Graphic Design alum Whitney Lowe shifts from designing campaigns for Fortune 500 companies to sculpting by hand A few minutes away from Portland, Oregon culinary mainstay The Woodsman Tavern stands the midcentury residence of Graphic Design alumnus Whitney Lowe (BFA 82). On this gray summer day, th...
Kicking againstthe digital takeover: Noah Minuskin's hand-drawnJohn Wick poster When Los Angeles-based artist and Illustration alumnus Noah Minuskin (BFA 15) isn't busy inking scenes of spiritual agony on his clients' limbs or torsos, the internationally recognized artist lends his considerable tal...
Change Lab 47: Pasadena City College President Erika Endrijonas on leveling the playing field
Pieces of Resistance: Meet Artist Ellen November ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Ellen November (BFA 73 Illustration) fiber artist, curator of the upcoming exhibition Mapping Out: Im doing work around Gun Sense using an aerial view of Virginia City Municipal Center overlaid with a gu...
It seems like the experts all agree that a future of autonomous cars is inevitable, but what kind of services will automakers have to provide to convince the public to hand over the keys of their cars to Apple, Google or Uber?
Earths Mightiest Artists Meet the ArtCenter alumni at the center of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Over the past 11 years, fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)the seemingly unstoppable series of 23 (and counting!) interconnected superhero films that began with 2008s Iron Manhave learned not ...
Change Lab Podcast Featuring Mari Nakano, Social Impact Designer with the New York City Mayors Office Mari Nakano (MFA 10 Media Design Practices) is a social impact designer and ArtCenter alum deploying design problem solving to improve the lives of at-risk populations around the world. She was rec...
THE SOLITUDE OF LATINX1 By Rocío CarlosAssociate Professor, Humanities and Sciences [Editor's Note: The following essay was originally published in a publication for IdentificarX, an exhibition that explores the complex and distinct contributions our Latina/e/o/x alumni have made to the fie...
The Science of Fiction: Meet Concept Artist Haimeng Cao ArtCenter: How would you describe your work? Haimeng Cao (BFA 18 Illustration), Concept Artist, Framestore: I create highly detailed science fictional city landscapes for clients like Blizzard Entertainment, NetEase Games and Framestore. My de...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 30 Documentary Filmmaker Ivy Meeropol on the Active Pursuit of Empathy Ivy Meeropol is a documentary filmmaker whose emotionally and politically charged films explore social and cultural injustice from the inside out. Her work in TV and film ranges from an exploration of...
Concepts Are Not Enough: Alumna Lynn Aldrich Finds Beauty In The Physical Nature of Things Lynn Aldrich (MFA 86 Art) doesnt seem to be able to make up her mind. She wants objectshard, cheap, common objectsand ideas as well. And the ideas can get bigphilosophical, celestial, even: She wants her ar...
Stage of Life: Meet Freelance Artist James (Fader) Cui ArtCenter: What are you working on right now?James Cui (VJ Fader) (BFA 02 Illustration): Im doing a stage design for an EDM festival in Myanmar. Im also working with an architect to create a video installation piece for the new LG headquarters ...
ArtCenter's top 10 wins and biggest accomplishments of 2023, including ArtCenter the No. 1 art and design college in the country for ROI.
THE JOYS OF WORLD BUILDING: ENTERTAINMENT DESIGN SHINES Work long, and work hard. That’s the mantra recent Entertainment Design alumna and Los Angeles native Michelle Rhee (BS 2016) grew up with. New Entertainment Design Chair Guillaume Aretos—an award-winning animation and film art di...
Lighting the Past Alumna Tahnee Cracchiola brings antiquity to life, one photograph at a time Its a crisp December morning at the Getty Villa, the Malibu branch of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Home to one of the worlds finest collections of antiquities, the Villa features architecture modeled after a...
The trans part of transmedia is that the designer transforms and transcends media categories, and by so doing, creates new media categories.
BEAUTY OF THE FALL: 2017 TEDxACCD FACES THE TOPIC OF FAILURE We don't know everything.We aren't perfect.We make mistakes,But we embrace themAnd make it work.We are a metamorphosis of X.X = the unknown. In other words, we all fail, and then try again. For the ArtCenter students organizing the Coll...
Explore the creative mind of Clive Piercy, the founder of Ph.D and Air Conditioned LA, with "Hello, LA: Clive Piercy, Inside the Mind of a Designer" on view through June 24, 2023, at ArtCenter. Discover his life and work in this stunning exhibition at the Williamson Gallery.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME HERE ARTCENTER LIBRARY IS A SAFE SPACE OF LEARNING FOR ALL When Mario Ascencio, ArtCenter Library’s college librarian and managing director, was a teenager working at his local public library in southeast Los Angeles, one day a woman came in, speaking to him in Spanish an...
Celebrate the Top 10 Wins of 2024 at ArtCenter. Highlighting award-winning projects, innovative initiatives, and community milestones, this recap showcases the creativity and impact of our students, faculty, and alumni.
Get Ready for the Next Wave Korea’s Minister of Culture Kim Jongdeok (BFA 87; MFA 89) Whether it’s K-pop star Psy’s “Gangnam Style” music video blowing up YouTube records or the global popularity of television dramas like Boys Over Flowers, these days Korean culture i...
In the ACX Kids class Fundamentals of Drawing, students develop a foundation in technical skills and creative expression.
Photography alumnus and visual effects master Peter W. Anderson, ASC, received the 2013 Gordon E. Sawyer Award, an Academy Award for technological contributions that have brought credit to the film industry.
American Godsproduction designer Patti Podesta on bone orchards, doors of heaven, andteaching at ArtCenter She styled the Ambassador Hotel setting where Robert F. Kennedy was shot for bio-pic Bobby, designed CIA offices for Emmy-winning Homeland and most recently built a full-sized Viking ship in T...
The Future of Mobility Takes Center Stage at the LA Auto Show 2022