List of Art Center College of Design people

Alumni

Film and graduate broadcast cinema

• Jon Jon Augustavo, music video and film director
• Roger Avary, Academy Award-winning co-writer of Pulp Fiction
• Michael Bay, film director
• Kevin Benson, editor, The Voice, Hell's Kitchen
• Don Burgess, cinematographer
• Ryan Church, concept designer
• Ericson Core
• Larry Fong, cinematographer
• Dave Goelz, puppeteer
• Shelly Johnson, cinematographer
• Saman Kesh, director of film and music videos
• Kevin Mack, Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor
• Ralph McQuarrie, conceptual designer and futurist
• Syd Mead, concept artist and industrial designer.
• Robert A. Nakamura, film director, co-founder of Visual Communications, teacher
• John Pomeroy, animator
• Alex Ranarivelo, film director
• Brooke Roberts, director
• Matthew Rolston, photographer and director
• Dan Santat, author, illustrator, creator of Disney's The Replacements
• Tarsem Singh, film director
• Zack Snyder, film director
• Jefferson Stein, film director
• Patrice Stellest, environmental artist and filmmaker
• Bruce Surtees, cinematographer
• Miles Teves, artist and conceptual designer
• Mark Whiting, writer and director; production designer with Warner Bros., The Iron Giant
• Viktor Antonov, concept designer, art director

  Fine art and graduate art

• Doug Aitken, multimedia artist
• Lynn Aldrich, sculptor
• Carol Bennett, painter and glass artist
• Clayton Brothers, painter
• Tom Christopher, painter
• Lindsay Dawson, painter
• Eyvind Earle, fine art painter
• James Gurney, illustrator and painter
• Frank Hagel, painter and sculptor
• Thomas Kinkade, painter
• Melissa Kretschmer, contemporary artist
• Craig Mullins, concept artist and painter
• Bob Peak, illustrator
• Mark Ryden, fine art painter
• Stan Sakai, comic book artist
• Ken Shutt, sculptor
• Gordon Smedt, pop art painter
• Jeff Soto, fine art painter
• Jennifer Steinkamp, installation artist
• Patrice Stellest, environmental and installation artist
• Casey Weldon, painter
• Jack Wemp, fine art painter
• Charles Wysocki, painter

  Graphic design

• Stefan G. Bucher, graphic designer
• Jesse Genet, graphic designer and businessperson
• Joe Hahn, DJ for Linkin Park
• Teddy Lo, Hong Kong-based LED artist
• Alvin Lustig, graphic designer
• Rebeca Mendez, graphic designer
• Clement Mok, graphic designer
• Mike Shinoda, MC and multi-instrumentalist for Linkin Park
• Yu Tsai, fashion photographer

  Illustration

• Justin Bua, illustrator and art teacher at the University of Southern California
• Marc Burckhardt, illustrator
• Rafael López, illustrator and artist
• Richard MacDonald, figurative sculptor
• Ricardo Delgado, comic book artist
• Tara McPherson, illustrator, fine artist
• Marc Remus, illustrator
• Barron Storey, illustrator
• Drew Struzan, illustrator
• Michael Whelan, artist of imaginative realism
• Bob Jones,

  Photography and imaging

• Fred R. Archer
• Andrew D. Bernstein, official photographer of the NBA
• Howell Conant, fashion photographer associated with Grace Kelly
• Ron Galella
• Jeffrey Jones
• Dean Karr
• Melodie McDaniel
• Greg Preston
• Marcia Reed, movie stills photographer
• Co Rentmeester
• Matthew Rolston
• Suza Scalora
• Hiroshi Sugimoto
• Charlie White
• Penny Wolin
• Russel Wong

  Product design

• Yves Béhar, founder of Fuseproject
• Frank Nuovo, Chief of Design at Nokia
• Satyendra Pakhale, designer

  Transportation design

• Chris Bangle, former Chief of Design at BMW
• Michael M Warsaw, Trustee & member of the board at ArtCenter College of Design, Chief Design Officer at Haworth, former Vice President of Design at Johnson Controls
• Harald Belker, automobile designer, designed vehicles for Batman & Robin and Minority Report
• Gordon Buehrig, automobile designer
• Wayne Cherry, former Vice President of global design at General Motors
• Dilip Chhabria, Indian automotive designer
• John Chun, automotive designer
• Willie G. Davidson, Vice President of Styling at Harley-Davidson
• Henrik Fisker, automotive designer
• Chip Foose, automotive designer
• Michael Attaway, aircraft designer, lighting artist
• Miguel Angel Galluzzi, Chief Designer of Piaggio Group, designer of the Ducati Monster
• Greg M. Greeson, automotive designer with Opel, VW, IAD, GRIDdesign
• Géza Lóczi, Director of Design at Volvo Monitoring Concept Center
• J. Mays, automotive designer
• Charles Pelly, industrial designer; founder of DesignworksUSA
• Nick Pugh, automotive designer, artist
• Scott Robertson, concept artist and industrial designer
• Larry Shinoda, automotive designer, best known for his work on the Chevrolet Corvette and Ford Mustang
• Frank Stephenson, award-winning automobile designer, best known for his design of the Mini Hatch, and design work at Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and McLaren
• Dick Teague, Vice President of Design, American Motors Corporation
• Jeff Teague, automotive designer
• Jack Telnack, former Vice President of Global Design of the Ford Motor Company
• Freeman Thomas, automobile designer
• Franz von Holzhausen, automotive designer with Tesla Motors
• Gerald Wiegert, automobile designer, founder of Vector

  Industrial design

• Yves Behar, founder of Fuseproject
• Kenji Ekuan, industrial designer, best known for creating the design of the Kikkoman soy sauce bottle
• George McGinnis, Disney imagineer
• Nolen Niu, industrial designer
• Satyendra Pakhale, industrial designer
• David Stollery, actor and industrial designer

  Video Game Design

• Richard Vander Wende

  Faculty

• Ansel Adams
• Affonso Beato
• Edward Biberman
• Roger Blonder
• Allen Daviau
• Craig Elliott
• Paul Frank
• Amy Gerstler
• Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
• Paul Guay
• Burne Hogarth
• Paul Jasmin
• John La Gatta
• Ross LaManna
• Rebeca Mendez
• Ken Okuyama
• Bob Peterson
• Scott Robertson
• Ian Stendal
• Diana Thater
• Mayo Thompson
• Lynda Weinman
• Kent Williams
• Doyald Young
• Peter Gould, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul