Transportation Design alum, adjunct professor and Acura Executive Creative Director Dave Marek (BS 1987) heads a team of designers at the Acura Design Studio.
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...
ARTCENTER REMEMBERS ALUMNUS TSUTOMO "TOM" MATANO, INFLUENTIAL MAZDA DESIGNER In addition to being an automotive designer, the "father of the Miata" was also an educator and a mentor ArtCenter recently marked the passing of alumnus Tsutomu “Tom” Matano (BS 74), one of the Col...
ArtCenter in Asia: Create Change Design Forums at Beijing Design Week Whether it’s the impending arrival of China-made cars to the U.S. market or Film alumnus Michael Bay’s (BFA 88) Transformers: Age of Extinction breaking the $300 million barrier at the Chinese box office, these ...
Knowledge is Power: A Transportation Design Student’s Journey from Zimbabwe to ArtCenter One day, when then 6-year-old future Transportation Design student Thokozani Mabena was playing with friends in the shanty town where he grew up, in authoritarian-ruled Zimbabwe, he was drawn to a magazin...
Turn of Events: Reimagining Gatherings for the Post-Pandemic Era Many years ago, Erick Weiss pitched an idea for a unique and futuristic musical experience that would place attendees in the middle of the action. Imagine James Cameron’s Avatar meets Electric Zoo.“If you purchased a certa...