Designmatters

Recent News

WHY DESIGNMATTERS MATTERS: ARTCENTER’S PIONEERING PROGRAM CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF SOCIAL INNOVATION

Living History: ArtCenter Off-Campus #workingit trip to the California African American Museum

Celeste Guarneri, Associate Director, Leadership Programs, ArtCenter / March 2019

This Alhambra, California–based illustrator exercises his voice in his artwork

Communication Arts / February 2019

ArtCenter to Consider What Designers Should Know About Kids

Pasadena Now / February 2019

Designing for Kids Book Launch and Panel Discussion

January 2019

Check news archive

Newsletter - Fall 2020

Civil Servant + Civic Design Workshop with Mari Nakano | February 5

January 2019

"A designer’s desire to change the world can be incompatible with empathy, which necessitates relinquishing the impulse to remake the world as it should be in favor of grasping the world as it is for others."
Arden Stern, Faculty, Humanities & Sciences

The assignment: Design a poster that dispels America’s myths about immigrants

Los Angeles Times / January 2019

Happy Holidays from the Designmatters Team

December 2018

Homeless crisis in L.A. inspires some purposefully small ideas: tiny houses

Los Angeles Times / December 2018