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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Get inspired by a collection of hands-on activities designed to spark creativity and deepen your understanding of art and design. Whether you're a student, educator, or lifelong learner, these self-guided resources offer engaging ways to experiment, learn new skills, and be inspired—at your ...
This studio explores various methodologies for exploring the sequential and non-sequential narrative that is multidimensional, multidisciplinarily and multi-sensorial and begins to address an expanding scenographic vision and discipline, based on brand exploration.
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.
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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 Location Photography From editorial to advertising projects, many jobs are shot on location, working with talent and lighting to create a certain look or mood. In this course, students learn the specific equipment and strategies — including theory, critique, problem-solving, ...
In Vehicle Mechanical, students team up to build a functional one-person, motor-driven kart out of wood and hardware.
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Designing for Green Justice: Centering Indigenous Land Access, Stewardship, White Sage Campaign In this Designmatters studio, students have the opportunity to connect with this land and its First Peoples, the Tongva community. Together, we work with Indigenous land rights advocates and Tr...
Creative Direction students bind their skillsets together and focus solely on creating and refining professional-quality pieces for their portfolio.
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...
In Birthing Barriers, students design awareness campaigns around Black midwifery and improving health outcomes of Black birthing people and Black babies.
In this seven-week Designmatters studio course, students work with the Consulate, Indonesian community groups, artists and designers to create a mural to celebrate and reflect the diversity of Indonesia and Indonesians in L.A.
In this project-driven Illustration course, students communicated and connected directly with luxury brand Neiman Marcus to design store window displays.
This course prepares students for a paradigm shift in the field as versatile artists/authors who can articulate a particular point of view through visuals and text, creating the voice of the entire project.
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...
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.
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.