The Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography: Two Years, Two Paths, One Destiny I was supposed to be a lawyer. A product of perhaps the best quality of public education, I excelled in school and finished my last semester of high school working as the executive intern for the mayor of New York City. I...
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A project that examines access, collaboration and pedagogy within arts institutions, and embraces the pivot to present exhibitions during the pandemic. Part 1: Recent Pasts, Tomorrow’s ArchivesOnline Exhibition: Nov. 6, 2020 – Jan. 16, 2021 Part 2: Recent Pasts, RevisitedOn-Site ...
Supercharged: How two former classmates are shaping the future of Tesla As we go to press, more than 276,000 people have placed preorders for a Tesla Model 3, the highly anticipated, all-electric vehicle with a 215-mile range and an accessible $35,000 price tag—the car Tesla’s CEO ...
On Friday, July 13 and Saturday, July 14, The Antiracist Classroom, a student-led organization at ArtCenter College of Design, will host the two-day convening Reconstructing Practice. Participants will explore the ways artists, designers and technologists approach and enact anti-racist practices in ...
Serving the client and the muse, two creative minds thrive in advertising while finding an extra measure of freedom in their own work.
Artist's Statement Dads Hands Are Smaller John Ziqiang Wu Dads Hands Are Smaller is a story of my family, also a story of the gift of art. I had no intention of it becoming an art project. But, through the process of making the works, I became inspired to see art in new ways. I had a family emer...
In this brand-sponsored, study-away intensive, students travel to Portland, Oregon to work on-site at top athletic brands, including Nike, Adidas and Under Armour. Under the mentorship of ArtCenter alumni and other industry-leading professionals, students design projects to address the diverse needs...
In this two-semester Graduate Transportation Systems and Design class, students conceptualize and design transportation systems of the future.
ACX KIDS CLASS INVENTORS WORKSHOP TEACHES STUDENTS PROBLEM SOLVING Think of three ways to brush your teeth without using your hands, sketch those ideas, and then turn them into products. Thats a prompt alumnus Nas Oh (BFA 11 Illustration), a production designer for movies, music videos and commerc...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 24 Jeff Goodby on Creating Mass Intimacy through Advertising Jeff Goodby is an advertising legend, whose humanity and humility have propelled him to the peak of a profession not necessarily known for either. Imagine an ad man as clever and visionary as Don Draper, minus ...
Change Lab Episode 32 Jessica Helfand on Redefining Design Ethics for the Digital Age Its not an overstatement to say that Jessica Helfand is a renaissance woman of the design world. She co-founded Design Observer, an authoritative digital publication on the state of visual culture and an oracle o...
BRAVE AND THE BOLD: SURVIOS AND HEARTSMINDS LEADERS TO DISCUSS SECRETS OF CONNECTING In an increasingly noisy world of advertising and marketingfull of hashtags, sponsored lenses and, yes, good old-fashioned word of mouthhow do creatives find the audiences they need to build their brand? Thats one ...
Storyboard: Tim Larson Take the roundabout and keep going My pathway to design was always a roundabout one. I grew up in a modest town just east of Portland. As a kid, Portland was the big city. The specter of Nike loomed large over Portlands creative community and its cultural omnipresence serve...
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...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 30 Documentary Filmmaker Ivy Meeropol on the Active Pursuit of Empathy Ivy Meeropol is a documentary filmmaker whose emotionally and politically charged films explore social and cultural injustice from the inside out. Her work in TV and film ranges from an exploration of...
This beginning ceramics sculpture course introduces the methods and vocabulary essential to hand-building and glazing ceramics. Students explore endless sculptural opportunities through a variety of hand-building clay techniques from practices that have endured for centuries to modern patterns and ...
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This course challenges students to conceive and propose a future vehicle design for a specific automotive brand and timeframe. Students will focus on creative- and critical-thinking methods that support storytelling, concept investigation and vehicle-design development. Through a series of weekly pr...
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...
Storyboard: Peter Miller My strange relationship with structure I grew up enamored with science. I got my first surfboard when I was nine years old, and let it be known that marine biology became my favorite class in middle school. I was fascinated by the empirical nature of the sciences: the nuts...
Storyboard: Gale Morris Designing with hands that wont do what you want them to I grew up during of WWII. As kids, we built models of Jeeps, tanks and B-25s. Then I started making models of cars, which led to an organization known as the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild. My first attempt at age 12 br...
Storyboard: Vincent Zhang Michelle Kim Sharing a Brain and Embracing the Unknown Vincent Zhang and Michelle Kim, current ArtCenter students, are Co-Organizers of the upcoming TEDxACCD event November 4 Beauty of the Fall an exploration of failure. No pressure. Storyboard brought them together to...