How to Design Cars Like a Pro

by Tony Lewin, Ryan Borroff, Ian Callum (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780760336953
Publisher:	Motorbooks
Publication date:	11/06/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 10.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

Ryan Borroff is an automotive design writer, journalist and psychologist. He is a contributing writer and editor to print media, including Interior Motives magazine, the car design magazine he conceived and created in 2001. Borroff has organized and chaired various design—related conferences and awards competitions around the world. He lives in London.