Students in this collaboration between Aquarium of the Pacific, Designmatters and Graphic Design explored the links between humans, the ocean and the planet to generate interest in deep ocean exploration.
Los Angeles is set to host the 2028 Olympics. In this Designmatters course, students examine how resources and spaces are impacted when a city invites the Olympic Games into its community.
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Embedded Interactions is a four-week intensive studio, where students design and build prototypes that utilize a mix of working systems, wizard-of-ozing, and video simulations.
Spatial Experience Design faculty member James Meraz assigned his fifth term, Sustainability Studio students, to deconstruct a product.
Illustration hosted the Designmatters On the Fence studio, where students were challenged to design and install a large scale mural on the topic of youth unemployment.
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Our Photography and Imaging course of study stresses conceptual development and the integration of professional technique and strategies in the development of a dynamic career in image making.
Students who complete the Creative Direction course of study at ArtCenter receive a Bachelor of Fine Art.
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...
Students who complete the course of study in Transportation Design at ArtCenter graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree.
Students who complete the course of study in Spatial Experience Design at ArtCenter graduate with a top rated Bachelor of Science degree.
ArtCenter offers two fully online Master of Design (MDes) degrees in Brand Design and Strategy and Interaction Design. Learn more!
The graphic design course of study challenges students to develop sophisticated typographic and image-making skill sets working across both emerging and traditional media.
Our Interaction Design course-of-study trains graduates to use the way people think, feel and behave as the basis for any product, environment or system.
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 ...
Our design methodology, which we refer to as Strategic Innovation, takes a systems-level view and strives to balance the business, technological and human aspects of any challenge.
Students spent seventeen days photographing and experiencing Berlin, one the world’s most vibrant and thriving art centers. This limited-enrollment class was led by Just Loomis (BFA 80 Photography), former assistant to Helmut Newton. Loomis, who has taught numerous workshops and exhibited...
Shape the future of mobility with a Master of Science in Transportation Systems and Design at ArtCenter. Explore sustainable, innovative, and user-focused solutions in automotive design, urban planning, and transit systems. Join a program at the forefront of global transportation challenges.
This class, previously titled Making Sense of Process, has been reinvented in a different form with a shift in direction. Looking at the creative process is in contrast to participating in it.
While broad and introductory, Creative Technology rests on a backbone of programming, the lens through which a variety of content and concepts will be introduced.
Spatialdesign considers itself a global platform for design. We create for people of the world and look at our process as holistic. For us to do that, we must understand the value that each and every person brings to the table. That starts in the classroom with our broad origin of students, a divers...
Our course of study offers tracks in Illustration Design, Illustration Fine Arts, Illustration for Motion, Entertainment Arts and Surface Design.
Our course of study encourages students to work closely with industry professionals to develop and shoot personal narrative, documentary and commercial work.
The Fine art department offers students two academic tracks: Fine Art and Illustration.