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...
Change Lab: Wendy MacNaughton's Illustrated JournalismDraws Extraordinary Stories fromEveryday Lives Wendy MacNaughton is an illustrator, author and graphic journalist whose idiosyncratic body of work shimmers with warmth and humanity.Her recent collaboration with writer Caroline Paul yieldedthe be...
Down to a Science: Charles Mauro's expertise in neuroscience-based design research dates back to his ArtCenter education In the not too distant future, neuroscience and design patent law will completely transform the world of design, says alumnus Charles Mauro (BS 71 Product Design), president and ...
ACX TEENS COURSE DESIGN 360 SHOWS HOW ART AND DESIGN ARE CONNECTED In the ACX Teens course Design 360, students explore the wide world of ArtCenters degree programs, including Advertising, Environmental Design, Film, Fine Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography and Imaging, Product Design an...
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 ...
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...
Stage of Life: Meet Freelance Artist James (Fader) Cui ArtCenter: What are you working on right now?James Cui (VJ Fader) (BFA 02 Illustration): Im doing a stage design for an EDM festival in Myanmar. Im also working with an architect to create a video installation piece for the new LG headquarters ...
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...
Shooting for the Sky: Williamson Gallery Exhibition Focuses on Humanity's Shifting Understanding of the Heavens NOTE: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, SKY is not currently available for viewing. We hope, however, that you enjoy this essaywith accompanying imageryby the exhibitions curator. An i...
Alumna Loris Lora: Safe and Sound andnot slowing down An artist whose work has appeared in numerous publications, includingThe Boston Globe,Los Angeles Times,The New Yorker and the The Wall Street Journal, Illustration alumna Loris Lora (BFA 14) spent countless childhood hours drawing. But it wasn...
REPRESENT: Powerin Color Many artists and designers grapple with questions of identity. For artists and designers of color, these questions often take on additional layers of complexity. Last term, more than 20 ArtCenter students and alumni contributed work to Represent: Power in Color, a one-day e...
BRAVE AND THE BOLD: SURVIOS AND HEARTSMINDS LEADERS TO DISCUSS SECRETS OF CONNECTING In an increasingly noisy world of advertising and marketingfull of hashtags, sponsored lenses and, yes, good old-fashioned word of mouthhow do creatives find the audiences they need to build their brand? Thats one ...
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...
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...
MacArthur Fellow and Fine Art alumnus Jorge Pardo has been bucking tradition since he rose to prominence in 1998.
ILLUSTRATION ALUMNA JOANNE KIM CREATES DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS THAT INTERPRET MEMORY On a spring day in 2021, in a huge and high-ceilinged space that used to be a clothing store in Pasadena’s Paseo mall, artist Joanne Kim (BFA 18 Illustration) gives a tour of her pencil drawings and paintings&...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 50 Ann Hamilton on the Power of I-Don’t-Know To experience one of Ann Hamilton’s installations is to be transported into a world of invention unlike any other. Recognized for her large-scale public projects and performance collaborations, Ann uses space as he...
STUDENTS TACKLING SOCIAL ISSUES IN THEIR ART AND DESIGN – PART I: ILLUSTRATION STUDENT ALEJANDRA FERNANDEZ This is the first story in a three-part series on ArtCenter students tackling social issues—from ethnic, racial, religious, class, sexual and gender identity to topics including im...
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...
NASA's Jessie Kawata: Sending Design Across the Universe Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena recently unveiled their findings that liquid methane rains down on the surface of Titan, filling the seas and lakes of Saturn’s frigid moon. "It's a marvelous feat ...
Shooting Star Star Foreman (BFA 08) Los Angeles photographer Star Foreman’s vibrant, campy tableaux have defined publications such as LA Weekly and Pasadena Magazine. Her family history proved pivotal in getting her very first gig with LA Weekly. Creative director Darrick Rainer liked Forem...
2021 Alumni Awards Bruce Heavin, Outstanding Service Award "Giving to ArtCenter is the gift that keeps on giving," says Bruce Heavin (BFA 93 Illustration). "Generosity is not just about money. You could be generous with your time, your empathy." Heavin and his wife Lynda Weinm...
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...
Organized by graduate department Media Design Practices (MDP) faculty members Elizabeth Chin and Sean Donahue, the week-long November series Different Tomorrows: Beyond Whiteness brings together writers, activists, artists and designers who explore ethnofuturisms, including Afrofuturism, Chicanix, A...
CREATIVE RESILIENCE: ALUM LEONARDO SANTAMARIA POURS EMPATHY INTO HIS PANDEMIC-ERA ILLUSTRATIONS 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 serie...