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...
For artist Neil Shigley, documenting San Diego's homeless population in large-scale block-printed portraits is a labor of love.
Change Lab Podcast Episode 23 Rebeca Mndez on dissolving boundaries between art and design and connecting with our animal nature Rebeca Mndez is an artist, designer, educator and ArtCenter alumna whose creative practice defies the bounds of traditional disciplines or descriptions. Her pioneering ...
Way to Logo: Meet Brand Identity Expert Lindon Leader ArtCenter: What have been some of the most memorable twists and turns in your professional/creative journey after graduating ArtCenter?Lindon Leader (BFA Advertising 78): I have served a wide variety of clients large and small, local, national...
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...
Serving the client and the muse, two creative minds thrive in advertising while finding an extra measure of freedom in their own work.
Read the June 2023 DEI newsletter. Stories include Keith Haring's A Public Thing, IdentificarX, Pride celebrations and more.
BlockCenter Creator Paul Lam Entertainment Design student Paul Lam created BlockCenter, a custom version of Minecraft set at ArtCenter’s Hillside campus. What is your sweet summer story? Around two weeks ago I started a 1 to 1 (1 block equates to 1 meter) recreation of the ArtCenter’s...
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...
Profile of Environmental Design alumnus Tung Chiang, director and creative lead of Heath Clay Studio.
Knowledge is Power: A Transportation Design Student’s Journey from Zimbabwe to ArtCenter One day, when then 6-year-old future Transportation Design student Thokozani Mabena was playing with friends in the shanty town where he grew up, in authoritarian-ruled Zimbabwe, he was drawn to a magazin...
Advertising alum Bob Matsumoto’s journey from Manzanar to ArtCenter and a thriving career The first thing you see when entering Advertising alumnus Bob Matsumoto’s (BFA 1963) red brick house in Burbank is an enormous American flag pinned to an archway on the front porch. The flag was g...
The IdentificarX Film Festival showcased films as part of IdentificarX exhibition programming celebrating our Latina/e/o/x ArtCenter alumni.
Graduate Art alumnus Michael Rey creates large-scale abstract works: geometric shapes and color, a combination of painting and sculpture.
HQ:NY — Advertising Alumna Lacey Waterman 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 Manhattan, t...
Frederick Germany II is the founder/owner of production company derFmania, and writer/director of Midnight Hour.
ACTOR ALDIS HODGE REFLECTS ON THE IMPACT OF ARTCENTER'S TEENS PROGRAM ON HIM AS A WATCH DESIGNER It’s a bright day in New York City, and Aldis Hodge—actor and co-founder of the new Black-owned concept art studio 9B Collective—is on the move. During the course of this Zoom intervie...
ACCOMPLISHED AND INSPIRATIONAL ALUMNI AND FACULTY HONORED AT THE ARTCENTER AWARDS, THE COLLEGE’S MOST PRESTIGIOUS EVENING Alumni Award Recipients Included Luis Fitch, Rafael López, Bijan Machen, Robert Matsumoto, Thomas Mueller, Nidhi Singh Rathore, Matthew Rolston and Diana Thater. T...
Two ArtCenter alums share a history and a mission
Meet ArtCenter Alum Jessie Zaud (BFA 90 Graphic Design) Creative Director & President, Zaudhaus.
PATH OF TOTALITY: ARTCENTER'S ECLIPSE EXHIBITION SHOWCASES ART AND WONDER “I want to hire the person who does the publicity for the eclipse,” comedian Steve Martin joked recently in a tweet gone viral. He was referring, of course, to the much-anticipated Great American Eclipse...
STUDENTS TACKLING SOCIAL ISSUES IN THEIR ART AND DESIGN – PART I: ILLUSTRATION STUDENT ALEJANDRA FERNANDEZ This is the first story in a three-part series on ArtCenter students tackling social issues—from ethnic, racial, religious, class, sexual and gender identity to topics including im...
EVERYONE IS WELCOME HERE ARTCENTER LIBRARY IS A SAFE SPACE OF LEARNING FOR ALL When Mario Ascencio, ArtCenter Library’s college librarian and managing director, was a teenager working at his local public library in southeast Los Angeles, one day a woman came in, speaking to him in Spanish an...
PSYCHIC LIBERATION: FINE ART’S SOUND LAB MAKES WAVES OF NOISE On a recent Friday night in July, Fine Art student Mehregan Meysami stands behind two tables heaped with music equipment—a turntable, mixer, black audio cables, effects pedals and more—on the spacious second floor of th...
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...