Featured Course Going Viral By the mid–1990s, epidemics had seeped into the cultural consciousness and public discourse. Since then, these narratives have continued to resonate with pop culture audiences in tandem with mounting anxieties in the American social, political and cultural landsca...
Notable Alumni from Designmatters Educational Offerings Jonathan Goldman BFA Advertising 2010, Designmatters Concentration Communications Senior Associate Inter-American Development Bank Office of External Relations' Culture, Solidarity, and Creative Affairs Division www.iadb.org Judy ...
Product design is about applying the design process to any number of problems in the world, from social impact challenges to redesigning organizations.
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.
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 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.
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...
This class, previously titled Making Sense of Process, has been reinvented in a different form with a shift in direction. Looking at the creative process is in contrast to participating in it.
Blue Note Therapeutics engaged ArtCenter to develop a Sponsored Project that equipped students to build a digital, FDA-approved device that allows oncologists to prescribe mental health care in a way that engages more patients.
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...
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 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...
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...
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.
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....
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...
ArtCenter Transportation Systems and Design graduates go on to exciting, disruptive careers in public transit, urban planning, automotive concept design and transportation product strategy.
Related Links Application Requirements Portfolio Requirements Tuition and Aid This course will build upon foundational concepts necessary to design and create models using stock materials and standard shop methods. An introduction to industrial clay modeling techniques will provide students with ...
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 ...
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 ...
ArtCenter Entertainment Design alumni are storytellers working in video games, interactive media, film, animation and motion graphics for clients ranging from Dreamworks to the Jim Henson Company.
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...
Transportation students journey to the year 2030 to see the future of cars. No time travel machine needed.