The educational innovators behind lynda.com and The Skool, and the booming business of online learning Were in the infancy of this industry, and theres a lot of room for a lot of different angles on how to attack the problem of teaching online. Lynda Weinman The pioneers Forbes magazine ...
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...
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...
ArtCenter students, instructors and alumni are busy imagining what's next for wearables, creating devices that are paving the way for the future, and questioning how a wearables-saturated world will change our behavior as human beings.
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...
Dear ArtCenter Faculty, As we approach the union vote, I would like to remind you that the new Faculty Life section of the ArtCenter website remains available to you as a resource to ensure you’re able to make a fully informed decision. In addition to a robust FAQ section that an...
For artist Neil Shigley, documenting San Diego's homeless population in large-scale block-printed portraits is a labor of love.
Williamson Gallery exhibition features photographs by Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol This Is Not a Selfie: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, an exhibition organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) opens Friday...
Praised as a Case Study in Design Thinking, Invaluable Resource for Design Professionals and Students Designers, especially design students, rarely have access to children or their worlds when creating products, images, experiences and environments for them. Therefore, fine distinctions between ...
NIKE’S MARTIN LOTTI: DESIGN IS PART OF THE COMPANY’S DNA “Though beautiful, Oregon struck some people as the kind of place where nothing big happened, or was ever likely to,” writes Nike’s Portland-born co-founder and chairman Phil Knight in his newly released memoir S...
The Force Is Still Strong With Him Ralph McQuarrie (BFA 56) As the concept artist for the original Star Wars trilogy, Illustration alumnus Ralph McQuarrie (BFA 56) was instrumental in the creation of those films’ fantastical characters and settings. In fact, the late McQuarrie’s p...
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...
Redesigning the Movies: How ArtCenter is Uniquely Educating the Next Generation of Filmmakers Jack Foley (photo by Alex Aristei) At ArtCenter I would become an artist. At any other school, I would become a guy who makes movies. During a break on the set of Man of Steel, the up...
Graduate Graphic Design alum Alex Seth’s work is a meditation on place and time When it comes to his vivid and heady work, recent alumnus and Canada native Alex Seth (MFA 18 Graphic Design)—a transmedia graphic designer in ArtCenter’s Marketing and Communications Department—...
Photography alumna Barbara DuMetz is a one woman force In the summer of 1967, Photography and Imaging alumna and pioneering commercial photographer Barbara DuMetz, then 20, took her new Kodak Instamatic—a gift from her dentist father—and walked through her Detroit neighborhood, photogra...
Artists, designers, educators, lawyers and other experts share their thoughts on how generative AI is transforming the creative landscape.
Alumnus and Concept Artist Nick Pugh's Xeno 3 is a Custom Car from the Future What if the ultimate custom car was based not on a vehicle from the past but rather on a futuristic design? That was the idea behind Xeno 3, a Personal Concept Car built by alumnus and former faculty Nick Pugh (BS 90 Tran...
The co-founder of Antenna Design, industrial designer and ArtCenter alumna Sigi Moeslinger's (BS 91 Product Design) professional design work includes everything from office furniture for Knoll Inc. to subway cars and kiosks for New York City's MTA to dual-screen displays for Bloomberg's computer ter...
Down to a Science: Charles Mauro's expertise in neuroscience-based design research dates back to his ArtCenter education In the not too distant future, neuroscience and design patent law will completely transform the world of design, says alumnus Charles Mauro (BS 71 Product Design), president and ...
Immersive experiences are everywhere, whether they're happening in large venues or just millimeters from your retinas. But where is it all heading? And is there room for contemplation?
Fine Art faculty Nicola Vruwink is teaching a newly created ceramics class, creating whimsical works and her sculptural jewelry has caught the attention of Hollywood.