Full Circle: Meet Director Libero Antonio Di Zinno ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Libero Antonio Di Zinno (BFA 89 Photography), director: Ive blessed to be on the inside of a brilliant project, Endangered Activism. I got pulled in by Shannon Galpin, my esteemed partner in Mountain2Mo...
Welcome to the Machine Steve Joyner (BS 05) and Jason Pilasrki (MFA 97) “We privilege no particular creative practice, which allows us to explore the interests of our choosing without discrimination.” That’s the fearless statement on the website of MachineHistories, the two-man d...
In Practice: Reiten Cheng The alum’s 3D-printed, open-source machine Polyformer recycles clear PET plastic bottles into filaments for 3D printers A 3D-printed, open-source machine that recycles clear polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles into filaments for 3D printer...
Graphic designer specializing in narrative-based visual storytelling, with a focus on short storydriven film and video projects.
Magdalena Paluch, a graduate of ArtCenter's Graduate Industrial Design program, has always been driven by curiosity and a spirit of exploration. As the co-founder and CEO of LabTwin, she's creating a digital assistant that improves workflows for scientists and researchers working in laboratories.
Transportation students journey to the year 2030 to see the future of cars. No time travel machine needed.
Lita Albuquerque Emeritus Faculty Since the early 1970s, Lita Albuquerque (born 1946, Santa Monica, CA,raised in Carthage, Tunisia and Paris, France) has created an expansive body of work, ranging from sculpture, poetry, painting and multi-media performance to ambitious site-specific ephemeral pro...
Artificial Knowing: Media Design alumnaefight discrimination, onealgorithm at a time In an airy, white loft space, in a fantastical art deco factory building in downtown Los Angeles, Media Design Practices (MDP) alumnae Christine Meinders (MFA 2017) and Selwa Sweidan (MFA 2016) are working to gathe...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 28 Recent Alum Vicente Magaa on Solving the Riddle of Mass Transit in California ArtCenters Transportation Design program has a type and, at first glance, Vicente Magaa seems to fit it perfectly. Lifelong obsession with cars? Check. A childhood spent sketching every ty...
Campus Life. Elevated. Situated on 175 wooded acres in the hills above the Rose Bowl, ArtCenters Hillside Campus has never lacked any amount of outdoor green space. Life at the Colleges South Campus, located in an urban setting at the southern gateway to Pasadena, is a different story. In imaginin...
ArtCenter's top 10 wins and biggest accomplishments of 2023, including ArtCenter the No. 1 art and design college in the country for ROI.
An Eclectic Mind: Meet Writer, Photographer Jerry Vass AC: What's an important lesson you learned from ArtCenter?Jerry Vass (62 Photography): In my photography career, I converted words to images. I learned the basics of those skills at ArtCenter, which gave me a knowledge platform to learn the oth...
Pieces of Resistance: Meet Artist Ellen November ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Ellen November (BFA 73 Illustration) fiber artist, curator of the upcoming exhibition Mapping Out: Im doing work around Gun Sense using an aerial view of Virginia City Municipal Center overlaid with a gu...
ArtCenter College of Design was named “School of the Year” in The 2022 Young Ones competition, considered one of the most acclaimed advertising, interactive and design student competitions in the world. ArtCenter Graphic Design and Creative Direction students won the most awards with the...
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...
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...
From Steve Jobs to ArtCenter: Meet Designer Victor Zaud ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Victor Zaud (BFA 91 Graphic Design), Head of Marketing, IMVU: IMVU is a 3D, immersive social platform where users tap avatars to meet new people and build deeper friendships with those know. Its al...
Storyboard: Julian Ryder Coming full circle Ive heard that in life people can have one of three things: they can have a job, they can have a career or they can have a calling. Im very fortunate to have had all three. The journey has been long. The calling came late. It all started in high school ...
Storyboard: Tracy Wong Scared out of my wits The catalog scared me. The student gallery scared me. The lingering nightmare of not getting in and spending my entire career working a high-speed copier at Kinkos scared me. Being surrounded by the most gifted art and design students in the world that...
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...
ArtCenter Alums Bob Gurr, De Liu and Azeez Alli-Balogun to Receive Alumni Awards for Their Transcendent Impact on Our Society on Multiple Fronts ArtCenter College of Design is pleased to announce the 16th Annual Alumni Award recipients, who will be honored on June 8th for their meaningful contribut...