Category Archives: General Interest

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 for when hiring designers at this free public event.

3×3*: Starting and Running a Graphic Design Business
Wednesday, March 10, 7:30-9 pm
LA Times Media Center, Hillside Campus

Big Picture Lecture Series: Jenny Price

Don’t miss Monday’s Big Picture Lecture Series featuring Jenny Price.

Price is a writer, Los Angeles Urban Ranger and research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Author of Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A. and Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America, Price has written for GOOD, Sunset, Audubon, The New York Times and Los Angeles Times.

Big Picture Lecture Series:
Jenny Price
Monday, March 8, 1 pm
Ahmanson Auditorium

Get Your Group On: Spotlight on ACCD/AIGA

If you’re a graphic designer, you’ve heard of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA).

A professional association for design founded in 1914, AIGA’s mission, according to its website, is “to advance designing as a special craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force.”

Not surprisingly, Art Center has a student group affiliated with the association—ACCD/AIGA. We recently caught up with the group’s president, seventh-term Graphic Design student Amelia Stier, to get the lowdown.

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South Campus Gallery Salon Saturday

Need some new art? Looking for something fun to do Saturday night? You’re in luck. Saturday night is the South Campus Gallery Salon, featuring the work of photography alum Orly Olivier. A portion of all sales will be donated to the Art Center student scholarship fund. The salon will be hosted by Archetype Press and Art Center professors Leah Toby Hoffmitz and Gloria Kondrup. Don’t miss it!

South Campus Gallery Salon: “Please Don’t Feed the Models”
Saturday, March 6, 6-9 pm
South Campus Gallery

Citroëns Invade Hillside Campus

Did you happen to notice a caravan of Citroëns making their way through Pasadena to Hillside Campus last Saturday? It was the SoCal Citroën Club, who enjoyed a campus tour led by Transportation Design Chair Stewart Reed.

From Clunkbucket: “There were more Citroëns than drivers on a Saturday morning. The task at hand was a good one. Settle into the plush appointments behind the steering wheel of a 1969 and-one-half Citroën iD21F Safari Wagon and drive.”

Read more about the outing and see great photos of the event at Clunkbucket.

Alumnus Designs Hackable Solar Electric Car

Product Design alumnus Yves Béhar unveiled design plans for a “hackable” solar-powered electric car at last week’s Greener Gadgets conference in NYC. The affordable car will have a standard base frame, with user-customizable components. While Béhar and his design studio Fuse Project are not new to transportation design, this project covers new ground for the studio: it’s designed for the developing world. Read more about this interesting project at Inhabitat.

Improving Health Care Through Design Thinking

UK design firm Priestmangoode has issued the first in a series of manifestos exploring how design thinking could improve products and services. Their inaugural piece is, timely enough, dedicated to health care.

Dezeen reports: “One of the ideas is the Recovery Lounge, a ward where people can recover from minor operations … that borrows ideas from the hotel and airline industries.”

Read more at Dezeen.com and check out a PDF of The Health Manifesto here.

Big Picture Lecture Series: Steve Quartz

Don’t miss today’s Big Picture Lecture Series featuring Steve Quartz.

Quartz is an associate professor of humanities and social sciences at Caltech and directs the Brain, Mind and Society PhD program. His research centers on how new methods in brain science can be integrated into the humanities and social sciences.

Big Picture Lecture Series: Steve Quartz
Monday, March 1, 1 pm
Ahmanson Auditorium