Thea teaches in the Humanities and Design Sciences department and the Media Design Program. Her current research examines the history and politics of public, private, and non-profit efforts to foster a creative workforce in the United States. She teaches courses in nonfiction writing and popular cu...
Ethan Johnson teaches Writing Studio:Intensive and American Graffiti:Writing in the Street. With a degree in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard, he had a design/build studio in Venice, CA throughout the 90s, fabricating fine art; building props for stage and screen; and creating custom fu...
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...
Miguel Lee is a Los Angeles-based motion designer. Lee graduated from ArtCenter in 2006 and has been teaching motion design here since 2007. He is the founder and executive creative director of Midnight Sherpa, a multi-disciplinary creative studio focused on creating brand experiences and motion con...
Lan has been a faculty member in Grad ID since 2016 and has served as director of the program for the last seven years. She is also an alumna of the program. Before receiving her MS in 2013, Lan worked to champion the creation of the Formula E student competition in China, which grew year after year...
Matt Brown works as an independent designer in Los Angeles. He works in and around interface design for software and hardware, toys and games, graphics and animation, and music and sound. Most of hiswork is in early-stage invention and prototyping for new products, services, media and environments. ...
Tobias Toft is a design leader, educator and multidisciplinary designer who draws from his engineering background to inform his work. He centers his practice on rapid prototyping to shape his work and narratives. Having contributed to brand and product design at companies such as Nokia, IDEO, Wove, ...
Clients & Experience: Goodfight, Google, Franklyn, Kopitiam NYC, Lyric Youth Advocacy Center, Pine & Crane, Riverside Repertory Theater, San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco Education Fund, SOMA Magazine, Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute, The Onion, University of California, BerkeleyAwar...
Theresa Latzko (she/her) is a technical art director at Chromosphere, specializing in creating stylized real-time visuals and solving complex technical challenges across animation and interactive projects. She has led real-time workflows and look development for productions such as Yuki 7, Mall Stor...
Claire L. Evans is a writer and musician. Evans is the singer and co-author of the Grammy-nominated pop group YACHT, the author of Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet (Penguin Random House, 2018) and the co-editor of the speculative fiction anthology Terraform (MCD Books,...
Douglas J. Eboch is a professional screenwriter and director who wrote the original screenplay for the movie Sweet Home Alabama starring Reese Witherspoon, which set a box office record for a September opening. Mr. Eboch also wrote the game Nightmare Cove and the children's play Sleepover at the Sta...
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...
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...
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 ...
Stephen Phillips, FAIA, PhD is the principal architect at Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) (sparchs.design).He is a Visiting Professor at Art Center College of Design in the Humanities Department, teaching Modernism, Industrial Design, and Gaming/Entertainment Design with a specialization in ar...
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...
Andre Bermudez is a 12-year veteran of the video game industry, having worked on titles that include "Ghostbusters," "Alone in the Dark," "Epic Mickey," and "Infinity." His origins begin in the publishing industry, as a writer and reviewer for PC Magazine, but then transitioned to business developme...
Evgeni Tomov is a Production Designer, Concept Artist and Illustrator with more than 20 years of experience in the field of animated features and live-action films. Evgeni lived and worked around the globe before settling in Los Angeles in 2010. He was a Production Designer of the Oscar-nominated 2D...
Tim Ivison is a writer and artist living in Los Angeles. He teaches interdisciplinary seminars on biopolitics, crowd theory, and urban history at ArtCenter College of Design and the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). He received a BA in Visual and Critical Studies and a BFA in ...
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...
Mr. Luna is an Adjunct Professor focusing on professional practices, communication and leadership skills in several departments. He also conducts a course for Art Centers Public Programs, Crafting a Meaningful Career, designed for mid-career professionals eager to take their careers to the next leve...
Justine Limpus Parish has worked extensively in the Los Angeles and San Francisco fashion industries as a fashion illustrator, designer, educator, art director and published author. As a Professor and the Director of the Sewing Lab at ArtCenter College of Design, she teaches in the Product Design an...
Conaway is a live-action costume designer and fashion historian that also specializes in 3D garment construction for gaming and feature animation. She mainly works in historical, conceptual, and post-apocalyptic drama. Conaway is a proud member of IATE Local 892, the Costume Designers Guild. She wr...
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...
Dr. Shanna Dobson is an Assistant Professor at ArtCenter College of Design and Mathematics Lecturer at Cal State LA. She is the Chair of the Faculty Council and the Section Chair-Elect of the SoCal-Nevada Section of the MAA. Dr. Dobson received her PhD in Mathematics (Summa cum laude) from the Unive...