Change Lab Podcast Episode 25 RISD President Rosanne Somerson on Redefining Arts Education Rosanne Somerson is an internationally exhibited furniture designer and President of Rhode Island School of Design. Somerson, a RISD alum, sees her parallel roles as a leader and practitioner as complementar...
Forging New Cinematic Frontiers: Meet Filmmaker Michael Reisinger ArtCenter : What are you working on right now? Michael Reisinger(MA 09 Film),Filmmaker: A script for my short film. Ive been making these 3- to 5-minute shorts, and my next project is going to be more ambitious 40 to 60 minutes, wi...
Intuitive Designer: Meet Creative Director Paula Hansanugrum ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Paula Hansanugrum (BA 08 Graphic Design) Executive Creative Director at Chase Design Group: So many things! At the moment, Im working on identity, branding and packaging design projects for se...
Zen And The Art of Handcrafted Notebooks: Meet Product Designer Mike Abelson ArtCenter: How do you define success? Mike Abelson(BS 97 Product Design),Postalco: Aligning what you say you are doing, and what you are actually doing. AC: Of all the items youve designed, what is your favorite? MA:The...
Californians Abroad: Testlab Berlin Expands Students Creative Horizons The California Dream is alive and well in the global cultural capital of Berlin. Not only because 22 ArtCenter students were immersed in two Study Away studios this past summer, but because itself is a coveted idea, an enduring...
A good story well told: Faculty, former astronaut to receive honorary doctorate If Dos Equis were truly interested in casting a real-life individual as "The Most Interesting Man in the World" for its popular advertising campaign, they'd be hard-pressed to find anybody more qualifiedon this planet (...
Environmental Design alumna Ariel Johnson never tells the same story twice The staff at Ariel Fox Design are as diverse as the environments they create. My office has been called the United Nations of designers, says owner Ariel Johnson (BS 08 Environmental Design), who launched the Sherman Oaks-ba...
BRAVE AND THE BOLD: SURVIOS AND HEARTSMINDS LEADERS TO DISCUSS SECRETS OF CONNECTING In an increasingly noisy world of advertising and marketingfull of hashtags, sponsored lenses and, yes, good old-fashioned word of mouthhow do creatives find the audiences they need to build their brand? Thats one ...
A New Coat: Meet Besame Cosmetics Founder Gabriela Hernandez ArtCenter: Whats the most unique thing youve created? Gabriela Hernandez (BFA 99 Photography) President, Besame Cosmetics: All of our products are historically based. We research makeup and formulas manufactured from different eras and br...
At TEDGlobal, Media Design Practices alumna An Xiao Mina shared how people around the world are transforming memes into a 21st century equivalent of street art to speak out on controversial issues ranging from Ai Weiwei to Trayvon Martin.
In the ArtCenter Extension course Head and Hands, students ground their observational powers through an understanding of the planes of the head and anatomy.
ArtCenter's top 10 wins and biggest accomplishments of 2023, including ArtCenter the No. 1 art and design college in the country for ROI.
HQ:LA – Creatives calling L.A. home / Part 2 / The Tastemaker: Yo Santosa For creative professionals, the allure of Los Angeles goes far beyond ‘You can’t beat the weather.’ In this series, we invite you to meet three thriving entrepreneurs who have made the City of Angels t...
ILLUSTRATION ALUMNA JOANNE KIM CREATES DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS THAT INTERPRET MEMORY On a spring day in 2021, in a huge and high-ceilinged space that used to be a clothing store in Pasadena’s Paseo mall, artist Joanne Kim (BFA 18 Illustration) gives a tour of her pencil drawings and paintings&...
The debut issue of ArtCenter On features stories on generative AI; sustainable personal transportation; an excerpt from Kevin Bethune's "Reimagining Design"; illustrations by Keiji Ishida; and more.
ARTCENTER’S GLOBAL COMMUNITY HUBS FOSTER CONNECTION WHILE STUDENTS LEARN REMOTELY It’s a blue-skied fall day, and ArtCenter students are busy at work inside a bright and airy studio space with long white tables at Beijing-based EXR International Art Cultural Exchange Co, Ltd., founded b...
Creative, driven and extremely adamant about his work, Cero Smith has spent 10-plus years working in the film industry.
Supercharged: How two former classmates are shaping the future of Tesla As we go to press, more than 276,000 people have placed preorders for a Tesla Model 3, the highly anticipated, all-electric vehicle with a 215-mile range and an accessible $35,000 price tag—the car Tesla’s CEO ...
Wendy MacNaughton's new website highlights the work of women illustrators
Cartonlandia y Chalino: Alumna Ana Serrano’s Cardboard Sculptures Part of Exhibit Featuring Latino Artists When Illustration alumna Ana Serrano (BFA 2008) was a kid, growing up in South Los Angeles and Downey, she loved building things. Known now for her cardboard cityscapes and sculptures, s...
Every day is Veterans Day for students in Designmatters’ The Healing Trauma Project “When guest speakers come into the class, they can spot me in the crowd and instantly tell I’m a veteran,” says ArtCenter student and former mass communication specialist for the U.S. Navy Ch...
ACTOR ALDIS HODGE REFLECTS ON THE IMPACT OF ARTCENTER'S TEENS PROGRAM ON HIM AS A WATCH DESIGNER It’s a bright day in New York City, and Aldis Hodge—actor and co-founder of the new Black-owned concept art studio 9B Collective—is on the move. During the course of this Zoom intervie...
Su Mathews Hale, ArtCenter’s new Chair of the Board, wants students to feel empowered to bring their authentic selves to the table “Art and design in the United States has long been influenced by individuals who have emigrated to this country and brought with them their homela...
Frederick Germany II is the founder/owner of production company derFmania, and writer/director of Midnight Hour.
Graduate Graphic Design alum Alex Seth’s work is a meditation on place and time When it comes to his vivid and heady work, recent alumnus and Canada native Alex Seth (MFA 18 Graphic Design)—a transmedia graphic designer in ArtCenter’s Marketing and Communications Department—...