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...
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...
Art/type director/designer. Worked in Australia and U.K. as type director. Working currently on projects for advertising agencies and direct clients.
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...
Alex Nassour's father was born in Egypt and his mother was born on an Air Force base in Ohio. So, of course they raised him in Los Angeles on a healthy diet of In-N-Out Burger and Egyptian Molokhia. Nassour is an odd combination which is why he loves finding humor where it's not supposed to be. Afte...
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, ...
I've ammased over 20 years of music production experience including working with Grammy award winners both on tour and behind the scenes working on music video production. My job for the past 18 years has been with AVID Technology where I currently manage the multimedia department. My responsibiliti...
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...
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. ...
Jesse Kriss has been building weird things on the internet since 1997. Kriss' expertise and training is in full stack web development, human-computer interaction, and information visualization, with a subsequent focus on humane, user-respecting, and small scale technology. Kriss believes scale, grow...
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...