Grab your popcorn and silence your mobile phone … it’s movie time here at the Dotted Line. Today we hear from Patrick Hruby, a super-talented 2010 Illustration alum. Hruby talks about his life before and after Art Center, and how the College has impacted his life.
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Business Dialogue Series Kicks Off Tuesday
The Summer Term Business Dialogue Series kicks off tomorrow. Presented by Art Center’s Art Center’s Office of Career Development, the hour-long presentations introduce students to the diversity of opportunities available in the fields of art and design.
Each term, leaders of design firms and studios come to campus to create awareness of their businesses, showcase their work and engage in conversation with students.
The give-and-take in these one-hour sessions exposes students to details about a variety of fields, to opportunities they didn’t know existed and to the expectations of employers.
The sessions are held at the Hillside Campus Boardroom, and free and open to current Art Center students.
Tuesday, May 31
MIKE MURPHY: Hollywood, Calif.
Guest Speaker: Mike Murphy, Animation Director
Tuesday, June 7
CRISPIN PORTER BOGUSKY: Boulder, Colo.
Guest Speaker: Matt Walsh, Vice President of Experience Design
Tuesday, June 14
NIKE: Beaverton, Ore.
Guest Speaker: David Schenone, Director of Design and Innovation
Tuesday, June 21
BMW GROUP/DESIGNWORKS USA: Newbury Park, Calif.
Guest Speaker: Chris Chapman, Director of Automotive Design
Tuesday, June 28
ENTREPRENEURSHIP with KILLSPENCER: Los Angeles
Guest Speaker: Spencer Nikosey, Creator
For more information about the Business Dialogue Series, contact Art Center’s Office of Career Development at jobs@artcenter.edu or 626.396.2320.
Product Alum Taking on Soapbox Race
Art Center Product Design alum and faculty Grant Delgatty is taking a unique approach to tomorrow’s Red Bull Soapbox Race in downtown Los Angeles, based on his new Urshuz line of footwear.
From the Pasadena Star-News:
Utilizing fasteners, buyers can attach and swap different styles of tops to Urshuz soles, or convert them into sandals. That’s pretty much how Soleman Redemption, Delgatty’s entry in the 10th annual event race, will work.
While he’s hurtling at 35-40 mph down South Grand Avenue, Delgatty will rip away Soleman Redemption’s foam top resembling a giant shoe to reveal a giant sandal underneath.
“Then at some point in the course, I’ll rip off the sandal, so it’ll just be the sole,” said Delgatty, who teaches product design at Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design.
We’ll be bringing you more on Delgatty’s Urshuz next month, so stay tuned.
Be sure to read the rest of this great article, and check out the slideshow: Pasadena team will compete in this weekend’s Red Bull Soapbox Race
Good luck, Grant!
Exploring Transmedia with Always On
A few weeks ago the College launched a great new project with Corbis Images—Always On: Talks By Leaders in Art and Design. The new initiative makes videos of presentations and panel discussions by experts in art and design available for free to anyone, anywhere, anytime at our new Always On website.
The latest batch of videos—talks from pioneers who are navigating uncharted communication design territory–have gone live. Media artist Aaron Koblin, visual strategist Dan Goods and graphic designer Brad Bartlett discuss transmedia design in three compelling videos on the Always On site.
Below, Aaron Koblin speaks at the Graphic Design Departments 3×3 Transmedia event held in February.
Be sure to visit the Always On site for additional videos, including those by Bartlett and Goods.
New Standing Committee Created
Guest post by Art Center President Lorne Buchman
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
Last fall, I launched an important conversation regarding diversity through a forum with Dr. Daryl Smith, a leading national scholar in higher education diversity theory and research. The intention was to bring College leadership together to explore the values of diversity and inclusion as central to academic excellence and institutional mission.
Synchronized to align with the development of our new strategic plan, the forum was an important beginning in developing a common understanding of institutional diversity and inclusion. In the final plan itself, these values have been anchored at the center of our educational mission—precisely where they belong. Create Change recognizes the critical responsibility of developing professionals, leaders, and citizens able to thrive in and contribute to a changing and pluralistic society.
To implement and monitor relevant aspects of the strategic plan, I am pleased to announce that I have established a new standing committee for the College—the Council on Diversity and Inclusion. Parallel to Art Center’s Budget Committee, and Facilities & Technology Committee, the council will be a standing shared governance committee of the College. The responsibility of the Council on Diversity and Inclusion is to realize the strategies outlined in our new plan through ongoing oversight in measuring progress toward achieving our objectives.
