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DESIGN NEW EXTENDED REALITY DESIGN (XRD)
REALITIES
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LCAD’s multidisciplinary BFA program in Extended Reality
Design (XRD) includes the immersive technologies of both
virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).
As a student of LCAD’s XRD program, you will develop the
skills necessary to apply AR/VR technologies in a myriad
of different entertainment and enterprise solutions across
multiple industries.
Leading edge software and hardware, theoretical and
critical studies, and purposeful play will be used in project
based learning to advance your extended reality design
skill sets. The XRD program is aligned with industry and
will allow you the possibility to work on real life projects
with creative corporate partners such as BMW Designworks,
Disney Interactive, Oculus, Sony Music, Sony Pictures,
and  others.

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The goal of the XRD program is to empower you BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS
to become a leader in developing creative content
and designing digital products and interactive EXTENDED REALITY DESIGN (XRD)
experiences for virtual and augmented environments.

VIEW THE AUGMENTED
REALITY POSTER

1. Download the free Layar App from your
app store

2. Scan the poster (Opposite page)
3. Discover and enjoy the interactive content

Kimya Ramezani
AR Poster of Chinese Character Jia (Home)
(Opposite page)

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Game Art

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LEVEL UP GAME ART
YOUR GAME
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LCAD’s BFA program in Game Art provides a safe and
collaborative environment in which you may reach your full
creative potential and make the interactive worlds you have
always dreamed about.
Our Game Art program is driven by an inspiring community
of talented students who challenge one another and by
faculty who will motivate you to create work you never
thought possible.
Our instructors are a combination of awe inspiring game
industry veterans who will lead you in cutting edge game
techniques and spectacular creatives from other walks of
life who will keep you thinking about different approaches
to designing in the real world.

Licheng Mai
Angel of the Eclipse

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LCAD’s Game Art BFA is a project-based and highly GAME ART
cooperative program. Over the course of your studies
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of skill sets that begin with a foundation in traditional
representationalism. Upon this foundation, you will
assemble art teams with graduate partners like USC’s
GamePipe Laboratory and LCAD’s Game Design MFA
to work on games that may ship as a full products or
enjoy feature in the Independent Game Festival (IGF).
As a graduate of LCAD’s Game Art program, you will
be multi-disciplined, team-minded, industry-ready,
and employable in any studio, style, or software
environment. This will keep studios knocking at your
door when they are looking to hire.

DISTINGUISHED GUESTS

- Chris Bateman
- Moby Franke
- Bill Perkins
- Justin Thavirat

INDUSTRY PARTNERS

- Blizzard
- Disney Animation
- Insomniac
- Obsidian
- Riot

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GAME ART Bill Wong
Environment Painting
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Dean May
Buffalo
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Lindsay Wood
Bumble Bear
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Dean May Sebastian Kings Sebastian Kings Sarah Pan Megan Tompkins
Overwatch Enviorment Study Final Imortal Untitled Character White Rabbit
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Lorence Tseng Omar Field Omar Field
Hidden Castle Boston Architecture Sumokk, the Brute
(Opposite page) (Top) (Bottom)

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Graphic Design+
Digital Media

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CHANGE THE GRAPHIC DESIGN + DIGITAL MEDIA
FUTURE
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Becoming a student of design at LCAD means joining one
of the nation’s most distinguished design programs. Our
program’s multidisciplinary approach recognizes that as a
designer in today’s market, you must develop solutions that
move seamlessly across a dynamic array of media: from print,
package, and web design to virtual reality, video, 3D, mobile
apps, and UI/UX. Our design curriculum is built on creativity,
imagination, exploration, and purposeful play and will expose
you to a full range of skills that will empower you to discover
and to pursue what you are most passionate about.

FEATURED IN

- Communication Arts magazine
- U&LC Creative Review

WINNER OF

- LG Electronics’ Art of the Pixel Award
- ICMAD Packaging Award
Ridan Arellano (Opposite page, top)
Julia Meni / Dante Sellas (Opposite page, bottom)
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BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS Our faculty of professionals mentor you to become
a strong conceptual thinker, a visual problem solver,
and an effective communicator. Small class sizes
allow you individualized instruction and ensure
that you always have access to the most advanced
software applications.

LCAD’s educational partnerships and mentorship
programs allow you hands-on design projects that
cultivate outstanding portfolio work and that lead to
internship and employment opportunities.

As a graduate of LCAD’s Graphic Design + Digital
Media program, you will be industry-ready and
poised to find employment prior to graduation.

