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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 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...
Program Learning Outcomes for the Humanities and Sciences curriculum at ArtCenter College of Design.
Graphic design is everywhere. It’s powering the apps on your phone, driving the opening titles of your favorite TV series and surrounding you at stadium concerts. While pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from ArtCenter, you’ll learn how to turn your ideas into powerful vi...
In Birthing Barriers, students design awareness campaigns around Black midwifery and improving health outcomes of Black birthing people and Black babies.
Spatial Experience Design faculty member James Meraz assigned his fifth term, Sustainability Studio students, to deconstruct a product.
Explore learning outcomes for ArtCenter's undergraduate Transportation Design major
Our course of study encourages students to work closely with industry professionals to develop and shoot personal narrative, documentary and commercial work.
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ArtCenter's three-track curriculum in Film prepares you for success in directing, editing, or cinematography.
ArtCenter offers minors in Creative Writing, Business, and Material Science.
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
Program Learning Outcomes Mission Statement The undergrad program in Spatial Experience Design (BS) prepares students to design impactful environments across a range of scales: from objects and furniture to immersive spaces and urban experiences. We approach spatial design as a holistic practice, ...
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Craft visual narratives and tell world-opening stories as a filmmaker. ArtCenter’s Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Film equips you with state-of-the-art production equipment, facilities, and post-production tools to make compelling films starting in your first semester. Pursue the film major in...
Create immersive worlds as a visual storyteller through the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration program at ArtCenter. Modern imagery involves problem-solving, conceptualizing, and multifunctional artistic capabilities—all skills you’ll grow and develop alongside your ideas and philosop...
ArtCenter students designed motion, film, and social media awareness campaigns to be rolled out across California in the Wildfire Prevention course.
Imagery tells our stories and grounds our most complex ideas. The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Imaging degree equips photographers to turn visions into narratives and inspirations into realities. You’ll develop technical prowess, establish deep knowledge of photography concepts, ga...
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.
The Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography (HMCT) provides the tools for community members to celebrate and investigate the evolution of typography’s role in all forms of communication. As the Digital Age continues to increase our interaction with screens, typography—always a core elemen...