HQ:SF – Creatives in the Bay Area / Part 2 / Illustration Alum Martin Grasser San Francisco has changed a lot since 1967’s Summer of Love. Flanked by water and fog, the Northern California city now brims with technology companies and creatives. Meet three very different alums who work a...
HQ:SF – Creatives in the Bay Area / Part 1 / Product Design Alumna Katie Dill San Francisco has changed a lot since 1967’s Summer of Love. Flanked by water and fog, the Northern California city now brims with technology companies and creatives. Meet three very different alums who work a...
HQ:SF – Creatives in the Bay Area / Part 3 / Environmental Design Alum Tung Chiang San Francisco has changed a lot since 1967’s Summer of Love. Flanked by water and fog, the Northern California city now brims with technology companies and creatives. Meet three very different alums who w...
Alumni Panels at Car Classic Celebrate Iconic Design: 70 Years of ArtCenter Influence An event that capped a weekend-long alumni celebration thatattracted 600 alumni back to ArtCenter, last months Car Classicdubbed Iconic Design: 70 Years of ArtCenter Influencebrought together several generations o...
Meet upper-term illustration student Noah Minuskin, who moonlights as a master tattoo artist in L.A.'s downtown Arts District.
Why did Illustration alumnus and co-director of the Academy Award-nominated "The Dam Keeper" Robert Kondo leave the familiarity and security of working Pixar to start up animation studio Tonko House?
Occidental College President Harry Elam on being an outsider changing the system from the inside
WHAT A ROLLER COASTER! INSTRUCTOR AND ATTRACTIONS THEME DESIGNER MARK SHUMATE TEACHES STUDENTS THE FUNDAMENTALS A spiraling roller coaster that makes people scream out of pure, heart-palpitating fear and joy. A dynamic zone for kids, with popping water jets. A sprawling retail space with animal dis...
CREATIVE RESILIENCE: ALUM ELYSE MARKS CONCEPTUALIZES NATURE-BASED HEALING SPACES DURING THE PANDEMIC ArtCenter alumni have adapted to change during the COVID-19 pandemic in a wide variety of ways. Some turned inward, while others turned outward. They slowed down or sped up. This story is part of a ...
Creative, driven and extremely adamant about his work, Cero Smith has spent 10-plus years working in the film industry.
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From ArtCenter to Trolls, alum Kendal Cronkhite Can’t Stop the Feeling Bring up ArtCenter to alumna Kendal Cronkhite (BFA 87 Illustration)—the Bay Area-based production designer of DreamWorks films including 2016’s Trolls, and a former consultant for virtual reality company Oculus...
Film alumnus and cinematographer Larry Fong (BFA 89) has shot groundbreaking music videos and more than $1.6 billion worth of Hollywood blockbusters directed by filmmakers he befriended at ArtCenter. On break between giant gorilla reboot Kong: Skull Island (opening March 10) and pre-production for S...
André Kim: Environmental Design Alum Glides From Cycling to Starbucks At an upscale Starbucks Reserve coffee bar just south of Los Angeles music venue the Greek Theatre, with zig-zagging wooden countertops and the caffeinated clickety-clack of customers on laptops, Environmental Design alumn...
ArtCenter in Asia: Create Change Design Forums at Beijing Design Week Whether it’s the impending arrival of China-made cars to the U.S. market or Film alumnus Michael Bay’s (BFA 88) Transformers: Age of Extinction breaking the $300 million barrier at the Chinese box office, these ...
When in doubt, Illustration alumna Maggie Chiang goes to nature Thanksgiving is an annual reminder to express gratitude for everything we have in our lives. Here at ArtCenter, we have much to be thankful for: our innovative students, who continually find new ways to impress us; our hardworking fac...
Illustrate This! Illustration Alumni Forge Many Career Paths Decades ago, illustration meant creating artwork to illustrate stories in magazines, newspapers and books. Today, ArtCenter Illustration alumni encompass a broad swath of professions. Twenty-first century illustrators are conceptualizers...
PATH OF TOTALITY: ARTCENTER'S ECLIPSE EXHIBITION SHOWCASES ART AND WONDER “I want to hire the person who does the publicity for the eclipse,” comedian Steve Martin joked recently in a tweet gone viral. He was referring, of course, to the much-anticipated Great American Eclipse...
Tyrone Drake is a design educator, graphic design professional and an associate professor at ArtCenter.
A. Puicón-Pérez boosts career with online MDes IxD master’s degree Undergraduate alum elevates their work as a community technologist with master’s degree from ArtCenter’s new one-year Master of Design in Interaction Design program More than 20 years ago, A. Puic&oa...
Join us for Creative Tech Week 2023 and connect with leading innovators from the creative industry and technology. Featuring insightful presentations, a screening of the documentary "We Are As Gods," and keynote speakers Henrik Fisker and Iddris Sandu, this event is not to be missed!
Zoë Glenn Hart-Wagstaff levels up with Brand Design and Strategy MDes Graphic designer paves path as a design leader and community builder with master’s degree from new online Master of Design in Brand Design and Strategy program Since childhood, Zoë Glenn Hart-Wagstaff wanted to g...
Micah Williams is a video production professional who executes visual storytelling from conception to post-production, including editing, sound mixing and graphics animation.
Graphic Design alum, disability advocate, Designmatters and Interaction Design Assistant Professor Josh Halstead (he/they) teaches reimagining access in design.
Redesigning the Movies: How ArtCenter is Uniquely Educating the Next Generation of Filmmakers Jack Foley (photo by Alex Aristei) At ArtCenter I would become an artist. At any other school, I would become a guy who makes movies. During a break on the set of Man of Steel, the up...