How to Design Cars Like a Pro
Published on 6. November 2010
208 pages
978-1-61060-989-0 (ISBN)
Description
This comprehensive new edition of How to Design Cars Like a Pro provides an in-depth look at modern automotive design. Interviews with leading automobile designers from Ford, BMW, GM Jaguar, Nissan and others, analyses of past and present trends, studies of individual models and concepts, and much more combine to reveal the fascinating mix of art and science that goes into creating automobiles. This book is a must-have for professional designers, as well as for automotive enthusiasts.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Beverly
United States
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Illustrations
337 color & 66 b-w images
ISBN-13
978-1-61060-989-0 (9781610609890)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Tony Lewin | Ryan Borroff
How to Design Cars Like a Pro
Book
11/2010
Motorbooks
€27.50
Available immediately
Person
Tony Lewin is a lifelong automotive commentator and industry analyst and has spent most of his career testing cars, analyzing them, and reporting on the ups and downs of the global enterprises that build them. He has been a regular writer and editor for Automotive News Europe and launched several pioneering titles for The Financial Times as well as contributing regular columns for other national and international publications. Today, Lewin divides his time between journalism, books, and translation work. His titles for Motorbooks include BMW Century, How to Design Cars Like a Pro, The Complete Book of BMW, and Speed Read: Car Design. He also translated Junkyard: Behind the Gates at California's Secretive European-Car Salvage Yard for Motorbooks. He lives in East Sussex, England.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Design Defined
- Chapter 2: Sketch to Showroom
- Chapter 3: Interiors
- Chapter 4: Concept Cars
- Chapter 5: Designer Profile
- Chapter 6: Designer's Diary
- Chapter 7: The Design Process
- Chapter 8: What is Good Design?
- Chapter 9: Design and Identity
- Chapter 10: New Frontiers in Car Design
- Chapter 11: Change or Continuity?
- Chapter 12: Student Work
- Chapter 13: Tutorials
- Chapter 14: Design and the Great Designers
- Chapter 15: Concept Cars that Transformed Car Design
- Chapter 16: Right Idea, Wrong Time
- Chapter 17: Landmark Designs
- Glossary
- Directory
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Copyright page
