REPRESENT: Powerin Color Many artists and designers grapple with questions of identity. For artists and designers of color, these questions often take on additional layers of complexity. Last term, more than 20 ArtCenter students and alumni contributed work to Represent: Power in Color, a one-day e...
In this course, Game Design students create prototypes of sophisticated 3D games using industry-standard development tools and gain practical knowledge of advanced concepts in game design and game theories.
Color Coordinated: Meet Besame Founder Fergus Hernandez ArtCenter: You co-founded Bsame with your wife Gabriela Hernandez (BFA 89 Photography) how did that come about? Fergus Hernandez (BFA 90 Photography) CFO/Co-founder, Bsame Cosmetics: Weve worked together since meeting at ArtCenter in the late...
ArtCenter College of Design offers a Game Design track as part of the BS in Entertainment Design degree program with a focus on video game development.
In his paintings and sculptures, artist Victor Estrada (BFA 86 Fine Art, MFA 88 Art) dives into the realm of identity, bigotry, self, perception, memory.
This foundational course is part of ArtCenters newly launched Game Design Track, a specialization allowing students to learn skills vital to launching a career inthe rapidly growing video game industry. Students will learn to analyze and appreciate gamesas they would a piece of literature or art. Fr...
High school and college-aged students join industry professionals to make games March 26, 2021 ArtCenter College of Design will host a Game Jam, an exciting weekend challenge for high school and college-aged students to take an idea from concept to playable game in 48 hours on the weekend of March...
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...
Pasadena Unified Teachers Learn Design Skills to Apply in the Classroom and Students Discover New Career Pathways in Art and Design Fields “…the arts are a source of strength and well-being for communities and individuals, and can open doors to conversations that address complex is...
Los Angeles is set to host the 2028 Olympics. In this Designmatters course, students examine how resources and spaces are impacted when a city invites the Olympic Games into its community.
ArtCenter College of Design is thrilled to announce that Chromacorp has won the Live Action Award at the IndieCade 2024 Festival, making it the third year students from the College’s Game Design program have been nominated at the festival, and the second consecutive time winning in this catego...
Change Lab 47: Pasadena City College President Erika Endrijonas on leveling the playing field
The Color, Materials and Trends Exploration Laboratory (CMTEL) hosts classes, lectures, workshops and projects emphasizing color, materials, trends and technology.
Students Develop Experiences that Foster Connection and Friendship IMVU, the world’s largest avatar-based 3D social network, and ArtCenter College of Design, one of the world’s premier art and design schools located in Pasadena, California, recently launched a studio partnership to give...
Entertainment Design alum Edmund Liang is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in transmedia narratives and multi-sensory spatial experiences whose eclectic client list includes the Famous Group, Jim Henson Company, Dreamworks, Psyop, Imaginary Forces and Logan.tv.
Students spent seventeen days photographing and experiencing Berlin, one the world’s most vibrant and thriving art centers. This limited-enrollment class was led by Just Loomis (BFA 80 Photography), former assistant to Helmut Newton. Loomis, who has taught numerous workshops and exhibited...
New curriculum meets gaming industry demand for inventive storytellers Beginning this fall, students at ArtCenter College of Design will be able to declare a game design specialization to learn vital skills in demand by the rapidly growing video game industry. The aim of the Game Design track wi...
College Set to Build Affordable Student Housing, Enhanced Mobility and Elevated Quad to Span Metro Tracks ArtCenter College of Design will move forward with a Master Plan approved unanimously by Pasadena’s City Council at a July 16th, 2018, meeting. The plan is an ambitious long-term strateg...
Student Voices Andrew Villaseñor, (he/him), BS, Entertainment Design, Game Design Track. Andrew Villaseñor is turning his childhood passions into his career at ArtCenter. "Watching TV shows, reading comics, and playing games, those were big inspirations for me to start experimenting...