Paula Goodman is Director of K-12 Programs at ArtCenter College of Design.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Christina Yang I owe it all to my dad, the old-school ArtCenter grad When I was a kid, my dad worked in animation. He would bring home samples of art from his workplace and I couldnt get enough of what he was showing me. Among the things he shared with me were character animation tests, samples of...
Storyboard: Pablo Meyer Learning How to Be a Three-Dimensional Thinker I grew up in Mexico in the 1960s. As a child, life was busy. Family activities took up a great deal of my time, and I attended a Montessori Schoolin which children were encouraged to develop their own creative skills at their o...
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: Stan Kong Mentorship has no expiration date One of the funny things about mentorship is that it doesnt end in the classroom. Really, it doesnt ever endthat is, if you remain curious and engaged throughout your life. Mentorship itself has no expiration date. Ive been a teacher for most...
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: 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: Eunice San Miguel Trusting myself the key to everything My mother likes to say that Ive been drawing since I was two years old. The way she tells it, she would put paper in front of me, give me markers and crayons, and then watch as I sketched an entire world. There was nothing analyt...
Storyboard: Anthony Zepeda Inspiration and a bulletproof work ethic In 1973, I took a solo sojourn to Europe. I found myself in Amsterdam, where I visited the Stedelijk Museum. I saw Goya and Rembrandt prints and was struck by the intensity of the black ink on the paper. Seeing those beautiful pr...
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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...
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:EnvironmentalDesign 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 eac...
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...
A 1998 ArtCenter Illustration graduate, Mike Shinoda is best known as a songwriter, producer and co-lead vocalist of the Grammy-nominated alternative metal band Linkin Park.
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: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 ...
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: Mike Shinoda Carving our own lane A few years ago, I discovered a book which has since become a favorite. Its called Category of One by Joe Calloway. To paraphrase, the theme is: dont be the best one in your lane. Be the only one in your lane. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with vid...