Setting A Scene: Meet Set Designer Assaf Horowitz ArtCenter: What are you working on right now?Assaf Horowitz (BS 14 Entertainment Design) lead set designer, Blue Sky Studios: An animation feature that will be out in 2020, but I cant say more than that. AC: Describe a moment in your childhood wher...
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...
Meet upper-term illustration student Noah Minuskin, who moonlights as a master tattoo artist in L.A.'s downtown Arts District.
HQ:LA – Creatives calling L.A. home / Part 2 / The Tastemaker: Yo Santosa For creative professionals, the allure of Los Angeles goes far beyond ‘You can’t beat the weather.’ In this series, we invite you to meet three thriving entrepreneurs who have made the City of Angels t...
Meet Product Design alumnus Spencer Nikosey, who oversees the Sunset Boulevard leather goods firm, Killspencer, that he launched as the centerpiece of his graduating portfolio.
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...
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...
Las Fotos Project is one of several L.A. community arts organizations that ArtCenter Admissions partners with on portfolio reviews and skill-building workshops.
Alum Rafael López celebrates diversity in children’s book The Day You Begin In The Day You Begin, written by National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by award-winning artist and Illustration alumnus Rafael López (BFA 85), a girl named Angelina with caramel s...
ALUM RAFAEL LÓPEZ ILLUSTRATES HOPE IN CHILDREN’S BOOK SEQUEL THE YEAR WE LEARNED TO FLY “Use those beautiful and brilliant minds of yours,” says the grandmother of Angelina and her brother in the 2022 bestselling children’s book The Year We Learned to Fly, a sequel ...
We Will be Strong Resilience in the Ashes installation at Grad Show pays tribute after Eaton and Palisades fires “We are there for you and we will be strong.” That was the message that graduating Illustration student HM Newton wrote on a card and hung on a sculptu...
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...
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...
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...
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&...
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...
This 4x4 gallery features work by ArtCenter alumni in which vivid fashion is inspiration, an abandoned house oozes the blues, music and lights blend into a higher plane of existence and drawings set the stage for paintings both modernist and abstract.
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...
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...
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.
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...
Alum Stella Kalinina reflects on her ancestral home in Ukraine in a story published by The Washington Post, with photos from her project Where They Wait for Me.
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: ...
Schedule 6:30 a.m. Field opens to exhibitors 8 a.m. Judges, Patrons and Sponsors breakfast (Hyundai and Kia Innovation Lab) 9 a.m. Judging commences. Curated field experience for Patrons. 9:45 a.m. Parking and complimentary shuttles begin (...