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
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...
Media Design Practices alumnus David Schwarz, creative partner at Hush, the New York-based design agency, shares with us the thinking behind The Under Armour Experience, a 270-degree immersive architectural and film experience bringing the sights, sounds and adrenaline rush of competitive sports t...
Photography and Imaging alumna Karen Beard founded Shestock, a stock photography agency that focuses on female-centric images created exclusively by professional women photographers.
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?
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...
It All Ads Up: Meet Creative Director/Artist Robert Birkenes ArtCenter: What was it like attending ArtCenter in the 1960s?Robert Birkenes (Advertising 67) painter/art director: While I was attending ArtCenter, Saul Bass was one of the most respected graphic designers in L.A. Every designer or art d...
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.
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...
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...
HQ:NY — Advertising Alumna Lacey Waterman Long known as “the city that never sleeps,” New York City can feel chaotic with its cacophony of skyscrapers, subways and noise. But within creative corners of the Big Apple, from a photo studio in Brooklyn to a design firm in Manhattan, 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 ...
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 (...
ArtCenter Film student Joel Aaron and his mentor Brandon Martinez were paired together as part of the Career and Professional Development Mentorship Program.
Illustrate This! Illustration Alumni Forge Many Career Paths Decades ago, illustration meant creating artwork to illustrate stories in magazines, newspapers and books. Today, ArtCenter Illustration alumni encompass a broad swath of professions. Twenty-first century illustrators are conceptualizers...
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...
Internships Give ArtCenter Students a Leg Up on the Job Market Near bohemian boutiques, art galleries, restaurants and zippy electric scooters on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Venice, minutes from the Pacific Ocean, Graphic Design student Ricardo Imperial gives a tour of...
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...
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.
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, ...
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 ...
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?
Transformation is fundamental to every act of creativity, which makes it particularly fertile terrain for wide-ranging exploration in Change Lab, ArtCenter’s podcast featuring deep diving interviews with the world’s leading artist and designers. Hosted by ArtCenter President Lorne Buchm...