Body designers
Body designers
(OP)
Hello,
I am a new member and not in the auto industry. My son is interested in creative body design. He is looking for an information interview to help decide his direction. I agreed to help him search for any designers to call here in southern California. We do not know the best schools, salsries, opportunities, etc. My search for how to reach designers has been less than successful, so any leads, information, web sites,etc., would be appreciated. Thank you and happy halloween.
Regards,
Jeff
I am a new member and not in the auto industry. My son is interested in creative body design. He is looking for an information interview to help decide his direction. I agreed to help him search for any designers to call here in southern California. We do not know the best schools, salsries, opportunities, etc. My search for how to reach designers has been less than successful, so any leads, information, web sites,etc., would be appreciated. Thank you and happy halloween.
Regards,
Jeff





RE: Body designers
I suspect you mean the latter are stylists, and have a separate career path from engineers.
Typically they have degrees in industrial design, or automotive styling. In England the obvious place to approach would be RCA in Coventry (sorry, don't know what it stands for). Why not contact the human resources department of any major car firms in your area and ask them?
In Ca you have Nissan, Lincoln, and Mazda at least.
Cheers
Greg Locock
RE: Body designers
RE: Body designers
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/2154/schools.html
Try this web site it should have what you want.
Good luck
RE: Body designers
RE: Body designers
Regards
Alan Minasian
RE: Body designers
The first thing is he should have basic drawing/sketching skills and i assume he should be having them.If not he can still join a art school and learn the basics.Art center college of design ,Pasadeana offers eve/night classes for sketching basics.
Also i assume that you are in southern California. Then thats the place where most of the design studios of japanese,german and japanese auto manufactures are situated,including toyota,bmw & mercedes(Around LA & Orange county).Also one of the worlds top design school is located in Pasadena <www.artcenter.edu>.
Also you can check this website for more information on car design <www.cardesignnews.com>.
Also you can visit the college(get an appoinment) with your son and talk to any of the Faculity about the salsries, opportunities,nature of work as most of the faculity in transportation design there works/worked in a major design studio.So if he graduates in transportation design then he may work in a automobile design studio and his nature of job would be anything from concept development,basic design,clay modeling,package layout,..etc where his creative input is needed strongly,whereas an engineer in a body design will be refining or fixing things that are left out by the designer or he would work as a structural engineer which is an intresting feild altogether but he would be working on someone's design(designers).
Also automobile design jobs are very very limited and requires way more hard work and is highly competitive,but the graduation may also make him a good product designer if he concentrates a bit on that side too....think this should help....good luck