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...
Las Fotos Project is one of several L.A. community arts organizations that ArtCenter Admissions partners with on portfolio reviews and skill-building workshops.
Every day is Veterans Day for students in Designmatters’ The Healing Trauma Project “When guest speakers come into the class, they can spot me in the crowd and instantly tell I’m a veteran,” says ArtCenter student and former mass communication specialist for the U.S. Navy Ch...
Revisiting Radical Chic: Meet Art Director Mike Diehl ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Mike Diehl (BA Advertising 73) graphic designer/art director: A host of wonderful projects: a brand identity for a solar-power company in Hawaii, a logo for a nonprofit music organization, plus some ...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 14: Jackie Amezquita on Crossing Borders and Making Change We are trying something new: We have decided to add an episode every year to the Change Lab podcast that will feature one of our graduating students. Its a way for our listeners to learn, directly, about some of t...
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...
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...
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.
In the remotely taught Fall 2020 course The Future of Creative Workflow, a Sponsored Project with Asus, ArtCenter students collaborate using online tools.
In ArtCenter's "Life Without Plastic" Sponsored Project, Newell Brands challenged students to reimagine some of their most iconic products for a new era of sustainability
Got passion? For your consideration, we present to you projects by Doug Aitken ("Station to Station"), Jen Rosenstein ("Transformational Project"), Mark Ryden ("Meat Dress," "Queen Bee #105"), and Lawrence Carroll ("Re-Creation").
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...
Meet Oscar Nominated Film Editor and ArtCenter Mentor Billy Weber Film department mentor and Academy Award-nominated editor Billy Weber has collaborated with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Terrence Malick, Tony Scott and Martin Brest. In this intimate caree portrait, Weber opens ...
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...
From ArtCenter to Adidas: Meet Computational Designer Jacques Perrault Jacques Perrault (BS 17 Product) discovered his passion for sports design during an ArtCenter DesignStorm whose goal was to develop a better running blade for Paralympic athletes. Perraults innovative ideas for that project yiel...
Press Play: Meet Designer, Record Store Owner Brian Thomas AC: What inspired your current creative project?Brian Thomas (BFA 07 Graphic Design) business owner: During our time at ArtCenter, a friend Micah Panama (BFA 07 Graphic Design) was running a mixtape club. After we graduated, I proposed we c...
Kicking againstthe digital takeover: Noah Minuskin's hand-drawnJohn Wick poster When Los Angeles-based artist and Illustration alumnus Noah Minuskin (BFA 15) isn't busy inking scenes of spiritual agony on his clients' limbs or torsos, the internationally recognized artist lends his considerable tal...
Serving the client and the muse, two creative minds thrive in advertising while finding an extra measure of freedom in their own work.
From the Heart: Meet Transportation Designer Luciano Bove ArtCenter: You recently managed the Renault Design Academy India internship what was the purpose of the project? Luciano Bove (BS Transportation Design 98) Design Manager, Renault: It was a new way of recruiting young car designers. We rece...
Wild Thoughts: Meet Interaction Designer Karl Walker ArtCenter: Whats the most unique thing youve designed? Karl Walker (BS 15 Interaction Design) Product Designer Tradesy: My senior project at ArtCenter, which was a solution for people who are dealing with Alzheimers and the entire support system ...
Creativity Crusader: Meet Author-Artist Simn Silva ArtCenter: How do you define your current project Cultivating a Creative Mind?Simn Silva (BFA 86 Illustration) author, speaker, artist: I define it as regaining what we lost over the years: our genius, confidence, self-esteem and more importantly o...
ACX TEENS COURSE INDUSTRIAL DESIGN SUMMER INTENSIVE INSPIRES STUDENTS AT HOME Wonder how an initial napkin sketch can become a smartphone, or how a concept car is designed? In ACX Teens four-week Industrial Design Summer Intensive, students explore the wide world of industrial design, a field in wh...
‘HEALING OUR INNER CHILD’: STUDENTS UNVEIL A BRIGHT, BOLD MURAL AT ARTCENTER’S SOUTH CAMPUS Featuring the words “our” and “home” painted in large vertical type, the new mural in the lobby of ArtCenter’s 1111 building (South Campus) is a bold declarati...
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...
Altogether now! Transdisciplinary Studio courses allow students to collaborate across different majors On a grey cloudy day in a second-floor classroom at the 870 building on ArtCenters South Campus, students from a wide range of departmentsIllustration, Fine Art, Product Design, Graphic Design and...