Full Circle: Meet Director Libero Antonio Di Zinno ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Libero Antonio Di Zinno (BFA 89 Photography), director: Ive blessed to be on the inside of a brilliant project, Endangered Activism. I got pulled in by Shannon Galpin, my esteemed partner in Mountain2Mo...
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...
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American/Dutch artist Sterling Ruby (MFA 15 Art) works within a wide range of aesthetic and material strategies, from sculptures to drawings, collages, richly glazed ceramics, spray paint and oil paintings, photography and video.
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 Episode 18 Lisa Kron on Turning Memory into Meaning on Broadway Best known for her Tony Award-winning work on the Broadway hit musical Fun Home (based on Alison Bechdels eponymous graphic novel about coming of age and coming out) Lisa Kron is a singularly talented playwright and...
In Matthew Wards Outspoken, justice is meted out, one way or another What happens when you report an injustice and nothing is done about it? What if those institutions designed to protect you actually end up doing the exact opposite? These are the questions ArtCenter alumnus Matthew Ward (MS 15 Fil...
A Fine Art Fairytale: Meet Artist, Costume Designer John Coulter ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? John Coulter (BFA 93 Illustration) Disney fine artist costume designer: Im costuming a Phantom of the Opera musical to be performed in Italy this summer. And at the same time, Im always w...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Lighting the Past Alumna Tahnee Cracchiola brings antiquity to life, one photograph at a time Its a crisp December morning at the Getty Villa, the Malibu branch of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Home to one of the worlds finest collections of antiquities, the Villa features architecture modeled after a...
Environmental Design alum Seth Baker brings his love of design and nature to the Huntington To say that the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens is a Southern California oasis—with gardens, galleries and a research library spread across 207 acres—is an understatemen...
Transformation is fundamental to every act of creativity, which makes it particularly fertile terrain for wide-ranging exploration in Change Lab, ArtCenter’s podcast featuring deep diving interviews with the world’s leading artist and designers. Hosted by ArtCenter President Lorne Buchm...
Fine Art alum Green Yoon’s digital and physical sculptures form a creative pathway Fine Art alum Green Yoon’s sprawling physical sculptures—created mainly out of bamboo skewers and tree branches—and his futuristic digital sculptures form a creative pathway imbued with myster...
ArtCenter College of Design held an event titled "Unwrapping the Future: Designing for a Sustainable Tomorrow" that included an exclusive screening of the documentary "Seaweed Stories" followed by a panel discussion with experts in biomaterials, innovation and sustainable design.
DAZZLE ME: GRAPHIC DESIGN CHAIR NIK HAFERMAAS SPEARHEADS 1,600-FOOT LONG DAZZLE DIGITAL MURAL AT SAN DIEGO AIRPORT Stretched across the 1,600-foot long white facade of San Diego International Airport’s new rental car center are 2,100 paper-thin electronic tiles that flicker and flash dramatic...
Meet Product Design student Jordyn Aamot who won the Wanted Design 2020 Conscious Design Award for her Enliven furniture collection.
Hiroshi Sugimoto (BFA 74 Photography) is an internationally renowned artist, photographer and architect whose esoteric practice has explored and redefined human concepts of perception, space, time and light.
Cartonlandia y Chalino: Alumna Ana Serrano’s Cardboard Sculptures Part of Exhibit Featuring Latino Artists When Illustration alumna Ana Serrano (BFA 2008) was a kid, growing up in South Los Angeles and Downey, she loved building things. Known now for her cardboard cityscapes and sculptures, s...
Man of a Thousand (Johnny) Faces: John Van Hamersveld on his 50-year Career Inside his hillside home in Rancho Palos Verdes, with huge glass windows overlooking the Pacific Ocean, where he surfed as a teenager, Advertising alumnus John Van Hamersveld smiles when waxing poetic on his more than 50-ye...
The Los Angeles Unified School District joins forces with the College's social impact department, Designmatters, to implement "Where's Daryl?," a cutting-edge health curriculum designed to get tweens and teens to talk about gun violence.
Read the April 2023 DEI newsletter. Stories include spring graduation, IdentificarX, Sexual Assault Awareness Month and more.
ARTCENTER’S GLOBAL COMMUNITY HUBS FOSTER CONNECTION WHILE STUDENTS LEARN REMOTELY It’s a blue-skied fall day, and ArtCenter students are busy at work inside a bright and airy studio space with long white tables at Beijing-based EXR International Art Cultural Exchange Co, Ltd., founded b...