Thinking Beyond Boundaries: Art Center’s Designmatters Program
Alla Kazovsky has a nice piece about the College’s Designmatters program today in the Huffington Post.
From the posting:
Art Center College of Design prepares students for “an ongoing exploration of design as a positive force for change in society.” That’s the premise of Mariana Amatullo’s talk. Mariana opens her remarks by stating: “It is an interesting moment in time, a moment of change, when creative community — designers and architects — are engaging in social innovation.”
Mariana cofounded Designmatters and has led the program since its inception in 2001. In her capacity, Amatullo does compelling work. Let me tell you a little bit about it. Designmatters is an educational department that horizontally cuts across all of the design disciplines at undergraduate as well as graduate levels—product designers, fine artists and graphic designers work together on the same challenge.
It functions at three levels within the institution. It is a magnet and research division that infuses the curricula with content-based challenges, a consultancy that facilitates real world implementation of the projects with partner organizations and a hub for external relationships that advocates the role of design as a catalyst for social change. In fact, through Mariana’s leadership, Art Center is the first design institution to be formally affiliated with the Department of Public Information at the United Nations as a non-governmental organization (NGO).
Read more: Thinking Beyond Boundaries: Art Center’s Designmatters Program
Welcome Home!
Like we shared last month, two recent alums from Art Center’s Photography and Imaging Department, Christie Hemm and Maeghan Henry, were among eight artists who recently completed the fifth annual Jeunes Talents photography program. This cultural tourism initiative combines tourism and the arts, photography and real-life experience, travel and inspiration, and American and French sensibilities to show life in France today.
Hemm and Henry are back from France. Watch the videos below to hear about their adventures in France:
In Case You Missed It
As you know, there’s always something going on when it comes to Art Center alumni, students and faculty.
Some of the latest:
- Everyone’s excited about the new Clayton Brothers (alums, of course!) show at PMCA. L.A. Times
- Art Center students help outfit a Bugatti. New York Times
- Alumnus Young Kim designs bendable mouse for Microsoft. Montreal Gazette
- The ICFF in New York this weekend will feature Art Center student work from Bernhardt Design/Art Center studios. PSFK
- Remembering the late fashion illustrator, technical painter and Art Center alumnus Edward Strain. My San Antonio
- Product designer and Art Center alum Daniel Ashcroft on determining what consumers want. Daily Breeze
Project Kicks Off with LAYAR DAY L.A.
Layar is sponsoring a project at Art Center this upcoming Summer Term, which kicks off with a symposium open to all.
LAYAR DAY L.A. will be Friday, May 20, and will include a workshop and symposium at Hillside Campus. LAYAR DAY L.A. will be a full day of hacking space and time with augmented reality. 
Join us as we seek inspiration from visionary thinkers and street-level artists—and help Layar make some cool AR in the process.
Meet the Layar team at 10:45 am at the Geffen Contemporary for an informal visit to the Art in the Streets exhibition of street art. MOCA opens at 11 a.m., and admission is $10 at the door.
At 1:30 p.m., the program moves to Art Center, where artist Sander Veenhof and Layar’s Gene Becker will lead a hands-on workshop teaching how to make augmented reality experiences on the Layar platform. Street art, public AR art exhibitions and historical layers will be used as examples of hacking space and time.
Following the workshop at 3 p.m., there will be a symposium featuring some of the world’s most visionary and creative minds in augmented reality. The incredible lineup of speakers includes noted author and former Art Center visionary-in-residence Bruce Sterling, Layar co-founder Maarten Lens-FitzGerald, Scott Fisher of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and Dutch artist Sander Veenhof.
The symposium and workshop are free but space is limited, so reserve your spot at both today!
Art Center Students Win Big
To art and design professionals throughout the world, Art Center is known as a place where great students do even more than what was expected of them.
It’s no wonder, then, that each year Art Center students are the recipients of dozens of prestigious art and design awards across the industry.
Read about five recent winners to learn more about their award-winning projects, their work process and sources of inspiration. Like all Art Center students, these students demonstrate what is best about the College, combining creativity, talent and passion with conceptual rigor and solid technical expertise.
Read more in DOT magazine: Art Center Students Win Big