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—...
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...
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...
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...
Student Voices Andrew Villaseñor, (he/him), BS, Entertainment Design, Game Design Track. Andrew Villaseñor is turning his childhood passions into his career at ArtCenter. "Watching TV shows, reading comics, and playing games, those were big inspirations for me to start experimenting...
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...
Concept Art to Game Design: Meet ArtCenter alumni artists and designers at LightBox Expo Animation director. Art director. 2D/3D character animator. Character designer. Concept artist. Creature designer. Game designer. Storyboard artist. Toy Designer. Visual development artist. These are just some ...
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...
Stage of Life: Meet Freelance Artist James (Fader) Cui ArtCenter: What are you working on right now?James Cui (VJ Fader) (BFA 02 Illustration): Im doing a stage design for an EDM festival in Myanmar. Im also working with an architect to create a video installation piece for the new LG headquarters ...
The Reel Thing: Meet Film Producer Maja Zimmermann ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Maja Zimmermann (BA 99 Film) film producer: For the past four and a half years, Ive been working on Killing Jesus. It recently premiered at the Toronto film festival and now were traveling the world wit...
BRAVE AND THE BOLD: SURVIOS AND HEARTSMINDS LEADERS TO DISCUSS SECRETS OF CONNECTING In an increasingly noisy world of advertising and marketingfull of hashtags, sponsored lenses and, yes, good old-fashioned word of mouthhow do creatives find the audiences they need to build their brand? Thats one ...
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...
D'Angelo and Martel are The Next Level Brothers, award-winning biological brothers and film directors who want to create unity through game-changing film, design and community innovation.
Altogether now! Transdisciplinary Studio courses allow students to collaborate across different majors On a grey cloudy day in a second-floor classroom at the 870 building on ArtCenters South Campus, students from a wide range of departmentsIllustration, Fine Art, Product Design, Graphic Design and...
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...