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...
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...
When in doubt, Illustration alumna Maggie Chiang goes to nature Thanksgiving is an annual reminder to express gratitude for everything we have in our lives. Here at ArtCenter, we have much to be thankful for: our innovative students, who continually find new ways to impress us; our hardworking fac...
Student leader. Graphic Designer. Latino. Jesus Jacobo, graduating this term with honors and a degree in Graphic Design, is all of these things. Last year he co-founded Yo Soy ArtCenter, a network of Latino/a students across diverse disciplines who share a cultural heritage.
Sculpting Reality: Fine art student Filip Kostic deploys VR to ask big questions and create new meanings Artists tools have evolved throughout history, perpetually expanding the possibilities for expression. And whether its Michelangelos frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or James Turrel...
In the ArtCenter Extension course Head and Hands, students ground their observational powers through an understanding of the planes of the head and anatomy.
Why AxS Episode 1 Rosetta Mission: How an illustrator helped NASA-JPL land on a comet Welcome to the Why AxS, ArtCenter’s podcast featuring brilliant scientific and artistic minds ponder the big why's that come with being a tiny part of this universe. Our first episode, How to Land on a Com...
Never Tell Her the Odds: Cinematographer and alumna Mego Lin excels in a male-dominated field Nobody ever seems to have told Graduate Film alumna Mego Lin the statistical chances of a woman’s making it as a cinematographer. In the 92-year history of the Academy Awards only one woman—Rac...
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Tyrone Drake is a design educator, graphic design professional and an associate professor at ArtCenter.
Change Lab Podcast Episode 21 Ari Montanez on Realizing his NBA Dreams through Design Fall 2018 Product Design graduate Ari Montanez has spent much of his relatively short life equipping himself with the skills and stamina necessary to succeed in a highly competitive arena – ideally Madison ...
2021+ 2022 Alumni Awards ArtCenter's Alummi Awards Ceremony "It's been about five years since we've had this ceremony, so this is an important evening to bring our community together, to unite us," said ArtCenter president Karen Hofmann in her opening remarks at ArtCenter’s Alumni Awards cer...
Illustration student Emilia Cruz pours herself into her paintings and her art on Netflix’s Gentefied In Illustration student Emilia Cruz’s oil painting Am I Too Dark?, a young girl sits on her bed. In one hand, she holds her long black hair, staring down at it. In the other hand, she g...
Cedric Johnson has dedicated his academic career to studying and writing about the relationship between class, race and social change.
New grad program: Innovation Systems Design “The best way to predict the future is to create it,” said Peter F. Drucker, widely known as the father of modern management. ArtCenter’s Graduate Industrial Design (Grad ID) Department, led by Chair Andy Ogden, has entered into a partn...
Outsider Art Esther Pearl Watson (BFA 95) “This is going to be the best summer ever…I know my hot guy is sitting on a couch or mat and wondering if some fine lady is dreaming about him,” muses Tammy Pierce, the unlucky underdog of Unlovable, a graphic novel series by Illustratio...
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...
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...