http://deansgarage.com/2009/bob-marcks-designer-at-studebaker-ford-and-chrysler-part-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bob-marcks-designer-at-studebaker-ford-and-chrysler-part-2 Yesterday’s Look at Tomorrow Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:48:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://deansgarage.com/2009/bob-marcks-designer-at-studebaker-ford-and-chrysler-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-158 Bill Porter Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:30:46 +0000 http://deansgarage.com/?p=1461#comment-158 Bravo, Bob, for an intriguing account of your design experiences. The shot of the Ford Orientation Studio is mind boggling. I didn’t realize they had such a setup for incoming designers as early as 1952. Surrounded by this treasure-trove of models, it must have been a dazzling environment for freshman designers to work in. I got a glimpse of GM’s orientation operation in 1955 when I visited Detroit just after getting out of the Army and remember theirs as much more modest visually. By the time I was hired as a summer intern in 1957 it was well developed as a training facility, but didn’t have anything like the wealth of surrounding models. Also, many thanks for showing Syd’s heretofore unseen Toyota renderings. Dazzling! Bravo, Bob, for an intriguing account of your design experiences. The shot of the Ford Orientation Studio is mind boggling. I didn’t realize they had such a setup for incoming designers as early as 1952. Surrounded by this treasure-trove of models, it must have been a dazzling environment for freshman designers to work in. I got a glimpse of GM’s orientation operation in 1955 when I visited Detroit just after getting out of the Army and remember theirs as much more modest visually. By the time I was hired as a summer intern in 1957 it was well developed as a training facility, but didn’t have anything like the wealth of surrounding models. Also, many thanks for showing Syd’s heretofore unseen Toyota renderings. Dazzling!

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