“Cars are transcendent, they transcend your transportation obligations, they enable us to be more fully ourselves and ArtCenter certainly helps us with that,” says Leslie Kendal, historian at the Petersen Automotive Museum. It comes back to designing delightful products for people that are less machine-centric and more human-centric, suggested Reed. He noted that car designers, like architects, have to look at what worked in the past to create new designs in the future. You can’t ignore history,” says Dave Marek, Acura executive creative director and instructor at ArtCenter. “It’s important to see the evolution of the automobile and understand it and how that works. ArtCenter professors contributed to the new book ‘The Face of Change – Portraits of Automotive Evolution’ that was introduced by author John Nikas.
The Car Classic functions as a reunion for transportation design, with at least 25 alumni judges representing 14 different automotive studios, says Steward Reed, chair of the Transportation Design Department. © ArtCenter College of Design/Juan Posada “In the course of my career, these cars are more than just machines, they are actually part of people’s lifestyle – I venture to say even family members,” mused Peters. “This is the one that you not only want to do a concept but turn that into a real car that people will decide to spend their hard-earned money on,” says Peters. Somehow it all comes together as Corvette–the form and sculpture is the brand and it still has to have the hungry hunt predator in it,” says Peters. We paid attention to history and distilled the elements that are timeless in a fresh way – race cars feed into it – it’s the attitude. They finally realized the limit of the maximum performance they could drive from the front-engine rear-wheel-drive platform. “I remember the day when the chief engineer for the Corvette program came in and said ‘Now, it’s time to transition to a mid-engine platform,’” says Peters. The two new Corvette 2020 mid-engine C8’s were on display and sparkled as he did against the golden landscape. Tom Peters, 2019 GM Inductee to the Corvette Hall of Fame and ArtCenter graduate, talked about how the design of the Corvette has developed over time. This year’s theme was ‘One of a Kind Vehicles That Stand Alone’.Ģ,000 car fanatics of all kinds come to the event not only to gawk at some of the most beautiful and exciting cars ever made but also to discuss car design with designers, learn from each other and inspire the designers of the future. If you want to know about the past, present and future of car design there is no better place than ArtCenter College of Design’s annual Car Classic in Pasadena, California. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pocket Link E-mail Reading Time: 6 minutes
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