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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Alexia Mandeville is a game designer who has been working at the intersection of games and technology including augmented reality, virtual reality and location-based mobile games. Mandeville got her Master of Science in Modeling Simulation with a focus on designing location-based games. She spent h...
Hi, I'm Liz! I graduated summer of 2022 with a BS in Interaction Design and a double minor in Research and Design Matters. I currently work at an Agency as a Jr UX Designer and Researcher as my day job in sunny South Pasadena.
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...
Drawing from multiple problem-solving disciplines, Wendee Lee emphasizes student growth in all areas of their lives. After working as a rocket engineer in aerospace, Lee shifted her focus to study, then teach, Product Design at ArtCenter. Over time, she incorporated holistic student learning and dev...
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...
Gary Goldsmith is the former chair of the undergraduate Advertising Department at ArtCenter and co-founder of Underhead, a network of global talent in every discipline, including advertising, digital and social media, package design and film. With over three decades of experience as a top creative ...
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...
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 ...
Eric Ng is an educator and concept designer. As a part of the inaugural Entertainment Design class at ArtCenter, he has returned and continued to teach students since 2008. Eric has been a designer for Walt Disney Imagineering R&D and Interactive as well as Sony Online Entertainment and Mattel. He p...
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...
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...
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. ...
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. ...
A native of Southern California, Howard Heard graduated from UCLA with a BA in Motion Pictures / TV Production and has been a film editor for more than thirty years, working on forty-five features, including Risky Business and My Favorite Year, more than fifty hours of prime time episodic television...
Dan is a full-time faculty member and has been an instructor at Art Center for over 20 years. While at Art Center he has led many trans-disciplinary projects for top companies from around the globe including Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, Samsung, Nestle, Nissan Infiniti, FordGlobal, Acer Computers, and ot...
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 ...
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...
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...
Joshue is a visual artist and designer of Salvadorian descent, born and raised in South East Los Angeles. He earned a BFA in Photography and Digital Imaging from ArtCenter College of Design and a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Otis College of Art and Design. As an HMCT staff member, he w...