The educational innovators behind lynda.com and The Skool, and the booming business of online learning Were in the infancy of this industry, and theres a lot of room for a lot of different angles on how to attack the problem of teaching online. Lynda Weinman The pioneers Forbes magazine ...
Photography and Imaging alumna Karen Beard founded Shestock, a stock photography agency that focuses on female-centric images created exclusively by professional women photographers.
Icon Worship Photographer and alum Matthew Rolston Leads Tour through the Getty Museums Icons of Style Exhibition This past September, Matthew Rolstona photographer and director who has created countless iconic portraits of celebrities including Madonna, Jay Z, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift for publi...
4x4 Gallery: Alumni who make art into ritual, ritual into art Lisa Park Her own brainwaves serve as creative muse and medium for Lisa Park (BFA 09 Fine Art). Splitting her time between Seoul and New York City, the artist works with biofeedback technology to create performance art pieces involving...
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.
This edition of the 4x4 Gallery features recent work by alumni whose contributions as design innovators span half a century. Yves Bhar Since forming San Francisco-based Fuseproject in 1999, Swiss-born multidisciplinary designer Yves Bhar (BFA 91 Product Design) has produced triumphs in efficiency...
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 (BFA 63 Advertising) in his introduction to Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag, a 2001 coffee table book ...
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 ...
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...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 1: Lynda Weinman on Taking Arts Education Online In the debut episode of ArtCenter’s Change Lab podcast, President Lorne Buchman interviews Lynda Weinman, who partnered with her husband, ArtCenter alum Bruce Heavin, to found Lynda.com in 1995. What began as a m...
Hang 10? No, Hang 50! John Van Hamersveld BFA 64 Advertising We’re well into fall now, but for Advertising alumnus John Van Hamersveld, life has been one endless summer. The man behind such iconic pop imagery as the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St. album cover and the Jimi Hendrix Pin...
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...
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...
A Chicano icon in full color: How alum Ignacio Gomez brought Zoot Suit's El Pachuco to life As part of Center Theatre Group’s 50th Anniversary celebration, playwright and theater director Luis Valdez is bringing his groundbreaking Zoot Suit back to the Mark Taper Forum, the ven...
ARTCENTER’S CHANGE LAB PODCAST HOSTED BY PRESIDENT EMERITUS LORNE BUCHMAN EXPLORES THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF CREATIVITY How do artists and designers look at the world starting in childhood? What did they do creatively? How did they feel? Where did those experiences take them in their career...
Man of a Thousand (Johnny) Faces: John Van Hamersveld on his 50-year Career Inside his hillside home in Rancho Palos Verdes, with huge glass windows overlooking the Pacific Ocean, where he surfed as a teenager, Advertising alumnus John Van Hamersveld smiles when waxing poetic on his more than 50-ye...
Outsider Art Esther Pearl Watson (BFA 95) “This is going to be the best summer ever…I know my hot guy is sitting on a couch or mat and wondering if some fine lady is dreaming about him,” muses Tammy Pierce, the unlucky underdog of Unlovable, a graphic novel series by Illustratio...
Dan Brodnitz on democratizing education at LinkedIn Learning
It seems like the experts all agree that a future of autonomous cars is inevitable, but what kind of services will automakers have to provide to convince the public to hand over the keys of their cars to Apple, Google or Uber?
Read the December 2022 DEI newsletter. Stories include What's Your Story, the Keith Haring mural, Identificar(x) exhibition and more.
Building a more inclusive house: ArtCenter series explores design futures beyond the Bauhaus Founded as an art school in 1919, Germany’s Bauhaus—meaning “house of construction” or “building house”—is often characterized as emphasizing minimalism, sleek line...
2021+ 2022 Alumni Awards ArtCenter's Alummi Awards Ceremony "It's been about five years since we've had this ceremony, so this is an important evening to bring our community together, to unite us," said ArtCenter president Karen Hofmann in her opening remarks at ArtCenter’s Alumni Awards cer...
A Greener, Cleaner Ride From 4D-printed cars to “15-minute cities,” the future of sustainable personal transportation offers all kinds of possibilities Imagine a car with an exterior of 3D-printed copper, gleaming raw and reddish brown, streaked with a sanding pattern. Its interior is ...
Graphic Design Alumna Michelle Dougherty’s Path from ArtCenter to ‘Stranger Things’ Blocks away from West Los Angeles’s Sawtelle Boulevard, dubbed “ramen row” for its yummy throng of Japanese noodle cafes, Graphic Design alumna Michelle Dougherty (BFA 1995) stand...
Read the May 2023 DEI newsletter. Stories include Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Heritage Month, IdentificarX, Zack Snyder screening and more.