Change Lab Episode 32 Jessica Helfand on Redefining Design Ethics for the Digital Age Its not an overstatement to say that Jessica Helfand is a renaissance woman of the design world. She co-founded Design Observer, an authoritative digital publication on the state of visual culture and an oracle o...
ArtCenter's top 10 wins and biggest accomplishments of 2023, including ArtCenter the No. 1 art and design college in the country for ROI.
Art Of Being In The Moment: Meet Painter Salomon Huerta ArtCenter: How do you define success? Salomon Huerta(BFA 91 Illustration), Artist: Doing what makes you happy full time. What are you working on right now? SH: From the age of 9 to 16, my dad would ask me to bring food to his room, and I wo...
In the ACX Kids class Fundamentals of Drawing, students develop a foundation in technical skills and creative expression.
It seems like the experts all agree that a future of autonomous cars is inevitable, but what kind of services will automakers have to provide to convince the public to hand over the keys of their cars to Apple, Google or Uber?
Kicking againstthe digital takeover: Noah Minuskin's hand-drawnJohn Wick poster When Los Angeles-based artist and Illustration alumnus Noah Minuskin (BFA 15) isn't busy inking scenes of spiritual agony on his clients' limbs or torsos, the internationally recognized artist lends his considerable tal...
In Matthew Wards Outspoken, justice is meted out, one way or another What happens when you report an injustice and nothing is done about it? What if those institutions designed to protect you actually end up doing the exact opposite? These are the questions ArtCenter alumnus Matthew Ward (MS 15 Fil...
THE SOLITUDE OF LATINX1 By Rocío CarlosAssociate Professor, Humanities and Sciences [Editor's Note: The following essay was originally published in a publication for IdentificarX, an exhibition that explores the complex and distinct contributions our Latina/e/o/x alumni have made to the fie...
BEAUTY OF THE FALL: 2017 TEDxACCD FACES THE TOPIC OF FAILURE We don't know everything.We aren't perfect.We make mistakes,But we embrace themAnd make it work.We are a metamorphosis of X.X = the unknown. In other words, we all fail, and then try again. For the ArtCenter students organizing the Coll...
Man of a Thousand (Johnny) Faces: John Van Hamersveld on his 50-year Career Inside his hillside home in Rancho Palos Verdes, with huge glass windows overlooking the Pacific Ocean, where he surfed as a teenager, Advertising alumnus John Van Hamersveld smiles when waxing poetic on his more than 50-ye...
Pieces of Resistance: Meet Artist Ellen November ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Ellen November (BFA 73 Illustration) fiber artist, curator of the upcoming exhibition Mapping Out: Im doing work around Gun Sense using an aerial view of Virginia City Municipal Center overlaid with a gu...
Celebrate the Top 10 Wins of 2024 at ArtCenter. Highlighting award-winning projects, innovative initiatives, and community milestones, this recap showcases the creativity and impact of our students, faculty, and alumni.
Get Ready for the Next Wave Korea’s Minister of Culture Kim Jongdeok (BFA 87; MFA 89) Whether it’s K-pop star Psy’s “Gangnam Style” music video blowing up YouTube records or the global popularity of television dramas like Boys Over Flowers, these days Korean culture i...
The Future of Mobility Takes Center Stage at the LA Auto Show 2022
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...
Going the Distance at Under Armour Two ArtCenter alums share a history and a mission The city of Portland, Oregon is famously home to such cultural institutions as Powells Books, Stumptown Coffee and the International Rose Test Garden. But when it comes to the design world, Portland is perhaps bes...
American/Dutch artist Sterling Ruby (MFA 15 Art) works within a wide range of aesthetic and material strategies, from sculptures to drawings, collages, richly glazed ceramics, spray paint and oil paintings, photography and video.
The trans part of transmedia is that the designer transforms and transcends media categories, and by so doing, creates new media categories.
The Science of Fiction: Meet Concept Artist Haimeng Cao ArtCenter: How would you describe your work? Haimeng Cao (BFA 18 Illustration), Concept Artist, Framestore: I create highly detailed science fictional city landscapes for clients like Blizzard Entertainment, NetEase Games and Framestore. My de...
REPRESENT: Powerin Color Many artists and designers grapple with questions of identity. For artists and designers of color, these questions often take on additional layers of complexity. Last term, more than 20 ArtCenter students and alumni contributed work to Represent: Power in Color, a one-day e...
Change Lab Podcast 45: Fuller Seminary President Mark Labberton on the theology of making
Explore the creative mind of Clive Piercy, the founder of Ph.D and Air Conditioned LA, with "Hello, LA: Clive Piercy, Inside the Mind of a Designer" on view through June 24, 2023, at ArtCenter. Discover his life and work in this stunning exhibition at the Williamson Gallery.
Zen And The Art of Handcrafted Notebooks: Meet Product Designer Mike Abelson ArtCenter: How do you define success? Mike Abelson(BS 97 Product Design),Postalco: Aligning what you say you are doing, and what you are actually doing. AC: Of all the items youve designed, what is your favorite? MA:The...
Icon Worship Photographer and alum Matthew Rolston Leads Tour through the Getty Museums Icons of Style Exhibition This past September, Matthew Rolstona photographer and director who has created countless iconic portraits of celebrities including Madonna, Jay Z, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift for publi...
Change Lab Podcast Episode 30 Documentary Filmmaker Ivy Meeropol on the Active Pursuit of Empathy Ivy Meeropol is a documentary filmmaker whose emotionally and politically charged films explore social and cultural injustice from the inside out. Her work in TV and film ranges from an exploration of...