ArtCenter recognizes the ancestral lands of the Hahamog'na Tongva people and honors their enduring connection to the Pasadena and Altadena region.
Patrick Hruby, Loris Lora, Ellen Surrey and Alexander Vidal Define the California Spirit for the 21st Century March 8, 2017 through August 19, 2017 A fresh crop of Modernists of Illustration defining the California spirit for the 21st Century are featured in Land of Enchantment, an exhibition...
Designing for Green Justice: Centering Indigenous Land Access, Stewardship, White Sage Campaign In this Designmatters studio, students have the opportunity to connect with this land and its First Peoples, the Tongva community. Together, we work with Indigenous land rights advocates and Tr...
Why AxS Episode 1 Rosetta Mission: How an illustrator helped NASA-JPL land on a comet Welcome to the Why AxS, ArtCenter’s podcast challenging scientific and artistic minds to examine universal questions about the nature of existence from differing perspectives. For our first episode, ...
A former petroleum executive and holder of two consecutive land speed records, Charlie Nearburg is a member of ArtCenter College of Design's Board of Trustees.
A college campus represents so much more than an arrangement of land and buildings. As courses continue to move online, what aspects of a student's college experience are missing now that we're all at home? In collaboration with California Institute of Technology (Caltech) ), students use the online...
Revisiting Radical Chic: Meet Art Director Mike Diehl ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Mike Diehl (BA Advertising 73) graphic designer/art director: A host of wonderful projects: a brand identity for a solar-power company in Hawaii, a logo for a nonprofit music organization, plus some ...
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...
Alumnus Syd Mead, along with representatives from companies like Disney Interactive, Industrial Light & Magic, and The Weinstein Company, were among the attendees who reviewed work by students hoping to land internships.
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...
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...
Alumna Loris Lora: Safe and Sound andnot slowing down An artist whose work has appeared in numerous publications, includingThe Boston Globe,Los Angeles Times,The New Yorker and the The Wall Street Journal, Illustration alumna Loris Lora (BFA 14) spent countless childhood hours drawing. But it wasn...
Storyboard: Tim Delaney Tomorrowland Comes True Picture this: the year is 1955. Im a tiny kid, sitting in my parents living room, watching on the television. Of all the segments, I am the most inspired by Which makes sense. is the part of the show about men in space, pioneering ways of technolo...
Intuitive Designer: Meet Creative Director Paula Hansanugrum ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Paula Hansanugrum (BA 08 Graphic Design) Executive Creative Director at Chase Design Group: So many things! At the moment, Im working on identity, branding and packaging design projects for se...
Storyboard: Mari Nakano Two streams I was raised in a fairly traditional Asian-American family. As far as a career, I believed I had two options: become a doctor or a lawyer. A creative career was out of the question. I mean, where was the stability in that? Part of being a true creative means br...
Storyboard: Domenique Sillett Buxton The Trailblazer I was at a crossroads. And it was only 4th term. Halfway through my time at ArtCenter, I began to feel the idea of becoming a traditional illustrator begin to unravel. I met with my Associate Chair of Illustration Jon Conrad for an informal por...
Storyboard: Silvia Fuentes Amplifying the voices of the voiceless ArtCenter was where I became passionate about social issues. It was where I learned that advertising, my chosen field of study, could be used to amplify the voices of the voiceless. Toward the end of my senior year, I began to drift...
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...
REPRESENT: Powerin Color Many artists and designers grapple with questions of identity. For artists and designers of color, these questions often take on additional layers of complexity. Last term, more than 20 ArtCenter students and alumni contributed work to Represent: Power in Color, a one-day e...
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...
BMW Group for 15 yrs, in US/EU, designing BMW, Mini, MG, Land Rover and Rolls-Royce concept and production cars. Best known for RR Phantom and 100EX. Worked alongside Rolls-Royce directors to determine marque's future direction, product planning and communications. In 2005 set up Marek Djordjevic In...
Sculpting Reality: Fine art student Filip Kostic deploys VR to ask big questions and create new meanings Artists tools have evolved throughout history, perpetually expanding the possibilities for expression. And whether its Michelangelos frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or James Turrel...
The Earth From Space: Derek Posselt CuratorJay Belloli interviewsDerek Posselt,Atmospheric Physics and Weather Group, Earth Sciences Section, NASA, JPL, Caltech. Jay Belloli: How did you become interested in atmospheric science?Derek Posselt: Ive always been interested in science from a very young...
Gina Park is a multidisciplinary designer specializing in branding, motion graphics, and interactive design. She sees design as a powerful storytelling tool, shaping how people engage with brands through movement, typography, and interaction. A graduate of ArtCenter College of Design, she has collab...
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...