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...
Art/type director/designer. Worked in Australia and U.K. as type director. Working currently on projects for advertising agencies and direct clients.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Born in Spain, Abraham Meneu's lifelong passion for animation began in 1989 under his brother's guidance. In the '90s, he immersed himself in 3D animation. In 1999, he joined Anibyte in England, honing his skills in game cinematics and PlayStation games. Abraham's feature film journey started with ...
A native of Cali, Colombia, Leon Paz's interest in car design was sparked when he first saw a Ferrari 308 GTO at the impressionable age of 8. He graduated from ArtCenter in 2008 with a degree in Transportation Design and has since worked for companies such as Hyundai's Design and Technical Center, K...
After visiting the Disney studio at age 13, Frans Vischer began making short 8mm animated films. With help from Chuck Jones, who saw one of his films, Vischer was accepted into the CalArts Character Animation program. In 1981, he was hired by the Disney studio, starting in a training program led by ...
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...
Bora is an award-winning design leader focused on building socially responsible brands and user-centric service products with 10+ years of design experience. One of her passions is to help achieve social equity and shared well-being through design-driven processes. This exploration led her to reach...
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...
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...
Amy Reid Hirst is an artist and designer living and working in San Francisco. Originally from London, Reid Hirst holds a BA from Goldsmiths College, University of London and an MA in Communication Art and Design from the Royal College of Art in London. Her work covers a wide range of mediums includi...
Sean Donahue is internationally recognized for his social justice driven design research. He is core faculty of ArtCenter College of Design's Graduate Media Design Practices program and principal of RCD/LA, his award-winning California based Design studio. Sean's work focuses on 21st Century Global ...
My name is Shannon Jeffires and I am a film Production Designer and Art Director, currently working in the animated feature film industry. I've focused the bulk of my career in animation for over 25 years, and have worked in various other story based industries my entire ArtCenter afterlife, first ...
Author of children's non-fiction books: Japan and Skydiving, and biographies of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Roald Dahl. Mr. Meeks writes fiction now, and has published two award-winning collections of short stories ( The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea and Months and Seasons) and four novels (The Brightes...
Peter Lam graduated from ArtCenter College of Design in 2003 with a degree in Illustration. Since graduating, Lam has been working in the video game industry and is currently working for Treyarch in Santa Monica as the lead concept artist. Lam's game credits include the Spiderman 3 Movie Game, Call ...
Professor Shrirang Jambhekar is a highly skilled user experience design practitioner and innovator with a passion for creating great user experiences. Jambhekar's UX, service and product design work spans mobile, automotive, home, financial and enterprise spaces. Jambhekar also has experience in ent...