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The Media Design Practices iGEM / Art & Design track / 2014 / team consists of multimedia artists and designers that use a range of research methodology, interaction design, and conceptual narratives to explore the implications of future technologies.

Media Design Practices is a graduate program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena California.

Instructor

Kevin Wingate Director, Media Design Practices

1. Jasmin Blasco

2. Marcus Guttenplan

3. Xiaochen Yang a passionate, versatile and driven UX designer and design researcher with a strong background in visual communication. Xiaochen leverages a human-centered design focus and carves out new space via her design concepts to bridge technological innovation and engaging user experience.

MFA Candidate/ Media Design Practices . Lab / Art Center College of Design / 2012-2015 BFA/ Graphic Design / Jianghan University, China / 2008-2012

4. Aaron Fooshee

5. Ian Besler is an award-winning designer, researcher, and writer whose work explores the relationships between bureaucracy, infrastructure, media, software, and cities. His practice is especially concerned with models, simulations, and 3D software, and their implications on our sense of agency, experience, and interaction with landscapes and the built environment. He was raised in Glenview, IL. He is based in Los Angeles.

His background is in journalism and graphic design; he holds a Bachelor of Science in News-Editorial Journalism from the College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Fine Arts from the Media Design Practices program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where he was the 2014 Milken Family Foundation Post-Graduate Design Fellow.

6. Kristina Ortega received her Bachelor of Art, emphasis in fashion design, at California State University, Los Angeles before interning with Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte. After leaving Rodarte she co-created a handmade resin line named Mctega. Mctega sold its ﬁrst line to Barney’s New York, received features in NYLON magazine, were commissioned by Snoop Dogg for the “California Gurls” video, and dressed Yukimi Nagano of Little Dragon for their US TV debut.

7. Jenny Rodenhouse is designer and researcher that thinks about the word artist. She is currently a graduate student in Media Design Practices at Art Center College of Design. Previously, she studied Industrial and Interaction Design at Syracuse University. After graduating, she joined Microsoft as a User Experience Designer working on projects for Windows Phone, Xbox, and Microsoft Research. Her work was most recently presented at CHI 2013 and Institute for the Future’s Open City/Art City. She lives in Los Angeles.