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(car) design schools

College for Creative Studies- CCS- (Detroit, USA) my school :)
Royal College of Art- (London, UK) well known graduate degree program
Art Center College of Art and Design- (Pasadena, USA) probably the best known transportation design program
Pratt Institute- (New York, USA) offers a transportation design class
Cleveland Institute of Art- (Cleveland, USA) aka CIA...a five year program
Coventry University- (Coventry, UK) offers both undergraduate and graduate transport designd programs
Fachhochschule Pforzheim- (Pforzheim, UK) one of the top European schools (taught in German)
Strate College- (Paris, France) up and coming school near Paris (taught in French/English)
Umea Univeristy- (Umea, Sweden) graduate degree program in Sweden (taught in English)

design links (commercial/professional sites):

Car Design News- THE source for the latest car design news.
Italdesign- one of the best known design consultancies
Auto and Design Magazine- my favorite car design magazine in English and Italian
Core 77 Industrial Design Network- one of my favorite industrial design sites
Karim Rashid- probably North America's best known designer. Very well designed site of course.
Marc Newson- Designed the 021C showcar for Ford, and a lot of cool watches and furniture
Zanic Design- very nice site by Mexican designer Alberto Villarreal
Ikepod- (very expensive) Marc Newson designed watches
Nick Pugh- Well known Art Center graduate- transportation/entertainment designer/illustrator (thanks for this link Matt)
Philippe Starck- Still one of the great ones. Ubiquitous designer furniture, toothbrushes, everything...
Foresee Design- A computer aided design consultancy run by Cor Steenstra (includes an on-line car design course)
Andrea Ciampaglia- Italian Car Designer with his own studio
IDSA- The largest Industrial Design organization in the U.S
Art Supply Warehouse- a discount art supply store
Dick Blick Art Store- has a wide selection of art supplies
Freitag- Swiss site showcasing "freeway" bags. Cool

design links (personal sites):

Miles Nurnberger Design- a Coventry graduate I met at Ford (now at Citroën) not updated for a while
Christian Teller- a Danish Designer/Friend now living in Amsterdam
Transportdesigner.com- by Coventry student Phil Woolhead
Designerspace- By Jean-François Bontemps, a Parisian who draws Citroëns in his free time
Digital Portfolio- by student Andre Lobo (in Spanish and English)
Sven Sellik- all the way from Estonia
Kenneth Lee's Homepage- a well known site by Ford designer Ken Lee (student work)
Chaejoong Lim homepage- Art Center student
Dany Chalhoub -a graduate from Pratt Institute, very diverse work

 

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