ArtCenter Wins: Recent Awards and Rankings
ArtCenter students continue to rack up awards and accolades from some of the most prestigious organizations in the world—we’re pleased to highlight some of our recent wins and recognitions.
Tunnel Visionaries
The Los Angeles Times unveiled the Best New Architecture Projects of 2024 — and ArtCenter's Mullin Transportation Design Center, a historic supersonic wind tunnel reinvented by Darin Johnstone Architects as a state-of-the-art space for learning and making, topped the list.
Shining Examples
Students from our Spatial Experience Design and Product Design departments were recognized at the LIT Lighting Design Awards, celebrating the finest achievements in lighting design from around the world.
Ming-Li Chang | Winner: Professional Desk Lamps category (above)
Andi Li | Winner: Student Illuminated Home Décor | Mood Lighting Category
Heesoo Park | Winner: Student Decorative Accent Lamps Category
Accessible Design
Product + User Experience Design student Zexi Ye's Adæpt, a device improves computer accessibility for users with cerebral palsy, won the 2024 IDSA Gold award design — judges praised innovations like like touch-pad input and a focus indicator to replace the cursor for navigation.
Subversion, Incorporated
ArtCenter's Game Design students won the Live Action Award at the IndieCade 2024 Festival—our second consecutive win in the category—for ChromaCorp, an immersive game that pits employees against a corporate entity harvesting color for the world in questionable ways (via hopes and dreams of children). Set in drab, colorless cubicles with nostalgic cartoonish elements, players navigate the dynamics of productivity, subversion and surveillance while trying to take down the company from within.
New Identity
Graphic Design student Alan Xu won Platinum in Graphis’ New Talent Awards for the ENCO INTERNATIONAL LIMITED Brand Montage that reimagined a local agency as a global powerhouse with a versatile and dynamic identity system that demands attention.
Special Delivery
Graphic Design student Heejai Park's extensive USPS rebrand — inspired by speed, security and reliability — earned the 2024 Student Winner of the Indigo Design Award, which celebrates trailblazers on the cutting-edge of the visual design world.
The Big Short
Entertainment Design student Huanran Mao's King of the Nil, a deliciously dark animated short about birds not of a feather, was selected to televised as part of PBS SoCal's Fine Cut Festival of Films.
Aftershock by Sophia Midori Almaraz and Slice of Life by Emma Nebeker + Emma Chai also reached the semifinals.
Fine PRINT
ArtCenter students took home three top prizes at the PRINT Awards, a global competition celebrating the best in print and digital design, including two first place wins: one for the animated short film Mirage (above), that explores new technologies while paying homage to the cyberpunk genre, and another for a vibrant rebrand of Architectural Digest to appeal to a younger audience.
The winners are:
Motion Graphics & Video: First Place—Mirage | Jeffrey Xiyang Su, Hanson Ma, Michael Wang
Logos: First Place—Architectural Digest | Mishen Liu
Design for Social Impact: Second Place—Phantom Limbs | Veronica Tsai
Built to Blend
Recent Product Design alum Christine Xiang has been awarded the Silver A’ Design Award in the Furniture Design category for her versatile, user-centric Cenear bench. The distinguished recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous designs spotlights Xiang’s innovation and cultural blend of Eastern and Western influences.
Designed to Heal
Holistic Healing Environments at Concepcíon Campus — designed by students Nairuolan (Skyler) Su, Anggie Arivia and Handanu Ardhata — won the prestigious Student Notable Award in Design for Social Impact at the 2024 Core77 Design Awards. The project was created in partnership with COANIQUEM, a private, nonprofit rehabilitation institution for pediatric patients and their families in Chile, to offer a "healing journey" to make the treatment process more engaging and less daunting for children.
Total Package
Graphic Design students took ArtCenter center stage at the Global Dieline Concept Awards, recognizing the best in packaging, with five Gold Awards in five distinct categories. Ana Vazquez’s Manic Panic concept, which won the Editor’s Choice Award in addition to the Gold Award, gave the brand a sleek, plastic-free glow up that stayed true to its punk rock roots.
