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Mike Winder has been piecing together quality
cultural ruminations since 2006.

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,
LA CityBeat
, LA Alternative 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, CA with his incredible wife,
Talisen, and his two beautiful daughters.


Writing Samples


Los Angeles Times' Hero Complex

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] *    


Dot Magazine and Outer Circle: Art Center College of Design

Designing from the Inside Out: Environmental Design at Art Center [Fall 2011] *
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

Looking Back on a Year of Change [December 16, 2011] *
Two Days of Peace, Love and Music [December 15, 2011] *
Meet Art Center at Night Student Roberto Galicia [December 8, 2011] *
Jodie Foster Visits as Part of Distinguished Filmmakers Series [December 6, 2011] *
Students Preparing for "Idea to Pitch" this Sunday [December 6, 2011] *
Media Design Student Reaches Into Another Dimension [November 29, 2011] *
For Cory Grosser, "Sometimes Furniture is Too Small a Word" [November 16, 2011] *
Alumnus Directs White Stripes Video for Deaf Artists Network [November 14, 2011] *
Alumnus Cuts Through the Fog with "My Sister Evelyn" Video [October 24, 2011] *
Art Center Revs Up for Car Classic '11 [October 20, 2011] *
Keepin' it "Real Steel" with Tim Flattery's Robots [October 7, 2011] *
Inspired Designs: Meet Saturday High Instructor Jeffrey Jones [September 28, 2011] *
Students Spend Their Summer Augmenting Reality [September 15, 2011] *
Designer Sami Hayek on Art Center at Night [August 12, 2011] *
Artist Margaret Wertheim on Hyperbolic: Reefs, Rubbish and Reason [June 27, 2011] *
Walking in the Consumer's Shoes: Urshuz is All About Customization [June 14, 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 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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