Calling All Eccentric Types: Andrew Byrom, Gloria Kondrup and Heather van Haaften to Speak at 3×3

Each term, Art Center’s Graphic Design department hosts a 3×3, an event in which three local professionals speak on a particular topic. Tomorrow night’s 3×3, “Eccentric Types,” brings graphic designer Andrew Byrom, Archetype Press director Gloria Kondrup, and creative director Heather van Haaften to the LA Times Auditorium for a stimulating discussion on the wild […]

3×3: Get Physical, New Media in Space

Don’t miss the latest 3×3 event: Get Physical, New Media in Space, Thursday, Sept. 29, at 7 p.m. in the Ahmanson Auditorium at Hillside Campus. The event is hosted by the Graphic Design Department in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut of Los Angeles. Get Physical, New Media in Space will explore the fusion of digital media […]

3×3: Trends in Packaging and Interaction

Tomorrow, join the Graphic Design Department as they present 3×3: Trends in Packaging and Interaction. Hear from three industry leaders as they discuss how packaging and interaction design are merging, and the entire field of graphic design is shifting. They’ll share their predictions for what to look forward to as design goes beyond the surface. […]

3×3 Tonight!

Don’t miss tonight’s lecture, hosted by the Graphic Design Department: 3×3: Transmedia Design: Communication Design Across Space, Time and Behavior. Hear from three pioneers who navigate uncharted communication design territory. They engage space through narrative environments, engage time through motion and behavior programming and engage language in traditional and interactive formats and combine all of […]

3×3*: Starting and Running a Graphic Design Business

Each term, Art Center’s Graphic Design Department brings together three LA-based design professionals to discuss a particular topic. This term’s panel will be alum designers Yolanda Santosa (FerroConcrete), Chris Dooley (National Television) and Tatiana Redin Wyden (Creable). Find out their thoughts on running a design business, maintain a personal-work life balance, and what they look […]

Worth a rewatch: Graphic Design department’s new Begin Here video

Have you watched the Graphic Design department’s new Begin Here video for prospective students? If not, do so now. All finished? Okay, now watch it again. Don’t worry, we’ll wait. Notice anything unusual? Besides department chair Nik Hafermaas posing with a hawk? No, you’re not going crazy—several elements in the video change upon a second viewing. For example, the individual students […]

Art Center Spring 2014 graduation is around the corner

After years of all-nighters fueled by coffee, critiques, cramming for finals and collaboration, 192 Art Center students will graduate on Saturday. This ceremony includes the very first graduating class for the Graduate Environmental Design and Graduate Transportation Design Programs. In fact, we have a record number, 36, students accepting graduate level degrees on Saturday. Also […]

Art Center in the news, August – September 2013

Art Center students, faculty, alumni and staff have been busy racking up awards, giving interviews and making news. Here is a selection of some recent coverage. MTV.com, “Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Smash Hip-Hop Competition With VMA Knockout” Two music videos directed by Art Center alum Jon Jon Agustavo with cinematography by Grad Film student Mego […]