In this two-semester Graduate Transportation Systems and Design class, students conceptualize and design transportation systems of the future.
Safe Agua is an interdisciplinary program by Designmatters that endeavors to bring design thinking to the area of "water poverty" in the developing world.
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.
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...
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...
In this intensive, project-based course, students focus on emerging topics that ladder up to Media Design Practices’ research interests, from technology to science to global politics. With the obvious urgency for humans to re-evaluate our relationships with the planet, the theme for thi...
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.
From the horse-and-buggy to electric cars, this course examines transportation as a multi-dimensional activity with historical, social, political, economic and environmental importance.
Alumni of ArtCenter's Photography and Imaging program have become influencers in commercial and fine art photography as well as fashion, food, entertainment and architectural photography.
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.
In this multi-disciplinary Creative Direction and Designmatters studio, students created a gun violence and prevention campaign designed to serve a diverse population of at-risk youth.
ArtCenter College of Design's MFA in Film program allows students to focus on screenwriting, cinematography, production, directing, editing, and more.
Explore learning outcomes for the MDes Brand Design and Strategy program.
ArtCenter offers two fully online Master of Design (MDes) degrees in Brand Design and Strategy and Interaction Design. Learn more!
Illumination integrates hands-on demonstrations, lectures and guest presentations, along with student-driven research and projects, to explore light and materials at a range of scales, including history, theory, psychology and lighting strategies for a variety of spaces.
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 College of Design offers a Game Design track as part of the BS in Entertainment Design degree program with a focus on video game development.
In Vehicle Mechanical, students team up to build a functional one-person, motor-driven kart out of wood and hardware.
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...
Entertainment Design students at ArtCenter choose between tracks in animation, concept art, and game design. Apply today!
ArtCenter's Media Design Practices MFA prepares designers to lead through design and technology, creating innovative solutions to complex problems. Apply now!
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...
ArtCenter's Academic Affairs department encompasses program review and assessment, accreditation, learning outcomes, course evaluation and internal research.
To better serve our students, alumni and outside partners, and to further align student internships, graduating student recruitment and alumni engagement, the newly formed department of Professional Development and Industry Engagement is the intentional consolidation of Educational Partnerships (inc...
In Birthing Barriers, students design awareness campaigns around Black midwifery and improving health outcomes of Black birthing people and Black babies.