Design Books

One of the most candid design leaders in the car industry, Gerry McGovern, design director for Land Rover, has been responsible for a string of design successes including the original MGF and Land Rover Freelander, plus the Lincoln Continental concept and Land Rover LRX. More...

J Mays, global Vice President of Design at Ford since 1997, also became the company’s Chief Creative Officer in 2004. We get some insight into who this most global of car designers is... More...

It would be hard to find another designer that has had such a profound effect on industrial designers over the past century as the legendary futurist Syd Mead. We sat down and had a word with him More...

There were a few unexpected moves within Ford’s senior design management last month, prompted largely by Steve Mattin’s departure from Volvo. The most significant of these was Moray Callum’s appointment as Executive Director of Ford Americas Design, effective since May 1, replacing Peter Horbury who has moved back to Volvo. We caught up with Callum at the New York show last mon... More...

Gorden Wagener is certainly a fan of the latest E-Class - the first vehicle that has been brought to production since he succeeded Prof. Peter Pfeiffer as Head of Design at Mercedes-Benz in the middle of last year... More...

On the payroll at Mitsubishi since he graduated from Tokai University in 1986, Masaki Matsuhara, General Manager of Design, Mitsubishi Motors Europe, is now responsible for repositioning the company’s European design language. More...








