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...
Bright and colorful illustrations by ArtCenter alum John Parra (BFA 97 Illustration) celebrate dishes that have shaped and influenced American food culture. The six plates hail from Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean.
The Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography: Two Years, Two Paths, One Destiny I was supposed to be a lawyer. A product of perhaps the best quality of public education, I excelled in school and finished my last semester of high school working as the executive intern for the mayor of New York City. I...
Syrup poured in a tan stream over a pink waffle. Chunks of dark chocolate next to cherries. A pair of magenta beets side-by-side. Los Angeles photographer and recent Photography and Imaging alumna Tatijana Vasily (BFA 16) not only takes food photos that are colorful and vibrant, they also inspire a ...
A commercial and fine art photographer, Susan Goines specializes in crafting visual definitions and creating imagery for commercial, public and residential spaces.
Read the February 2023 DEI newsletter. Stories include Black History Month, IdentificarX, Grace Lynne Haynes and more.
ArtCenter Film student Joel Aaron and his mentor Brandon Martinez were paired together as part of the Career and Professional Development Mentorship Program.
Full Circle: Meet Director Libero Antonio Di Zinno ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Libero Antonio Di Zinno (BFA 89 Photography), director: Ive blessed to be on the inside of a brilliant project, Endangered Activism. I got pulled in by Shannon Galpin, my esteemed partner in Mountain2Mo...
The Future Looks Bright: Meet Propelland Founder Hugo Giralt ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Hugo Giralt (GradID 12) founding partner/CEO of propelland: As a multidisciplinary team of designers, engineers and strategists, were working on projects that merge digital and the physical e...
HQ:NY — Environmental Design Alum Hines Fischer Long known as “the city that never sleeps,” New York City can feel chaotic with its cacophony of skyscrapers, subways and noise. But within creative corners of the Big Apple, from a photo studio in Brooklyn to a design firm in Manhat...
Supercharged: How two former classmates are shaping the future of Tesla As we go to press, more than 276,000 people have placed preorders for a Tesla Model 3, the highly anticipated, all-electric vehicle with a 215-mile range and an accessible $35,000 price tag—the car Tesla’s CEO ...
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...
Whether Designing for the Road or a Screen, Alum Daniel Mai Sets Human-Centric Solutions as His Destination When recent Interaction Design alum Daniel Mai (BS 2016) was in middle school, he went against the grain and didn’t sketch zippy sports cars, like other teens he knew. He instead drew m...
From ArtCenter to Trolls, alum Kendal Cronkhite Can’t Stop the Feeling Bring up ArtCenter to alumna Kendal Cronkhite (BFA 87 Illustration)—the Bay Area-based production designer of DreamWorks films including 2016’s Trolls, and a former consultant for virtual reality company Oculus...
For more than two decades, alum and Lucasfilm Concept Design Supervisor Christian Alzmann has created concept art for TV and films in the Star Wars universe.
ArtCenter in Asia: Create Change Design Forums at Beijing Design Week Whether it’s the impending arrival of China-made cars to the U.S. market or Film alumnus Michael Bay’s (BFA 88) Transformers: Age of Extinction breaking the $300 million barrier at the Chinese box office, these ...
HQ:NY — Advertising Alumna Lacey Waterman Long known as “the city that never sleeps,” New York City can feel chaotic with its cacophony of skyscrapers, subways and noise. But within creative corners of the Big Apple, from a photo studio in Brooklyn to a design firm in Manhattan, t...
Starting From Sketch: Meet Entrepreneur Rodrigo Camus ArtCenter: What are you working on right now? Rodrigo Camus (BS Transportation Design ’05) Designer/Artist: Tons of car sketches for clients and YouTube video tutorials on my channel Pro Sketch. AC: What inspired you to create sketching t...
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...
The Humanities and Sciences Department offers minors in Business, Creative Writing, Material Science and Research.
STUDENTS TACKLING SOCIAL ISSUES IN THEIR ART AND DESIGN – PART II: PRODUCT DESIGN STUDENT LORI NISHIKAWA This is the second story in a three-part series on ArtCenter students tackling social issues—from ethnic, racial, religious, class, sexual and gender identity to topics including imm...
To prepare photography students for a rapidly changing profession, Photography and Imaging developed a pilot course that embeds students in local nonprofits like CicLAvia and the Japanese American Cultural Community Center.
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...