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Design | Media Arts

Eddo Stern, 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

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Portrait of student: Zara McMillen Aiken

My work is multi-media that uses themes of metal health to convey what I am feeling right a the moment. I like to create an inviting space for people to explore their own thoughts.

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Portrait of student: Sunaina Bose

Sunaina is a multidisplinary designer based in Los Angeles, California who works in visual and brand identities, creative advertising, art direction, and print mediums.

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Portrait of student: Yanwen Bu

I am an artist who wishes to become an artist.

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Portrait of student: Josue David Cambara

Josue Cambara is a twenty-one year old Guatemalan-American photographer. He grew up in Santa Ana and moved to Los Angeles to study Design Media Art at UCLA.

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Portrait of student: Taylor Jade Che

Taylor is a designer specializing in UX and graphic design in the gaming and tech industries. For fun, she dabbles in illustration, 3D modeling, and UI art for small video games.

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Portrait of student: Joanna Wan Chen

Joanna Chen (she/they) is a designer, artist, creative coder, and community-builder. They're interested in how design can be used to gather and bridge communities.

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Portrait of student: Nicholas Lionel Chung

Nicholas Chung is an LA-based graphic designer who specializes in visual and brand identities, web design, UX design, and installation work.

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Portrait of student: Xinyi Dong

Jenny explores subtle emotions, female narratives through family, memory, dreams, and philosophy. She uses 2D, 3D, VR games, interactive installations, writing, and cinematography.

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Portrait of student: Trinh Hong Ha

Multi-media artist with a love for the art of creating with whatever tool on hand, from paint and clay to modeling and game development.

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Portrait of student: Julian Miles Hamilton

A young African American photographer, designer, and DJ from Los Angeles, CA.

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Portrait of student: Xinwen Hu

Xinwen Hu from Hangzhou, China. I specialize in visual communication and installations, passionately transforming diverse stories into art.

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Portrait of student: Roger Patton Janssen Jr.

Through the DMA program, Patton has vastly expanded his range of mediums for expression, continuing to forge a practice rooted in photography, architecture, and nature.

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Portrait of student: Eleanor Sangalang Kinsella

Free Palestine. Ucla MUST divest from apartheid and genocide.

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Portrait of student: Heeyoun Lee

Every space is my canvas and inspiration. I want to become an art director who designs enchanting spaces where people and art unite. UCLA has brought me closer to this dream.

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Portrait of student: Kai Cleveland Levey

I’m a musician, and artist born and raised in California. As an artist, I aim to create a platform to inspire people to achieve their dreams in the face of adversity.

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Portrait of student: Bennett Edward Nelson

bennett nelson is a writer and creative interested in storytelling through emerging mediums and intersectional collaboration.

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Miglė bridges her interdisciplinary practice in painting, sculpture and installation with games, and explores topics related to her Eastern European heritage and identity.

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Portrait of student: Cynthia Rodriguez

I am a first-generation Mexican-American artist from Los Angeles. My work is vibrant and detailed, and inspired by my culture, my family, music, and the things that I love.

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Portrait of student: Stella Greer Dynak Strader

Estelle Strader is a multi-disciplinary artist utilizing digital collage, experimental 3D, and physical production. Her focuses lies in community, connection and women's rights.

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Portrait of student: Yifei Sun

Yifei is a multimedia artist and designer working with interactive animation and game engine.

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Portrait of student: Nicole Mariko Tanaka

Nikki Tanaka is a designer from San Gabriel, California interested in all things graphic design and video.

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Portrait of student: Magali B Ustarroz
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Portrait of student: Katherine Wang

As an experience designer driven by the little moments in life, Katherine Wang combines thoughtful design and problem-solving to empower individuals.

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Portrait of student: Allison Meng Wu

Allison is a visual designer and mixed media artist. Her work spans sculptures, installations, visual branding, web design, and game design.

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Portrait of student: Amie Junying Xu

Amie Xu blends illustration and motion in digital media to depict past, present, and future, creating shared spaces inspired by nostalgia and memories for emotional connection.

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Samuel Yang is dedicated to exploring multidisciplinary, cross-media artistic expressions: from auditory to visual, from virtual to physical.

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Master of Fine Arts

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Portrait of student: Karine Fleurima

Karine Fleurima is a Haitian intermedia artist who creates immersive restorative spaces.

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Portrait of student: Aurora Mititelu

Aurora Mititelu is an artist working with computer images, generative AI, simulations and physical installations to investigate how reality is socially and perceptually constructed

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Portrait of student: Anitgoni Tsagkaropoulou

I am a multidisciplinary artist and researcher from Greece, working with time-based media, sculptural installations and mixed reality performances to embody queer joy and grief.

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Portrait of student: Brenton Weyi (Zola)

Informed by experiences of childhood homelessness, global travel and a lineage of African spiritual leaders, my work examines themes of myth, spirit, and vulnerability

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Portrait of student: Wantong Yao

Wantong Yao is a media artist from Shenzhen, China who explores themes of unlearning, care, and resistance through the making of digital systems.

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