and entrepreneur.
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...
Fernando Olmedo is a concept designer and ArtCenter alum from the Entertainment Design department.
Jim Poore is the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications at ArtCenter College of Design.