While Dieline has honored top packaging designs for 15 years, this year it introduced a new conceptual category, offering a glimpse into the industry’s future.
Other Gold Winners include:
Kerrie Chu's Purely, a body care concept that a fun, sustainable approach to the hell of adolescence.
Alvin Lin’s Single Thread, a sustainable food concept that imagines a more natural approach to DTC packaging.
Liliana Cervantes’s Quattro, a carefully crafted collection of chocolates that invites all five senses.
Genie Wu’s JoyFul!, a Taiwanese food concept with stylish, sustainable delivery.
SIT With Us
Jenna Jang (BS 23 Product + Industrial Design) has taken the title of Emerging New Designer at the SIT Furniture Design Awards, celebrating worldwide excellence in furniture and interior design. In our new hybrid normal, her Otto Lounge Chair brings functionality and style to home or office, with a clever table that doubles as a desk or arm rest.
Other awards include:
Winners in Chairs: Ming Li Chang | Zixing (Alicia) Wang | Heesoo Park
Winner in Chaise Longue: Tongqi Lu
Winner in Couch + Sofa: Lincoln Chen
Winner in Lamp: Chis Jing
Winners in Stool: Lincoln Chen | Yifan Ding
Perfect Fit
Several students and recent alums earned accolades at the FIT Sport Design Awards, recognizing the most innovative sports equipment and apparel. Lucy Hi and Huali Qu won Emerging Sport Apparel Designer of the Year for AquaRevive, sustainable snorkeling products fashioned from algae-based materials.
Other winners include:
Levine Zeng and Bianca Zhuang, Kendo Rebirth, a soft goods product line designed to popularize the modern Japanese martial art.
Huali Qu (a second win), Sparks, an app connecting outdoor fitness enthusiasts.
Yinghua Lu, HYPEX, a creek shoe seamlessly blending outdoor functionality with hypebeast style.
Zhen Zhao, AUDEMARS PIGUET, equipment that refines fencing.
Hengqi Zhao, Tac-Fitness Bike, a groundbreaking advancement in virtual cycling equipment.
All for One
At the Young Ones Student Awards—one of the most acclaimed advertising, interactive and design student competitions—ArtCenter placed third out of 138 colleges around the world, with winning entries across all for competitions. See a sampling of stellar work from up-and-coming talent.
Game Day
Chú Mó: The Exorcist Exams, the immersive experience created by Entertainment Design students took home hardware at the Game Developers Conference, winning the prestigious Alt.ctrl.gdc Award. Likened to playing a video game in real life, Chú Mó invites players to take on the role of up-and-coming exorcists, exploring themes of East Asian exorcism.
Game Design: Connor Zhang, Demi Liu, Jingyi Chen, Kevin Slackie, Shawna Zhou, Tianrui Zhang, Zifeng Ding.
Game Concept: Aigul Nugumanova, Isabella Zhang, Jacob Yi, Robin Wong, Xiaoyang Ma
Good Comms
Communication Arts, one of the most prestigious competitions for creativity in graphic design, honored several ArtCenter students for their work in interactive design, including:
Veronica Tsai's Phantom Limbs, a site-specific, interactive installation that brings hidden histories to light.
Jocelyn Ziying Zhao's F Generator, a design tool that Fabric Workshop and Museum visitors prototype their own logo.
Yaheng Li's Meme United Football Club, a forum to collect and share sports memes with multilingual support.
Excellence All Around
ArtCenter has racked up an astounding 461 Graphis awards—which honor creative excellence in design, advertising, photography and illustration from around the globe—including Esther Yeseul Lee's 2024 eye-catching campaign for Kodak.
Raise a Glass
Spatial Experience Design student Jiin Park has been crowned Emerging Designer of the Year by the prestigious LIV Hospitality Design Awards, for wine tasting restaurant RADIANT, an elevated concept offering a savory journey timed to the phases of the sun.
Related
alumni
