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Preserving the Old School, Transportation Sketches from CCS

By Michael DiTullo - October 13, 2011

in Cars

Sketch by Geoff Garstecki

Carl Olsen was the head of the College for Creative Studies Transportation Design program from 1987-2000. Having previously been Director of Style for Citroen, Director of Design at Ogle Design Ltd., and Tutor in Transportation Design Royal College of Art London, Carl brought a distinct flavor to the program, adding to its already established reputation as a transportation design powerhouse.

One of our designers at frog, Amina Horozic, a CCS grad herself, brought it to my attention that Carl had preserved much of his best student's work and placed it in a convenient online archive. Check out the dozen or so deep galleries, some with sub galleries, of some of the most fantastic transportation work from that era. You might recognize many of the student names, like Ralph Gilles, currently the CEO of the SRT brand and senior vice-president of design at Chrysler.

Enjoy the galleries HERE.

Sketch by Mark Micelli

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Kyle Oldfield

13 years ago

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Wow! It's amazing to see how far car design has come in the past 20, even 10 years before the internet and digital sketching & rendering took over! I've seen some of my professors work who attended CCS for trans from '86 -'90 and was blown away by how different the times are. It will be interesting to see how the next 20 years pan out with technology increasing faster than ever especially in the design world.
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Adam Weaver

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I love all these ideas and forms. The sketches are so rare and keeps me attached to my marker sets over a pad and ctr-z.. This is what its all about. Great post.
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IPSVM

13 years ago

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awesome flashback- I remember seeing much of that work at CCS and how it blew my mind
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