Students can make an ArtCenter degree do more by enrolling in one of three minors: Business, Creative Writing or Material Science.
ArtCenter's Graduate Industrial Design program prepares its graduates for professional fields with an ever-expanding potential for advancement in growth industries.
Interpret the animation The Apple Core by analyzing its themes and design. Reflect, storyboard an alternative ending, and explore its deeper message through sketching.
ArtCenter offers more than an exemplary art and design education. It provides the building blocks for a rich and meaningful life.
Students who study product design gain an understanding of design research methods, business principles, materials technologies, manufacturing processes, global trends and sustainability.
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
This studio explores various methodologies for exploring the sequential and non-sequential narrative that is multidimensional, multidisciplinarily and multi-sensorial and begins to address an expanding scenographic vision and discipline, based on brand exploration.
Explore the themes and visual storytelling of Warmth, a student-created animation. Reflect, sketch an alternative ending, and connect its message to real-world experiences.
Kitchen Kauldron, an original immersive game, was created by a team of game designers and concept artists in ArtCenter's Entertainment Design program. Read more about Game Design at ArtCenter.
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...
Related Links Application Requirements Portfolio Requirements Tuition and Aid This course will build upon foundational concepts necessary to design and create models using stock materials and standard shop methods. An introduction to industrial clay modeling techniques will provide students with ...
Conversations with Leaders in Entertainment Design Entertainment Design Chair Guillaume Aretos hosts a series of lively interviews with some of Hollywoods most innovative creative minds. Aretos engages leaders in concept design, animation and game design in an authoritative dialogue about industry ...
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...
Careers As the discipline of design continues to broaden its scope and impact throughout the world, the Designmatters minor in social innovation provides students the tools to explore new career options and enter the workforce with an expanded skillset. The objective is to prepare students to eithe...
In the figure drawing course Inventive Costume, Associate Professor Will Weston teaches Illustration students the basics of clothed figure drawing while introducing the history, techniques and purpose of costume design. Observing live costumed art models, students not only learn how to draw draper...
This foundational course is part of ArtCenters newly launched Game Design Track, a specialization allowing students to learn skills vital to launching a career inthe rapidly growing video game industry. Students will learn to analyze and appreciate gamesas they would a piece of literature or art. Fr...
Curator-led tours at world-class museums. Intimate visits to artists and illustrators studios. Hands-on drawing workshops across from the River Thames. Illustration Department Chair Ann Field, along with faculty members Clive Piercy and Paul Rogers, guide students on an unforgettable trip to London....
Here are the most current course descriptions available to students pursuing an MFA in Film at ArtCenter.
Here are the most current course descriptions available to students pursuing an MFA in Graphic Design at ArtCenter.
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...
Safe Agua is an interdisciplinary program by Designmatters that endeavors to bring design thinking to the area of "water poverty" in the developing world.
Here are the most current course descriptions available to students pursuing an MS in Furniture, Lighting and Fixtures at ArtCenter.
This course challenges students to conceive and propose a future vehicle design for a specific automotive brand and timeframe. Students will focus on creative- and critical-thinking methods that support storytelling, concept investigation and vehicle-design development. Through a series of weekly pr...
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...
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 ...