Navigating Google DesignStorm: A Journey of Creativity and Collaboration At ArtCenter, we embrace the remarkable power of industry partnership to prepare students for success. Vaish Prabhakaran (Grad ID) recapped a Google DesignStorm that was a journey of creativity and collaboration. In jus...
Sara Khoury is an accomplished design leader in Silicon Valley who currently serves as director of user experience design at Google
Whether Designing for the Road or a Screen, Alum Daniel Mai Sets Human-Centric Solutions as His Destination When recent Interaction Design alum Daniel Mai (BS 2016) was in middle school, he went against the grain and didn’t sketch zippy sports cars, like other teens he knew. He instead drew m...
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 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 (...
From ArtCenter to Hulu: Meet Interaction Designer Ting Wu Ting Wu's worldview as a Tibetan Buddhist, and her work as an Associate User Experience Designer at Hulu, is grounded in empathy and understanding of others. Studying Interaction Design at ArtCenter helped her develop the skills necessary to...
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?
Down to a Science: Charles Mauro's expertise in neuroscience-based design research dates back to his ArtCenter education In the not too distant future, neuroscience and design patent law will completely transform the world of design, says alumnus Charles Mauro (BS 71 Product Design), president and ...
ArtCenter alumnus Jeremiah Baker (08 Product Design) has designed products for leading consumer electronics brands like Logitech, Samsung and Google, as well as for his own company, Normal Objects, a company dedicated to small-batch production of limited objects for a minimalist lifestyle. Yet, as a...
Change Lab Episode 33 Dennis Gassner on the behind his Oscar-winning production design Dennis Gassner was born in Canada; but storytelling is his mother tongue. Its the language and the context -- though which the ArtCenter alum and legendary production designer processes the ideas of a script; ...
This edition of the 4x4 Gallery features recent work by alumni whose contributions as design innovators span half a century. Yves Bhar Since forming San Francisco-based Fuseproject in 1999, Swiss-born multidisciplinary designer Yves Bhar (BFA 91 Product Design) has produced triumphs in efficiency...
Change Lab Episode 10: Yves Behar on Designing Technology for the Social Good Swiss-born entrepreneur and ArtCenter alum Yves Behar is the design worlds reigning rock star. His virtuoso career was built on his passion for using technology to advance sustainability and improve lives around the world...
Space Exploration: Meet Designer Sean Chen AC: What are you working on right now?Sean Chen (BS 15 Environmental Design) architectural designer, Gensler: Mixed-use projects, including waterfront park design in Wuhan, China. AC: How do you define success?SC: Being able to find balance between work a...
ArtCenter alum Philipp Haban designs futuristic electric aircraft at Joby Aviation, bringing automotive elegance to aviation. With 30+ patents and experience at Google X, his career redefines mobility design.
The co-founder of Antenna Design, industrial designer and ArtCenter alumna Sigi Moeslinger's (BS 91 Product Design) professional design work includes everything from office furniture for Knoll Inc. to subway cars and kiosks for New York City's MTA to dual-screen displays for Bloomberg's computer ter...
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...
A Visual Conversation: Meet Art Director Samantha Kallis ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Samantha Kallis (BA Illustration 10) Art Director of Development at Disney Television Animation: I cant give specifics, but broadly I work on Disney projects before they go into production. My job...
Alumni Panels at Car Classic Celebrate Iconic Design: 70 Years of ArtCenter Influence An event that capped a weekend-long alumni celebration thatattracted 600 alumni back to ArtCenter, last months Car Classicdubbed Iconic Design: 70 Years of ArtCenter Influencebrought together several generations o...
With Beekle, Caldecott Medal-winner Dan Santat “makes the unimaginable, imaginable” It’s been quite a year for Illustration alumnus Dan Santat (BFA 01). Back in February, he was awoken at 4:30 a.m. by a call from the American Library Association (ALA) with the news that his child...
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...
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 ...
ArtCenter in Asia: Create Change Design Forums at Beijing Design Week Whether it’s the impending arrival of China-made cars to the U.S. market or Film alumnus Michael Bay’s (BFA 88) Transformers: Age of Extinction breaking the $300 million barrier at the Chinese box office, these ...
Artificial Knowing: Media Design alumnaefight discrimination, onealgorithm at a time In an airy, white loft space, in a fantastical art deco factory building in downtown Los Angeles, Media Design Practices (MDP) alumnae Christine Meinders (MFA 2017) and Selwa Sweidan (MFA 2016) are working to gathe...
Immersive experiences are everywhere, whether they're happening in large venues or just millimeters from your retinas. But where is it all heading? And is there room for contemplation?
Female Leaders from Google, NASA, Fiat, Sony and More Share Survival Tools and Strategies at ArtCenter for Success in Tech and Design At ArtCenter’s Women in Industrial Design Forum on Saturday, July 15, 2017, design leaders from companies including Nike, Airbnb, Sony, Mattel, MIT Media Lab, ...