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—...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Wild Thoughts: Meet Interaction Designer Karl Walker ArtCenter: Whats the most unique thing youve designed? Karl Walker (BS 15 Interaction Design) Product Designer Tradesy: My senior project at ArtCenter, which was a solution for people who are dealing with Alzheimers and the entire support system ...
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...
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...
Avant Gardner: Meet Graphic/Motion Designer Tammy Szu ArtCenter: What do you like most about your job? Tammy Szu (BA 16 Graphic Design) freelance graphic designer/motion designer: I like that as a freelancer, I can take time off when I need it and turn inward and grow not only as a designer, but as...
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...
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; ...
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...
Alumni Panels at Car Classic Celebrate Iconic Design: 70 Years of ArtCenter Influence An event that capped a weekend-long alumni celebration thatattracted 600 alumni back to ArtCenter, last months Car Classicdubbed Iconic Design: 70 Years of ArtCenter Influencebrought together several generations o...
Space Enhancer: Meet Environmental Designer Tanvi Sonavane ArtCenter: What are you working on right now?Tanvi Sonavane (MS 15 Environmental Design) environmental designer, CallisonRTK: My team mostly works on enhancing a space and making it a better experience for the user. Right now, Im working on...
The trans part of transmedia is that the designer transforms and transcends media categories, and by so doing, creates new media categories.