aspiring car designer

[Tuck&Poke]

ever since i was 5 ive been drawing cars and i just wanted to know who out there is following that career and if they could give me tips and stuff like that

[West]

Good edumacation will really help if you want to be be apart of creating cars designs.

If it was me I would get real good with CAD and also take some engineering classes for the automotive industry.

Its my dream to build my own car one day <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'> as im sure its everyones.

[BlueSix]

I took some industrial design classes at Savannah College of Art and Design www.scad.edu .. They have a good program there and they have also produced a working concept car that got a lot of attention, as well as a few non-working mockups... Anyway, that's a place to start looking.

[burgy240]

Oh yeah almost forgot. &nbsp;Cleveland institute of art has decent program as well!!!

[FastNissan]

A freind of mine from high school is studying in Michigan to be a car designer. It takes way too much homework.

(Edited by FastNissan at 7:15 pm on Oct. 25, 2001)

[zephyr]

dude....I know the score with car design. &nbsp;The only two colleges that I know of offering majors car design are Center for Creative Studies in Detroit and Artcenter College of design in Pasadena CA. &nbsp;Now.....cfcs in detroit obviously focuses mainly on american cars...so its not really the place to be if you want to design for nissan or bmw or something...On the other hand artcenter is *EXTREMELY* hard to get in to....5% of their incoming students are from high school and the average age is 23. &nbsp;Basically you might want to start with center for creative studies and transfer to artcenter. &nbsp;This is my dream. &nbsp;I am shipping off next year and applying to SCAD, CFCS, SVA, KCAI, MICA, Cooper Union, and Otis. &nbsp;If you dont know what the abreviations mean then you probably dont need to <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'>

[yenpit]

we have Johnson Controls Inc (formerly Prince Corp) here in Holland MI, most of my buddies are engineers or designers there. they do work for ALL the car makers.... travel, are all into cars themselves, what a life!
Mark got it......edumacation.....all these guys worked their butts off at school, but i envy every one of em!! if i had half a brain back then i woulda shoulda coulda followed that career.....these guys got it made AND most make big$.
i'll talk to one of my buddies....he does some mentor work also, so he'd probably talk to ya phone or email.... maybe help steer ya.

[yenpit]

hey minime686....my buddy at JCI said he'd be happy to email ya. he's a really nice guy, done some young people mentoring, talks alot so u can probably get sum helpful tips on direction to go. email and intro y'self at: [email protected], tell em yenpit sent ya.
good luck!

oh ok my e-mail is [email protected]