Design | Media Arts
Design | Media Arts
Rebeca Méndez, Department Chair
Rebeca Méndez, Department Chair
The UCLA Department of Design Media Arts (DMA) strives to educate conscientious designers and media artists and to create socially and culturally relevant work. DMA's renowned faculty guide students to develop truly contemporary practices in typography, graphic design, branding, digital fabrication/printing, photography/video, video games and 3D modeling, virtual/augmented reality, art+science, social and environmental practice, public arts, media archeology and theory, creative coding, interaction, electronics, and interface design. We make our work public in galleries and laboratories, as social media, on large screens, smart phones and game consoles, in media installations, performances and public spaces, as websites, posters, books and magazines.
Bachelor of Arts
Latin Honors Candidate
Artist currently located in Los Angeles. Specialized in design, filmmaking, editing, painting, and photography.
I want my work to be a show of embracing any and all weird ideas we come up with no matter how ridiculous they may seem.
Latin Honors Candidate
Ella Roze Bandouveris (b. 2001, Los Angeles) is a multimedia artist and designer interested in sculptural objects and visual familiarity.
Latin Honors Candidate
Barbera is a multidisciplinary designer with a focus on 3D and its future applications. Inspired by natural systems, he attempts to create fantastical versions of our reality.
Latin Honors Candidate
My name is Sascha Barnes and I love combining visual and auditory forms of art. I illustrate album covers and create motion graphics for musicians
Latin Honors Candidate
I specialize in entertainment design and concept art. I love visual storytelling and exploring immersive environments. A huge thanks to my friends & family for the endless support.
Alice Chen is a Design/Media Arts major and Cognitive Science minor who is interested in making games, creating characters, telling stories, and animating.
Latin Honors Candidate
I play with bending perspective when I design visual experiences and stories, and am now focused on hybrid-media performance based on illusion-heavy dance forms and generative art.
Latin Honors Candidate
Latin Honors Candidate
A queer Taiwanese photojournalist, I love telling stories through photo essays and bookmaking. How memories stay with and impact people intrigue me and inspire my work!
Latin Honors Candidate
Latin Honors Candidate
I am a multimedia designer specializing in print, motion graphics, branding, and web design. Through my work, I am dedicated to creating experiences for others to enjoy.
I have focused primarily on graphic design, 3D modeling, and game design and continue to expand on these facets of design after graduation.
Ruth Lee is a product designer and aspiring chef whose life is driven by both digital and culinary creativity. Her interests include HCI research, education and holistic wellness.
Latin Honors Candidate
Karrington Lewis is a Los Angeles-based artist. Her work utilizes physical, digital and gaming media to reimagine Black girlhood and vibrant youthful aesthetics.
Latin Honors Candidate
Latin Honors Candidate
Constantly drawn to contradictions and complexities, exploring themes of impermanence, light, and the depths of the human soul that are both personal and universally resonant.
Sophie is an aspiring designer who is on a mission to learn and explore more about technology and art.
Justin Chuyu Liu is a designer. His interest in spatial, sonic, imagery, and metaphoric fields channels into works that undergo and examine the conditions of life and its vicinity.
Latin Honors Candidate
Latin Honors Candidate
Lala Luo is a writer, filmmaker, satirist, and anarchist. She raises four cats and a dog.
Latin Honors Candidate
Alexia Magdaleno is a multi-media Mexican artist, and first-gen university student from Salinas California, focusing on speculative, social, and sustainable arts practices.
Anika Murthy is a multimedia artist whose work explores the South Asian diaspora through intergenerational memory & the study of archives, craft traditions, and design.
My work revolves around graphic design, photography, and video. Commercially geared towards fashion and entertainment, while personally exploring experiments for pondering.
Latin Honors Candidate
Latin Honors Candidate
Vivian is a UX and visual designer. Her work focuses on her cultural and social background, connecting her DMA studies with her minors in Digital Humanities and Asian Languages.
Latin Honors Candidate
Ashley Ong is a third generation Chinese and Korean American creative. She is interested in storytelling through all forms and mediums, particularly graphic design and writing.
Latin Honors Candidate
Sejun Park is a multidisciplinary designer and creative generalist passionate about 3D design, physical fabrication, and exploring the gray areas in between digital work & reality.
XR Media major & community builder, Sherrie Richman, works in storytelling/tech. Awarded at SFVR, Google hackathons & also wrote & directed, Juke Box Hero feature (2023) release.
Latin Honors Candidate
Fabian Rios is an Los Angeles based artist focused on music, photography and graphic design. Their work touches on an array of social commentary with a variety of aesthetics.
Latin Honors Candidate
Jessica Adriana Rivera is a multimedia artist and designer from Los Angeles, California.
A fixed force in my inclination towards creating has always been the achievable impact design could have in engaging a wide range of people.
An innovative digital designer who seamlessly combines aesthetics and functionality, creating visually stunning and user-friendly designs that leave a lasting impact.
Anne-Fatima Syed is a Pakistani-American artist who aspires to use visual communication to bring attention to marginalized stories.
Latin Honors Candidate
As an experimental interactive installation artist, Yuting Tao dedicates to her identity and insight into society, reexamining culture, and technology in our life.
Latin Honors Candidate
I want to thank every single person who has ever shown me kindness. It took each one of you to get me to where I am today.
Charles Tran is an artist based in Los Angeles who is interested in set design and production design. His work often includes water, flowers, and all things pretty.
Kathleen Yang is an aspiring designer from the Bay Area, California. She is interested in the intersection of art, technology, and psychology.
Master of Fine Arts
Hyun Cho is a Seoul and LA-based artist and a game maker. Cho makes interactive art pieces about communication in virtual spaces.
Eunice Choi is an artist and designer who creates objects as an instrument to understand the experience we take for granted in our daily lives.
I am a game maker && media artist. I make strange games free of cybernetic traps, and of armored knights.
Maya Man is an artist whose work focuses on contemporary identity culture on the internet.
Bobby Joe Smith III is a Black and Lakota media artist and graphic designer from the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe.
Henrik Soederstroem is an artist from Stockholm, Sweden. His multi-media installations engage with reality and virtuality as a metaphor for systems of meaning-making.
I’m an artist and educator from Patagonia, Argentina. I’m interested in access to education, the history of labor, and social justice.
Wiley Wiggins is an artist and curator engaged with a history of digital games and visionary architecture.
Camille Wong (they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist invested in finding invisible dynamics of power embedded in technologies, social infrastructures, and the built environment.
My artwork delves into the cultural, historical, and technological memory of Korean Diaspora through CG Immersive Media, Experimental Animation, and Video Performance.
Born 1990, a generative artist, game maker and educator. His art is about queer studies and gay Chinese literature. He employs machine intelligence and is inspired by nature.