Starting Out This is a guide to beginning a career in car design. We will be updating this section regularly, adding more articles and resources covering different aspects of the car design industry and design education. If you have suggestions for articles and tutorials that would be beneficial to aspiring automotive designers and appropriate to feature in this section please email editor@cardesignnews.com Car Design Glossary - Part 2
Car Design News has published the second edition of the Car Design Glossary. Designed to enable budding designers - and those wishing to describe the products of the designer's imagination - to decipher the language used in automotive studios, the Glossary was devised by David Browne, Course Director of Automotive Design at Coventry University School of Art & Design.
Car Design Glossary - Part 1
Drawing is the language of designers, but designers are often required to explain their designs in words, and for this, they need a vocabulary. David Browne, Course Director of Automotive Design at Coventry University School of Art & Design, has set out to compile a definitive glossary of terms as an academic piece of research and has teamed up with CDN to help generate feedback on these terms from designers themselves. Portfolio Development
Setting out your portfolio can seem like an endless task; as soon as you finish one, it's time to start over with the latest stuff, a cycle that often continues beyond design school. To give you a few pointers on how to go about it, Car Design News spoke with agents from recruiting agencies and designers in America and Europe for advice. How to become a car designer
It's a common predicament. You're 16 years old and desperate to become a car designer but have little idea on how to achieve that burning ambition. Here's a few basic tips.
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