Master's in Industrial Design - Industrial Design

ArtCenter College of Design has built a legacy of fostering innovation and pushing the boundaries of artistic expression. With a focus on practical, hands-on learning, ArtCenter provides a dynamic environment where students immerse themselves in the creative process, from conceptualization to execution. What sets ArtCenter apart is its commitment to preparing students for real-world challenges. The faculty comprises industry professionals and accomplished artists, ensuring that students receive guidance from experts deeply embedded in their respective fields. The college's programs span a wide range of disciplines, including graphic design, transportation design, and entertainment design, among others. With state-of-the-art facilities and a collaborative atmosphere, ArtCenter empowers students to transform their passion into impactful, visually stunning work, making it a hub for emerging talent in the world of design.

ArtCenter’s master's in Industrial Design degree program (Grad ID) combines the pursuit of extraordinary design and making skills with the knowledge, theories, and methods that are essential for creating new value for business and social innovation in a world facing complex and unstructured challenges. We practice a broadly applicable creative process to produce solutions that are founded on the understanding of human needs and aspirations so that designers and organizations can be resilient and grow. In this track, students focus on development of creative design skills and the practice of strategic innovation methods that take a systems-level view, and that considers the business, technological and human aspects of any challenge. Students are prepared with visual design skills and the knowledge, theories and methods they’ll need to take on the types of unstructured problems that industry continually faces. In addition to Grad ID studio class work, students in the MS track also take elective classes in the second half of the program to extend their experience and build their portfolio through projects in collaboration with students and faculty in other departments at ArtCenter.