Monthly Archives: November 2010

Let’s All Eat Cake!

In addition to teaching at Art Center, product and environmental designer Krystina Castella has another rather interesting pursuit: writing cookbooks. Her latest, A World of Cake, has just been released to rave reviews.

Join Castella at a book signing this afternoon to celebrate this tasty new book inspired by the Art Center community. She’ll talk about her book as well as how you can get your own book published, too. Best of all, cake will be served!

Krystina Castella
Thursday, November 4, 1:30 p.m.
Art Center Hillside Campus
Library

Be sure to check out Castella’s great website for the book and the video trailer from the new book below. Are we the only ones getting hungry?

In Case You Missed It

Bruce Heavin and Lynda Weinman

As you know, there’s always something going on when it comes to Art Center alumni, students and faculty. Some of the latest:

  • Did you know that Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin of Lynda.com met at Art Center?  Socaltech.com
  • Professor Krystina Castella’s yummy new cookbook focuses on cake. Winnipeg Free PressPasadena Star-News visits ENERGY in the Williamson Gallery. Pasadena Star-News
  • Student Tomoko Ogino’s concept for Peet’s Coffee. The Dieline
  • Interview with alum Anders Warming, director of exterior design at BMW.  BMW Blog
  • A review of alum Christopher Russell’s show at Luis de Jesus (runs through November 27). Culture Monster

Big Picture Lecture Series: Sandra Ball-Rokeach

Don’t miss today’s Big Picture Lecture Series featuring Sandra Ball-Rokeach, who will speak on The Seeds of Civic Engagement in Contemporary Urban Communities.

Ball-Rokeach is a communication and sociology professor at USC and principal investigator of the decade-long research program, Metamorphosis: Transforming the Ties that Bind.

The author and editor of six books, her latest, Understanding Ethnic Media: Produces, Consumers and Societies, will be published this year. She served as co-editor of Communication Research from 1992 to 1997, currently is a fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the International Communication Association.

And don’t forget—podcasts of the lectures are up at Art Center’s iTunes U site.

Big Picture Lecture Series: Sandra Ball-Rokeach
Monday, November 1, 1 pm
Ahmanson Auditorium