Can designers help solve the planet’s water crisis in just three days? That’s the question WantedDesign Challenge: Water Cycle aims to answer May 17–20 during New York Design Week.
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Art Center Students Compete in WantedDesign’s International Water Challenge
Friday, May 17th, 2013Art Center Takes Manhattan During 25th Annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair
Thursday, May 16th, 2013As design industry professionals converge in New York this week, Art Center College of Design is prominently featured as part of the 25th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), taking place May 18–21. Attracting more than 26,000 professionals from the worlds of interior design, architecture, retail, manufacturing, distribution and development, ICFF is considered North America’s premier showcase for contemporary design.
Leading the College’s presence at this influential summit is David Mocarski, chair of graduate and undergraduate Environmental Design.
Art Center’s Booth 3016 at the show’s main venue, the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, features an exhibition of work by eight students in the College’s Environmental Design program, and presents visitors an opportunity to mingle with the design community and learn more about the undergraduate and graduate programs.
Alumnus Brandon Kim and his work, Solace, will be featured in Booth 1073 at ICFF this year.
Additionally, several alumni are represented in the prestigious ICFF Studio, which serves as a platform to match selected designers and their products with potential manufacturers.
It all takes place during NYCxDesign, a city-wide design celebration continuing through May 21 and packed with events and showcases.
Bringing It All Back Home: Designmatters Students Create Furniture for India’s Low-Income Housing Residents
Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
"Living Home: India" Designmatters students, faculty and staff in Bangalore, India last summer.
Last term, students in Living Home: India—a transdisciplinary Designmatters studio led by the Environmental Design department—spent their summer investigating the living needs of low-income housing dwellers in India, and then building furniture prototypes for use in the type of high quality, low-cost housing championed by Ashoka, a social entrepreneurship nonprofit and partner for the studio.
Due to the reduced scale and high occupancy rate of the housing units, the students were tasked with creating reduced scale and transformable prototypes. They also needed to make sure the furniture they designed was environmentally responsible and could be developed in collaboration with community stakeholders and local craftspeople in India.
Art Center on Scene at Dwell on Design
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012Art Center was an official partner of the West Coast’s largest design event, Dwell on Design, which boasted three days of the best and brightest products, services and thought leaders in modern design. Dwell on Design was held last weekend at the L.A. Convention Center.
As the only educational institution named a Silver Sponsor, Art Center made a significant impact during the event. The College occupied 1,000 square feet of exhibition space showing representative student and alumni work in Product and Environmental Design; led a series of creative design activities on the show floor; and showcased student, faculty and alumni presentations on three separate stages at the event.
Here are some images from the show.
David Mocarski, Jenn Kuca, Cora Neil and Mariana Amatullo talking about Designing for Social Impact
Art Center's booth at Dwell
Learning about Designmatters' Safe Agua Project
David Mocarski discussing Art Center's Environmental Design programs
The Product Design display
Art Center's activity space on the showroom floor
Thought Leaders Gather at Art Center to Discuss Design for Social Impact
Thursday, June 7th, 2012As part of Design Week 2012, Art Center and Dwell Magazine will jointly host a dialogue on how innovative design can influence social change. The event will begin with a keynote address by John Peterson, Founder and President of Public Architecture. A panel discussion, moderated by Michael Sylvester, Managing Director, Dwell on Design, will follow. Panelists include Frances Anderton, Host, DnA: Design and Architecture on KCRW and L.A. Editor, Dwell Magazine; Mariana Amatullo, Vice President, Designmatters and recipient of the 2012 Dell Outstanding Leadership in Social Innovation Education Award and David Mocarski, Chair, Environmental Design.
The event will be held Saturday, June 16 from 6-8 pm at Art Center’s Hillside Campus. Seating is limited; please contact events@artcenter.edu if you are interested in attending.
Art Center is proud to be an official partner of the West Coast’s largest design event, Dwell on Design, which boasts three days of the best and brightest products, services and thought leaders in modern design. Dwell on Design will be held from June 22 – 24 at the L.A. Convention Center.
As the only educational institution named a Silver Sponsor, Art Center will make a significant impact during the event. The College will occupy 1,000 square feet of exhibition space showing representative student and alumni work in Product and Environmental Design; lead a series of creative design activities on the show floor; and showcase student, faculty and alumni presentations on three separate stages at the event.
Dwell on Design runs from June 22- June 24 at the LA Convention Center. Students can register for free.
