Kitchen Kauldron, an original immersive game, was created by a team of game designers and concept artists in ArtCenter's Entertainment Design program. Read more about Game Design at ArtCenter.
Meet Modern Love Illustrator and ArtCenter Faculty Brian Rea How does an illustrator make our internal experiences of love and loss visible? It's a riddle that Illustration faculty member grapples with every week in his playful drawings featured within each installation of the New York Times' popul...
Setting A Scene: Meet Set Designer Assaf Horowitz ArtCenter: What are you working on right now?Assaf Horowitz (BS 14 Entertainment Design) lead set designer, Blue Sky Studios: An animation feature that will be out in 2020, but I cant say more than that. AC: Describe a moment in your childhood wher...
Curator-led tours at world-class museums. Intimate visits to artists and illustrators studios. Hands-on drawing workshops across from the River Thames. Illustration Department Chair Ann Field, along with faculty members Clive Piercy and Paul Rogers, guide students on an unforgettable trip to London....
The Sanke multileveled communal outdoor seating system for public spaces created by ArtCenter College of Design Environmental Design student Sonia Lui was unveiled June 2, 2016 at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Grand Avenue Plaza in downtown Los Angeles. The permanent installation is the res...
Race shows off design ingenuity, triumph over failure and other skills crucial to success in a global, creative economy WHEN: Thursday, August 10, 2017 from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. WHAT: The annual Formula-E race ritual ("E" for "elastic") provides corporate and student teams with valuable experience...
ARTIST AND ILLUSTRATION ASSOCIATE CHAIR AARON SMITH'S COLORFUL PORTRAITS ARE NOSTALGIC AND MODERN Illustration Department Associate Chair Aaron Smith (BFA 88) has long been transfixed by the Victorian and Edwardian eras, and by the bearded men—stoically posed and meticulously attired&m...
This beginning ceramics sculpture course introduces the methods and vocabulary essential to hand-building and glazing ceramics. Students explore endless sculptural opportunities through a variety of hand-building clay techniques from practices that have endured for centuries to modern patterns and ...
Katie Sprague Finding true north Throughout the course of my life, Ive found myself continually returning to one simple question: Why have I devoted my life to this crazy thing called Brand Strategy? Why did I decide to go back for a second round of college in my 30s? Why, indeed. Even as a k...
Modern light-filled studios are available to Fine Art and Illustration students seeking a space of their own to create and collaborate.
Bleed and Blend: Meet Creative Director Aaron Jacob ArtCenter: What do you like most about your job?Aaron Jacob (BA 08 Graphic Design) Associate Creative Director, Ayzenberg Groups space.camp: The fact that Im fortunate enough to spend my time collaborating with insanely talented creatives. Whether...
CHANGE/MAKERS: Pam Fujimoto, Executive CreativeDirector Known for her irreverent and often-imitated creative campaigns for brands both iconic (Absolut Vodka) and insurgent (The Coffee Bean), alum and WONGDOODY Executive Creative Director Pam Fujimoto redefines what it means to be a modern advertisi...
The Surface Design Research Lab houses an archive of surface design projects, a library of leading American Modernist monographs, publications and examples of the work of Charles and Ray Eames, modern surface design publications and a database of surface design influencers, designers and organizatio...
Illustrator/set designer/muralist.
CHANGE/MAKERS: Matthew RolstonPhotographer, Director and Creative Director Ever since Andy Warhol hired then-ArtCenter student Matthew Rolston to shoot a portrait of Steven Spielberg for Interview magazine, Rolston has continued to redefine the modern meaning of glamour and what it is to be a celeb...
Los Angeles is set to host the 2028 Olympics. In this Designmatters course, students examine how resources and spaces are impacted when a city invites the Olympic Games into its community.
Meet EntertainmentDesign Student Phillip Burrows Phillip set himself apart from his household full of athletes when he started drawing as a kid. He then followed his artistic inclinations into Miami's prestigious Design and Architecture Senior High (DASH) and into ArtCenter's Entertainment Design p...
Associate professor and core faculty in the Media Design Practices graduate program. Partner in Hooker&Kitchen. Previously visiting faculty at Intel Research in Berkeley, working as a ''designer in residence'' on projects about both urban and domestic computing. Prior to that, research fellow in the...
Change Lab Episode 9: Graphic Design Legend Paula Scher Paula Scher is among the most influential graphic designers working today. The first female principal to join Pentagram, the worlds largest independently owned design studio, Schers logos, identity and branding systems have established her ico...
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.
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...
Change Lab Podcast: Niklas Gustafsson on Tacklingthe Pepsi Challenge ArtCenter alum Niklas Gustafsson is the Global Director for PepsiCos Design and Innovation team. His wide-ranging duties at PepsiCo embody a uniquely modern corporate dilemma for brands striving to remain relevant to Millennials: ...
A multi-space installation work by Los Angeles artist Eli Smith, Today Is Your Birthday is an inquiry into the labor of both forgetting and remembering across generations. This series of scripted spaces, closed to the public and presented virtually, is a post-immigration story for a post-Trump real...
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...
Do What Scares You: Meet Illustrator Nol Ill ArtCenter: Tell us about what inspired your current creative project?Nol ILL (BFA 05 Illustration): When I was asked if Id like to illustrate a childrens book about Halloween, my initial thought was, Yes! Some of my fondest childhood memories were attend...