GRAPHIC DESIGN + DIGITAL MEDIA DISTINGUISHED GUESTS

- Deborah Au-Yeung - Justin Lewis

- Mike Border - Howard Lichter

- GMUNK - Byron Merritt

- Mark Haskins - Gemma O’Brien

- Aaron Hennings - Michael L. Orenstein

- Bob Hurley - Ash Thorpe

LAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART + DESIGN INDUSTRY PARTNERS

- Anaheim Ducks
- Hurley
- Nike
- Stance
- UCI Portal for UI/UX Innovation
- VANS

OUR ALUMNI ARE EMPLOYED BY

- Adobe - Maserati

- Amazon - Pentagram

- Apple - Pixar

- AT&T Entertainment Group - Red Bull

- Capitol Records - R/GA

- Coca-Cola - Roark Revival

- Disney Interactive - Saatchi & Saatchi

- Facebook - Sapient Nitro

- Fox Entertainment - Taco Bell

- IKEA - United Nations

- Lexus - Warner Bros.

- Live Nation - Weedmaps

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Nick Paff
Web design, UX/UI

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Brand ID
Emily Atwood (Below)
Bubb Packaging
(Above)

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Emily Atwood
Dead Sea Packaging
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Phillip Park
Mars vs Apollo
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Chris Kalafatis Dylan Harris Alexis Zenk
Glyph Design 3D Typography Infographic
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Event Poster
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Adriana Angulo / Samantha Yick
Anaheim Ducks Promotional Campaign

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BOOST INTO GRAPHIC DESIGN + DIGITAL MEDIA W/ ACTION SPORTS EMPHASIS
AWESOMENESS
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As a student of LCAD’s Action Sports Emphasis, one
of very few action sports programs in the world, you
will take collaborative classes led by senior executives
and creative directors at brand giants like Hurley,
Nike, Stance, and VANS, all companies with whom
LCAD enjoys exclusive educational partnerships.
Our graduates dominate the action sports and youth
culture industries and hold major positions as art
directors and creative leaders with the world’s most
prominent companies.
Jordyn Torrence
Vans Atomic
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Alexis Zenk
Hurley Boardshorts
(Above)
Addie Hoffman
Hurley Exoskeleton
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Card Suit:Mutant Express Zoom
As a student of LCAD’s Illustration Emphasis, you (Bottom) (Top)
will further develop your fine arts and illustration
skills while being fully immersed in our Graphic
Design + Digital Media program. Unlike an Illustration
major, you will be technically advanced with skills
that span a range of industry demands. You will
learn to take your talents into motion graphic
work, 3D, package design, user interface and
experience (UI/UX), advertising, social media,
photography and video, and emerging virtual
reality applications. In project based learning classes
you will apply your artistic talents and illustration
skills to create design solutions while developing a
strong cross-discipline and a successful portfolio of
work that will position you to work in a wide range
of design fields.

Mitchell McAlevey
Mandala
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BRING YOUR I L L U S T R AT I O N
LINES TO LIFE
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The job market for illustrators has never been more varied and
exciting. Today, illustrators don’t just draw narrative images
for editorial and publishing purposes, they apply a broad
spectrum of techniques and mediums to bring all kinds of
ideas and stories to life in pursuits as varied as mural making,
apparel design, gaming, publishing, advertising, marketing,
and packaging applications.
Building on a solid foundation of drawing, painting, and
conceptualization, LCAD’s BFA program in Illustration will
help you achieve mastery of your craft in an array of both
traditional and technical media and techniques. You will
become not only a skillful illustrator, but also a dynamic and
adaptable one.

Mitchell McAlevey
Gallup

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LCAD’s BFA program in Illustration will teach you to BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS
build complex visual narratives that will allow you
to bring your original ideas to life. Your skills will be I L L U S T R AT I O N
highly marketable and may be applied to advertising,
apparel, boutique print design, children’s books, LAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART + DESIGN
comics, editorials, entertainment, fashion, gallery
art, graphic novels, industrial design, medicine, the OUR ALUMNI ARE EMPLOYED BY
music industry, product design, various fields of
science, and more. - Applied Medical - Hurley
   - Creative Co-Op - Icelantic Skis
LCAD’s Illustration faculty are talented industry - DC SHOES USA - KCET
professionals who are active in illustration, publishing, - Disney Interactive - Last Rites Galleries
and retail industries. - DITA - Opera New York
- First Ascent - Quiksilver
LCAD Illustration faculty credits include: - Gallery Hijinks - Rusty USA LLC
AT&T, Avis, Bubba Gump Restaurants, BJ’s Restaurants - Google - Xist Publishing
and Brewhouse, Dannon, Fujifilm, The Gap, General - Hive Gallery - 686 clothing
Motors, Hartcourt Publishers, Hilton Hotels, Hansen’s
Beverages, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, ITT, Kraft Foods, Kroger
Foods, Masco/Milgard, McDonald’s, Mitsubishi, Mattel
Toys, Ocean Spray, Oxford University Press, PepsiCo,
Pfizer, Sears, Sony, Suzuki, Toyota, The United Nations,
Union 76, and Warner Bros. 