Art Center Tops IDSA College Wins with Six Awards
Friday, July 1st, 2011
Cadence by Seth Astle
Today the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) unveiled the winners of the 2011 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) program—a celebration of design excellence in products, sustainability, interaction design, packaging, strategy, research and concepts.
We’re excited and honored to report that Art Center topped this year’s list of college wins with six student and professional awards. In total, Art Center has won 59 IDEAs since 1991—more than any other school, and in the top 10 of any other institution, corporate or educational.
This year’s winners:
Product Design
- GOLD: Seth Astle, Cadence Prosthetic and Pedal for Cyclists
- SILVER: German Aguirre, Solista Digital Interface Musical Instrument
- BRONZE: Vinh Pho, FunKtion Portable Skate Helmet
Grad ID
- BRONZE: Koo Ho Shin, Nestr Sustainable Modular Bedding System
- BRONZE: Pengtao Yu, Moen Loft Bathroom Workstation
Design Strategy & Management (professional category)
- BRONZE: Mariana Amatullo, Elisa Ruffino, David Mocarski, Karen Hofmann, Liliana Becerra, Penny Herscovitch, Dan Gottlieb, Safe Agua project
Art Center also had many finalists:
- German Aguirre, Centaur High Performance Quad Rugby Wheelchair
- KC Cho and Jackie Black, SAFE AGUA: ReLava Kitchen Workstation
- Jessica Yeh & Narbeh Dereghishian, SAFE AGUA: Ducha Halo Portable Shower
- Stéphane Angoulvant, Dexter Work Sled
- Joel Greenspan, Oplei Transitional Running Shoe
- Jin Kim, Flameingo Sustainable Fire Extinguisher
- Joey Wang, Lien Sustainable Funerary Ritual for Taiwan
- Mark Huang, Orbital modular sport performance eyewear for POC
- Mike Wang, STACK Traffic Control Products
- Matthew Lim, Sennheiser Eco-Vinyl Turntable
- Pengtao Yu, U-Haul Emergency Response Conversion Kit for the American Red Cross
Congratulations to all the students, faculty, and staff for your hard work and for a job well done! Co.Design has a nice gallery of the winners on their site.
Art Center Students Display at ICFF
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
At last week’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York, 25 designers from Art Center were honored in a retrospective celebrating the completion of a series of five innovative interdisciplinary studios sponsored by Bernhardt Design.
Personally championed by Bernhardt Design President Jerry Helling and Environmental Design Chair David Mocarski, the course was created to educate students in the process of designing products ultimately viable for production. At the conclusion of each studio, Bernhardt Design selected products for introduction in the commercial market. Since its inception, the design-through-production studio concept has served as a model for other similar educational programs.
Bernhardt Design’s partnership with Art Center came about from the school’s strong relationship with industry as well as its reputation as a leading art and design institution for more than 80 years. The studio course, hosted by the Environmental Design Department, has successfully trained students over the past seven years to design products that are visually stunning, appropriate for the commissioning manufacturer, fiscally feasible and suitable within the constraints of mass production. The products developed from the Bernhardt Design studios have not only been award winning, but commercially successful around the world.
Former Art Center students have embarked on successful careers, from designing for Marcel Wanders in Amsterdam to starting their own creative studios to working with top-tier manufacturers worldwide. Furthermore, the work of 20 designers from the program are currently in production with Bernhardt Design including the Red Dot Award-winning Loft chair by Shelly Shelly, the Audio chair by Chris Adamick, and Linc tables by Chase Wills.
Check out more of the work at the Designing Experience website.
Surdna Foundation Grant to Build Teen Art Park
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010Art Center has been awarded $75,000 by the Surdna Foundation in support of a transdisciplinary Designmatters studio in which students will create a design for a Teen Art Park for underserved youth in Pasadena and Altadena. The park is a project launched by the Flintridge Center in collaboration with a number of community partners, including Art Center.
“We are grateful for this generous gift from the Surdna Foundation,” says Art Center President Lorne Buchman. “The foundation has been a wonderful supporter of the College, and previously awarded grants in support of our Public Programs.”
The two-part studio, held in conjunction with the Flintridge Center, will take place next year over Spring and Summer terms, and will be led by Environmental Design Chair David Mocarski and core faculty member James Meraz. The studio, made up of 16 Art Center students from all disciplines, will work with as many as 150 youth from these underserved areas to create the design for the park.
