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ArtCenter offers two fully online Master of Design (MDes) degrees in Brand Design and Strategy and Interaction Design. Learn more!
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...
Spatialdesign considers itself a global platform for design. We create for people of the world and look at our process as holistic. For us to do that, we must understand the value that each and every person brings to the table. That starts in the classroom with our broad origin of students, a divers...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
Our course of study offers tracks in Illustration Design, Illustration Fine Arts, Illustration for Motion, Entertainment Arts and Surface Design.
Our Photography and Imaging course of study stresses conceptual development and the integration of professional technique and strategies in the development of a dynamic career in image making.
Students who complete the Creative Direction course of study at ArtCenter receive a Bachelor of Fine Art.
Students who complete the course of study in Transportation Design at ArtCenter graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree.
View the curriculum for ArtCenter's masters of Graphic Design.
Students who complete the course of study in Spatial Experience Design at ArtCenter graduate with a top rated Bachelor of Science degree.
The graphic design course of study challenges students to develop sophisticated typographic and image-making skill sets working across both emerging and traditional media.
Spatial Experience Design faculty member James Meraz assigned his fifth term, Sustainability Studio students, to deconstruct a product.
Students who study product design gain an understanding of design research methods, business principles, materials technologies, manufacturing processes, global trends and sustainability.
Our course of study encourages students to work closely with industry professionals to develop and shoot personal narrative, documentary and commercial work.
Course of Study Our highly individualized program—grounded in one-on-one studio visits—encourages and cultivates highly idiosyncratic creative voices. Students balance rigorous critical, academic and practical coursework with ample studio time, working toward a final show and written t...
Our design methodology, which we refer to as Strategic Innovation, takes a systems-level view and strives to balance the business, technological and human aspects of any challenge.
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.
Our Interaction Design course-of-study trains graduates to use the way people think, feel and behave as the basis for any product, environment or system.
The Fine art department offers students two academic tracks: Fine Art and Illustration.
Course of Study True to its name, our program prepares students to design the future of transportation. Our multi-disciplinary program combines social science, urban planning and policy with engineering and design to equip students to envision mobility solutions to today’s transportation cha...
Our course of study helps designers transition from form-making to decision-making, equipping students with the skills and tools to create real innovation and change.