Publishing titles include: DC comics “Batman: Poison
Ivy Special,” The Dreaming Special #1, “Trial and Error,”
“Kingdom: Son of the Bat,” “The Batman Chronicles:
Deathmask,” “Comics’ Greatest World: Will to Power,”
Hero Zero “#0” and “Cheval Noir,” and Dark Horse’s
“Will to Power” and “Cheval Noir.”

DISTINGUISHED GUESTS

- James Gurney
- Brad Holland
- Anita Kunz
- Gregory Manchess
- Bill Ogden
- John Jude Palencar
- Robert Rodriguez
- Greg Spalenka
- William Stout
- Jeff Wack

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Final Project
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Mano Aumakua
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I L L U S T R AT I O N Kyle Matthes
Fish Bowl
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Eunhye Cho Dream Confrontation
Haunted House (Below) (Opposite page)
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EXCITE THE MIND ILLUSTRATION IN ENTERTAINMENT DESIGN

As an entertainment designer, you will create realities LAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART + DESIGN
and experiences that excite minds and stir imaginations.
You will do this by combining ar t and technology
to create themed events, live shows, museum exhibitions,
themed restaurants and parks, TV and film productions,
and much more. LCAD’s BFA program in Illustration in
Entertainment Design provides you the education that
entertainment designers need to bring these extraordinary
experiences to life.
Our state-of-the-art curriculum gives you real life, hands-on
instruction with concept design, model and prop making,
and 3-D digital tools. 

Julianne Griepp
El Train

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BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS LCAD’s Illustration in Entertainment Design faculty
are accomplished industry professionals who bring
their real life experiences to the classroom, providing
you unparalleled mentorship.

Their film credits include: Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory, Corpse Bride, Open Season, Shrek, and Spirit:
Stallion of the Cimarron.

Companies who employ our faculty include: Blizzard
Entertainment, Disney,  DreamWorks, The Jim
Henson Company, Marvel Entertainment, Red Mile
Entertainment, Sony Entertainment, 20th Century
Fox, and Warner Bros.

ILLUSTRATION IN ENTERTAINMENT DESIGN DISTINGUISHED GUESTS

- Phillip Boutte Jr. - Christophe Lautrette

- David Colman - James Martin

- Federico D’Alessandro - Zoro Rodriguez

- Robert Dennis - Josh Steadman

- Michael Humphries

LAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART + DESIGN OUR ALUMNI ARE EMPLOYED BY

- Blizzard Entertainment
- DHX media
- DreamWorks Animation
- High Moon Studios
- Interplay Entertainment
- Marvel Entertainment
- Meteor Games
- Microsoft Studios
- Obsidian Entertainment
- The Showpros Group
- Spectral Motion Inc.
- Trio Entertainment
- Warner Bros.

Matthew Mooney
Alt Universe
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Julianne Griepp Matthew Mooney Courtney Candelario
Fantasy House Gator Model End of the Day
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Untitled Untitled Untitled Devils Reef City
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Immor tal
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Oliver James
Untitled
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Liberal Arts

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LIBERAL ARTS

ELEVATE YOUR scholars, poets, authors, and working artists in LAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART + DESIGN
INTELLECT their own fields. As such, they bring unique assets
to the classroom, including guests who are Academy
The word “Liberal” comes from the root adjective liber, which Award®-winning storytellers and songwriters, and
means “freedom” or “liberation.” It is the mission of all LCAD prize-winning authors and publishers. From these
Liberal Arts courses to liberate you not only from conventional great minds, you will learn the foundations of
courses that reinforce old worldviews, but also from old storytelling techniques, the histories of civilizations,
patterns of thought and stagnant definitions of meaning the history of art making, and the specialized history
and success. of your chosen major. And to further elevate your
learning experience, you may choose to minor in
LCAD’s Liberal Arts courses will make you better informed Art History or Creative Writing.
about the history of culture, literature, and art. Through a
variety of interesting subjects and readings, you will develop
as a creative problem solver and will broaden your worldview.
You will grow to understand new metrics of happiness and
success while opening pathways for original thought. You
will gain a better understanding of the human experience,
increase your capacity for empathy, and better develop your
own voice. Our courses also will help you to understand your
place within the artistic continuum and to articulate your
unique aesthetic point of view.

We’re proud that all LCAD Liberal Arts instructors are
experienced educators, many of whom are world-class

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Minors