Students get a taste of living fashion history by sketching live, costumed models in this Product Design course offered as an elective in the Wearables and Soft Goods track. Focusing mainly on fashions from the 20th century, students sketch all types of clothing, accessories and decorative embellish...
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Blue Note Therapeutics engaged ArtCenter to develop a Sponsored Project that equipped students to build a digital, FDA-approved device that allows oncologists to prescribe mental health care in a way that engages more patients.
Illustration hosted the Designmatters On the Fence studio, where students were challenged to design and install a large scale mural on the topic of youth unemployment.
ArtCenter students work with patients and providers in this hands-on course to identify and solve pressing health and wellness challenges for people with disabilities.
In this Graphic Design / Designmatters course, students team up to design a visually compelling, technology-infused awareness campaign to help boost Long Beach Police Department officer recruitment, innovative policing and community engagement to build trust and bridge divides between the LBPD and t...
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.
For undergraduate students interested in a design degree but unsure what area to pursue, ArtCenter College of Design offers a First Year Immersion program.
In the fall of 2014, Designmatters and ArtCenter’s Product Design department collaborated with the Nike Foundation, Yale School of Management and fuseproject to address the challenge of empowering adolescent girls living in poverty around the world. Student teams on both coasts built on ...
Featured Course The Immersion Lab Welcome to immersive living, a new type of “reality.” Explore an expanding array of immersive technologies — hardware, software, spatial sensors, cameras, interfaces, controllers, and head-mounted displays — that read and interpret the real...
The Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography (HMCT) provides the tools for community members to celebrate and investigate the evolution of typography’s role in all forms of communication. As the Digital Age continues to increase our interaction with screens, typography—always a core elemen...
Spatial Experience Design faculty member James Meraz assigned his fifth term, Sustainability Studio students, to deconstruct a product.
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...
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Students spent seventeen days photographing and experiencing Berlin, one the world’s most vibrant and thriving art centers. This limited-enrollment class was led by Just Loomis (BFA 80 Photography), former assistant to Helmut Newton. Loomis, who has taught numerous workshops and exhibited...
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.
This foundational course is part of ArtCenters newly launched Game Design Track, a specialization allowing students to learn skills vital to launching a career inthe rapidly growing video game industry. Students will learn to analyze and appreciate gamesas they would a piece of literature or art. Fr...
How would you describe this class to prospective students? This class is an immersive study abroad class in Berlin using contemporary photography as the basis for investigation, production and research. It is a project-based class that requires diligent photographic inquiry into a specific aspect ...
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...
Transportation students journey to the year 2030 to see the future of cars. No time travel machine needed.
Formerly the Bachelor's in Advertising program, ArtCenter College of Design's Creative Direction degree prepares students for Creative Director job roles.
Informed Consent The annual Graduate Employment Survey is an important activity that helps the College to examine professional and academic career outcomes and improve its understanding of post-graduation activities, to enhance educational and student life programming for current and future student...
At the end of the term, the shops are a hive of activity during the mad scramble to finish final projects. Take a look at the slideshow of images that captures some of that energy.
In the figure drawing course Inventive Costume, Associate Professor Will Weston teaches Illustration students the basics of clothed figure drawing while introducing the history, techniques and purpose of costume design. Observing live costumed art models, students not only learn how to draw draper...
ArtCenter's Graduate Interaction Design faculty of leading professional designers encourages students to apply technology creatively and invent new approaches to interaction and design.