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...
ArtCenter and INSEAD, one of the world's leading business schools, marked the tenth anniversary of their partnership, which blends design innovation with business strategy, with a celebration at Airbnb's headquarters in San Francisco.
Rafael Esquer of Alfalfa Studio jumped at the chance to create a mural to improve the cafeteria of the LIFE Family Shelter in Lower Manhattan, inviting the shelter's clients to workshop their ideas and shape the design of the piece.
Featured Course What's Your Story A blend of selfie culture with community archiving, this course is a multi-year effort by the Photography and Imaging Department to create a portrait of the people of Los Angeles across a breadth of communities. Designed as a city-wide project with volunteer parti...
Get Ready for the Next Wave Korea’s Minister of Culture Kim Jongdeok (BFA 87; MFA 89) Whether it’s K-pop star Psy’s “Gangnam Style” music video blowing up YouTube records or the global popularity of television dramas like Boys Over Flowers, these days Korean culture i...
"Advance of the Rear Guard" explores Ceeje Gallery's impact on 1960s LA. On view at ArtCenter's Williamson Gallery, Oct 5, 2023 - Mar 9, 2024.
Exhibition at HMCT South Campus Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design The Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography [HMCT] at ArtCenter College of Design presents Baby Ink Twice: Letterpress Posters by Dafi Kühne, January 4 through March 15, 2022 at the HMCT South Campus Gallery. Dafi Kühn...
On Spain's Costa Brava, a Pavilion Rises Cloud 9, an award-winning Barcelona-based firm known for its dynamic, cutting-edge architecture, has collaborated with ArtCenter’s Environmental Design Department to design and fabricate a work/play pavilion for a residential site located on Spain&rsqu...
Finding Your Repurpose: Meet Ecocentric Artist S.P. Harper ArtCenter: What inspires your art? S. P. Harper (BA 79 Illustration, Advertising) ecocentric artist: Painting gemstones on reclaimed materials is my inspiration. My grandfather was a diamantaire, a diamond cutter, before becoming a conduct...
Students in Spatial Experience Design's Natural Light Competition lighting design studio were challenged to create an affordable, sustainable and portable solar-powered LED lamp
Transportation Design alum Michelle Christensen became the first woman to design a supercar, overseing the exterior design of Acura's smash-hit 2016 NSX.
It's About the Journey: Meet Artist Phil Lachapelle ArtCenter: You attended ArtCenter from 1965 to 1967, what was transportation design like at the time?Phil Lachapelle (Transportation): There was a recession and very few jobs at GM, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors. I was told that it would be t...
NIKE’S MARTIN LOTTI: DESIGN IS PART OF THE COMPANY’S DNA “Though beautiful, Oregon struck some people as the kind of place where nothing big happened, or was ever likely to,” writes Nike’s Portland-born co-founder and chairman Phil Knight in his newly released memoir S...
Earths Mightiest Artists Meet the ArtCenter alumni at the center of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Over the past 11 years, fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)the seemingly unstoppable series of 23 (and counting!) interconnected superhero films that began with 2008s Iron Manhave learned not ...
To prepare photography students for a rapidly changing profession, Photography and Imaging developed a pilot course that embeds students in local nonprofits like CicLAvia and the Japanese American Cultural Community Center.
Razzle Dazzle’s Aftermath Erik Mark Sandberg (BFA 02) For Los Angeles-based artist Erik Mark Sandberg, the world’s supersaturation of alluring imagery presents contradictions ripe for exploration. “I was on my way to the Sierra Nevada mountains recently and thought, Gosh, look at...
A historical look at one of the most diverse galleries in 1960s Los Angeles. October 5, 2023 through March 9, 2024 On view at the Alyce de Roulet Williamson GalleryArtCenter College of Design Opening reception: Thursday, October 5th from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. ArtCenter Exhibitions is pleased ...
Paula Goodman is Director of K-12 Programs at ArtCenter College of Design.
NASA's Jessie Kawata: Sending Design Across the Universe Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena recently unveiled their findings that liquid methane rains down on the surface of Titan, filling the seas and lakes of Saturn’s frigid moon. "It's a marvelous feat ...
Kicking againstthe digital takeover: Noah Minuskin's hand-drawnJohn Wick poster When Los Angeles-based artist and Illustration alumnus Noah Minuskin (BFA 15) isn't busy inking scenes of spiritual agony on his clients' limbs or torsos, the internationally recognized artist lends his considerable tal...
Media Design Practices students created "video sketches" that explored what the car experience might look like in 2025, with concepts ranging from intelligent A.I. companions to claustrophobia-inducing augmented realities.
Degrees:BFA 07 Photography and Imaging Taylor Peden and Jen Munkvold met as Photography and Imaging students at ArtCenter, fell in love and in 2006 teamed up creatively as Peden + Munk. This inspired partnership now counts among its credits photo essay-style editorial and commercial work — inc...