Alumni Q&A: Quality of Life Tactician: Meet Design Strategist Betsy Kalven
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 ...
Campus Life. Elevated. Situated on 175 wooded acres in the hills above the Rose Bowl, ArtCenters Hillside Campus has never lacked any amount of outdoor green space. Life at the Colleges South Campus, located in an urban setting at the southern gateway to Pasadena, is a different story. In imaginin...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 16 Jesse Genet on Using Extreme Learning Experiences to Build Businesses and a Meaningful Life Recently named one of Fast Companys Most Creative People in Business, Jesse Genet has accrued a list of achievements as audacious as it is impressive. She started her first com...
BRINGING IDEAS TO LIFE What is an entrepreneur? Ask five different entrepreneurs and you’ll get five different answers. But what they all have in common is the desire to transform their vision into reality. As the leader of the College’s Entrepreneurship and Professional Practice depar...
In the ACX Teens class Concept Design Basics, students learn how to bring their characters, environments, props and storyboards to life.
In ArtCenter's "Life Without Plastic" Sponsored Project, Newell Brands challenged students to reimagine some of their most iconic products for a new era of sustainability
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.
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...
4x4 Gallery: Alumnae work in which a yarn installation anda still life feast meet mouth jewelry and llamas wearing sweatbands Pae White Last year, world-renowned mixed media artist and Graduate Art alumna Pae White (MFA 91) installed Spacemanship, a 45-foot-tall site-specific work for the expanded ...
Media Design alumna Haelim Paek crafts stories from everyday life From a young age, I was always drawn to the arts, whether it was drawing, sculpture or watercolors,” says Haelim Paek (MFA 10 Media Design Practices). When she was a child, her mother enrolled her in Saturday morning and weekda...
Change Lab Episode 53 Google’s Ivy Ross on reimagining the life you’re meant to live As Google’s vice president of hardware design, Ivy Ross is breaking new ground in the physical world for a trillion-dollar company synonymous with building tools for navigating the virtual one. S...
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...
Sharon Lockhart and Frances Stark Solidarity forever: Renowned MFA alums revisit an iconic portrait In 1997, when Sharon Lockhart, Frances Stark and Laura Owens posed in sack-dresses that collectively spelled out the California Republic state flag, the artists main intention was to present a unite...
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...
Way to Logo: Meet Brand Identity Expert Lindon Leader ArtCenter: What have been some of the most memorable twists and turns in your professional/creative journey after graduating ArtCenter?Lindon Leader (BFA Advertising 78): I have served a wide variety of clients large and small, local, national...
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 ...
Do What Scares You: Meet Illustrator Nol Ill ArtCenter: Tell us about what inspired your current creative project?Nol ILL (BFA 05 Illustration): When I was asked if Id like to illustrate a childrens book about Halloween, my initial thought was, Yes! Some of my fondest childhood memories were attend...
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...
Graphic Design alumna and UX designer Petra Wennberg (BFA 1994), co-founder of Pasadena-based Interactivism, designs brands and digital products based on research, data and intuition.
Edward Cushenberry lives in the Los Angeles area where he splits his time between photographing his life and drawing everything else that's going on in his world, in an attempt to merge real life with romanticism.
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...
Alpha Betterer: Meet Illustrator, Writer Stefan G. Bucher ArtCenter: How would you define your personal brand or graphic identity?Stefan G. Bucher (BFA Advertising 96) designer, illustrator, writer: Im a landscape architect of graphic design and illustration. I create delightful places for your min...
Edgar Arceneaux is an LA-based contemporary artist and ArtCenter alum whose creative practice dwells in the awe and mystery in life.
Kevin Bethune (MS Industrial Design) on facing obstacles, his commitment to connecting people with their dreams and taking the high road in business and in life.