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...
A graduate of UC San Diego, in a mouthful degree, Interdisciplinary Computing & the Arts major, Ivan Gozali has been working in the entertainment industry since 2004 in the field of documentary, scripted and non-scripted live-action, commercial, VFX, and animation industry. For the past 10 years, h...
Jennifer is a Los Angeles native of Polish-American heritage and an ArtCenter Graphic Design graduate. Her sensibility and aesthetics have been influenced through lifelong travel, her unique cultural perspective, and from a family deeply immersed in the fields of art and design. At VANS, she oversee...
Andrew Kutchera's design experience ranges from identity and typography to print publications, user experience, and visual strategy. Kutchera previously served as senior lecturer of design at University of Southern California's Roski School of Art and Design, where he had been a faculty member for n...
Jay Torres is a freelance multimedia illustrator and artist working in Los Angeles. His work has earned several awards and national recognition from 3x3 magazine, American Illustration, Society of Illustrators (LA & NY), and Creative Quarterly. In 2022, Jay received Best in Show and was included in ...
Art/type director/designer. Worked in Australia and U.K. as type director. Working currently on projects for advertising agencies and direct clients.
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...
Eric Ryan has been Head of Illustration, an Art Director and Senior Concept Artist with over 21 years experience in the film, television and video game industry. He attended the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Molecular and Cell Biology, and subsequently made a career change in 2...
Brian Bartell received his PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in the Fall of 2018. At ArtCenter he teaches courses in the Humanities & Sciences Department on race and technology studies, media studies and modernity/modernism. He is currently working on a book to be titl...
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...
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...
Brian Allgeier is best known as the longtime director of the Ratchet & Clank series, starting as a lead designer on the first Ratchet & Clank released in 2002. He has worked in the games industry as an artist, designer, and director for over 30 years. Brian led the design and creative direction on ...
Provides signage, graphics, and concept design for Disney theme parks domestically and internationally. Previous experience and projects: Landmark Entertainment Group where he worked on a variety of location based entertainment projects domestically and internationally as well as a variety of logo, ...
A decade of experience in Industrial Design with a focus on medical devices, consumer electronics, and consumer package goods. Innovation expertise in the areas of product development and roadmapping, user experience, packaging and structure design, strategy and branding.
Emil co-founded Lookinglass Architecture and Design in 2001, a collaborative design practice focused primarily on architecture while engaged in a wide range of design research, writing, speculations and realizations. He has a BS from MIT and an M. Arch from Southern California Institute of Architect...
Karen Stillman is a professional screenwriter who has sold projects to and been hired to work on projects for ABC, CBS, Fox, Freeform, Lifetime, USA Network and NatGeo, among others. She has a BA from Tufts University and an MFA from The American Film Institute.
Freelance illustrator and designer for over thirty years. Public Art for Public Spaces Sony Studios. Lecturer: UCLA, USC, American Institute of Architecture, the Los Angeles Conservancy, Armand Hammer Museum. Author of over twenty books on architecture, popular culture, and regional history. Exhibi...
Cecil Kim has worked in the video game industry as a concept artist, and art director since he graduated from ArtCenter in 1996. He has worked on multiple million-selling projects such as Final Fantasy IX, Parasite Eve, Twisted Metal Black, and award-winning God of War 1, 2, and 3 and won BAFTA Best...
Tim Brewer is an innovation trainer, idea development specialist, and industrial designer. He has 16 years of product planning and program management experience in consumer software and hardware product development at Microsoft and RealNetworks. He holds 14 utility patents including 3 patents on the...
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...
Founder and Editor of Art issues Magazine and Art issues Press. Principal of a unique concept for mass-market publishing, BuK. Author of numerous essays on art, and has lectured, juried, and testified for the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Depart...
A born and bred Angeleno, Doris draws inspiration from the diversity that the city offers. A self-proclaimed perfectionist with a keen eye and attention to detail, she thrives on all the creative and technical challenges involved in seeing a project through from beginning to end. After graduating fr...
Dave Marek is the executive creative director for Acura. He began his career at Honda R&D Americas, Inc. in 1987 and served as design project leader for a number of milestone products such as the 1997 Acura CL, 2003 Honda Element, and 2016 ACURA NSX. As Acura's executive creative director, he is res...
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...
Matia Karrell wrote, directed, and produced the 1989 Academy Award Nominated short film, "Cadillac Dreams." In 2001, she directed, co-wrote and produced her first feature length film, "Behind The Red Door, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Kyra Sedgwick and Stockard Channing. "Red Door" took first prize f...