Change Lab 47: Pasadena City College President Erika Endrijonas on leveling the playing field
Change Lab Podcast Featuring Mari Nakano, Social Impact Designer with the New York City Mayors Office Mari Nakano (MFA 10 Media Design Practices) is a social impact designer and ArtCenter alum deploying design problem solving to improve the lives of at-risk populations around the world. She was rec...
From ArtCenter to Hulu: Meet Interaction Designer Ting Wu Ting Wu's worldview as a Tibetan Buddhist, and her work as an Associate User Experience Designer at Hulu, is grounded in empathy and understanding of others. Studying Interaction Design at ArtCenter helped her develop the skills necessary to...
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...
A fast talker with a boisterous laugh (and tidy beard), Interaction Design alumnus Nicholas Jayanty (BS 2016) has never fit into a rigid box. His career path has shifted from working in film and television in New York City, Austin and Los Angeles for a decade to studying Interaction Design at ArtCen...
Read the October 2022 DEI newsletter. Stories include Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month, Olympic City, Purple Mexican exhibition and more.
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...
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...
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...
Astronomy Fans Go Cosmic ArtCenter and Caltech Scientists Unite for Space Discovery at AstroFest For more than 100 years, brainy residents in Pasadenanamed by civic leaders as the City of Astronomyhave fueled tons of scientific innovation. And thats why almost a dozen Pasadena organizations and i...
Hear, Hear! Neeti Kailas (MS 13) Neeti Kailas has always been passionate about healthcare. While in the Industrial Design graduate program at ArtCenter, her pregnancy risk-assessment kit, Aadhya, was exhibited in the Student Gallery. Today, inspired by a childhood friend in India who was born deaf...
Change Lab Episode 11: Ellen Lupton on Design as Storytelling Ellen Lupton is a design thinker of the highest order. As curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City, she has produced numerous exhibitions and books, including Thinking with Type (2004), whi...
Change Lab Episode 9: Graphic Design Legend Paula Scher Paula Scher is among the most influential graphic designers working today. The first female principal to join Pentagram, the worlds largest independently owned design studio, Schers logos, identity and branding systems have established her ico...
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...
4x4 Gallery: Alumni who make art into ritual, ritual into art Lisa Park Her own brainwaves serve as creative muse and medium for Lisa Park (BFA 09 Fine Art). Splitting her time between Seoul and New York City, the artist works with biofeedback technology to create performance art pieces involving...
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...
Californians Abroad: Testlab Berlin Expands Students Creative Horizons The California Dream is alive and well in the global cultural capital of Berlin. Not only because 22 ArtCenter students were immersed in two Study Away studios this past summer, but because itself is a coveted idea, an enduring...
Source Material: Meet Environmental Designer Funi Ding ArtCenter: What are you working on right now?Funi Ding (BS Environmental Design 16) senior industrial designer, Alibaba Group: Cafe culture-related product that might be the future way of drinking coffee. Interests in architecture, prod...
A good story well told: Faculty, former astronaut to receive honorary doctorate If Dos Equis were truly interested in casting a real-life individual as "The Most Interesting Man in the World" for its popular advertising campaign, they'd be hard-pressed to find anybody more qualifiedon this planet (...
Avant Gardner: Meet Graphic/Motion Designer Tammy Szu ArtCenter: What do you like most about your job? Tammy Szu (BA 16 Graphic Design) freelance graphic designer/motion designer: I like that as a freelancer, I can take time off when I need it and turn inward and grow not only as a designer, but as...
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...
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...
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...
By unanimous vote, the Pasadena Armenian Genocide Memorial Committee selected a design by undergraduate Environmental Design student Catherine Menard for a memorial to be built in the city's Memorial Park.
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...