艺术中心设计学院

ArtCenter College of Design (ArtCenter)

www.artcenter.edu

        艺术中心设计学院是美国最好的艺术学院之一。最初的校园是在洛杉矶西第七街的一个建筑庭院里，这个场地当时只能够容纳艺术中心的12名教师和8名学生。到1940年，招生人数已增至近500名学生，生源分别来自美国的37个州和海外若干国家。

        一年后，艺术中心成为了一所被认可的四年制大学，并开设了第一个工业设计、摄影、插画和广告专业的学士学位。在20世纪50年代，学院为汽车工业建立了第一个先进的概念设计工作室，起到了开创性的作用。

        学院的专业反映了大学的前瞻性势头，每十年就增加几个本科新专业：1967年美术，1973年电影，1984年平面设计，1991年产品设计，1992年环境设计，2008年 娱乐设计，2012年交互设计。 研究生专业也逐年增加，1975年推出了电影艺术，1986年数码媒体，2000年设计实践，2004年工业设计，2012年环境设计和交通设计，2016年平面设计。学院与克莱蒙特大学德鲁克管理学院合作，在2014年开设了创新系统设计的双硕士MS/MBA学位。

ArtCenter is one of the best art design colleges in the US. ArtCenter has an accredited four-year college program, and offered its first bachelor’s degrees in Industrial Design, Photography, Illustration and Advertising. It played a seminal role in the founding of the first advanced-concept design studio for the automotive industry in the 1950s. Since 1960s,  new undergraduate departments were added each decade: Fine Art in 1967, Film in 1973, Graphic Design in 1984, Product Design in 1991, Environmental Design in 1992, Entertainment Design in 2008, and Interaction Design in 2012. Graduate degree programs were launched in Film in 1975, Art in 1986, Media Design Practices in 2000, Industrial Design in 2004, both Environmental Design and Transportation Design in 2012, and Graphic Design in 2016. Additionally, the College partnered with Claremont University’s Drucker School of Management to offer a dual MS/MBA degree in Innovation Systems Design in 2014.

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http://www.artcenter.edu/academics/undergraduate-degrees/overview.html

        在艺术中心设计学院，学生们在由实践艺术家和设计师领导的小型工作室课堂中通过实践来学习。

        学院鼓励学生跨越传统艺术设计的教学界限，通过参与广泛的包括跨学科工作室在内的学习平台积累经验，以促进来自不同专业的教师和学生围绕共同感兴趣的主题进行合作；我们设立海外工作室，让学生体验在课堂之外的世界；我们的设计方式项目将设计解决方案应用于社会和人道主义的需求。

        以下是本科的各个专业：

• 广告

• 娱乐设计

• 环境设计

• 电影

• 美术

• 平面设计

• 插图

• 交互设计

• 摄影和影像

• 产品设计

• 交通设计

优秀学科 Special Program:

• 交通设计

http://www.artcenter.edu/academics/undergraduate-degrees/transportation-design/overview.html

        艺术中心设计学院的交通设计是美国及世界设计学院里最知名的成功专业. 七十年来，艺术中心培养了一批全球设计领袖，他们为我们的旅行方式带来了美丽、创新和意义。学院毕业生领导的团队创造了40和50年代的标志性汽车，60和70年代的肌肉车，超级跑车，家庭车，以及每年在大型车展上展示的大多数新概念车。校友在交通设计方面的贡献还包括摩托车、大型游艇、商用卡车、农业设备、火车、飞机、宇宙飞船等。他们创造了汽车内饰，激发了我们驾驶的热情。

• 娱乐设计

http://www.artcenter.edu/academics/undergraduate-degrees/entertainment-design/overview.html

        一个成功的娱乐设计职业需要丰富的想象力，对用于创造新现实的技术工具的理解，以及在特定故事的参考系之内将其概念化的能力。学生毕业后都在动画、电子游戏、主题公园设计、影视等领域工作。娱乐设计专业提供以下三个能力:

• 创意设计的关注点在于娱乐产业概念设计师需要具备的技能和创新能力。

• 动画设计发展学生对动画人物的个性刻画、故事表达、形象塑造、艺术指导以及二维三维动画中的灯光运用与布局等综合能力。

• 游戏设计训练学生通过原型设计和多平台制作来创造和传达游戏概念。

• 交互设计

http://www.artcenter.edu/academics/undergraduate-degrees/interaction-design/overview.html

        艺术中心设计学院在交互设计方面的丰富历史跨越了平面设计、交通设计、娱乐设计、工业设计和媒体设计等领域，其毕业生目前在苹果、谷歌、微软和IDEO等公司担任领导职位。这个专业为我们提供了致力于创新和专业领导的前沿课程，课程强调核心方法、工具和过程，使学生能够掌握各种新的技术。

• 平面设计

http://www.artcenter.edu/academics/undergraduate-degrees/graphic-design/overview.html

        在艺术中心，平面设计专业的学生将学习如何赋予文字和图像以生命及意义——无论是通过创建动态图形，在最新的移动设备上创建界面，在凸版印刷车间手工设置字体；还是参加我们新排版中心的工作坊。平面设计已经超越了它作为一种商业艺术实践的角色，成为在每一个可想象的环境中传达一个位置、一件产品、一种服务或个性化载体的多维度体验之必要且通用的工具。

