In this comprehensive overview of contemporary food photography, students study the characteristics of food, concept development, as well as lighting and styling techniques. During a photo shoot, students have the opportunity to observe and assist a professional photographer, as well as a food and p...
Certain cancers may disproportionately impact the LGBTQIA+ community, including those associated with HPV (human papillomavirus). The Research Center for Health Equity at Cedars-Sinai (RCHE) challenged ArtCenter students to develop messaging to help eradicate HPV and HPV-related cancers for the next...
Featured Course What's Your Story A blend of selfie culture with community archiving, this course is a multi-year effort by the Photography and Imaging Department to create a portrait of the people of Los Angeles across a breadth of communities. Designed as a city-wide project with volunteer parti...
ArtCenter's renowned community of Graduate Art alumni includes some of the world's most celebrated painters, sculptors, installation and video artists as well as critics, theorists and scholars.
Blue Note Therapeutics engaged ArtCenter to develop a Sponsored Project that equipped students to build a digital, FDA-approved device that allows oncologists to prescribe mental health care in a way that engages more patients.
In this two-semester Graduate Transportation Systems and Design class, students conceptualize and design transportation systems of the future.
In Cell Phone Cinema, students write a script, plan production design, secure locations and film a short using only their cell phones and simple sound equipment.
Featured Course Going Viral By the mid–1990s, epidemics had seeped into the cultural consciousness and public discourse. Since then, these narratives have continued to resonate with pop culture audiences in tandem with mounting anxieties in the American social, political and cultural landsca...
A college campus represents so much more than an arrangement of land and buildings. As courses continue to move online, what aspects of a student's college experience are missing now that we're all at home? In collaboration with California Institute of Technology (Caltech) ), students use the online...
Transportation students journey to the year 2030 to see the future of cars. No time travel machine needed.
ArtCenter students work with patients and providers in this hands-on course to identify and solve pressing health and wellness challenges for people with disabilities.
In Birthing Barriers, students design awareness campaigns around Black midwifery and improving health outcomes of Black birthing people and Black babies.
In this project-driven Illustration course, students communicated and connected directly with luxury brand Neiman Marcus to design store window displays.
In this course, Game Design students create prototypes of sophisticated 3D games using industry-standard development tools and gain practical knowledge of advanced concepts in game design and game theories.
Designing for Green Justice: Centering Indigenous Land Access, Stewardship, White Sage Campaign In this Designmatters studio, students have the opportunity to connect with this land and its First Peoples, the Tongva community. Together, we work with Indigenous land rights advocates and Tr...
Students analyze existing products, environments and processes for sustainability and implement intelligent design strategies to reduce our ecological footprint.
Explore learning outcomes for the MS in Industrial Design program.
Featured Course The Immersion Lab Welcome to immersive living, a new type of “reality.” Explore an expanding array of immersive technologies — hardware, software, spatial sensors, cameras, interfaces, controllers, and head-mounted displays — that read and interpret the real...
ArtCenter students designed motion, film, and social media awareness campaigns to be rolled out across California in the Wildfire Prevention course.
This beginning ceramics sculpture course introduces the methods and vocabulary essential to hand-building and glazing ceramics. Students explore endless sculptural opportunities through a variety of hand-building clay techniques from practices that have endured for centuries to modern patterns and ...
In this transdisciplinary course, students work directly with clients to strengthen Black and minority-owned businesses and brands in Los Angeles.
Creative Direction students bind their skillsets together and focus solely on creating and refining professional-quality pieces for their portfolio.
In the fall of 2014, Designmatters and ArtCenter’s Product Design department collaborated with the Nike Foundation, Yale School of Management and fuseproject to address the challenge of empowering adolescent girls living in poverty around the world. Student teams on both coasts built on ...
Students in Spatial Experience Design's Natural Light Competition lighting design studio were challenged to create an affordable, sustainable and portable solar-powered LED lamp