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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Creative Tech Week 2023 will feature innovative technology leaders and keynote speakers Henrik Fisker and Iddris Sandu.
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...
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; ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...