Sky High Design Phil Hettema (BFA 81) Illustration Phil Hettema is bringing simple and elegant design to Glitter Gulch with the creation of the world’s tallest observation wheel, the High Roller at Caesars, stretching 550 feet into the Las Vegas skyline. “I think this wheel is really,...
MacArthur Fellow and Fine Art alumnus Jorge Pardo has been bucking tradition since he rose to prominence in 1998.
Icon Worship Photographer and alum Matthew Rolston Leads Tour through the Getty Museums Icons of Style Exhibition This past September, Matthew Rolstona photographer and director who has created countless iconic portraits of celebrities including Madonna, Jay Z, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift for publi...
Master of His Domaine: Meet Multifaceted Artist Dennis Mukai ArtCenter: Whats your best piece of advice for an ArtCenter student interested following your career path?Dennis Mukai (BFA 79 Illustration) artist: Find your inspiration and your passion, and never make excuses. I cant remember where thi...
FROM INSTAGRAM TO MARC JACOBS: PHOTOGRAPHY ALUMNA DARIA KOBAYASHI RITCH BRINGS HER PRECISE EYE TO FASHION Inside the studio of Photography and Imaging alumna Daria Kobayashi Ritch (BFA 2015), across the hall from her bedroom in her mom’s spacious house in Santa Monica, posters for Gucc...
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...
Alumni with ArtCenter's BFA in Photography and Imaging degree have forged careers in advertising, editorial, fashion, sports, food, photojournalism and more.
Kevin Bethune (MS Industrial Design) on facing obstacles, his commitment to connecting people with their dreams and taking the high road in business and in life.
A pioneer in the field of computer graphics, Ridgley Curry has designed successful marketing campaigns for high-profile clients.
Azeez Alli-Balogun (MS 18 Industrial Design) has received the 2022 ArtCenter Alumni Award for Young Innovator. As Head of Design at the XQ Institute, Alli-Balogun leads product design of a transformative educational architecture to make high school education more equitable.
Meet EntertainmentDesign Student Phillip Burrows Phillip set himself apart from his household full of athletes when he started drawing as a kid. He then followed his artistic inclinations into Miami's prestigious Design and Architecture Senior High (DASH) and into ArtCenter's Entertainment Design p...
ACX TEENS COURSE EXPLORING PHOTOGRAPHY TEACHES TEENS TO BOOST THEIR PHOTO SKILLS In the ACX Teens course Exploring Photography, taught by ArtCenter alumnus David Sotelo (BFA 97 Photography and Imaging), students enhance their photographic skills and personal vision through assignments that include ...
ACX TEENS COURSE INDUSTRIAL DESIGN SUMMER INTENSIVE INSPIRES STUDENTS AT HOME Wonder how an initial napkin sketch can become a smartphone, or how a concept car is designed? In ACX Teens four-week Industrial Design Summer Intensive, students explore the wide world of industrial design, a field in wh...
Down To A Fine Art: Meet Artist, Educator Quinton McCurine ArtCenter: What are you working on right now?Quinton McCurine (MFA 11 Studio Art) artist and educator: I am currently working on a series of science-fiction books set to be released in China in Mandarin next year. AC: Whats the one tool yo...
ACX TEENS COURSE DYNAMIC DRAWING TEACHES TEENS TO COMMUNICATE IDEAS THROUGH DRAWINGS In the ACX Teens course Dynamic Drawing, taught by alumnus Joe Del Rosario (BS 95 Product Design), students explore rapid visualization techniques using ink, pens, markers and other related mediums. ACX Teens is Ar...
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...
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...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 17 Charlie Hodges on Pirouetting from Dance to Design For twenty years, Charlie Hodges heeded his creative calling to dance at the highest level. With roles in acclaimed Broadway productions and as part of Twyla Tharps legendary repertory company, his trek to the peak of...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 19 Fiat Chrysler Design Head Ralph Gilles on Vehicles that Move Us Emotionally Three years ago, Ralph Gilles was named Global Head of Design at Fiat Chrysler, a post responsible for steering design across the companys entire brand portfolio. In practical terms, Gilles h...
Going the Distance at Under Armour Two ArtCenter alums share a history and a mission The city of Portland, Oregon is famously home to such cultural institutions as Powells Books, Stumptown Coffee and the International Rose Test Garden. But when it comes to the design world, Portland is perhaps bes...
TRANSPORTATION DESIGN ALUM WEI CHENG CHOU CONCEPTUALIZES EMORA BRACELET How does a transportation designer go from conceptualizing cars to conceptualizing a high tech fashion bracelet that taps into users emotions? For alumnus Wei Cheng Chou (BS 2015 Transportation Design), both involve thinking a...
ACX TEENS COURSE DESIGN 360 SHOWS HOW ART AND DESIGN ARE CONNECTED In the ACX Teens course Design 360, students explore the wide world of ArtCenters degree programs, including Advertising, Environmental Design, Film, Fine Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography and Imaging, Product Design an...
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...
Mark Ryden x Barbie is a boundary-pushing new collaboration between Mattel Creations and alum Mark Ryden
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...