The New York Times
From the article: “‘The watch is disappearing. And everybody in the world is walking around with these,’ [Nuovo] says on a recent afternoon, spreading an assortment of cellphones—all of them Nokias or Vertus of his own making—on a table at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., where he was once a student.”
Read more: Crème de la Cell: Six-Figure Phones
The L.A. Times recently visited Graduate Art alum Pae White in her studio. Best known for large-scale commissions, such as a piece in the 2009 Venice Biennale, White says she’d now like to work on a much smaller scale.
“Though she makes self-deprecating jokes about the anxiety that often accompanies her creative endeavors – ‘I always say to myself, why do I get into this situation where I have no idea how to do this?’ — it is also clear that she thrives on the risk associated with testing unproven fabrication techniques on the large-scale, high-visibility, site-specific projects that have dominated her agenda of the last few years.”
Read more: Pae White, an artist ‘in the world’
Tomorrow is Spring Term 2010 Graduation! Join us as we welcome the newest graduates into the Art Center family, and hear our honorary degree recipient Katherine Hayles issue the graduation address. Can’t join us at Hillside Campus tomorrow? Watch our live online webcast.
Spring Term 2010 Graduation
Saturday, April 24, 4 pm PST
Hillside Campus
Here’s a little Friday fun, just in time for tomorrow’s Spring Term Graduation: silent footage of a 1962 Art Center graduation ceremony featuring College founder Tink Adams, courtesy of Archives. Check it out in the video section of our website.
The big day is finally here—tonight is President Lorne Buchman’s inauguration, followed by Graduation Show. We hope you will join us, but for those who can’t, you can watch the program tonight on our live webcast. The event begins at 8 pm PST.
Great news: Es Tiempo, a cervical cancer awareness campaign which resulted from a Designmatters transdisciplinary studio has won Best of Category in the Student Division of I.D.’s 2010 Annual Design Review. The project was among more than 400 entries.
The project, a collaboration between Designmatters, USC’s Keck School of Medicine and USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, took place last summer and was led by the College’s Advertising Department, including lead faculty Elena Salij and Maria Moon. Es Tiempo is a broad-based communications and outreach campaign encouraging Latinas to seek out early cervical cancer screening.
A warm congratulations to the student team behind Es Tiempo: Phillip An (Illustration), Mark Brinn (Graphic Design), Chris Lack (Graphic Design), Tracy Hung (Graphic Design), Haelee Kang (Graphic Design), Lucia Loiso (Photography and Imaging) and Camille Ontiveros (Fine Art).
Read more about Es Tiempo at the project’s website, and be sure to check out this great write-up by DesignObserver.
Artist Sterling Ruby, who graduated from Art Center’s MFA program in 2005, is on one of the covers of the latest issue of Flash Art.
In an interview with João Ribas, the artist talks about how his work becomes a place where formalism and representation coexist, and how the hostile element of his work can at times overshadow its sincerity. Check out a PDF of the article courtesy of Foxy Production.
(Pictured: The Masturbators, Sterling Ruby, 9 channel video with sound)
There is a new way to support the Norm Schureman kids’ college fund—car decals featuring a sketch by Norm. Pick yours up today for a $5 minimum donation. You can find them in the Department Chairs Office, Model Shop, or arrange to pick one up by emailing Mariana Prieto at mpdc326@gmail.com.
Advertising alum Stefan Bucher talks to Sean Adams of Felt & Wire about his time at Art Center, specifically studying with Norm Schureman and the impact he had on Bucher’s work.
Bucher says: “[Schureman] taught me how to enjoy having ideas. Which opened a whole new world for me. I remember drawing the first of my hybrid animals in his class and thinking, “This is FUN! … I must be doing it wrong.” It took Norm a while to set me straight, but he did it. He also took one look at the Wart-Hen, whipped out his pen, and added that wart-covered egg.”
Happy Monday, Art Center! It’s going to be a busy week, hope you’re rested and ready for: 
It’s going to be a jam-packed week. Don’t worry—there’s still time to sneak in a nap before the fun begins!