Published at: 07:02 am - Thursday February 04 2010
Thanks to Tom Falconer for these great Design Staff photos. Some of the photos in this collection is of an Advanced Design scale model show. If anybody knows more information about the show or the designers, please email me. As additional information becomes available, I will update the post.
I vaguely remember seeing a full-size fiberglass [...]
Published at: 10:04 am - Thursday April 16 2009
General Motors created many specialized brochures. Featured in this post is a 8.5″ square, 8-page grayscale brochure of GM Design Staff from the early 1960s. The photos are captioned, but if others know of the names of other people in the photos that I don’t recognize, let me know and I will update this post.
Published at: 10:03 pm - Thursday March 19 2009
1979 Buick Road Hawk
1979 Buick Road Hawk
Buick got a bit carried away with the idea that graphics were the key that would remake their image. The Road Hawk was the worst example. I didn’t work on that one. It had a hawk on each wheel center, one on each side of the car, one on [...]
Published at: 10:03 pm - Thursday March 19 2009
1975 Buick Century Indy Pace Car Graphics
I worked on four Indy Pace car paint schemes, all Buicks. The first one was a 1975 Buick Century with the last year of the old couple A-body design. I don’t remember anyone dictating or suggesting the flag graphics on the body side. The body design itself seemed to [...]