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Mike Winder dismantles and reassembles words.

A staff writer at Art Center College of Design, his work
appears in the College's Dot Magazine and The Dotted Line blog.
His writing has also been published in the Los Angeles Times,
Metropolis
, Los Angeles CityBeat and other fine publications.

Previously, he studied creative writing at UCLA
and was a communications specialist at the J. Paul Getty Trust.

He lives in Glendale, Calif. with his incredible wife,
Talisen, and his two beautiful daughters.


Writing Samples


Metropolis

Art Center College of Design Graduation Address, 2013:
Dieter Rams, renowned industrial designer, warns of mindless
consumption and urges responsible design [April 23, 2013]
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Dot Magazine and Outer Circle: Art Center College of Design

Custom Made for the Soul: Seth Astle and Bespoke Strive to Improve the Quality of People's Lives [Spring 2012] *
Designing from the Inside Out: Environmental Design at Art Center [Fall 2011]
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Emerging Ambitions: Scholarships Support Artists, Designers [Summer 2011] *
The Limits of Control: Algorithms, Uniqueification and Bespoke Objects [Fall 2010] *
In Their Words: 80 Years of Art Center [Spring 2010] *
Today Washing Machines, Tomorrow Democracy [Spring 2009] *


Dotted Line: Art Center College of Design

For Art Center at Night director Dana L. Walker, "Diversity is really about all of us." [February 25, 2013] *
Forty years of making fine art matter: Outgoing chair Laurence Dreiband [December 13, 2012] *
Alum's prosthetic named Dyson Award runner-up [December 4, 2012] *
Alum Patrick Hanenberger behind "Rise of the Guardians" look and feel [November 20, 2012] *
Goodwill and Art Center embrace the upcycle lifestyle [November 7, 2012] *
Title sequence designer Kyle Cooper on fear, bleeding type, and going lo-fi for "Argo" [October 26, 2012] *
Piaggio asks students to envision mobility in 2022 [September 28, 2012] *
Limitless Vision: Maggie Hendrie Leads Interaction Design [July 23, 2012] *

Visionary Director Zack Snyder Stops by Art Center [July 11, 2012] *
Filling in the Blank: Students Bringing TEDx to Campus [April 25, 2012] *
Trustee Charles F. Johnson Flies High with Red Tails [February 2, 2012] *
Google Designer Jonathan Jarvis Receives Young Alumni Innovator Award [January 26, 2012] *

Nobody Walks in L.A.: Meet ACN Student Roberto Galicia [December 8, 2011] *
For Cory Grosser, "Sometimes Furniture is Too Small a Word" [November 16, 2011] *
Students Spend Their Summer Augmenting Reality [September 15, 2011] *
Artist Margaret Wertheim on Hyperbolic: Reefs, Rubbish and Reason [June 27, 2011] *
Day in the Life: A Saturday High Alum Shoots for Nike [May 26, 2011] *
Stop the Presses: Students Dive Head First into Editorial for the iPad [May 17, 2011] *
More from Syd Mead on "Sentury II" [May 2, 2011] *
Art Center at Night Students Explore Brave New Worlds [April 27, 2011] *


Los Angeles Times

Stan Lee: Bring on the Dr. Strange video game [October 18, 2011] *     
Batman: Arkham City Takes the Madness Far and Wide [October 3, 2011] *
Comics vet Marv Wolfman talks about writing new Green Lantern game [July 5, 2011] *
X-Men: Destiny game allows players to build their own mutant [June 23, 2011] *
Spider Man: Edge of Time to send Peter Parker back to the future [June 10, 2011] *
Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters video game looks to light it up [June 7, 2011] *
Thor: God of Thunder video game looks for new worlds to conquer [June 5, 2011] *
Pirates of the Caribbean Lego: Pig-riding and rare gaming comedy [May 29, 2011] *
Test Drive Unlimited 2: Forget the racing, let's get plastic surgery [March 8, 2011] *    
Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Phoenix takes it to the dark side [February 20, 2011] *   


Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat

The Goo, The Bad, and The Ugly: Tim Biskup's Gama-Goo line [August 30, 2007] *
Byte Me: Atari Founder's new venture is part food, part videogame  [June 28, 2007] *
You Down with MCP?: 25 years later, Tron is more compelling than ever [May 24, 2007] *
From Outer Space and Down Rabbit Holes: Fry's' whimsical store décor [April 12, 2007] *


LA Alternative
           
Say it Ain't So, Al: Weird Al's Straight Outta Lynwood [September 29, 2006] *
Los Angeles c. 2231: Start planning for the big four-five-oh [August 25, 2006] *
Happy Happy Joy Joy Redux: Ren and Stimpy gets a happy ending [July 14, 2006] * 
Sexy Beast: Why Godzilla keeps us coming back for more [June 23, 2006] *
Los Angeles Plays Itself: E3 was swell, but game makers should get local [May 19, 2006] *


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