For more than two decades, alum and Lucasfilm Concept Design Supervisor Christian Alzmann has created concept art for TV and films in the Star Wars universe.
ArtCenter Graduate Art student Delbar Shahbaz and Transportation Design student Ehsan Momeninejad, both from Iran, discuss how President Donald Trump's January 27, 2017 travel ban executive order has impacted them.
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...
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...
Climbing The Ladder: Meet Catalyst CCO Josh Wright AC: What inspired you to co-found Catalyst? Josh Wright (BS Product Design 03) Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Catalyst: The seed was planted when I was at ArtCenter. The College trains you to think about design, not just from the aesthetic ...
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...
The Future Looks Bright: Meet Propelland Founder Hugo Giralt ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Hugo Giralt (GradID 12) founding partner/CEO of propelland: As a multidisciplinary team of designers, engineers and strategists, were working on projects that merge digital and the physical e...
Poster series pays tribute to African-American artists, educators and authors The creative citizens among us give birth to the foundation of civilization, but their work does not end there; instead, they also question the very foundations they create. They challenge them, critique them, and even ...
Long May She Wave: Alumnus Kit Hinrichs' Love for the American Flag Runs Deep The American flag is not only a symbol that everyone recognizes, writes alumnus Kit Hinrichs (BPA 63 Advertising Design) in his introduction to Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag, a 2001 coffee tabl...
On Spain's Costa Brava, a Pavilion Rises Cloud 9, an award-winning Barcelona-based firm known for its dynamic, cutting-edge architecture, has collaborated with ArtCenter’s Environmental Design Department to design and fabricate a work/play pavilion for a residential site located on Spain&rsqu...
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...
Artificial Knowing: Media Design alumnaefight discrimination, onealgorithm at a time In an airy, white loft space, in a fantastical art deco factory building in downtown Los Angeles, Media Design Practices (MDP) alumnae Christine Meinders (MFA 2017) and Selwa Sweidan (MFA 2016) are working to gathe...
Unexpected Landings Careers don’t always follow a linear path. Just ask Coola founder Chris Birchby and celebrated chef Justin Pichetrungsi, two alums who wound up in places very different from where they’d envisioned themselves. Sometimes—oftentimes—life throws you a curve...
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 ...
Read the August 2022 DEI newsletter. Stories include Food for Thought, Lessons in Equity, Road Less Traveled and more.
Hollywood trailblazer Dorothea Holt Redmond “Her watercolor sketches were extraordinary place-making.” — Marty Sklar WALT DISNEY IMAGINEERING Restless, fierce and gifted, 1936 Illustration alum Dorothea Holt Redmond produced scenic designs for Alfred Hitchcock that visualize...
In the remotely taught Fall 2020 course The Future of Creative Workflow, a Sponsored Project with Asus, ArtCenter students collaborate using online tools.
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...
New grad program: Innovation Systems Design “The best way to predict the future is to create it,” said Peter F. Drucker, widely known as the father of modern management. ArtCenter’s Graduate Industrial Design (Grad ID) Department, led by Chair Andy Ogden, has entered into a partn...
Transportation Design Alum Tisha Johnson on design as a growth mindset
DREAM DEFERRED: FINE ART ALUM MIKE SAIJO'S WORK FEATURED IN EXHIBITION ON INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE AMERICANS DURING WWII What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry upLike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a sore—And then run? On a recent day, Fine Art alum Mike Saijo stands and reads out-lo...
Alum Jackie Amezquita (BFA Fine Art 18) returns to Change Lab to reflect on the last four years of her journey, as she puts the finishing touches on her MFA thesis at UCLA.
Change Lab 54: James Meraz on creating a path through unimaginable loss
Change Lab Podcast Episode 42 D’Wayne Edwards on building a pipeline for diversity in sneaker design Like most artists and designers, D’Wayne Edwards identifies as a dreamer. But dreams, like clouds, often change shape the longer we look at them. But not so for D’Wayne who...
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...