Jennifer is a Los Angeles native of Polish-American heritage and an ArtCenter Graphic Design graduate. Her sensibility and aesthetics have been influenced through lifelong travel, her unique cultural perspective, and from a family deeply immersed in the fields of art and design. At VANS, she oversee...
Bora is an award-winning design leader focused on building socially responsible brands and user-centric service products with 10+ years of design experience. One of her passions is to help achieve social equity and shared well-being through design-driven processes. This exploration led her to reach...
Mr. Luna is an Adjunct Professor focusing on professional practices, communication and leadership skills in several departments. He also conducts a course for Art Centers Public Programs, Crafting a Meaningful Career, designed for mid-career professionals eager to take their careers to the next leve...
Andrew Park is a figurative-based artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his BFA in Illustration, in the Design Track from ArtCenter College of Design in 2018. Park has been teaching several classes such as figure drawing, head painting, and costume drawing. Also, Park is a painting ...
Drawing from multiple problem-solving disciplines, Wendee Lee emphasizes student growth in all areas of their lives. After working as a rocket engineer in aerospace, Lee shifted her focus to study, then teach, Product Design at ArtCenter. Over time, she incorporated holistic student learning and dev...
Born in Los Angeles, Richard Mahon studied illustration at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He was an award winning Illustrator from 1977 until 1998 before transitioning to Visual Effects for film and TV. He has worked on approximately 85 movies and TV shows as an Art Director, Matte Painti...
Joshue is a visual artist and designer of Salvadorian descent, born and raised in South East Los Angeles. He earned a BFA in Photography and Digital Imaging from ArtCenter College of Design and a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Otis College of Art and Design. As an HMCT staff member, he w...
Brian Allgeier is best known as the longtime director of the Ratchet & Clank series, starting as a lead designer on the first Ratchet & Clank released in 2002. He has worked in the games industry as an artist, designer, and director for over 30 years. Brian led the design and creative direction on ...
Errol Gerson has been teaching Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Business Management at Art Center for the past 45 years. In that time he has taught over 6100 students and has personally mentored well over 3000 students. Gerson received a BS in Accounting from USC in 1970, and after receiving his MBA...
Gina Lawes is a Los Angeles-based artist with animation and visual effects production experience spanning more than 29 years. The keystone of Ginas artistic approach is visual storytelling through motion, color, lighting, and composition. An artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios, her creative lead...
Gary Goldsmith is the former chair of the undergraduate Advertising Department at ArtCenter and co-founder of Underhead, a network of global talent in every discipline, including advertising, digital and social media, package design and film. With over three decades of experience as a top creative ...
Karen Stillman is a professional screenwriter who has sold projects to and been hired to work on projects for ABC, CBS, Fox, Freeform, Lifetime, USA Network and NatGeo, among others. She has a BA from Tufts University and an MFA from The American Film Institute.
Eric Ng is an educator and concept designer. As a part of the inaugural Entertainment Design class at ArtCenter, he has returned and continued to teach students since 2008. Eric has been a designer for Walt Disney Imagineering R&D and Interactive as well as Sony Online Entertainment and Mattel. He p...
Born in Spain, Abraham Meneu's lifelong passion for animation began in 1989 under his brother's guidance. In the '90s, he immersed himself in 3D animation. In 1999, he joined Anibyte in England, honing his skills in game cinematics and PlayStation games. Abraham's feature film journey started with ...
As a multidisciplinary designer and automotive enthusiast, Brian Paik has been fortunate to design in multiple studios around the world. Paik believes that design should be intelligent, purposeful, and inspiring. He pulls not only from his design experience, but also his business background to creat...
Dan is a full-time faculty member and has been an instructor at Art Center for over 20 years. While at Art Center he has led many trans-disciplinary projects for top companies from around the globe including Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, Samsung, Nestle, Nissan Infiniti, FordGlobal, Acer Computers, and ot...
Matt Brown works as an independent designer in Los Angeles. He works in and around interface design for software and hardware, toys and games, graphics and animation, and music and sound. Most of hiswork is in early-stage invention and prototyping for new products, services, media and environments. ...
David Chan is an educator, creative technologist, and design researcher. As a mixture of methodical and exploratory work, Chan's practice involves analyzing, dissecting, and generating connective systems. Chan leverages his background in design technology to engage in opportunities ranging from faci...
In 2002, Erik Mark Sandberg received a BFA with distinction, from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, and studied with former Gemini Gel Master Printer Anthony Alan Zepeda from 2003-2007. From 2006 to present, he has taught at Art Center College of Design, OTIS College of Art and Design, a...
A born and bred Angeleno, Doris draws inspiration from the diversity that the city offers. A self-proclaimed perfectionist with a keen eye and attention to detail, she thrives on all the creative and technical challenges involved in seeing a project through from beginning to end. After graduating fr...
Tobias Toft is a design leader, educator and multidisciplinary designer who draws from his engineering background to inform his work. He centers his practice on rapid prototyping to shape his work and narratives. Having contributed to brand and product design at companies such as Nokia, IDEO, Wove, ...
Amy Reid Hirst is an artist and designer living and working in San Francisco. Originally from London, Reid Hirst holds a BA from Goldsmiths College, University of London and an MA in Communication Art and Design from the Royal College of Art in London. Her work covers a wide range of mediums includi...
A native of Southern California, Howard Heard graduated from UCLA with a BA in Motion Pictures / TV Production and has been a film editor for more than thirty years, working on forty-five features, including Risky Business and My Favorite Year, more than fifty hours of prime time episodic television...
When John Chambers is asked, "What do you do for living?" his quick answer is "I teach technology to artists." When eyebrows go up and more details are needed, Chambers will begin explaining his early days of teaching Apple Computer's McPaint, McWrite and McDraw (1984). Chambers developed the origin...
Upon graduating with honors from Art Center Mark moved to New York and began working with clients such as The New Yorker, Sony Music, Rolling Stone and others. After a five year stint, he moved back to the Los Angeles area to continue his freelance career, working with book publishers, ad agencies a...