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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
Creative director at PRINT Magazine and former partner at Dieline Media, Jessica is also a packaging designer and faculty member at ArtCenter College of Design. She has worked as a professional hands-on designer for a wide array of notable brands since 2005. In 2014, Jessica decided to combine both ...
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...
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 ...
Victor spent a decade at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory leading a software incubator that brought cutting-edge industry capabilities into space exploration. He has honed his product strategy expertise at Amazon, GoogleX, and Toyota Research, and now drives space innovation full-time with NASA/JPL, ...
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. ...
Luke Miller began his career in UX with the Wall Street Journal in 2010 after grad school (Chapel Hill). In 2013, Luke moved on to help form the new Yahoo mobile product office in New York, primarily prototyping and researching for their various media properties. During that same time, he began teac...
Errol Gerson has been teaching Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Business Management at Art Center for the past 45 years. In that time he has taught over 6100 students and has personally mentored well over 3000 students. Gerson received a BS in Accounting from USC in 1970, and after receiving his MBA...
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...
I am a designer working in animation, advertisement, designer toys, spatial design, and visual development with an interest in building immersive environments. In the last decade or so, I have had the opportunity to work with various companies and teams, both large and small on projects ranging from...
Dan Marsh is the kind of creative director who doesnt really believe in career paths, mostly because his own feels more like a well-edited montage than a straight line. He helped build MPC Creative from the ground up, launched ManvsMachines LA office into orbit, and spent time at BUCK making things ...
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...
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. ...
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...
Originally from Mexico, Franco Corralattended Pasadena City College out of high school and went through its Art and Design Program before being accepted to ArtCenter College of Design. He graduated from ArtCenter in 2009 with a degree in Transportation Design, doing internships at Renault Design Par...
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...
Richard Pearce is a director and cinematographer whose credits include "Country" for which Jessica Lange received an Academy Award nomination; "No Mercy" starring Richard Gere and Kim Bassinger; "The Long Walk Home" starring Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek; "Leap of Faith" with Steve Martin, Debora...