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 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 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...
How would you describe this class to prospective students? This class is an immersive study abroad class in Berlin using contemporary photography as the basis for investigation, production and research. It is a project-based class that requires diligent photographic inquiry into a specific aspect ...
As photography takes precedence in Digital Age storytelling, our graduates have found a robust array career opportunities in editorial, sports, food, fashion, portrait, advertising and automotive photography.
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...
Our Graduate Art curriculum is focused on training artists in any medium to critically shape their practice to engage with their own construction of art history.
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...
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...
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...
Creative Direction students bind their skillsets together and focus solely on creating and refining professional-quality pieces for their portfolio.
Celebrate ArtCenter graduates at our biannual Graduation and Grad Show. Explore student work, connect with recruiters, and experience the culmination of creative excellence.
With a legacy of automotive car design excellence, ArtCenter's transportation design major also extends into aircraft, marine, public transit, and more.
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...
Our film graduates emerge poised to thrive in Hollywood thanks to their virtuoso visual and narrative storytelling skills and business savvy.
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 this brand-sponsored, study-away intensive, students travel to Portland, Oregon to work on-site at top athletic brands, including Nike, Adidas and Under Armour. Under the mentorship of ArtCenter alumni and other industry-leading professionals, students design projects to address the diverse needs...
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....
Program Learning Outcomes for the Integrated Studies curriculum at ArtCenter College of Design.
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.
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 ...
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.
ArtCenter's faculty of leading Creative Direction professionals prepare students to connect consumers with brands across traditional and emerging ad platforms.
ArtCenter's Graduate Industrial Design program prepares its graduates for professional fields with an ever-expanding potential for advancement in growth industries.
Explore learning outcomes for the Graduate Spatial Experience Design program.