HQ:SF – Creatives in the Bay Area / Part 2 / Illustration Alum Martin Grasser San Francisco has changed a lot since 1967’s Summer of Love. Flanked by water and fog, the Northern California city now brims with technology companies and creatives. Meet three very different alums who work a...
HQ:SF – Creatives in the Bay Area / Part 1 / Product Design Alumna Katie Dill San Francisco has changed a lot since 1967’s Summer of Love. Flanked by water and fog, the Northern California city now brims with technology companies and creatives. Meet three very different alums who work a...
Profile of Environmental Design alumnus Tung Chiang, director and creative lead of Heath Clay Studio.
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...
Edward Cushenberry lives in the Los Angeles area where he splits his time between photographing his life and drawing everything else that's going on in his world, in an attempt to merge real life with romanticism.
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...
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...
Campus Life. Elevated. Situated on 175 wooded acres in the hills above the Rose Bowl, ArtCenters Hillside Campus has never lacked any amount of outdoor green space. Life at the Colleges South Campus, located in an urban setting at the southern gateway to Pasadena, is a different story. In imaginin...
The Power of Intuition: Meet Industrial Designer Terry Carr ArtCenter: What are you working on right now?Terry Carr (BS 13 Product Design) industrial designer, Plantronics: Wearable technology that helps users stay active, like earphones with a coach or guide in whatever exercise youre doing that c...
He Shoots, He Scores: Meet Photojournalist Damon Casarez ArtCenter: How do you define success? Damon Casarez (BA 12 Photography and Imaging) Photographer: As being on the right path to achieve goals that youve set for yourself. There are always ups and downs being a freelance artist. But I know wh...
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...
A Conversation with Anthony Zepeda, Master Printmaker and Teacher A Living Treasure: Thirty Years of Anthony Zepeda and the ArtCenter Printmaking Studio is an exhibition that pays tribute to legendary teacher and printmaker Anthony Zepeda. In 1975, Zepeda began his career at Gemini G.E.L printing ...
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...
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...
Alumni Panels at Car Classic Celebrate Iconic Design: 70 Years of ArtCenter Influence An event that capped a weekend-long alumni celebration thatattracted 600 alumni back to ArtCenter, last months Car Classicdubbed Iconic Design: 70 Years of ArtCenter Influencebrought together several generations o...
Meet upper-term illustration student Noah Minuskin, who moonlights as a master tattoo artist in L.A.'s downtown Arts District.
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...
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...
CREATIVE RESILIENCE: ALUM ELYSE MARKS CONCEPTUALIZES NATURE-BASED HEALING SPACES DURING THE PANDEMIC ArtCenter alumni have adapted to change during the COVID-19 pandemic in a wide variety of ways. Some turned inward, while others turned outward. They slowed down or sped up. This story is part of a ...
Meet Product Design student Jordyn Aamot who won the Wanted Design 2020 Conscious Design Award for her Enliven furniture collection.
Las Fotos Project is one of several L.A. community arts organizations that ArtCenter Admissions partners with on portfolio reviews and skill-building workshops.
Change Lab Podcast Episode 28 Recent Alum Vicente Magaa on Solving the Riddle of Mass Transit in California ArtCenters Transportation Design program has a type and, at first glance, Vicente Magaa seems to fit it perfectly. Lifelong obsession with cars? Check. A childhood spent sketching every ty...
GRAPHIC DESIGN ALUMNA MICHELLE DOUGHERTY WINS HER FIRST EMMY FOR MAIN TITLE DESIGN FOR NETFLIX’S STRANGER THINGS The main title sequence for hit Netflix show Stranger Things starts with a moody, droning 1980s-esque synthesizer melody as red glowing letters slide together to form the ti...
Frido Beisert asserts that the creative process is a skill that can be learned and practiced just like riding a bicycle.
NIKE’S MARTIN LOTTI: DESIGN IS PART OF THE COMPANY’S DNA “Though beautiful, Oregon struck some people as the kind of place where nothing big happened, or was ever likely to,” writes Nike’s Portland-born co-founder and chairman Phil Knight in his newly released memoir S...