Exactly. That was a totally different era. Mitchell would never survive in today's PC Corporate world. Not even close. He didn't allow women to work in the Exterior Studios. A different era.
I guess the early day focus groups hadn't yet shown that the wimminz make the purchase decisions......
Retired GM designer talks about his career and automotive design: http://www.deansgarage.com/2019/clasiq-designer-series/
How ironic that 2/5th of the GM focus on "Brand Identity" would crumble in the next century- Pontiac and Oldsmobile.
well there were the 'Damsels of Design'. However, just maybe he didn't want any 'distractions' when important work like exterior design was being done!
The Damsels were there when Harley Earl was VP. And they were working on Interiors for the most part. There was a female exterior when Mitchell was VP, then he decreed that no more women in the Exterior Studios. It’s a bit longer story, but that’s enough for our purposes.
Enough! with the 'girls in the studio' issue.... ......no offense intended..... Reviving an old thread.......Carlos Salaff/Caden Design Image Unavailable, Please Login https://www.designboom.com/art/benedict-redgrove-salaff-c2-12-01-2019/?utm_source=designboom+daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=benedict+redgrove+captures+the+boundary-pushing+form+of+the+SALAFF+C2+supercar I kind of lost contact when Carlos left FC for the 'gram; this is the first I've seen of how his project turned out........tho I hear he debuted @ Pebble in '18 or '19; saw no pix then....... Has its 'eccentricities', but then we all do....... I kind of like it overall.....quite different from website pix....
Not very likely, although some of my superiors had been known every now and than to label some of my work as ‘cartoonish!’ But I shook it off and kept going
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