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Hong Ly, an Art Director and Concept Artist, began his career in 1998. As a concept artist at Naughty Dog, he contributed to titles like The Last of Us and the Uncharted series, later bringing his expertise to Riot Games, the studio behind League of Legends. At Riot Games, he served as Art Director ...
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...
Dr. Jill Strawbridge has spent over 20 years applying the principals of human behavior to the design of products and systems with which humans interact. She is currently the VP of User Experience Research at Pearson Education, and prior to that she was Director of User Experience Design Research a...
After a start in financial market research at The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Susan Marki began her investing career by trading and managing fixed income options with Citibank. She spent many years structuring, trading and managing increasingly sophisticated derivative products in both New Yor...
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...
Liliana Becerrais a curator and design visionary workingat the convergence of emotions and aesthetics. She is the best-selling author ofCMF Designpublished by Frame in 2016 and Soft Designpublished by Routledge in 2025.Through her studio, she advisescompanies on detecting and articulating intangible...
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...
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...
Cynthia Woll has been a games industry producer and designer for more than 25 years. She has worked for a variety of game publishers and developers, including Atari, EA and Playtika. She has deep expertise in the production and design of games as a service, including both free to play mobile games a...
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...
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...
Roman Iniguez is a Transportation Designer who has designed a variety of automotiveexterior work for several vehicledivisions within General Motors. Most notable was his involvementin the creation of the Buick Lucerne exterior under the leadership of Mr. John Manoogian, the GMC Acadia exterior under...
Kayvan Sotoodeh is the User Experience lead for Social Commerce at StubHub, an eBay Company. He joined the eBay family from Microsoft, where he was working in Digital Marketing and Advertising for future ad products. Prior to Microsoft, he worked in a number of global design teams, including consum...
Arnold is an artist and designer based in Long Beach California. After completing an MFA in Studio Art at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 2011 he worked as a designer at Drift Studio in Mt. Horeb,Wisconsin while teaching sculpture at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Since 2013 Arno...
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...
Carlas command of typography and passion for innovation drives her independent practice.Her award-winning work and commitment to quality set her apart in the crowded field of graphic design. For 4 years Carla was a key member of the ArtCenter College of Design in-house creative team. At ArtCenter C...
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 ...
Joseph Meier received undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and Mathematics at Kalamazoo College. Then, Meier was awarded the first Elder Scholarship, allowing him to study gorgonians in the Cayman Islands. At UC San Diego, he began his initial graduate studies in cosmochemistry. While taking classes a...
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...
Andrew Kutchera's design experience ranges from identity and typography to print publications, user experience, and visual strategy. Kutchera previously served as senior lecturer of design at University of Southern California's Roski School of Art and Design, where he had been a faculty member for n...
Megan Kim is an artist and educator based in the greater Los Angeles area. Upon completing her degree in Entertainment Design from ArtCenter, she grew a freelance career in a vareity of industries ranging from fabrication, illustration and animation to name a few. She has worked with wide range of c...
Professor Heidrun Mumper-Drumm teaches, conducts research and is director of Sustainability Initiatives at ArtCenter College of Design. Her academic classes and studio courses prepare and challenge designers to create sustainable product service systems that improve environmental performance, while ...
Jack Bankowsky is a critic, curator, and Editor-at-Large at Artforum. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Artforum from 1992 to 2003, and is the founding editor of Artforums sister publication, Bookforum, where he was editor from 1996 to 1998. His contemporary survey, Pop Life (co-curated with Alison Gi...