Three years ago, Transportation Design alumna Michelle Christensen was a new graduate working for Honda, making sketches for a blue-sky vehicle. The Honda brass were so impressed with her sketches, they turned them into a real vehicle—the Acura ZDK.
Read more about this exciting story on USA Today’s Drive On Blog.
There’s an interesting article on ceramist Harrison McIntosh FINE ’36 in today’s L.A. Times. He is celebrating his 95th birthday with a retrospective exhibition at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona. McIntosh studied at Art Center in the ’30s, when we were located in downtown Los Angeles. He is known as “a virtuoso of pure, gracefully handmade objects that represent the classical vein of Southern California’s postwar crafts movement in museum collections around the world.”
The exhibition runs through Jan. 9, 2010.
This issue of Orange Coast Magazine visits alumnus Freeman Thomas at Ford’s advanced design studio in Irvine.
“Southern California is so important from a design standpoint,” Thomas says. “It’s where the pebble hits the pond.”
Read more at Orange Coast Magazine
Now that we know a little more about what it’s like to be an Art Center student, what is it like to be an alum?
Check out another exciting feature of our new site—alumni profiles. We’ve interviewed a variety of grads from many backgrounds and eras. Their stories are amazing and inspiring—we think you’ll enjoy reading them. We’ll be adding new profiles throughout the year, so check back often.
Browse our alumni profiles today!
Art Center alumnus and faculty member Doyald Young ADVT ’55 was honored with an AIGA Medal Thursday night at the sixth annual Design Legends Gala in New York.
AIGA’s site has a great write-up on the medal winner, and Doyald has a wonderful essay on his five design mentors. Be sure to check them out.
Congrats, Doyald!
With the most nominations of any other made for television movie this year, Grey Gardens—the first feature film directed by Art Center alumnus Michael Sucsy—is the recipient of six Emmy® Awards, including Outstanding Made for Television Movie. Variety posted an online exclusive about Michael’s success.
Well deserved, Michael!
As part of the Serpentine Gallery in London’s Park Nights series, two Art Center grads will participate in a Sept. 25 performance of The Party, a play by alumna Alexis Marguerite Teplin MFA ART ’01 with texts by fellow alum Michael Ned Holte MA CRIT ’04. The Party is a collaborative project in the tradition of the Theatre of the Absurd including characters of an artist, designer, philosopher/critic and ingénue.
Read more about it on the Serpentine Gallery site.