ArtCenter Graduate Art student Delbar Shahbaz and Transportation Design student Ehsan Momeninejad, both from Iran, discuss how President Donald Trump's January 27, 2017 travel ban executive order has impacted them.
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Peter Lam graduated from ArtCenter College of Design in 2003 with a degree in Illustration. Since graduating, Lam has been working in the video game industry and is currently working for Treyarch in Santa Monica as the lead concept artist. Lam's game credits include the Spiderman 3 Movie Game, Call ...
Storyboard: Zach Leazer How a life in the Air Force prepared me for a life making movies The first time I ever directed anything, I was still serving in the United States Air Force. I know thats a weird concept, but just hear me out for a second. I was an airplane mechanic doing my first tour of ...
Change Lab Episode 11: Ellen Lupton on Design as Storytelling Ellen Lupton is a design thinker of the highest order. As curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City, she has produced numerous exhibitions and books, including Thinking with Type (2004), whi...
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...
André Kim: Environmental Design Alum Glides From Cycling to Starbucks At an upscale Starbucks Reserve coffee bar just south of Los Angeles music venue the Greek Theatre, with zig-zagging wooden countertops and the caffeinated clickety-clack of customers on laptops, Environmental Design alumn...
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...
Storyboard: Jack Telnack A Ford Man When I was a kid, Dad used to take me to the Ford Rotunda in our hometown of Dearborn, Michigan. Being an autoholic from an early age, I remember when I first saw the 1941 Lincoln Continental on display. I was five at the time. The car was designed by Bob Gregor...
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: Eunice San Miguel Trusting myself the key to everything My mother likes to say that Ive been drawing since I was two years old. The way she tells it, she would put paper in front of me, give me markers and crayons, and then watch as I sketched an entire world. There was nothing analyt...
Storyboard: Gail Howland It takes a lot of work thats not creative to be a creative When I told my colleagues that I was considering getting my second degree at ArtCenter College of Design, some of them couldnt quite wrap their head around the concept. They were familiar with ArtCenter and were aw...
Storyboard: Victoria Berry, Patricia Bravo Luc Limbourg ArtCenter Europe Forever In this edition of Storyboard, we meet the co-chairs of ArtCenter AlumNetwork Europe Victoria Berry, Patricia Bravo and Luc Limbourg. This trifecta of connectors talks about bonds forged and an idea that sparked a c...
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...
Environmental Design alumna Ariel Johnson never tells the same story twice The staff at Ariel Fox Design are as diverse as the environments they create. My office has been called the United Nations of designers, says owner Ariel Johnson (BS 08 Environmental Design), who launched the Sherman Oaks-ba...
Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Jason Louie moved to Pasadena to study Transportation Design at ArtCenter. After graduating, his career started as a concept artist at Walt Disney Imagineering, R&D. Since then, his diverse range of experience has grown to include concept art in video game...
Storyboard: Gordon Bruce How to Design a World What is design? Its a trade, its a profession, its a state of mind. More than anything, design is a key to unlocking continuity and cohesion within the bigger picture of life. Growing up with an industrial designer for a father, I was exposed to the ...
ArtCenter College of Design has teamed up with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) and the American Red Cross Pacific Division to unveil a groundbreaking initiative aimed at combating the escalating threat of wildfires across the state. While wildfires have long bee...
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...
Climbing The Ladder: Meet Catalyst CCO Josh Wright AC: What inspired you to co-found Catalyst? Josh Wright (BS Product Design 03) Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Catalyst: The seed was planted when I was at ArtCenter. The College trains you to think about design, not just from the aesthetic ...
Lily Lin: Recipe for Creating a Leader Lily Lin, ArtCenters Summer 2020 Student Leadership Award winner, who described her high school self as a shy, back-of-the-class person governed by fear and uncertainty, pushed herself to move from Canada to California to attend ArtCenter. I knew I no longer w...
Eric Ryan has been Head of Illustration, an Art Director and Senior Concept Artist with over 21 years experience in the film, television and video game industry. He attended the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Molecular and Cell Biology, and subsequently made a career change in 2...
Storyboard: Pearlyn Lii What do people do in difficult times? They invent their way out of it. My parents grew up in a very rural, underdeveloped part of South China. In fact, they even met in the same village. They were young and in love, though there was always the question of where the next mea...
Storyboard: Kit Hinrichs Narrative Design: A 50-Year Perspective In trying to impress upon young designers how radically design has changed since I was a student at ArtCenter, I often use the analogy: First, there was cave painting, and then, I entered the field. A few years after I began my care...
Storyboard: Jessica Muljadi The benefits of culture shock and keeping your finger on the pulse For me, growing up was like a never-ending series of culture shocks. My upbringing was not unique in the slightest, but I did do a lot of bouncing around between different habitats as a kid it often fe...