Meet Modern Love Illustrator and ArtCenter Faculty Brian Rea How does an illustrator make our internal experiences of love and loss visible? It's a riddle that Illustration faculty member grapples with every week in his playful drawings featured within each installation of the New York Times' popul...
ARTIST AND ILLUSTRATION ASSOCIATE CHAIR AARON SMITH'S COLORFUL PORTRAITS ARE NOSTALGIC AND MODERN Illustration Department Associate Chair Aaron Smith (BFA 88) has long been transfixed by the Victorian and Edwardian eras, and by the bearded men—stoically posed and meticulously attired&m...
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...
CHANGE/MAKERS: Pam Fujimoto, Executive CreativeDirector Known for her irreverent and often-imitated creative campaigns for brands both iconic (Absolut Vodka) and insurgent (The Coffee Bean), alum and WONGDOODY Executive Creative Director Pam Fujimoto redefines what it means to be a modern advertisi...
CHANGE/MAKERS: Matthew RolstonPhotographer, Director and Creative Director Ever since Andy Warhol hired then-ArtCenter student Matthew Rolston to shoot a portrait of Steven Spielberg for Interview magazine, Rolston has continued to redefine the modern meaning of glamour and what it is to be a celeb...
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 Podcast: Niklas Gustafsson on Tacklingthe Pepsi Challenge ArtCenter alum Niklas Gustafsson is the Global Director for PepsiCos Design and Innovation team. His wide-ranging duties at PepsiCo embody a uniquely modern corporate dilemma for brands striving to remain relevant to Millennials: ...
Bleed and Blend: Meet Creative Director Aaron Jacob ArtCenter: What do you like most about your job?Aaron Jacob (BA 08 Graphic Design) Associate Creative Director, Ayzenberg Groups space.camp: The fact that Im fortunate enough to spend my time collaborating with insanely talented creatives. Whether...
All Work All Fun ArtCenter alum and Fuseproject founder Yves Behar’s career as a global entrepreneur is filled with risks and success A person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. That, according to Dictionary....
4x4 Gallery: Alumnae work in which a yarn installation anda still life feast meet mouth jewelry and llamas wearing sweatbands Pae White Last year, world-renowned mixed media artist and Graduate Art alumna Pae White (MFA 91) installed Spacemanship, a 45-foot-tall site-specific work for the expanded...
This edition of the 4x4 Gallery features recent work by alumni whose contributions as design innovators span half a century. Yves Bhar Since forming San Francisco-based Fuseproject in 1999, Swiss-born multidisciplinary designer Yves Bhar (BFA 91 Product Design) has produced triumphs in efficiency...
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...
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...
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...
ALUMNA ARTIST AND DESIGNER REBECA MÉNDEZ BREAKS BOUNDARIES Walking around her 1937 Richard Neutra-designed apartment in L.A.’s Westwood hills, interdisciplinary artist, designer, teacher and ArtCenter alumna Rebeca Méndez (BFA 84 Graphic Design, MFA 97 Media Design Practices) is...
A Visual Conversation: Meet Art Director Samantha Kallis ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Samantha Kallis (BA Illustration 10) Art Director of Development at Disney Television Animation: I cant give specifics, but broadly I work on Disney projects before they go into production. My job...
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 ...
Everything Under the Sun Nicholas Alan Cope (BFA 07) Nicholas Alan Cope sees Los Angeles as a city of contrasts, with “dueling public narratives of glamour and cynicism” legible in its stark, modern architecture. In his new book of black and white photographs, Whitewash, he&...
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...
A Public Thing: Celebrating Keith Haring’s ArtCenter Mural and its Place in a Legacy of Art, Activism and Social Change Joyful, Political, Unapologetically Gay Last week, ArtCenter College of Design presented a panel conversation and debuted a short film about artist Keith Haring and the mur...
Photography alumnus and visual effects master Peter W. Anderson, ASC, received the 2013 Gordon E. Sawyer Award, an Academy Award for technological contributions that have brought credit to the film industry.
Automotive News dubbed Winnie Cheung, who studied transportation design at the College, as a "car design prodigy" in selecting her to be included in its 40 under 40 list of the industry's early achievers.
Renowned photographer and ArtCenter alumnus Matthew Rolston joins Change Lab to discuss celebrity, beauty, death anxiety, and the deeper meanings behind his work.
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.
Over the course of Lorne Buchman's lively Change Lab conversation, Phil Gilbert discusses his evolution as a leader and the importance of seeing every day as a prototype that can be improved upon.