An excited crowd gathered around Ting Wu’s Kaleidoscope exhibit, spilling out into the Hillside Campus hallways during ArtCenter’s Fall 2015 recruitment open house. Inspired by the toy she loved as a child, Wu wondered what it would be like to experience the inside of a kaleidoscope. Weeks of user testing and research for the Play Studio assignment paid off: The popular interactive installation transformed the joy of the single user toy into a shareable immersive and, yes, kaleidoscopically cool experience. Visitors hastily snapped selfies of their own digitized images while others used the installation to create stunning art. Perhaps most significantly, this unqualified Grad Show hit represented an important ArtCenter milestone: Its creator would soon become a member of the first class of ArtCenter students to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Interaction Design, the College’s youngest undergraduate program.
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Under the influence of Richard Pietruska: 40 years training the world’s top car designers
Richard Pietruska
As we prepare to celebrate Richard Pietruska’s remarkable accomplishment of 40 years as an instructor at Art Center, we are receiving numerous notes and images from his former students expressing their appreciation for his impact on their lives and careers. I just received a particularly heartfelt and personal email from our alumnus Chris Bangle.
As you may know, Chris is one of our most notable Transportation Design alumni who has had an amazing career (still in progress) – first, as a designer for Opel, then Fiat, then a long and distinguished career leading the BMW global design team.
I greatly value Chris’ authentic and kind words about Richard, which are undoubtedly echoed by many.
– Stewart Reed, Chair of Transportation Design
Plumbing the depths of innovation: Mazda unveils student-created concept car, Deep Orange 3
It’s innovative engineering inside and out. And it’s all the work of students.
A next-generation Mazda concept vehicle, designed by Art Center College of Design student Fredrick Naaman and engineered by a team of Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) automotive engineering students, was revealed in Traverse City, Mich., today during the Center for Automotive Research Management Briefing Seminars.
The official unveiling marks the completion of the Deep Orange 3 Mazda-sponsored vehicle, the third-generation Deep Orange vehicle prototype, which is a completely new vehicle, inside and out.
Derek Jenkins, design director for Mazda North American Operations, said that to be part of a college program of this caliber that focuses not just on one aspect of a vehicle, but the vehicle as a whole, is really an automaker’s dream come true.
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.
2009 BMW 750i: Returning to its Spiritual Home
Edmunds.com editor Kelly Toepke recently visited campus, bringing along the new 2009 BMW 750i for Transportation Design students and faculty to examine.
Toepke writes: “Of all the cars in the Inside Line fleet, the 2009 BMW 750i seemed the most logical, given that the last two BMW design chiefs were Art Center graduates: Chris Bangle (’81) and current head of design Adrian van Hooydonk (’92). (Maybe this was why there was a reserved, curbside parking spot for me when I arrived?)”
Read more about Toepke’s visit, and see photos of the BMW 750i: 2009 BMW 750i: Returning to its Spiritual Home