BLUEPRINT FOR INNER BEAUTY: MEET ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGNER ELISSA GEE ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Elissa Gee (MS 16 Environmental Design), Designer, Skidmore, Owings Merrill LLP: I'm helping with an office tower for San Francisco, a university building and an office lobby renovatio...
‘HEALING OUR INNER CHILD’: STUDENTS UNVEIL A BRIGHT, BOLD MURAL AT ARTCENTER’S SOUTH CAMPUS Featuring the words “our” and “home” painted in large vertical type, the new mural in the lobby of ArtCenter’s 1111 building (South Campus) is a bold declarati...
ALUMNA AND ARTIST MARTHA RICHCHANNELS HER RIGHTEOUS ANGER FOR GOOD My mind wanders yet holds on to things, reads Philadelphia-based artist and Illustration alumna and former faculty Martha Richs (BFA 00 Illustration) artist statement. It picks out what it wants randomly and saves it for later. My m...
The Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography: Two Years, Two Paths, One Destiny I was supposed to be a lawyer. A product of perhaps the best quality of public education, I excelled in school and finished my last semester of high school working as the executive intern for the mayor of New York City. I...
Since graduating from ArtCenter, Mariana Prieto (BS 12 Product Design) has worked at the forefront of social change, from addressing challenges facing underserved communities to designing solutions for wild animals.
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André Kim: Environmental Design Alum Glides From Cycling to Starbucks At an upscale Starbucks Reserve coffee bar just south of Los Angeles music venue the Greek Theatre, with zig-zagging wooden countertops and the caffeinated clickety-clack of customers on laptops, Environmental Design alumn...
HQ:NY — Environmental Design Alum Hines Fischer 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 Manhat...
NO TELLING HOW FAR SHE’LL GO: ALUMNA GRISELDA SASTRAWINATA-LEMAY LENDS A FRESH EYE TO DISNEY’S OSCAR-NOMINATED MOANA When alumna Griselda Sastrawinata-Lemay (BFA 2005 Illustration) was a little girl, growing up in Jakarta, she would read Indonesian versions of Walt Disney comics. Kids a...
Zen And The Art of Handcrafted Notebooks: Meet Product Designer Mike Abelson ArtCenter: How do you define success? Mike Abelson(BS 97 Product Design),Postalco: Aligning what you say you are doing, and what you are actually doing. AC: Of all the items youve designed, what is your favorite? MA:The...
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?
Frederick Germany II is the founder/owner of production company derFmania, and writer/director of Midnight Hour.
PATH OF TOTALITY: ARTCENTER'S ECLIPSE EXHIBITION SHOWCASES ART AND WONDER “I want to hire the person who does the publicity for the eclipse,” comedian Steve Martin joked recently in a tweet gone viral. He was referring, of course, to the much-anticipated Great American Eclipse...
Las Fotos Project is one of several L.A. community arts organizations that ArtCenter Admissions partners with on portfolio reviews and skill-building workshops.
RESONANCE AND WONDER JULIE JOYCE AND CHRISTINA VALENTINE LEAD EXHIBITIONS WITH SHOWS LIKE CANTOS OF THE SIBYLLINE SISTERHOOD At the entrance to the new exhibition Cantos of the Sibylline Sisterhood, currently on display at the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery on ArtCenter’s Hillside...
Unexpected Landings Careers don’t always follow a linear path. Just ask Coola founder Chris Birchby and celebrated chef Justin Pichetrungsi, two alums who wound up in places very different from where they’d envisioned themselves. Sometimes—oftentimes—life throws you a curve...
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...