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Art Center Receives Outstanding Recycler Award
Art Center was one of five recipients awarded the 2009 Outstanding Recycler Award by the City of Pasadena. The award was presented by Mayor Bill Bogard and Director of Public Works Martin Pastucha at...
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Art Center Joins Designers Accord
We are pleased to announce that Art Center has joined the Designers Accord, a global coalition of designers, educators and business leaders working together to create positive environmental and social...
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The Art Center Summit 2010: Projects and Partnerships in Sustainable Design
The theme of this year’s Summit, Projects and Partnerships in Sustainable Design, will highlight Art Center’s association with the Opportunity Green Business Conference, taking place September 22—24 at...
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Art Center Summit 2010: September 22-24
We are pleased to announce that the fourth Art Center Summit will be held in September. Projects and Partnerships in Sustainable Design will highlight our association with the Opportunity Green...
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Register Today for the Art Center Summit
It’s almost here: The fourth Art Center Summit, Projects and Partnerships in Sustainable Design, will be held September 22 through 24. This year’s event will highlight our association with the...
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The Summit is Here!
It’s not too late to attend the fourth Art Center Summit, Projects and Partnerships in Sustainable Design. This year’s event will highlight our association with the Opportunity Green Business...
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Just Add Water
The following post was written by 5th Term Transportation Design student Tom Harezlak for the Designmatters blog. Who needs an alarm clock when you can wake to the sound of a choir of monks?...
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The Colombia Experience: Design is a Two-Way Street
The following post is from the Designmatters blog. Guest Blogger Mariana Prieto di Colloredo (Product Design, 6th term) is the lead contact of Art Center’s social impact student organization Mustard, a...
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Designmatters Welcomes Fellow-in-Residency from Ireland, Sponsored Project...
Dr. Muireann McMahon, Designmatters Post-Doctoral Fellow-in-Residency. Photo by Alex Aristei. Art Center welcomes Dr. Muireann McMahon who joins the Designmatters Department as the inaugural...
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Art Center Faculty and Alum Dive in to The Aquarium of the Pacific Series on...
The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, Calif. will feature presentations by Art Center faculty members and an alumnus as part of its upcoming Aquatic Academy. Integrating art and science in order...
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Art Center Students Compete in WantedDesign’s International Water Challenge
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. The three-day...
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Designmatters co-founder, Mariana Amatullo, adds a voice for socially...
Designmatters’ Mariana Amatullo The intersection of art, design and social impact lies at the future-facing frontier of the design world. This rapidly evolving multidisciplinary field continues to grow...
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Scholarship seeds a new generation of sustainability designers
From Sam Julius’ ‘Sustainable Urban Housing’ entry Our homes, cell phones and laptop screens are filled with thoughtful and functional design. But what about art that creates social impact? Can design...
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Sweet bread, technology and democracy: behind the scenes at #techLA
Amy Shimshon-Santo (far left) moderates the #techLA panel at City Hall “Mmm, pan dulce,” said Mayor Eric Garcetti. Around the Green Room table behind the Los Angeles City Council Chambers, diverse...
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Designmatters and Aspen Institute examine the social, creative and economic...
Designmatters’ Mariana Amatullo opening the Leap Symposium: The New Professional Frontier in Design for Social Innovation. Photo ©2013 Alex Aristei for LEAP This week the Aspen Institute launched a new...
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The success of Safe Agua: Students design solutions to water scarcity in...
Alumnus Isaac Oaks offers a student’s perspective on the Safe Agua Colombia project, just published in the new Designmatters book, Safe Agua Colombia (June 2014). Continuing to build on the...
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Prominent theorist Ezio Manzini to discuss new book connecting design culture...
Ezio Manzini Ezio Manzini, a leading force in social impact design and founder of the DESIS (Design for Social Innovation towards Sustainability) network of university-based design labs (including...
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