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...
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...
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...
Alumna Alison Elizabeth Taylor Captures the Disappearing Landscape When Brooklyn-based artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor (BFA 01 Illustration) returns home to visit family in and around her hometown of Las Vegas, she sees both more and less than she remembers: The open desert shed played in as a kid s...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Internships Give ArtCenter Students a Leg Up on the Job Market Near bohemian boutiques, art galleries, restaurants and zippy electric scooters on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Venice, minutes from the Pacific Ocean, Graphic Design student Ricardo Imperial gives a tour of...
HQ:NY — Meet Three Recent Alums Based in NYC 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 design firms in Manhattan, ...
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; ...
To honor the memory of longtime faculty member Leah Toby Hoffmitz Milken and her transcendent typography, ArtCenter has established the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography to advance the research, teaching and understanding of letterform design and typography.
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...
ACX KIDS CLASSES PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK WORKSHOP SPARK CREATIVITY AT HOME Alumna Gail Howland (BFA 04 Photography and Imagining) teaches ACX Kids classes Photography and Photography Book Workshop with an eye toward exploration, imagination and discovering the incredible possibilities of m...
Student Voices: Ana-Paola Laveaga, Spatial Experience Design
HQ:NY — Photography and Imaging Alumna Heather Sten 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 Ma...
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...
Product Design faculty member Krystina Castella on the serious business of designing for play If there is a fountain of youth, full-time faculty member Krystina Castella may have discovered it. Castella, whose youthful appearance and intense enthusiasm for everything she does belies her year...
FROM INSTAGRAM TO MARC JACOBS: PHOTOGRAPHY ALUMNA DARIA KOBAYASHI RITCH BRINGS HER PRECISE EYE TO FASHION Inside the studio of Photography and Imaging alumna Daria Kobayashi Ritch (BFA 2015), across the hall from her bedroom in her mom’s spacious house in Santa Monica, posters for Gucc...
HQ:LA – Creatives calling L.A. home / Part 2 / The Tastemaker: Yo Santosa For creative professionals, the allure of Los Angeles goes far beyond ‘You can’t beat the weather.’ In this series, we invite you to meet three thriving entrepreneurs who have made the City of Angels t...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 30 Documentary Filmmaker Ivy Meeropol on the Active Pursuit of Empathy Ivy Meeropol is a documentary filmmaker whose emotionally and politically charged films explore social and cultural injustice from the inside out. Her work in TV and film ranges from an exploration of...
This 4x4 gallery features work by ArtCenter alumni in which vivid fashion is inspiration, an abandoned house oozes the blues, music and lights blend into a higher plane of existence and drawings set the stage for paintings both modernist and abstract.
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...
Explore how military veterans are making a difference at ArtCenter and beyond. From groundbreaking design innovations to public service through creativity, discover inspiring stories of resilience, leadership, and impact in art and design.