CMD+Y

01/23/2026

Come see the free art gallery Lost x Found: Keepsakes Reimagined.

📅 Sunday, Feb 15, 2026 @ 3pm PST
📍 Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena, CA
✨ Free / No RSVP required

Lost x Found: Keepsakes Reimagined is a CMD+Y art gallery at Vroman’s Bookstore that brings to life family keepsakes lost in the Eaton fires through the work of local artists and designers. Join the families and creatives as we honor and reconnect with the journey of recovery. Please join us for our 3:00pm PST kick-off with some words of reflection and appreciation.

Lost x Found was created through a grassroots collaboration and partnership with Design for Disaster Response, ArtCenter College of Design's Designmatters, and Vroman's Bookstore

Featured artwork / Gwyneth Gunawan Angie Kat Neko Official

12/19/2025

Hi friends,

Alvin Oei here.

This small community is largely made up of the same group that was once part of the community work we did together as ArtReach in the Pasadena area.

Many of us were students at ArtCenter College of Design. Now we're out in the real world, with the a greater ability to inspire and do good.

A few of us have since turned this initiative into a 501(c)3 so we can continue and grow this work.
https://www.cmd-y.com/ (Lily Lin/ Eduardo Atjian II/ Lori Nishikawa)

Would love to reconnect with some of you around a few local projects we are currently working on, including an art gallery for families who have lost their homes in the Eaton fires. An initiative inspired by Design for Disaster Response's Call to Action.

Hope everyone is doing well! Please stay tuned for upcoming updates, and I would truly love to collaborate with anyone who is interested.

In the meantime, we'll try to post updates when we can.
..and Happy Holidays!

06/01/2019

If anybody will be around LA tomorrow, the Not Impossible Awards is happening at the ACE Hotel. The night will be celebrating inspiring stories and empowering documentaries honoring individuals creating technology for good.

https://notimpossibleawards2019.splashthat.com/?toid=7816004&p=611f3d3ed712a7fa303cd2d1c7a597f82b3e097bbc3b5f365434f7ceb845fb58f87db146&guest-access-hash=MzM4MDkzNnwyMzY4OTIyMjB8MTU1OTM1MjM0NTs0ZDUzY2IxNTJlMzRhOTEyMmU5MWZhYjYxZDA1MzY1NTRmYjc3YThkMzBkYzEzYzkxMjQyMGNiNjk3NjRiNGI3

Code: IMPACT at check out for free tickets and 2 complimentary drinks.

The Not Impossible Awards Show is a celebratory evening filled with inspiring entertainment and premieres of heartfelt documentaries honoring the people who are creating technology for the sake of humanity. No matter who you are, and no matter what your background is, you can be a part of somet...

01/26/2019

We're kicking things back off for the Spring 2019 term with new leadership. Stop by the Club Fair this Tuesday to say hello!

08/31/2018

Infosession next Friday at 950 South Campus, Room 231 ArtCenter College of Design.

An hour per week (when you can) to chit chat about design with local students enrolled in Pasadena Unified School District's Mentors for Life program. Giovanni Ayala, who runs the program, will be discussing what it's all about. Hope to see you there.

08/27/2018

Calling all designers. Who is available next term for a new ArtReach project with the Flintridge Center? Looking for 4-5 more designers from all majors.

Let's make junk cool.

Anybody that is interested, please tag yourself or shoot our ArtReach page a message. Dates of actual workshops are still TBD but you don't have to go to all workshops.

03/11/2018

It's time to disrupt education.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/world/australia/school-tech-lumineer-academy-susan-wu.html

11/20/2017

Happy to announce that we will be working with the Mentors for L.I.F.E department of the Pasadena Unified School District, launched through their Child Welfare, Attendance, and Safety department.

Our goal as ArtReach will be to have different students visit schools in the Pasadena area to give personal talks and mentor different underprivileged youth groups from foster children to kids that might be failing school. Only certain kids from each school are recommended to join this program at each school so will have direct impact on those we engage with.

I would LOVE and truly appreciate if I can get atleast 5-6 ArtCenter students to be apart of this. We've got work to do in our local communities and this is the best way to do it. The point is *not* to get them to come to ArtCenter, but to engage them in creative thinking that relates back to their life.

Don't worry, it's not going to start tomorrow so there's plenty of time to plan. Please shoot me an e-mail if you are interested or just have questions about it.

[email protected]

Thanks!