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...
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...
Graduate Graphic Design alum Alex Seth’s work is a meditation on place and time When it comes to his vivid and heady work, recent alumnus and Canada native Alex Seth (MFA 18 Graphic Design)—a transmedia graphic designer in ArtCenter’s Marketing and Communications Department—...
Through trial by fire, students in Advertising Department Chair Gary Goldsmith's "Crashvertising" course learn that today's creatives have little time to luxuriate over their concepts before a client reviews them.
NIKE’S MARTIN LOTTI: DESIGN IS PART OF THE COMPANY’S DNA “Though beautiful, Oregon struck some people as the kind of place where nothing big happened, or was ever likely to,” writes Nike’s Portland-born co-founder and chairman Phil Knight in his newly released memoir S...
HQ:SF – Creatives in the Bay Area / Part 2 / Illustration Alum Martin Grasser 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...
In this episode of Change Lab, Lorne speaks with artist Lita Albuquerque about her art and finding renewal after the devastating Woolsey fire. Listen now!
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...
Meet upper-term illustration student Noah Minuskin, who moonlights as a master tattoo artist in L.A.'s downtown Arts District.
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...
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...
Meet Product Design alumnus Spencer Nikosey, who oversees the Sunset Boulevard leather goods firm, Killspencer, that he launched as the centerpiece of his graduating portfolio.
A Visual Conversation: Meet Art Director Samantha Kallis ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Samantha Kallis (BA Illustration 10) Art Director of Development at Disney Television Animation: I cant give specifics, but broadly I work on Disney projects before they go into production. My job...
HQ:SF – Creatives in the Bay Area / Part 3 / Environmental Design Alum Tung Chiang 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 w...
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...
STUDENTS TACKLING SOCIAL ISSUES IN THEIR ART AND DESIGN – PART II: PRODUCT DESIGN STUDENT LORI NISHIKAWA This is the second story in a three-part series on ArtCenter students tackling social issues—from ethnic, racial, religious, class, sexual and gender identity to topics including imm...
CASHING IN: ARTCENTER STUDENTS EXPLORE THE FUTURE OF FINANCE Though it lacks the name brand recognition of San Diego Comic Con or the South by Southwest Festival, the Digital Document Security Conference (DDS) is an important gathering. The annual event brings together the global secure document co...
Forging New Cinematic Frontiers: Meet Filmmaker Michael Reisinger ArtCenter : What are you working on right now? Michael Reisinger(MA 09 Film),Filmmaker: A script for my short film. Ive been making these 3- to 5-minute shorts, and my next project is going to be more ambitious 40 to 60 minutes, wi...
Cartonlandia y Chalino: Alumna Ana Serrano’s Cardboard Sculptures Part of Exhibit Featuring Latino Artists When Illustration alumna Ana Serrano (BFA 2008) was a kid, growing up in South Los Angeles and Downey, she loved building things. Known now for her cardboard cityscapes and sculptures, s...
Earths Mightiest Artists Meet the ArtCenter alumni at the center of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Over the past 11 years, fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)the seemingly unstoppable series of 23 (and counting!) interconnected superhero films that began with 2008s Iron Manhave learned not ...
From ArtCenter to Nissan: Meet Senior Exterior Designer Daniel Jimenez Two days after graduating from ArtCenter with a degree in Transportation Design, Daniel Jimenez started a full-time job designing exteriors at Nissan. The work, he says, requires him to be a "professional dreamer" who predicts t...
The trans part of transmedia is that the designer transforms and transcends media categories, and by so doing, creates new media categories.
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...
Lou Danziger: Shaping Culture A pillar of West Coast design, Advertising alumnus Lou Danziger (BFA 48) has worked as a designer, art director and consultant since 1949, bringing his talents to a diverse list of institutions, from Microsoft to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Trademark for Su...