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Special Screening of The Pantone Guy

Storyboard: Devin Hawker

Devin Hawker Looking behind the curtain When I was growing up, going to the movies was a big deal. It seems hard to believe there was a time before Netflix and Apple TV, but I remember traveling nearly an hour to the nearest movie theater as a kid and submitting to this kind of grand vision that w...

Change Lab Podcast 28: Recent Alum Vicente Magaña on Solving the Riddle of Mass Transit in California

Change Lab Podcast Episode 28 Recent Alum Vicente Magaa on Solving the Riddle of Mass Transit in California ArtCenters Transportation Design program has a type and, at first glance, Vicente Magaa seems to fit it perfectly. Lifelong obsession with cars? Check. A childhood spent sketching every ty...

Matt Haligman

Storyboard: Matt Haligman The unpredictability of the creative life Heres a scenario for you: Imagine youre the smartest person in the room. Then, one day, imagine that this changes... dramatically. Youre no longer the smartest person in the room. Not even close. In fact, the proverbial is now f...

Tom Suiter

Storyboard: Tom Suiter Playing in perfect harmony Ive said the following at countless academic presentations and in just as many conversations with friends and colleagues: Nothing Ive accomplished in my decades-spanning career would have been possible without the time I spent at ArtCenter. As a ...

This Just Got Personal: Meet Sports Brand Designer Dominic Marchese

This Just Got Personal: Meet Sports Brand Designer Dominic Marchese ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Dominic Marchese (BFA 13 Graphic Design) Global Brand Designer, Adidas: Setting the creative direction for NFL and baseball. We have concepts and campaigns that have been going on the ...

Storyboard: Jacques Perrault

Storyboard: Jacques Perrault Rebuke to Tradition I was born in rural Oregon and I grew up in a town just outside of Bend called Tumalo. As a kid, my old man was a contractor. He was a working-class guy who spent his whole life building houses. Construction and practical know-how was something tha...

Storyboard: Victor Lee Brown

Storyboard: Victor Lee Brown A Father-Son Bond, Forged by Creativity One of the first gifts I ever gave my son Ryan was a book called Diggers. Its a fairly rudimentary book about construction which, given the young mans budding interest in toy trucks, I figured to be an appropriate enough token. ...

Storyboard: Mark Fennimore

Storyboard: Mark Fennimore Following in my dad's footsteps by not following in my dad's footsteps When I was a kid, my dad worked for NASA. He started in the Apollo program and after the first man landed on the moon, he transitioned to Skylab and then the Shuttle Program. He was a very pragmatic, ...

From Steve Jobs to ArtCenter: Meet Designer Victor Zaud

From Steve Jobs to ArtCenter: Meet Designer Victor Zaud ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Victor Zaud (BFA 91 Graphic Design), Head of Marketing, IMVU: IMVU is a 3D, immersive social platform where users tap avatars to meet new people and build deeper friendships with those know. Its al...

Albert Soto

Storyboard: Albert Soto Shipyard to Shipshape: I Was Never Alone Before I ever heard about ArtCenter, I was studying mechanical engineering at community college. I spent three years there, but it felt like longer. I began taking ArtCenter at Night clases in the spring of 2012. It was an invigorat...

Mario Ascencio

Storyboard: Mario Ascencio No bad days! I can pinpoint the exact moment when I knew I wanted to be a librarian. Picture it! Thirty years ago this year, I was 17 years old, a high school student from Huntington Park working a job at a public library in Maywood. At the time, the position was just t...

A Conversation with Anthony Zepeda, Master Printmaker and Teacher

A Conversation with Anthony Zepeda, Master Printmaker and Teacher A Living Treasure: Thirty Years of Anthony Zepeda and the ArtCenter Printmaking Studio is an exhibition that pays tribute to legendary teacher and printmaker Anthony Zepeda. In 1975, Zepeda began his career at Gemini G.E.L printing ...

Alumni Panels at Car Classic Celebrate “Iconic Design: 70 Years of ArtCenter Influence”

Alumni Panels at Car Classic Celebrate Iconic Design: 70 Years of ArtCenter Influence An event that capped a weekend-long alumni celebration thatattracted 600 alumni back to ArtCenter, last months Car Classicdubbed Iconic Design: 70 Years of ArtCenter Influencebrought together several generations o...

Lorne Buchman: Faculty Stories

Art Center president (and theater director) offers expert advice to creatives upping their presentation skills Its a chilly Wednesday morning in late November, and its showtime for a dozen students in Petrula Vrontikis Creative Presentations and Critiques class. Gathered in semi-darkness in the nea...

Outsider Art: Esther Pearl Watson

Outsider Art Esther Pearl Watson (BFA 95) “This is going to be the best summer ever…I know my hot guy is sitting on a couch or mat and wondering if some fine lady is dreaming about him,” muses Tammy Pierce, the unlucky underdog of Unlovable, a graphic novel series by Illustratio...

JT Reager

The Earth From Space: JT Reager CuratorJay Belloli interviewsJT Reager, Research Scientist, Surface Hydrology Group, Earth Sciences Section, NASA, JPL, Caltech. Jay Belloli: How you become interested in studying hydrology and the earth's water cycle?JT Reager: I was trained as an engineer, and I d...

Parker Kuncl

Meet alum Parker Kuncl (MFA 09 Media Design Practices)

With Kong: Skull Island, alum Larry Fong tames filmdom's storied beast with cinematic beauty

Film alumnus and cinematographer Larry Fong (BFA 89) has shot groundbreaking music videos and more than $1.6 billion worth of Hollywood blockbusters directed by filmmakers he befriended at ArtCenter. On break between giant gorilla reboot Kong: Skull Island (opening March 10) and pre-production for S...

Fred Germany

Frederick Germany II is the founder/owner of production company derFmania, and writer/director of Midnight Hour.

Nate Young

Meet alum Nate Young (BFA 87 Transportation Design)

Re-designing the Movies: How ArtCenter is Uniquely Educating the Next Generation of Filmmakers

Redesigning the Movies: How ArtCenter is Uniquely Educating the Next Generation of Filmmakers Jack Foley (photo by Alex Aristei) At ArtCenter I would become an artist. At any other school, I would become a guy who makes movies. During a break on the set of Man of Steel, the up...

Every day is Veterans Day for Students in Designmatters’ The Healing Trauma Project

Every day is Veterans Day for students in Designmatters’ The Healing Trauma Project “When guest speakers come into the class, they can spot me in the crowd and instantly tell I’m a veteran,” says ArtCenter student and former mass communication specialist for the U.S. Navy Ch...

Roosevelt Brown

Roosevelt “Rose” Brown is a product design director, design consultant, education advocate and associate professor at ArtCenter. Elizabeth Bayne: Approximately 300 Black alumni have graduated from ArtCenter in its 90-year history. What is your reaction to that?Roosevelt Brown (BS '95&nb...

Dream Deferred: Fine Art Alum Mike Saijo's Work Featured in Exhibition on Internment of Japanese Americans during WWII

DREAM DEFERRED: FINE ART ALUM MIKE SAIJO'S WORK FEATURED IN EXHIBITION ON INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE AMERICANS DURING WWII What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry upLike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a sore—And then run? On a recent day, Fine Art alum Mike Saijo stands and reads out-lo...