Prints & Posters

August 3, 2009 5 CommentsBuick, Car Design, GM Design Staff, Rescued from the Studio Trash

Everybody has lots of posters. These perhaps are a bit unusual and of interest to the readers of Dean’s Garage.

Print of artwork by Ken Okuyama. There is a studio photo of the design being worked out in scale and full-size clay models on a post entitled GM Design Photos from the Early ’90s, Part 3.

Detail of “The Essence of Buick Poster” artwork by Andy Hanzel.

5 Comments

August 19, 2010 at 1:45 am

Greg B.

Gary, I really like 2 of the posters: the Essence of Buick, and the ’68 4-4-2 by Dallison. Do you have any idea if these are still in print or where copies might be found? I would love to find that Dallison print in particular.

Thanks for a fascinating site!

Greg
July 22, 2011 at 2:31 pm

Andy Hanzel

Greg, Only 300 (of the Essence of Buick) were printed at the time…Andy
July 23, 2011 at 7:51 am

Andy Hanzel

That’s Ken Okuyama.

Thanks. It’s corrected.—Gary
June 12, 2018 at 7:46 am

James Perkins

Andy Hanzel did a similar, large scale painting, for a poster for the 101st Anniversary of Oldsmobile. Can you tell me how many copies of that poster where published? I can’t find one to buy anywhere, only a few pictures of the artwork on the internet.

Thanks,

JIM
January 17, 2025 at 6:32 pm

William Todd, Jr.

I went to college at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, MI and joined a engineering fraternity called Theta Tau, and met a guy named Dave Kimball, and he owned a ‘mid-year’ Chev Corvette, and gave me a ride. He graduated in engineering shortly afterwards.

I think this may have been this same Dave Kimball…I guess he became somewhat famous with such detailed automotive schematic drawing !

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