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.
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.
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 ...
ArtCenter Interaction Designers are highly sought-after by top employers around the globe for jobs in UX design, mobile design, web design and game design.
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At the end of the term, the shops are a hive of activity during the mad scramble to finish final projects. Take a look at the slideshow of images that captures some of that energy.
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...
Spatial Experience Design faculty member James Meraz assigned his fifth term, Sustainability Studio students, to deconstruct a product.
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...
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.
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.
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...
In this Graphic Design / Designmatters course, students team up to design a visually compelling, technology-infused awareness campaign to help boost Long Beach Police Department officer recruitment, innovative policing and community engagement to build trust and bridge divides between the LBPD and t...
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.
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 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 ...
Spatial Experience Design at ArtCenter offers one of the only industry-focused environmental design programs taught by a faculty of industrial, spatial, lighting, materials and furniture designers and architects
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Our graphic design graduates will use expert communication and problem-solving skills to lead and direct others on a broad range of creative activities, expanding the influence of design in companies, communities and society.
Students get a taste of living fashion history by sketching live, costumed models in this Product Design course offered as an elective in the Wearables and Soft Goods track. Focusing mainly on fashions from the 20th century, students sketch all types of clothing, accessories and decorative embellish...
Discover how ArtCenter tracks and supports graduate success. Learn about employment outcomes, career insights, and the Graduate Employment Survey that highlights post-graduation achievements. Explore data-driven reports and resources for alumni career development.
Celebrate ArtCenter graduates at our biannual Graduation and Grad Show. Explore student work, connect with recruiters, and experience the culmination of creative excellence.
Transportation students journey to the year 2030 to see the future of cars. No time travel machine needed.
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...
ArtCenter's Graduate Interaction Design faculty of leading professional designers encourages students to apply technology creatively and invent new approaches to interaction and design.