Comments on: Every Boy’s Dream: The Life and Career of an Automotive Designer http://deansgarage.com/2009/every-boys-dream-the-life-and-career-of-an-automotive-designer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=every-boys-dream-the-life-and-career-of-an-automotive-designer Yesterday’s Look at Tomorrow Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:48:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bob Marcks http://deansgarage.com/2009/every-boys-dream-the-life-and-career-of-an-automotive-designer/comment-page-1/#comment-3474 Bob Marcks Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:20:05 +0000 http://deansgarage.com/?p=1336#comment-3474 Here's a Dick Nesbitt comment -- on Dick Nesbitt and Bob Marcks -- along with my thanks again to Dick, because he was the individual who proposed that I be featured in a Collectible Automobile article! As the saying goes: What goes around comes around" and goes around and... Collectible Automobile Magazine Article: The February 2008 [it's out now] issue of Collectible Automobile magazine has a feature article on "Designing Seventies Cars:Mission Impossible?" by noted author,Mike Lamm. --Also featured is an article I authored with illustrations--"The Disco Deco Decade:Studio Design Experiences in the Seventies".......... By coincidence,a "Personality Profile:A Life in Design" story is also included about Bob Marcks,a former designer with both Ford and Chrysler....... --I met Bob many years ago when he was a partner with Marcks Hazelquist Powers,a noted industrial design office in Detroit. Bob spent a lot of his time reviewing my portfolio and encouraged me to attend Art Center College of Design in California and to become an automotive designer with Ford. - Dick Nesbitt Last edited by Dick Nesbitt; 11-27-2007 at 12:25 PM. Here’s a Dick Nesbitt comment — on Dick Nesbitt and Bob Marcks — along with my thanks again to Dick, because he was the individual who proposed that I be featured in a Collectible Automobile article! As the saying goes: What goes around comes around” and goes around and…

Collectible Automobile Magazine Article:

The February 2008 [it's out now] issue of Collectible Automobile magazine has a feature article on “Designing Seventies Cars:Mission Impossible?” by noted author,Mike Lamm.
–Also featured is an article I authored with illustrations–”The Disco Deco Decade:Studio Design Experiences in the Seventies”……….
By coincidence,a “Personality Profile:A Life in Design” story is also included about Bob Marcks,a former designer with both Ford and Chrysler…….
–I met Bob many years ago when he was a partner with Marcks Hazelquist Powers,a noted industrial design office in Detroit.
Bob spent a lot of his time reviewing my portfolio and encouraged me to attend Art Center College of Design in California and to become an automotive designer with Ford.
– Dick Nesbitt

Last edited by Dick Nesbitt; 11-27-2007 at 12:25 PM.

]]> By: Richard Nesbitt http://deansgarage.com/2009/every-boys-dream-the-life-and-career-of-an-automotive-designer/comment-page-1/#comment-264 Richard Nesbitt Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:35:08 +0000 http://deansgarage.com/?p=1336#comment-264 Wayne, I did notice the similarity. On my 1972 Carrousel design proposal, I incorporated the use of a series of thick and thin horizontal lines on the tailgate applique/tailamp area to visually widen and lower a tall and narrow vehicle. The spelling of "Carrousel" with two r's is the way Ford Product Planning actually spelled it as it was used for the code name identification. The Ford Aerostar van also incorporated the Carrousel wide "B" piller and DLO window design graphics in the final production version for 1986.—Dick Nesbitt Wayne, I did notice the similarity. On my 1972 Carrousel design proposal, I incorporated the use of a series of thick and thin horizontal lines on the tailgate applique/tailamp area to visually widen and lower a tall and narrow vehicle. The spelling of “Carrousel” with two r’s is the way Ford Product Planning actually spelled it as it was used for the code name identification. The Ford Aerostar van also incorporated the Carrousel wide “B” piller and DLO window design graphics in the final production version for 1986.—Dick Nesbitt

]]> By: Wayne Barratt http://deansgarage.com/2009/every-boys-dream-the-life-and-career-of-an-automotive-designer/comment-page-1/#comment-251 Wayne Barratt Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:23:48 +0000 http://deansgarage.com/?p=1336#comment-251 Hi Richard, Have you noticed that your 1972 Carousel rendering is very similar to the new Ford Flex grooved tailgate applique/tailamp design? Regards, Wayne Hi Richard,

Have you noticed that your 1972 Carousel rendering is very similar to the new Ford Flex grooved tailgate applique/tailamp design?

Regards,
Wayne

]]> By: Richard Nesbitt http://deansgarage.com/2009/every-boys-dream-the-life-and-career-of-an-automotive-designer/comment-page-1/#comment-196 Richard Nesbitt Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:30:53 +0000 http://deansgarage.com/?p=1336#comment-196 John, Ford Product Planning selected obscure names as a code identification for significant new design programs to mislead information reference leaks regarding the actual project direction. Fox, like Panther, Shorthorn, Carrousel, etc., was a name created for this reason. John,

Ford Product Planning selected obscure names as a code identification for significant new design programs to mislead information reference leaks regarding the actual project direction. Fox, like Panther, Shorthorn, Carrousel, etc., was a name created for this reason.

]]> By: John Kessler http://deansgarage.com/2009/every-boys-dream-the-life-and-career-of-an-automotive-designer/comment-page-1/#comment-192 John Kessler Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:38:46 +0000 http://deansgarage.com/?p=1336#comment-192 How did the Fox Platform get its name? Why was the "FOX PLATFORM" called the FOX PLATFORM? JK How did the Fox Platform get its name? Why was the “FOX PLATFORM” called the FOX PLATFORM?

JK

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