Title: What will next generation car designers create?
Time + Date: 2:00 pm ET | Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Speaker: Paul Snyder
Paul Snyder, the Paul & Helen Farago Chair of Transportation Design @ College for Creative Studies, will lead a discussion on transportation design and emerging mobility systems.
Paul’s experience spans four continents and encompasses both exterior and interior development for a number of automotive brands, including Ford, Lincoln, Renault, Honda, and Acura.
For Ford Motor Company, he designed exterior and interior solutions for the Taurus/Sable and Explorer production vehicles and later oversaw projects for the Taurus X, Ford Five Hundred, Ranger, and Flex production vehicles.
Prior to joining the College for Creative Studies, Snyder worked at Honda Research and Development in California where he was Assistant Chief Designer, overseeing production and concept projects for the Civic, Accord, Crosstour, Odyssey, Tokyo Motor Show EV-Ster Concept, and Honda AC-X Concept theme vehicles, as well as a 2013 Acura RL vision theme.
Paul previously taught transportation design and visual communications at Pratt Institute as well as a range of undergraduate and graduate courses at Wayne State University and CCS.
In addition to his work as a car designer, Paul is an accomplished figure painter, sculptor, and collagist, having earned a Master of Fine Arts degree cum laude in fine art and cultural studies from the New York Academy of Art in New York City, where he has also shown his work.
Format:
Brigadoon Monthly Calls are 45-minute moderated discussions led by a subject matter expert in an emerging issue shaping commerce and culture.
The guest speaker makes opening remarks for ten minutes and takes questions for the balance of the call.
All calls happen using Google Meet.
Just like all Brigadoon gatherings, the call is powerpoint free and conversation-driven.
Cost:
Brigadoon Monthly Calls are free to all Brigadoon Members in good standing or $45.00.
“My first impression [of the Tesla Cybertruck] was shock and horror. This thing just conveys dystopia, it conveys a war zone, a combat vehicle,” said Paul Snyder, chair of transportation design at Detroit’s College for Creative Studies, according to Forbes. “[It] just seems like it has a potential to escalate into an aesthetic that is just very unappealing and harsh.”