Setting A Scene: Meet Set Designer Assaf Horowitz ArtCenter: What are you working on right now?Assaf Horowitz (BS 14 Entertainment Design) lead set designer, Blue Sky Studios: An animation feature that will be out in 2020, but I cant say more than that. AC: Describe a moment in your childhood wher...
The ACX Teens course Spatial Experience Design draws from disciplines including architecture, interior design and branding.
BLUEPRINT FOR INNER BEAUTY: MEET ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGNER ELISSA GEE ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Elissa Gee (MS 16 Environmental Design), Designer, Skidmore, Owings Merrill LLP: I'm helping with an office tower for San Francisco, a university building and an office lobby renovatio...
Californians Abroad: Testlab Berlin Expands Students Creative Horizons The California Dream is alive and well in the global cultural capital of Berlin. Not only because 22 ArtCenter students were immersed in two Study Away studios this past summer, but because itself is a coveted idea, an enduring...
Environmental Design alumna Ariel Johnson never tells the same story twice The staff at Ariel Fox Design are as diverse as the environments they create. My office has been called the United Nations of designers, says owner Ariel Johnson (BS 08 Environmental Design), who launched the Sherman Oaks-ba...
Kristina Halcromb is a freelance artist, figure model and teaches art in various mediums. She works on personal projects for her brand, image and artistic style.
American Godsproduction designer Patti Podesta on bone orchards, doors of heaven, andteaching at ArtCenter She styled the Ambassador Hotel setting where Robert F. Kennedy was shot for bio-pic Bobby, designed CIA offices for Emmy-winning Homeland and most recently built a full-sized Viking ship in T...
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...
Supercharged: How two former classmates are shaping the future of Tesla As we go to press, more than 276,000 people have placed preorders for a Tesla Model 3, the highly anticipated, all-electric vehicle with a 215-mile range and an accessible $35,000 price tag—the car Tesla’s CEO ...
Meet EntertainmentDesign Student Phillip Burrows Phillip set himself apart from his household full of athletes when he started drawing as a kid. He then followed his artistic inclinations into Miami's prestigious Design and Architecture Senior High (DASH) and into ArtCenter's Entertainment Design p...
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...
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...
Do What Scares You: Meet Illustrator Nol Ill ArtCenter: Tell us about what inspired your current creative project?Nol ILL (BFA 05 Illustration): When I was asked if Id like to illustrate a childrens book about Halloween, my initial thought was, Yes! Some of my fondest childhood memories were attend...
Change Lab Episode 10: Yves Behar on Designing Technology for the Social Good Swiss-born entrepreneur and ArtCenter alum Yves Behar is the design worlds reigning rock star. His virtuoso career was built on his passion for using technology to advance sustainability and improve lives around the world...
It's About the Journey: Meet Artist Phil Lachapelle ArtCenter: You attended ArtCenter from 1965 to 1967, what was transportation design like at the time?Phil Lachapelle (Transportation): There was a recession and very few jobs at GM, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors. I was told that it would be t...
Layered Urbanism: A New Approach to Campus Connections To help achieve ArtCenter’s goal of creating an exceptional connected campus experience for its students, the College’s master plan outlines a number of innovative and much-needed features for its South Campus location. These includ...
Syrup poured in a tan stream over a pink waffle. Chunks of dark chocolate next to cherries. A pair of magenta beets side-by-side. Los Angeles photographer and recent Photography and Imaging alumna Tatijana Vasily (BFA 16) not only takes food photos that are colorful and vibrant, they also inspire a ...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 29 Saki Mafundikwa and Sadie Red Wing on Decolonizing Design Sadie Red Wing and Saki Mafundikwa grew up a world and two generations apart. Sadie was born into the Lakota tribe and also considers herself a citizen of the Spirt Lake Nation of Fort Totten, South Dakotatwo l...
Spatial Experience Design students Sophie Metzger and Mary Nersesyan are recipients of this year's Donghia Foundation Scholarship, a prestigious interior design award, each receiving a $30,000 award.
Down To A Fine Art: Meet Artist, Educator Quinton McCurine ArtCenter: What are you working on right now?Quinton McCurine (MFA 11 Studio Art) artist and educator: I am currently working on a series of science-fiction books set to be released in China in Mandarin next year. AC: Whats the one tool yo...
TRANSPORTATION DESIGN ALUM WEI CHENG CHOU CONCEPTUALIZES EMORA BRACELET How does a transportation designer go from conceptualizing cars to conceptualizing a high tech fashion bracelet that taps into users emotions? For alumnus Wei Cheng Chou (BS 2015 Transportation Design), both involve thinking a...
Change Lab Episode 33 Dennis Gassner on the behind his Oscar-winning production design Dennis Gassner was born in Canada; but storytelling is his mother tongue. Its the language and the context -- though which the ArtCenter alum and legendary production designer processes the ideas of a script; ...
Designing Cars Fit for Bond, James Bond: Meet Automotive Designer Alex Alexiev ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Alex Alexiev(BS 12 Transportation Design) Designer,McLaren: I was working on the interior for the McLarens brand new car the 720S, which launched in Geneva. Currently, Im w...
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...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 25 RISD President Rosanne Somerson on Redefining Arts Education Rosanne Somerson is an internationally exhibited furniture designer and President of Rhode Island School of Design. Somerson, a RISD alum, sees her parallel roles as a leader and practitioner as complementar...