Harry Bradley was one of the Transportation Design Instructors at Art Center when I was there. I remember the first day of a Trans class in my last trimester, Harry announced that there weren’t any design jobs. Judging from the last few graduating classes, he was right. No jobs had been offered. That wasn’t very [...]

Larry Shinoda Interview

Gary Moore features the Golden Sahara II by George Barris on I’ve Got a Secret

Studebaker Lark Daytona Wagonaire with sliding roof

1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner Commercial with Desi and Lucy

Sports Cars of the Future, written and illustrated by Strother MacMinn, was published in 1959 by Sports Car Press, Ltd. It is softbound, 5.25″ x 8″, 128 pages plus cover, and dedicated to John and Elaine (Bond). MacMinn was one of my Transportation Design instructors at Art Center. I remember that he bought a [...]

Larry Shinoda, Designer of the Ford Mustang Boss 302
Source: From the Auto Editors of Consumer Guide.
Larry Shinoda brought to Ford a sense of no-nonsense car-guy cool. His work on the 1969 and 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302 is all the evidence that statement requires.
Ford Vice President of Design Eugene Bordinat gave the always-outspoken Shinoda his [...]

Larry Shinoda—Car Enthusiast,  Student at Art Center. His first time at Ford, then Packard, and then GM Styling.
His time at Ford, White Motors, and as an independent designer will be featured in Part 2.
More information about the Monza GT, including the brochure, is under the GM Brochures link.
Text, images and captions on this post come [...]

by Heidi Youngkin

My father, Ted Youngkin, was something of a legend to a generation of students at Art Center College of Design. For many of these young and aspiring designers, illustrators, and painters his class was their first experience at the college, and possibly the most terrifying. He demanded nothing less than their absolute best. [...]

The Designing and Icon Exhibition is being held at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston, Entrance 18, 4200 Elgin Street, Houston, Texas.
This exhibition highlights the creativity of the American automobile designers of the  1960s and 70s, a period that stressed exotic styling and high performance. The exhibition opens Thursday, September 24, 2009. There [...]

I was privledged to be able to eavesdrop on an interesting email conversation regarding the ’48 Tucker. It went like this:
Karl Ludvigsen:
Tucker is high on my list of books I’d like to write—a proper story of the whole project. Maybe quite soon…
Bob Marcks:
Like some of you, I knew Alex Tremulis, the primary designer of the [...]