ArtCenter and INSEAD, one of the world's leading business schools, marked the tenth anniversary of their partnership, which blends design innovation with business strategy, with a celebration at Airbnb's headquarters in San Francisco.
Rafael Esquer of Alfalfa Studio jumped at the chance to create a mural to improve the cafeteria of the LIFE Family Shelter in Lower Manhattan, inviting the shelter's clients to workshop their ideas and shape the design of the piece.
Get Ready for the Next Wave Korea’s Minister of Culture Kim Jongdeok (BFA 87; MFA 89) Whether it’s K-pop star Psy’s “Gangnam Style” music video blowing up YouTube records or the global popularity of television dramas like Boys Over Flowers, these days Korean culture i...
On Spain's Costa Brava, a Pavilion Rises Cloud 9, an award-winning Barcelona-based firm known for its dynamic, cutting-edge architecture, has collaborated with ArtCenter’s Environmental Design Department to design and fabricate a work/play pavilion for a residential site located on Spain&rsqu...
Finding Your Repurpose: Meet Ecocentric Artist S.P. Harper ArtCenter: What inspires your art? S. P. Harper (BA 79 Illustration, Advertising) ecocentric artist: Painting gemstones on reclaimed materials is my inspiration. My grandfather was a diamantaire, a diamond cutter, before becoming a conduct...
It's About the Journey: Meet Artist Phil Lachapelle ArtCenter: You attended ArtCenter from 1965 to 1967, what was transportation design like at the time?Phil Lachapelle (Transportation): There was a recession and very few jobs at GM, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors. I was told that it would be t...
NIKE’S MARTIN LOTTI: DESIGN IS PART OF THE COMPANY’S DNA “Though beautiful, Oregon struck some people as the kind of place where nothing big happened, or was ever likely to,” writes Nike’s Portland-born co-founder and chairman Phil Knight in his newly released memoir S...
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 ...
To prepare photography students for a rapidly changing profession, Photography and Imaging developed a pilot course that embeds students in local nonprofits like CicLAvia and the Japanese American Cultural Community Center.
Razzle Dazzle’s Aftermath Erik Mark Sandberg (BFA 02) For Los Angeles-based artist Erik Mark Sandberg, the world’s supersaturation of alluring imagery presents contradictions ripe for exploration. “I was on my way to the Sierra Nevada mountains recently and thought, Gosh, look at...
NASA's Jessie Kawata: Sending Design Across the Universe Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena recently unveiled their findings that liquid methane rains down on the surface of Titan, filling the seas and lakes of Saturn’s frigid moon. "It's a marvelous feat ...
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...
Media Design Practices students created "video sketches" that explored what the car experience might look like in 2025, with concepts ranging from intelligent A.I. companions to claustrophobia-inducing augmented realities.
Photography alum Camillo Longo’s images ooze mystery and beauty Raised and based in Southern California’s Antelope Valley, photographer and graphic designer Camillo Longo (BFA 12 Photography and Imaging) finds inspiration for his striking photos everywhere, from sprawling national parks...
Graduate Graphic Design alum Alex Seth’s work is a meditation on place and time When it comes to his vivid and heady work, recent alumnus and Canada native Alex Seth (MFA 18 Graphic Design)—a transmedia graphic designer in ArtCenter’s Marketing and Communications Department—...
Graduate Art Chair Diana Thater's empathy for animals is on full display in LACMA's "Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination," an exhibition of video and film installations that dissects the knotty dynamic between humankind and wildlife.
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...
Hundreds showed up for the opening reception of IdentificarX, ArtCenter's exhibition celebrating the achievements of its Latina/e/o/x alumni.
"90/300: A Measure of Representation" celebrates the achievements of ArtCenter's Black alumni while critically reflecting on the college's history of advancing fewer than 300 African-descended graduates in 90 years.
Renowned photographer and ArtCenter alumnus Lee Friedlander received the College's Lifetime Achievement Award on December 19, 2020, as part of the 14th Annual Alumni Awards. Friedlander had previously been awarded an honorary doctorate in 2005.
Alumnus Joe Doucet's Sotera Advanced Helmet uses an LED lighting panel and accelerometers to make motorcyclists more visible to drivers.
ArtCenter Graduate Art student Delbar Shahbaz and Transportation Design student Ehsan Momeninejad, both from Iran, discuss how President Donald Trump's January 27, 2017 travel ban executive order has impacted them.
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 ...
The annual gathering on teaching and learning in art and design included inspiring sessions by ArtCenter faculty, staff, students and alumni