The CDf crew would like to thank the automotive design class at Wayne State University for having us as guests during their final crit on May 1st. It was a first semester class for many of the students and they came a long way from where they began. The first class is always the hardest, having to learn how to draw a car with all of the rules and the job of rendering. The teacher, Mike Jou, a practicing automotive designer did a great job getting back to the basics of drawing and rendering. Hopefully many of them will be back for another semester.

Their project was to take a dead brand (Delorean and others) and work as a group to pull out what worked for the company and come up with a new design to reinvent the brand. The surprise for us is the the teams came up with designs that had different platforms and proportions but carried a similar design language uniting them as a brand.

For all you frustrated students learning automotive design, just keep plugging away at it. A few years of non stop drawing will pay off in the end by being part of a very exclusive field of designers.
Happy drawing-