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.
Lou Danziger Emeritus Faculty Lou Danziger (BFA 48 Advertising) is a pillar of West Coast design. He has worked as a designer, art director and consultant since 1949, bringing his talents to a diverse list of institutions, from Microsoft to the NEA to ARCO to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. ...
Ramone Munoz Emeritus Faculty Ramone Muoz earned his BFA in Advertising in 1977 and his MFA in Fine Art in 1990 at ArtCenter College of Design. He taught at ArtCenter in the Graphic Design and Humanities departments since 1984, now retired from teaching. He was the Associate Chair of the Graphic D...
Advertising alum Lou Danziger has worked as a designer, art director and consultant since 1949, bringing his talents to a diverse list of institutions, including Microsoft, the NEA, ARCO and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Founded in 1930 and located in Pasadena, California, ArtCenter College of Design is a global leader in art and design education. With a current enrollment of approximately 2,310 students (61% female and 39% male, representing more than 50 countries), the College has a student/faculty ratio of 9 to1....
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: Tom Cordner The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection It may seem strange for an ArtCenter grad to admit that they havent always been a great student. In my case, though, it would be true. As a kid growing up in Baltimore, I found it damn near impossible to sit still and focus in a classro...
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...
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.
Fernando Olmedo is a concept designer and ArtCenter alum from the Entertainment Design department.
Google design executive Ivy Ross is a member of ArtCenter College of Design's Board of Trustees.
Live concert and entertainment executive Ron Bension is a member of ArtCenter College of Design's Board of Trustees.
Sean Adams is the dean of the Division of Visual Art and Communication and former chair of the undergraduate and graduate Graphic Design programs at ArtCenter,
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...
2020 MFA Virtual Exhibition curated by Catherine Taft. Featuring 12 ArtCenter Graduate Art alumni.
Ross LaManna is the chair of the graduate and undergraduate Film Departments at ArtCenter. He has sold screenplays and written for many studios, including Disney.
SKY is an exhibition that invites visitors to ponder both the provincial and universal elements of space above and around the Earth’s surface. This group exhibition will demonstrate how the unfolding realities exposed by new science are affecting change in the understanding of ourselves, our p...
Matthew Rolston, Triptych in the Style of an Altarpiece: Untitled (Child I), Untitled (Smiling I), Untitled (Child II), Palermo, 2013 (detail) From the series Vanitas: The Palermo Portraits © Copyright Matthew Rolston. All rights reserved. Courtesy Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles A site-specif...
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