https://www.carbodydesign.com Car Design Resources, News and Tutorials Tue, 03 Nov 2015 17:48:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/61543/icons-of-car-design/ https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/61543/icons-of-car-design/#respond Tue, 03 Nov 2015 19:55:07 +0000 Jonathan Wells, head of design for Morgan Motor Company, counts through his most enduring models over the decades.]]> https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/61543/icons-of-car-design/feed/ 0 https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/61371/clark-lincoln-gm-designer/ https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/61371/clark-lincoln-gm-designer/#respond Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:25:02 +0000 Clark Lincoln’s jaw-dropping illustrations were an inspiration to me in terms of technique, composition, and design. I spent many years in Buick Exterior I studio, and it was there that I believe we worked together for a short time.]]> https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/61371/clark-lincoln-gm-designer/feed/ 0 https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/60579/creativity-uncaged-six-old-school-designers-show-us-their-automotive-fantasies/ https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/60579/creativity-uncaged-six-old-school-designers-show-us-their-automotive-fantasies/#respond Mon, 14 Sep 2015 18:00:44 +0000 Once some folks start dreaming up car designs, they can’t stop. That was evident at a recent gathering of more than 20 retired designers in the Detroit inner-ring suburb of Royal Oak, Michigan. We button-holed a half-dozen, nearly at random, and asked them to discuss their imaginings as rendered in ink, chalk, pencil, paint, and […]]]> https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/60579/creativity-uncaged-six-old-school-designers-show-us-their-automotive-fantasies/feed/ 0 https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/60476/the-stylist-behind-the-cordoba-was-obsessed-with-car-design-dna-tits/ https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/60476/the-stylist-behind-the-cordoba-was-obsessed-with-car-design-dna-tits/#respond Sun, 13 Sep 2015 17:45:32 +0000 It’s hard to tell whether industrial design professor Jacques Ostiguy was crazy or a genius, or both. Either way, he’s almost definitely the most eccentric French-Canadian car designer you’ve never heard of.]]> https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/60476/the-stylist-behind-the-cordoba-was-obsessed-with-car-design-dna-tits/feed/ 0 https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/58453/mystery-of-the-missing-fisher-body-craftsmans-guild-models/ https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/58453/mystery-of-the-missing-fisher-body-craftsmans-guild-models/#respond Sun, 21 Jun 2015 16:25:06 +0000 The Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild contest was promoted by GM Design genius Harley Earl as a way to seek out young talented car designers. Young men from 11 to 20 years old were challenged to build 1/12 scale car models of their own design. The reward for the best designs were college scholarships and a […]]]> https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/58453/mystery-of-the-missing-fisher-body-craftsmans-guild-models/feed/ 0 https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/58369/the-celebrity-railroad-designers-part-1/ https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/58369/the-celebrity-railroad-designers-part-1/#respond Sun, 14 Jun 2015 16:30:25 +0000 The 1930s was a great time for the expansion of railway systems across the World. Air passenger transport was just starting to become a possible alternative but it was expensive and the range was still limited by ‘fuel capacity versus weight’ equations, which meant that it was not possible to offer the quality of service […]]]> https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/58369/the-celebrity-railroad-designers-part-1/feed/ 0 https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/57564/franco-scaglione-and-the-alfa-romeo-tipo-33-stradale/ https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/57564/franco-scaglione-and-the-alfa-romeo-tipo-33-stradale/#respond Mon, 25 May 2015 11:10:59 +0000 http://www.carbodydesign.com/?post_type=pub&p=57564 Less well known than many of the famous Italian automotive designers Franco Scaglione was responsible for some of the most original designs of the 1960s and 70s. I plan to prepare a separate piece about his work in the future. I was recently asked for my opinion about the design of the 1967 Alfa Romeo […]]]> https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/57564/franco-scaglione-and-the-alfa-romeo-tipo-33-stradale/feed/ 0 https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/57246/interview-with-toshio-yamashita-part-2/ https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/57246/interview-with-toshio-yamashita-part-2/#respond Tue, 12 May 2015 09:39:43 +0000 http://www.carbodydesign.com/?post_type=pub&p=57246 Here is the second part of interview with Mr. Toshio Yamashita, who is a designer of Nissan 300ZX[Z32]. In Part 1, Mr. Yamashita talks about Nissan Cedric project which he got awarded for his rear window design. In Part2, we asked a story of development for 300 ZX [Z32].]]> https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/57246/interview-with-toshio-yamashita-part-2/feed/ 0 https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/56417/interview-with-toshio-yamashita-part-1/ https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/56417/interview-with-toshio-yamashita-part-1/#respond Sat, 18 Apr 2015 13:10:12 +0000 Men’s fashion magazine GQ announced “The Most Stylish Cars of the Past 50 Years” in 2010, and Nissan 300ZX was listed as one of them. After 20 years since the release, I wonder how and what enables a designer to create a car that is praised by the whole world. Through this interview, the man who created this […]]]> https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/56417/interview-with-toshio-yamashita-part-1/feed/ 0 https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/55155/syd-mead-futurist-utopian-and-designer/ https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/55155/syd-mead-futurist-utopian-and-designer/#respond Sat, 21 Feb 2015 11:39:56 +0000 http://www.carbodydesign.com/?post_type=pub&p=55155 When I first came across Syd Mead’s work back in the late sixties and early seventies it was popular to strongly criticize his illustrative abilities as being all about the background and not about the design. I think that the truth was that all us young designers were so overwhelmed by his spectacular technique that […]]]> https://www.carbodydesign.com/pub/55155/syd-mead-futurist-utopian-and-designer/feed/ 0