Media Design Practices – MFA at Art Center College of Design

An interdisciplinary design MFA preparing creative innovators for our new now.

Work from “Myriad Databases for Citymaking,” a faculty-led workshop by Mike Manalo

Mar 30, 2019 Thesis 2019

AKASH DHIMAN, BLUEHAZE® Dismantler Series, JESSICA ESCOBEDO, Plannar: Co-Visioning with AR, ELI RUOYONG HONG, Implicit Space, YUNYING HUANG, Algorithm Jamplifying, REINA IMAGAWA, Rules for Breaking Ru…

MDP Thesis Show

Exhibition at the Pasadena Civic Center AKASH DHIMAN, BLUEHAZE® Dismantler Series, JESSICA ESCOBEDO, Plannar: Co-Visioning with AR, ELI RUOYONG HONG, Implicit Space, YUNYING HUANG, Algorithm Jamplifyi…

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Tribute Lauren Williams	Algorithm Jamplifying Yunying Huang	Plannar: Co-Visioning with AR Jessica Escobedo
Driverless Government Jason Shun Wong	House-Wi-Fi-zation Stephanie M. Cedeño

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Immersion Lab

The Immersion Lab, sponsored by the Interaction Department at ArtCenter College of Design, is a facility that hosts mixed reality courses, workshops, and research. It is open to all students and faculty. Augmented reality, mixed reality and virtual reality are a collection of spatial technologies: wearable displays, architectural sensors, and…

Art Center Shops

South Campus The Shop at South Campus offers a broad variety of woodworking and metal tools, including welding equipment, is open to all students who have been appropriately trained on the apparatuses. The Shop features ample indoor and outdoor project space and worktables for constructing or destructing large or bulky…

Making Lab

Regardless of what kinds of projects students make computers and electronics are integral to the way in which we work today. Access to code, DIY electronics, and production quality table-top machines are an everyday normality. Access is one thing, designing and communicating through these forms and methods is another. The…

ArtCenter Library

The ArtCenter Library actively supports the teaching and research mission of ArtCenter. It serves as the College’s main collaborative learning environment, where students and faculty from various departments gather to explore, discover and create. It is also open to alumni and external researchers.

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Congratulations to our graduating #thesis students

Join us for 2020 THESIS LIVE at 2pm this Friday,

Starting this week it’s all about #thesis! This

As our #thesis students get ready to graduate, we’re looking back on some of their first projects. How did these early ideas show up in their thesis?

@jarretl created “The City of Waves” in his first semester at MDP where he worked with sound as a design medium, which he carried through to his final thesis. “We live in a world where we often rely on our visual sense to describe our day-to-day environment. But on the contrary, our other senses just as much can help materialize the world around us.

Welcome to the city where we see space through sound waves. In this piece, I created an ever-changing reality where sounds constantly reshape and alter our memories. By mixing the found sounds of a city, the tones reconstruct a sense of familiarity. Accompanied with a map, one can journey through different parts of the city, imagining the space around them.

Do sound waves play a bigger role in our society? What sounds do we take for granted? How do we relate specific acoustics to our own emotional experience?”

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May 28, 2020

@FastCompany, thank you for letting me share my @artcenteredu virtual recruitment and grad show experience. Congrats class of 2020! @mediadesign #ohmdp #mediadesignpractices @LAIKAStudios

https://www.fastcompany.com/90506852/covid-19-shut-down-the-job-fair-as-we-know-it-heres-how-one-school-is-reinventing-it

May 15, 2020

So @EvanRoth_ put something together for all of you recent graduates (cc @mediadesign) https://www.instagram.com/p/CANgKArIHdN/

May 1, 2020

*TOMORROW* Join us to congratulate our #thesis students on their graduation for Spring 2020 Virtual Graduation Ceremony @artcenteredu. Make sure to stop by the VIRTUAL GRAD SHOW to see their work!

http://www.artcenter.edu/connect/events/graduation-ceremony-sp20.html

April 25, 2020

Congrats to @mediadesign thesis students for their successful thesis presentations today! Your work inspired me to stretch my imagination of a tomorrow that can be more resilient and human. Great work! Folx, warch👇 for what keeps me hopeful now. https://twitter.com/mediadesign/status/1253760059772821509

April 25, 2020

Proud of all the @mediadesign thesis students who presented excellent work today, amidst circumstances very different from what we all imagined. Creativity, resilience, and adaptation were very much present in both process and subject. Congratulations!

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