REPRESENT: Powerin Color Many artists and designers grapple with questions of identity. For artists and designers of color, these questions often take on additional layers of complexity. Last term, more than 20 ArtCenter students and alumni contributed work to Represent: Power in Color, a one-day e...
Welcome to the Machine Steve Joyner (BS 05) and Jason Pilasrki (MFA 97) “We privilege no particular creative practice, which allows us to explore the interests of our choosing without discrimination.” That’s the fearless statement on the website of MachineHistories, the two-man d...
The Power of Intuition: Meet Industrial Designer Terry Carr ArtCenter: What are you working on right now?Terry Carr (BS 13 Product Design) industrial designer, Plantronics: Wearable technology that helps users stay active, like earphones with a coach or guide in whatever exercise youre doing that c...
Shifting the Power: Three leaders share thoughts on how artists and designers can effect social change This year marks the 20th anniversary of Designmatters, ArtCenter’s social innovation program. Believing that art and design can inspire positive changes in society, the program has offered s...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 50 Ann Hamilton on the Power of I-Don’t-Know To experience one of Ann Hamilton’s installations is to be transported into a world of invention unlike any other. Recognized for her large-scale public projects and performance collaborations, Ann uses space as he...
Power in Partnership: Industry Collaboration Prepares Students for Success The day Max Knecht pulled a squid, a walrus, a deer and a bunny out of a bright green vintage suitcase is the day he landed his first big deal as a designer. “It was a formal meeting in [Knock Knock company founder and...
Knowledge is Power: A Transportation Design Student’s Journey from Zimbabwe to ArtCenter One day, when then 6-year-old future Transportation Design student Thokozani Mabena was playing with friends in the shanty town where he grew up, in authoritarian-ruled Zimbabwe, he was drawn to a magazin...
In Practice: Reiten Cheng The alum’s 3D-printed, open-source machine Polyformer recycles clear PET plastic bottles into filaments for 3D printers A 3D-printed, open-source machine that recycles clear polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles into filaments for 3D printer...
Magdalena Paluch, a graduate of ArtCenter's Graduate Industrial Design program, has always been driven by curiosity and a spirit of exploration. As the co-founder and CEO of LabTwin, she's creating a digital assistant that improves workflows for scientists and researchers working in laboratories.
TYPOGRAPHY AND DESIGN’S POWER TO FUEL ‘PROTEST, PERSUASION, EMPOWERMENT’ “Your body is a battleground.” So declares Barbara Kruger’s huge and pivotal reproductive rights silkscreen Untitled (Your body is a battleground) in stark white Futura Bold Italic type ove...
Summer 2024 Student Leadership Award winner Ciara Hart championed the power of community.
Do What Scares You: Meet Illustrator Nol Ill ArtCenter: Tell us about what inspired your current creative project?Nol ILL (BFA 05 Illustration): When I was asked if Id like to illustrate a childrens book about Halloween, my initial thought was, Yes! Some of my fondest childhood memories were attend...
The educational innovators behind lynda.com and The Skool, and the booming business of online learning Were in the infancy of this industry, and theres a lot of room for a lot of different angles on how to attack the problem of teaching online. Lynda Weinman The pioneers Forbes magazine ...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 16 Jesse Genet on Using Extreme Learning Experiences to Build Businesses and a Meaningful Life Recently named one of Fast Companys Most Creative People in Business, Jesse Genet has accrued a list of achievements as audacious as it is impressive. She started her first com...
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...
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...
Alpha Betterer: Meet Illustrator, Writer Stefan G. Bucher ArtCenter: How would you define your personal brand or graphic identity?Stefan G. Bucher (BFA Advertising 96) designer, illustrator, writer: Im a landscape architect of graphic design and illustration. I create delightful places for your min...
Creative Tech Week 2022 highlighted the broadening practices of artists and designers in positions of leadership, developing Code, Computation, Electronics, AI + Machine Learning, Extended Reality, Digital Creation and Digital Communication. Expanding on the college’s first Creative Tech Week...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 28 Recent Alum Vicente Magaa on Solving the Riddle of Mass Transit in California ArtCenters Transportation Design program has a type and, at first glance, Vicente Magaa seems to fit it perfectly. Lifelong obsession with cars? Check. A childhood spent sketching every ty...
WHERE CODING AND COMPUTATION MEETS CREATIVITY Creative Tech Week Returns With a Focus on Design Research, Advanced Digital Creation, Web3 In 2021, ArtCenter held its innaugural Creative Tech Week, an event which convened thought leaders who operate at the intersection of creativity ...
An Eclectic Mind: Meet Writer, Photographer Jerry Vass AC: What's an important lesson you learned from ArtCenter?Jerry Vass (62 Photography): In my photography career, I converted words to images. I learned the basics of those skills at ArtCenter, which gave me a knowledge platform to learn the oth...
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...
Change Lab Episode 13: Courtney Martin on Activism and Inspiring Social Justice through Writing Courtney E. Martin is a recognized author, cultural critic, TED Speaker, social activist and weekly columnist for the Webby Award-inning website, On Being. Her work is vulnerable yet powerful, filled wit...
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...
From Steve Jobs to ArtCenter: Meet Designer Victor Zaud ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Victor Zaud (BFA 91 Graphic Design), Head of Marketing, IMVU: IMVU is a 3D, immersive social platform where users tap avatars to meet new people and build deeper friendships with those know. Its al...