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 ...
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...
Dawn Yamazi is the Assistant Chair, Illustration, Entertainment Arts, ArtCenter College of Design. An advocate for artists, Dawn has supported the development of various aspects of entertainment arts including film and media, themed entertainment, consumer and social expression products and design. ...
Fernando Olmedo is a concept designer and ArtCenter alum from the Entertainment Design department. He has worked on a variety of projects for Disney including Marvel and Star Wars titles and a varied body of work in video games and theme park design. In addition to larger studio work, Fernando has h...
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...
Joe Petricca is a writer, filmmaker and educator.As a screenwriter, he has had screenplays optioned, won screenplay competitions, and adapted books and true-life stories for Academy and Cannes award winning directors and producers. He was a member of the writing staff for a sitcom-style language lea...
Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Jason Louie moved to Pasadena to study Transportation Design at ArtCenter. After graduating, his career started as a concept artist at Walt Disney Imagineering, R&D. Since then, his diverse range of experience has grown to include concept art in video game...
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...
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 ...
Laura Arias is an exterior designer, and a graduate of ArtCenter. She designed for Jeep, Alfa Romeo and Dodge while working for Stellantis, and is now an exterior designer for the GM Advanced Studio in California.
Daniel Gottlieb is the co-owner of PadLab, a lighting/new materials/architectural glass/fine art studio. He is lecturer/guest critic at Materials Applications Gallery, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Woodbury University, and SCI-Arc.
Penny Herscovitch is the co-owner of PadLab, a lighting/new materials/architectural glass/fine art studio. She is lecturer/guest critic at Materials Applications Gallery, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Woodbury University, and SCI-Arc.
Valerie Pobjoy is a figurative painter. Since receiving her BFA in Illustration from ArtCenter in 2014, she has exhibited in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Partner & Creative Director at Ernst Everything.Ernst Everything is a multi-disciplinary design studio contraced by world renowned performance and lifestyle brands.
Ryan Gerber is a Creative Director 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 also fond...
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...
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...
Yo Oshima is a designer/entrepreneur/educator from Tokyo, Japan. After receiving a master of architecture degree from SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture) in 2006, he worked on residential and institutional architecture projects at deegay day design in Los Angeles. In 2015, Yo est...
Andrew Park is a figurative-based artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his BFA in Illustration, in the Design Track from ArtCenter College of Design in 2018. Park has been teaching several classes such as figure drawing, head painting, and costume drawing. Also, Park is a painting ...
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,...
Jay Chapman has been teaching at Art Center since 1978. He is an educator, creativity coach, movement mentor, curriculum developer, graphic design historian, and film historian.
Terry Lee Stone is a creative lead and writer with 10+ years experience consulting to a variety of creative firms and clients, primarily in design management and strategy. She is author of several books on design, and has taught the business of design at the college level for 10+ years. She also doe...
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...
Benjamin Luddy is a designer, fabricator and educator. He received his Masters of Architecture degree at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Benjamin also holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Buffalo. He currently teaches in the Environmental Design...
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, ...