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] *
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] *
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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