REPRESENT: Powerin Color Many artists and designers grapple with questions of identity. For artists and designers of color, these questions often take on additional layers of complexity. Last term, more than 20 ArtCenter students and alumni contributed work to Represent: Power in Color, a one-day e...
Color Coordinated: Meet Besame Founder Fergus Hernandez ArtCenter: You co-founded Bsame with your wife Gabriela Hernandez (BFA 89 Photography) how did that come about? Fergus Hernandez (BFA 90 Photography) CFO/Co-founder, Bsame Cosmetics: Weve worked together since meeting at ArtCenter in the late...
In his paintings and sculptures, artist Victor Estrada (BFA 86 Fine Art, MFA 88 Art) dives into the realm of identity, bigotry, self, perception, memory.
Change Lab 47: Pasadena City College President Erika Endrijonas on leveling the playing field
Student Voices Andrew Villaseñor, (he/him), BS, Entertainment Design, Game Design Track. Andrew Villaseñor is turning his childhood passions into his career at ArtCenter. "Watching TV shows, reading comics, and playing games, those were big inspirations for me to start experimenting...
A Chicano icon in full color: How alum Ignacio Gomez brought Zoot Suit's El Pachuco to life As part of Center Theatre Group’s 50th Anniversary celebration, playwright and theater director Luis Valdez is bringing his groundbreaking Zoot Suit back to the Mark Taper Forum, the ven...
Girls just wanna kick butt: Jenn Rahardjanoto and DC Super Hero Girls to the rescue “Where’s Black Widow?” “Where’s Gamora?” “Where’s Rey?” These are questions fans have been asking toymakers lately about the conspicuous absence of toys based on...
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...
D'Angelo and Martel are The Next Level Brothers, award-winning biological brothers and film directors who want to create unity through game-changing film, design and community innovation.
Concept Art to Game Design: Meet ArtCenter alumni artists and designers at LightBox Expo Animation director. Art director. 2D/3D character animator. Character designer. Concept artist. Creature designer. Game designer. Storyboard artist. Toy Designer. Visual development artist. These are just some ...
Graduate Art alumnus Michael Rey creates large-scale abstract works: geometric shapes and color, a combination of painting and sculpture.
Twenty-five years after Keith Haring painted a mural in the Hillside Campus stairwell, Super8 footage of the artist creating the work has surfaced.
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 ...
Altogether now! Transdisciplinary Studio courses allow students to collaborate across different majors On a grey cloudy day in a second-floor classroom at the 870 building on ArtCenters South Campus, students from a wide range of departmentsIllustration, Fine Art, Product Design, Graphic Design and...
4x4 Gallery: Alumni who make art into ritual, ritual into art Lisa Park Her own brainwaves serve as creative muse and medium for Lisa Park (BFA 09 Fine Art). Splitting her time between Seoul and New York City, the artist works with biofeedback technology to create performance art pieces involving...
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...
Going the Distance at Under Armour Two ArtCenter alums share a history and a mission The city of Portland, Oregon is famously home to such cultural institutions as Powells Books, Stumptown Coffee and the International Rose Test Garden. But when it comes to the design world, Portland is perhaps bes...
The Future Looks Bright: Meet Propelland Founder Hugo Giralt ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Hugo Giralt (GradID 12) founding partner/CEO of propelland: As a multidisciplinary team of designers, engineers and strategists, were working on projects that merge digital and the physical e...
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...
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 ...
Alumna Loris Lora: Safe and Sound andnot slowing down An artist whose work has appeared in numerous publications, includingThe Boston Globe,Los Angeles Times,The New Yorker and the The Wall Street Journal, Illustration alumna Loris Lora (BFA 14) spent countless childhood hours drawing. But it wasn...
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...
Icon Worship Photographer and alum Matthew Rolston Leads Tour through the Getty Museums Icons of Style Exhibition This past September, Matthew Rolstona photographer and director who has created countless iconic portraits of celebrities including Madonna, Jay Z, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift for publi...
Alumna Alison Elizabeth Taylor Captures the Disappearing Landscape When Brooklyn-based artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor (BFA 01 Illustration) returns home to visit family in and around her hometown of Las Vegas, she sees both more and less than she remembers: The open desert shed played in as a kid s...
Climbing The Ladder: Meet Catalyst CCO Josh Wright AC: What inspired you to co-found Catalyst? Josh Wright (BS Product Design 03) Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Catalyst: The seed was planted when I was at ArtCenter. The College trains you to think about design, not just from the aesthetic ...