Conceptual White Low Rider Festiva

Festiva Artwork and Concept Drawings- The Straight Dope about Car Designing

The role of car designers is truely a multifaceted one. In addition to their more recognizable skills, you will find them working together with other department personnel such as engineers, clay modellers, market researchers, etc.

Typical prospects for this type of job will be under 30 years old, college educated, having either a bachelor's or masters degree in transportation or industrial design, artistic talent, familiar with computer graphics, completed related courses in art drawing, model making, team skills, and extremely motivated (competition is fierce for what positions are available as not every car manufacturer hires new designers every year). And don't count out having someone "in house" putting in a good word or two. General perception is that car designers have the ultimate job...and this may be true as I'm sure it is rewarding to see "your" vehicle become successful and..well..famous. But, by the same...there are plenty of misses too. To sum up, it is stressful and rewarding for the better part of working designers.

Designers who are lucky enough to find employment will use a variety of tools and mediums such as:

Complete selection of art pencils (Prismacolor), ball-point pens, felt-tip markers (Pantone), pastel colors, etc
Automotive clay (Chavant) and sculpturing tools, and related rapid-prototyping equipment
Loads of computer software such as Alias-Wavefront 3-D (Studiopaint 9), Adobe Photoshop, Freehand, Quark Express, Fractal Painter, Corel Draw (notice similarity to general graphic applications).

Author: Rich N.

Related Links:

Car Design News- An excellent resource on the subject
Car Styling/Kaneko Enterprises- Bi-monthly industry publication. Excellent book for sale on clay modelling also.
Auto & Design- Italian site with good info
Concept Car Page- Actual pictures of concept cars
Emrich Transport Design - Excellent site covering the topic

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