HQ:SF – Creatives in the Bay Area / Part 2 / Illustration Alum Martin Grasser San Francisco has changed a lot since 1967’s Summer of Love. Flanked by water and fog, the Northern California city now brims with technology companies and creatives. Meet three very different alums who work a...
HQ:SF – Creatives in the Bay Area / Part 1 / Product Design Alumna Katie Dill San Francisco has changed a lot since 1967’s Summer of Love. Flanked by water and fog, the Northern California city now brims with technology companies and creatives. Meet three very different alums who work a...
Profile of Environmental Design alumnus Tung Chiang, director and creative lead of Heath Clay Studio.
We Will be Strong Resilience in the Ashes installation at Grad Show pays tribute after Eaton and Palisades fires “We are there for you and we will be strong.” That was the message that graduating Illustration student HM Newton wrote on a card and hung on a sculptu...
Safe Agua is an interdisciplinary program by Designmatters that endeavors to bring design thinking to the area of "water poverty" in the developing world.
Edward Cushenberry lives in the Los Angeles area where he splits his time between photographing his life and drawing everything else that's going on in his world, in an attempt to merge real life with romanticism.
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...
Peace Over Violence ArtCenter offers several programs to educate and increase awareness about sexual violence and prevention throughout our campus community. The College has partnered with Peace Over Violence a nonprofit working to build healthy relationships free from sexual, domestic and interpe...
For undergraduate students interested in a design degree but unsure what area to pursue, ArtCenter College of Design offers a First Year Immersion program.
Change Lab Podcast Episode 18 Lisa Kron on Turning Memory into Meaning on Broadway Best known for her Tony Award-winning work on the Broadway hit musical Fun Home (based on Alison Bechdels eponymous graphic novel about coming of age and coming out) Lisa Kron is a singularly talented playwright and...
Being located in the greater Los Angeles area means our students get to learn and design in creative capital of the world, where new opportunities and career options are constantly emerging across industries.
Designmatters offers a minor in Social Innovation, providing a unique area of specialization for undergraduate students who want to navigate the complex dynamics of working with communities and designing for social change.
The Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography: Two Years, Two Paths, One Destiny I was supposed to be a lawyer. A product of perhaps the best quality of public education, I excelled in school and finished my last semester of high school working as the executive intern for the mayor of New York City. I...
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...
The Power of Intuition: Meet Industrial Designer Terry Carr ArtCenter: What are you working on right now?Terry Carr (BS 13 Product Design) industrial designer, Plantronics: Wearable technology that helps users stay active, like earphones with a coach or guide in whatever exercise youre doing that c...
Storyboard: Mark Fennimore Following in my dad's footsteps by not following in my dad's footsteps When I was a kid, my dad worked for NASA. He started in the Apollo program and after the first man landed on the moon, he transitioned to Skylab and then the Shuttle Program. He was a very pragmatic, ...
He Shoots, He Scores: Meet Photojournalist Damon Casarez ArtCenter: How do you define success? Damon Casarez (BA 12 Photography and Imaging) Photographer: As being on the right path to achieve goals that youve set for yourself. There are always ups and downs being a freelance artist. But I know wh...
Storyboard: Frank Lanza Making sense of the gifts Ive been given There werent many distractions when I was a kid. There was no television, no internet. At the most, my friends and I would listen to serials on the radio. Of course, we had plenty of time on our hands. Invariably, I would end up ask...
Merle Mullin Philanthropist and Director, Mullin Automotive Museum Merle Mullin enjoys showing, driving and racing Vintage cars along with her husband Peter. She is a co-founder/co-organizer of a biennial vintage car rally for women only. Its All About the Girls! is an exciting, much publicized ev...
Featured Course What's Your Story A blend of selfie culture with community archiving, this course is a multi-year effort by the Photography and Imaging Department to create a portrait of the people of Los Angeles across a breadth of communities. Designed as a city-wide project with volunteer parti...
The graphic design course of study challenges students to develop sophisticated typographic and image-making skill sets working across both emerging and traditional media.
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...
After seven years experience in aerospace as a electro-mechanical design engineer a life change landed John in Sweden where he worked as a Product Engineer for Volvo Automobiles. There he learned vehicle development from design, architecture and systems perspective. Volvo moved him to the Netherland...
Brian Boyl is director of the Visual Interaction area of emphasis at ArtCenter College of Design, and professor in the department of Graphic Design. He has taught and built programs in the digital arts at both the graduate and undergraduate levels for more than 25 years including at UCLA, USC, Loyol...
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...