Profile of Environmental Design alumnus Tung Chiang, director and creative lead of Heath Clay Studio.
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 ...
Related Links Application Requirements Portfolio Requirements Tuition and Aid This course will build upon foundational concepts necessary to design and create models using stock materials and standard shop methods. An introduction to industrial clay modeling techniques will provide students with ...
Program:GraphicDesign The College launched the Student/Space video series in fall 2013 to capture the essence of what it means to be an ArtCenter student by illuminating the art of making, from conception to completion. The idea was to capture the agony and ecstasy of creativity itself. So each term...
Program:ProductDesign alainamickes.com In the end, a leader is only as great as her team, and it has been an honor to be a part of the best team in the world. A self-described thinker, maker and former French baker, Summer 2016 Student Leadership Award-winner Alaina Mickes came to ArtCenter with pr...
Rob ClaytonIllustration, 1988 Christian ClaytonIllustration, 1991 claytonbrothers.com The Clayton brothers are Rob and Christian Clayton, who have been collaborating since 1996 on paintings and installations which entwine their styles and palettes. Rob, born in 1963, and Christian, born in 1967, b...
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...
Program:ArtCenter at Night IndustrialDesign I get to fly airplanes and blow things up, says Jesse Ellico, an aerospace engineer for Orbital ATK, when asked to describe his job. s a little boys dream. The first thing Ellico tells students enrolled in his seven-week Introduction to Industrial Design ...
Degree:BFAIllustration thehettemagroup.com Phil Hettema, the president and creative director of The Hettema Group (THG), creates stories you can touch. Since 2002 THG has been interweaving compelling narratives with technology to create experiences with emotional resonance. Through close collaborati...
Degree:BS 90Advertising Got milk? Nearly as ubiquitous as milk itself, this advertising slogan sparked countless parodies and imitations as well as a variety of licensing deals. Its not surprising that an ArtCenter grad was one of the key creators behind the Got Milk? campaigndirector, writer and cr...
Degree:BS 12 Environmental Design designbyini.com Ini Archibong was studying at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California when his life pivoted. His passion for business was being overtaken by his passion for art, which he had studied at Polytechnic School, a preparat...
Degree:BFA 87Illustration markryden.com Mark Ryden was named the godfather of Pop Surrealism by Interview in 2010. He first garnered attention in the 1990s when he ushered in this new genre of painting with a host of followers in his wake. He has created a singular style that blurs the traditional ...
Program:ArtCenter at Night Right across the Arroyo, were making plans for a real close encounter, says Dave Doody, whose Art Center At Night seminar, Basics of Interplanetary Flight, is currently recruiting participants for a class thats literally out of this world. My team has been piloting the gan...
Honor a Legacy. Shape the Future of Automotive Design ArtCenter College of Design is proud to announce the Ian Cameron Design Scholarship, a new endowment launched with a $1 million founding gift from philanthropist and car collector John Aycoth. This meaningful scholarship pays tribute to Aycoths...
Degree: BS 15 Interaction Design Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Inae Song was drawn to the multidisciplinary Interaction Design program at ArtCenter as a field of possibility, a place to envision the future of design even beyond existing technologies and, she says, to apply without constrain...
Program:Environmental Design behance.net/alvinoei Environmental Design student Alvin Oei is both a busy student, and a student leader. Early on in his ArtCenter career, he founded ArtReach, a student led mentorship program that brings free art and design education to local non profit organizations....
Craig Attebery is a native southern Californian. He Graduated from ArtCenter in 1980, receiving a BFA with Honors. He then completed his MFA studies at Otis/Parsons Art Institute in 1984. Craig is the author of The Complete Guide to Perspective Drawing: From One- to Six-Point. He has worked as a fre...
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...
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...
Gregory S. Smith is the instructor for clay modeling in the Entertainment Design Department. Greg has been involved in the Motion picture and Television industry ince 1987 and has worked on many films to date including: Dick Tracy, Hocus Pocus, The Santa Clause, Death Becomes Her, Spider-man, Alien ...
Storyboard: Mike Hailey Warsaw Drive and focus across generations For this special Storyboard, we speak to designer, alum and trustee Mike Warsaw (BS 1990) and his daughter Hailey, a current student in her third term at ArtCenter. Mike: Going through high school, I loved to draw and make things....
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...