Long May She Wave: Alumnus Kit Hinrichs' Love for the American Flag Runs Deep The American flag is not only a symbol that everyone recognizes, writes alumnus Kit Hinrichs (BFA 63 Advertising) in his introduction to Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag, a 2001 coffee table book ...
DAZZLE ME: GRAPHIC DESIGN CHAIR NIK HAFERMAAS SPEARHEADS 1,600-FOOT LONG DAZZLE DIGITAL MURAL AT SAN DIEGO AIRPORT Stretched across the 1,600-foot long white facade of San Diego International Airport’s new rental car center are 2,100 paper-thin electronic tiles that flicker and flash dramatic...
The educational innovators behind lynda.com and The Skool, and the booming business of online learning Were in the infancy of this industry, and theres a lot of room for a lot of different angles on how to attack the problem of teaching online. Lynda Weinman The pioneers Forbes magazine ...
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...
ENTERTAINMENT DESIGN ALUMNA FINDS CAREER PATH THROUGH ARTCENTER FOR TEENS When recent alumna and VR animation concept artist Christina K. Yang (BS 2017 Entertainment Design) was 10 years old, she started taking ArtCenter for Kids Figure Drawing classes. Raised in the San Gabriel Valley, Yang follow...
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 ...
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...
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...
Approaching her subjects from a deeply personal perspective, Photography and Imaging alumna Zhe Chen's long-term projects evolve from the notion and mechanism of self-injury and its psychological effect on individual narratives and collective identity.
Organized by graduate department Media Design Practices (MDP) faculty members Elizabeth Chin and Sean Donahue, the week-long November series Different Tomorrows: Beyond Whiteness brings together writers, activists, artists and designers who explore ethnofuturisms, including Afrofuturism, Chicanix, A...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 1: Lynda Weinman on Taking Arts Education Online In the debut episode of ArtCenter’s Change Lab podcast, President Lorne Buchman interviews Lynda Weinman, who partnered with her husband, ArtCenter alum Bruce Heavin, to found Lynda.com in 1995. What began as a m...
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...
Syrup poured in a tan stream over a pink waffle. Chunks of dark chocolate next to cherries. A pair of magenta beets side-by-side. Los Angeles photographer and recent Photography and Imaging alumna Tatijana Vasily (BFA 16) not only takes food photos that are colorful and vibrant, they also inspire a ...
An Entertainment Design Student's Guided Tour of the Emotions and Experiences Animating his Sketchbook I was always drawing as a kid. I mean, what child wasn't? It was mostly stick figures, cards for my family and doodles that got far more praise than they deserved. I was afraid to really express m...
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...
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
The Power of Intuition: Meet Industrial Designer Terry Carr ArtCenter: What are you working on right now?Terry Carr (BS 13 Product Design) industrial designer, Plantronics: Wearable technology that helps users stay active, like earphones with a coach or guide in whatever exercise youre doing that c...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 23 Rebeca Mndez on dissolving boundaries between art and design and connecting with our animal nature Rebeca Mndez is an artist, designer, educator and ArtCenter alumna whose creative practice defies the bounds of traditional disciplines or descriptions. Her pioneering ...
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 (...
Designing Cars Fit for Bond, James Bond: Meet Automotive Designer Alex Alexiev ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Alex Alexiev(BS 12 Transportation Design) Designer,McLaren: I was working on the interior for the McLarens brand new car the 720S, which launched in Geneva. Currently, Im w...
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 ...
Through trial by fire, students in Advertising Department Chair Gary Goldsmith's "Crashvertising" course learn that today's creatives have little time to luxuriate over their concepts before a client reviews them.
How do we grasp David Bowie or Prince without their visual representations? Writer Scott Timberg explores the historical relationship between art, design and the music industry.