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...
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...
Social innovation designers pioneering new career paths Social innovation designers are changing the way the world works, dedicated to improving everyday life through global health and sustainable development, public policy and social entrepreneurship. Without the career paths afforded by more...
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—...
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...
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...
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...
A New Coat: Meet Besame Cosmetics Founder Gabriela Hernandez ArtCenter: Whats the most unique thing youve created? Gabriela Hernandez (BFA 99 Photography) President, Besame Cosmetics: All of our products are historically based. We research makeup and formulas manufactured from different eras and br...
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...
New grad program: Innovation Systems Design “The best way to predict the future is to create it,” said Peter F. Drucker, widely known as the father of modern management. ArtCenter’s Graduate Industrial Design (Grad ID) Department, led by Chair Andy Ogden, has entered into a partn...
The Humanities and Sciences Department offers minors in Business, Creative Writing, Material Science and Research.
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...
To prepare photography students for a rapidly changing profession, Photography and Imaging developed a pilot course that embeds students in local nonprofits like CicLAvia and the Japanese American Cultural Community Center.
Let’s Play Toy design for a new generation “The way I explain toy design to students is, don’t think about the toy as an object,” says Krystina Castella. For the past 24 years Castella has taught in both the Graduate Industrial Design (Grad ID) and the Product Design depart...
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.
In the absence of affirmation action, ArtCenter finds new pathways to recruit diverse students and boost the importance of an art and design education.
From the Heart: Meet Transportation Designer Luciano Bove ArtCenter: You recently managed the Renault Design Academy India internship what was the purpose of the project? Luciano Bove (BS Transportation Design 98) Design Manager, Renault: It was a new way of recruiting young car designers. We rece...
Autonomous for the people: cars of the future will need to balance new features with safety Last week, Chevrolet announced that more than a dozen of its 2016 cars and trucks would be compatible with Apple’s CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto, the tech giants’ competing in-dash inte...
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...
Rafael Esquer of Alfalfa Studio jumped at the chance to create a mural to improve the cafeteria of the LIFE Family Shelter in Lower Manhattan, inviting the shelter's clients to workshop their ideas and shape the design of the piece.
Su Mathews Hale, ArtCenter’s new Chair of the Board, wants students to feel empowered to bring their authentic selves to the table “Art and design in the United States has long been influenced by individuals who have emigrated to this country and brought with them their homela...
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...