For artist Neil Shigley, documenting San Diego's homeless population in large-scale block-printed portraits is a labor of love.
Change Lab Podcast Episode 23 Rebeca Mndez on dissolving boundaries between art and design and connecting with our animal nature Rebeca Mndez is an artist, designer, educator and ArtCenter alumna whose creative practice defies the bounds of traditional disciplines or descriptions. Her pioneering ...
Storyboard: Joann Jung Do dreamers ever get to where they need to be? I came to America from Korea when I was sixteen years old. The world was a much different place to me then. My mother was a painter. She was a fearless woman and the risk taker in the family. She believed that to be creative me...
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: Ini Archibong A language without language As a kid growing up in Pasadena, I would frequently ride my bike to ArtCenter. I thought of it as the place where people designed cool cars. Many years later, I decided to leave the USC Marshall School of Business and start my first term at Art...
Storyboard: Dennis Juett Power to the pencil I was always around graphic design, even as a child. My dad was in the business. One of my favorite things to do as a kid was take apart watches and put them back together. At fifteen, I was doing the same thing with cars. By the time I reached high sc...
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...
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...
Way to Logo: Meet Brand Identity Expert Lindon Leader ArtCenter: What have been some of the most memorable twists and turns in your professional/creative journey after graduating ArtCenter?Lindon Leader (BFA Advertising 78): I have served a wide variety of clients large and small, local, national...
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...
Embedded Interactions is a four-week intensive studio, where students design and build prototypes that utilize a mix of working systems, wizard-of-ozing, and video simulations.
Pasadena, CA – ArtCenter College of Design Graduate Art faculty members Ei Arakawa-Nash and Kelly Akashi are presenting new work at two of the world’s leading contemporary art exhibitions, the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial. Japanese-American performance artist Ei Arakawa-Nash...
ArtCenter College of Design's Fine Art Department is proud to present Dad’s Hands Are Smaller, an exhibition of paintings by John Wu, a graduate of the department who has since gone on to gain attention for his explorations of how art interfaces with daily life and relationships. John Zi...
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In 1937 a naked Le Corbusier, in a confrontational act, infamously painted eight brightly colored murals over the walls of Eileen Gray’s groundbreaking E-1027 house, the modernist villa the architect designed on the French Riviera. The intrusion into her design infuriated Gray, who considered ...
BlockCenter Creator Paul Lam Entertainment Design student Paul Lam created BlockCenter, a custom version of Minecraft set at ArtCenter’s Hillside campus. What is your sweet summer story? Around two weeks ago I started a 1 to 1 (1 block equates to 1 meter) recreation of the ArtCenter’s...
Environmental Design alum Seth Baker brings his love of design and nature to the Huntington To say that the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens is a Southern California oasis—with gardens, galleries and a research library spread across 207 acres—is an understatemen...
A Fine Art Alumni Exhibition in Honor of Antoinette Adams on view at ArtCenter DTLA Exhibition dates: January 7 through February 1, 2020 Opening reception: Thursday, January 9, 7 until 9 p.m. Closing reception: Saturday, February 1, 7 until 9 p.m. with pe...
Profile of Environmental Design alumnus Tung Chiang, director and creative lead of Heath Clay Studio.
Flyers, posters, signs and other physical items are frequently used at ArtCenter to communicate and promote various events and activities to the ArtCenter community. The College has outlined this policy to help maintain consistency and manage the source, content and timing of these promotions.
Knowledge is Power: A Transportation Design Student’s Journey from Zimbabwe to ArtCenter One day, when then 6-year-old future Transportation Design student Thokozani Mabena was playing with friends in the shanty town where he grew up, in authoritarian-ruled Zimbabwe, he was drawn to a magazin...
Advertising alum Bob Matsumoto’s journey from Manzanar to ArtCenter and a thriving career The first thing you see when entering Advertising alumnus Bob Matsumoto’s (BFA 1963) red brick house in Burbank is an enormous American flag pinned to an archway on the front porch. The flag was g...
12 Graduating Artists from ArtCenter’s Graduate Art Program Online Exhibition begins: 09/18/20 at artcenter.edu/dtla ArtCenter DTLA launches the online premiere of Fell for Everything , the annual group exhibition for graduating artists from ArtCenter’s Graduate Art Program. ...
Street-view window exhibition presents artist-run initiatives in Los Angeles Now through April 25, 2021 Los Angeles artist Elizabeth Preger brings together local artist collectives under the exhibition Systems of Exchange, pairing a series of vitrines inhabited by local cre...
Meet alum and product designer Kevin Heidkamp (BS 14 Product Design)