Adjunct Professor Humanities and Sciences MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, BA/BFA, Brown University Lisa Krohn is an interdisciplinary designer and educator whose work bridges strategic forecasting, product, furniture, and interior design, brand strategy, user experience, and web, sets, and installa...
Art/type director/designer. Worked in Australia and U.K. as type director. Working currently on projects for advertising agencies and direct clients.
Bren is an environmental designer with a background in spatial and experience design. She started her creative endeavors by studying Environmental Design at ArtCenter College of Design. Since graduating, she has created fun, fresh, and whimsical spaces for brands including Vans, Production Club, Am...
Roman Jaster is a graphic designer working in Los Angeles. He is the co-founder of the design studio Yay Brigade. His work is focused on web design and development, as well as book design, often for cultural organizations and artists. Roman graduated from the CalArts graphic design program in 2007 w...
Victor spent a decade at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory leading a software incubator that brought cutting-edge industry capabilities into space exploration. He has honed his product strategy expertise at Amazon, GoogleX, and Toyota Research, and now drives space innovation full-time with NASA/JPL, ...
Tyler Paulson is an Philadelphia-based UI designer and web developer. Paulson began teaching at ArtCenter during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2015, Paulson has operated his own design and development practice with clients including Whiteboard, Riot New Media (creators of Tailored Book Recommendation...
Imaginative and creative Interaction designer / Sr, UX designer / Design Researcher and Educator. A conceptual thinker with the ability to design across media platforms for solutions within Experience Design, Interaction, IA, Business / Brand Strategy, Web / App Design, Advertising, Systems Design, ...
A native of Minnesota, Michael Show is a former Walt Disney Feature Animation supervising animator. As a student at California Institute of the Arts he created the award winning Chickins Fer Rent. In his 20+ years career at Disney he worked on such classics as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beas...
Joshua Gilman is a multifaceted Creative Director with a diverse background in Communication Arts. After a decade of working on integrated marketing campaigns, he is currently focused on creating compelling and authentic work for brands in the digital, social, and content spaces. Craft, Concept, a...
River Jukes-Hudson graduated from ArtCenter in 2005 with a BFA in Graphic Design. Prior to attending ArtCenter, Jukes-Hudson earned a BFA in Painting from San Francisco State University. Along with her business parter Stephen Serrato, River runs ELLA, a graphic design studio based in Highland Park. ...
Kenneth Castillo is a director/writer who grew up in the shadow of The Vincent Thomas Bridge in the small harbor town of Wilmington, Ca., aka-The Port of Los Angeles. To date he has written and directed seven feature films and several short films including his short film series The Misadventures of...
Tommy Honton is a Los Angeles-based designer who creates immersive experiences blending storytelling, game mechanics, and innovation across escape rooms, theme parks, theater, museums, and video games. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Honton graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a double ma...
Landscape, Figure, Still Life for Galleries. Design / Concept for Animation.Set Design Art Director
My executive and entrepreneurial experience in design and brand creation and development gives me a unique insight into brand-driven companies, their customers and consumers. This experience drives my teaching and work as the director of wearables and soft goods design in the Product Design Departme...
Tony DeRosa began his career as an animator in 1981. Mr. DeRosa completed his animation education at the world-renowned California Institute of the Arts and was immediately hired by Disney Studios to train under legendary animator Eric Larson. After assisting on numerous projects he completed his f...
When John Chambers is asked, "What do you do for living?" his quick answer is "I teach technology to artists." When eyebrows go up and more details are needed, Chambers will begin explaining his early days of teaching Apple Computer's McPaint, McWrite and McDraw (1984). Chambers developed the origin...
Miguel Angel Reyes was born September 29th, 1964 in Colima, Mexico. He immigrated to the United States in 1975. He has consistently been a prolific artist since graduating from Otis Parsons school of design in 1987 with a BFA in Communication Arts. Miguel is a Los Angeles-based portrait and figurati...
Loris Lora is an award-winning Latina Illustrator Designer from Southern California whose colorful artwork brings a playful approach to everyday life. She draws inspiration from her Mexican upbringing, mid-century illustration and design, pop culture, and bright colors. As a multi-disciplinary art...
Ryan Gerber is a Creative Director, Writer and Filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He is also the founder and CCO of Modest. A super humble, world-class, larger-than-life, international creative company chock-full of amazing people who like to make unbelievably cool shit. But you know, modestly. He is a...
Rita Blaik is a multidisciplinary scientist and artist based in Los Angeles, California. Her life's goal is to find new and innovative ways of communicating science to people through interactive discussions, art and other media. Her research specialization is in nanotechnology and biotechnology for ...
After seven years experience in aerospace as a electro-mechanical design engineer a life change landed John in Sweden where he worked as a Product Engineer for Volvo Automobiles. There he learned vehicle development from design, architecture and systems perspective. Volvo moved him to the Netherland...
Born in Los Angeles, Richard Mahon studied illustration at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He was an award winning Illustrator from 1977 until 1998 before transitioning to Visual Effects for film and TV. He has worked on approximately 85 movies and TV shows as an Art Director, Matte Painti...
I am a designer working in animation, advertisement, designer toys, spatial design, and visual development with an interest in building immersive environments. In the last decade or so, I have had the opportunity to work with various companies and teams, both large and small on projects ranging from...
Christian Perez-Morin is a graphic designer, art director, and educator. Select clients include: Acura, Victoria's Secret, Girl Skateboards, Royal Trucks, Nike SB, The Quiet Life, Paul Frank, The Colburn School, and Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Over the course of 16 years he's work...
Juan Garrido is an Illustrator and Background painter based in Los Angeles. He graduated from Art Center in 2010 and has been working in TV Animation ever since. He is currently background supervisor on the Mickey Shorts Series at Disney Television Animation. With ten years experience in the industr...