• 插图

http://www.artcenter.edu/academics/undergraduate-degrees/illustration/overview.html

        插画曾经只是为书籍、报纸和杂志上的故事创作插图，现在它的意义更大了。它是关于讲述故事，传达想法并使一系列商业的和具有社会影响力的项目形象化的途径。插画独特的定义社会、政治和文化的能力，为那些创意与交流项目的视野开拓提供了理想的解决方案。艺术中心的插图课程包括广泛的核心研究及与其他学科的合作，使学生具备很强的实践技能和丰富的商业知识。在掌握基础技能如人物画、绘画和透视之后，学生可以从五个主要的专业领域中选择：插图设计、插图/美术、娱乐艺术、运动设计和外观设计。

• 产品设计

http://www.artcenter.edu/academics/undergraduate-degrees/product-design/overview.html

        产品设计专业的课程包含了两种现实因素。我们强调通过功能性、相关性和感官吸引力的融合来改善生活消费产品的设计。设计者们需要形成一种商业思维，使他们能够成功地管理创新与风险。

       艺术中心设计学院与国际商学院欧洲工商管理学院(INSEAD)的合作，让对设计与商业交叉感兴趣的学生能够在研究生课程中投入一个学期的时间。学生还可以通过参与“设计风暴”项目和其他由学校合作伙伴赞助的项目课程来探索设计和创新的新领域。

Undergraduate Program

Students are learning by doing in small studio classes led by a faculty of practicing artists and designers as well as encouraged to expand beyond the boundaries of a traditional art and design education by participating in a wide range of learning experiences including: transdisciplinary studios that foster collaboration among faculty and students from various majors around topics of mutual interest; studios abroad, where students experience the world beyond the classroom; and Designmatters projects applying design solutions to social and humanitarian needs.

To see more detail information, please link: http://www.artcenter.edu/academics/undergraduate-degrees/overview.html

Undergraduate Majors

• Advertising

• Entertainment Design

• Environmental Design

• Film

• Fine Art

• Graphic Design

• Illustration

• Interaction Design

• Photography and Imaging

• Product Design

• Transportation Design

Special Program:

• Transportation Design

Transportation Design at ArtCenter is one of the best programs in the art and design schools in the US and international. For seven decades, ArtCenter has educated the global design leaders who have brought beauty, innovation and meaning to the way we travel. ArtCenter graduates led the teams that created the iconic cars of the 40’s and 50’s, the muscle cars of the 60’s and 70’s, supercars, family cars, and a majority of the new concept cars unveiled at major motor shows each year. Alumni contributions in transportation design also include motorcycles, mega yachts, commercial trucks, agricultural equipment, trains, aircraft, spacecraft and more. They have created vehicle interiors that fuel our passion for driving, keep us safe, inform and entertain us. As dedicated problem solvers, they are addressing new challenges shaping the future.

To see more detail information, please link: http://www.artcenter.edu/academics/undergraduate-degrees/transportation-design/overview.html

• Entertainment Design

A successful career in Entertainment Design requires a fertile imagination, an understanding of the technological tools used to invent new realities and the ability to conceptualize within the parameters of a given story. Our alumni work in the fields of animation, video games, theme park design, film and television.

To see more detail information, please link: http://www.artcenter.edu/academics/undergraduate-degrees/entertainment-design/overview.html

• Interaction Design

ArtCenter built up a strong program in interaction design spans the fields of graphic design, transportation design, entertainment design, industrial design and media design, with graduates now holding leading positions at companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and IDEO. To see more detail information, please link:

http://www.artcenter.edu/academics/undergraduate-degrees/interaction-design/overview.html

• Graphic Design

Graphic Design students learn to infuse words and images with life and meaning—whether by creating motion graphics, an interface on the latest mobile device, setting type by hand in our letterpress shop or attending a workshop in the new typography center.The students are challenged to develop design solutions to  a wide range of media—including books and digital magazines, packaging, 3D motion graphics, apps—to create compelling graphic identities and branded experiences, guided by faculty members with expertise in print, packaging, motion, visual interaction and transmedia design.

To see more detail information, please link: http://www.artcenter.edu/academics/undergraduate-degrees/graphic-design/overview.html

• Illustration

The Illustration curriculum encompasses a wide range of core studies and collaborations with other disciplines that equips students with strong practical skills, as well as substantial business knowledge. After mastering foundations skills such as figure drawing, painting and perspective, students choose from five main areas of specialization: Illustration Design, Illustration/Fine Art, Entertainment Arts, Motion Design and Surface Design.

To see more detail information, please link: http://www.artcenter.edu/academics/undergraduate-degrees/illustration/overview.html

• Product Design

The Product Design emphasizes creation of consumer product designs that improve lives through a blend of functionality, relevance and sensory appeal. Designers develop a commercial mindset that enables them to successfully manage innovation and risk. The partnership with the international business school INSEAD enables students interested in the intersection between design and business to immerse themselves for a semester in an MBA program. Students also benefit from participation in DesignStorms® and other Sponsored Project courses commissioned by corporate partners seeking to explore new frontiers in design and innovation. To see more detail information, please link:

http://www.artcenter.edu/academics/undergraduate-degrees/product-design/overview.html