Author Topic: TEI #42 - Solved. VW Beetle design concept by R.H. Gurr, 1957 (Read 3049 times)

oko94 · « **Reply #50 on:** August 14, 2015, 08:11:22 AM »

Brooks Stevens ?

Tom_I · « **Reply #51 on:** August 14, 2015, 08:21:28 AM »

oko94 · « **Reply #52 on:** August 14, 2015, 10:36:02 AM »

Was this designer part of Raymond Loewy's team at some point of his career ?

Carnut · « **Reply #53 on:** August 14, 2015, 10:44:36 AM »

Del Coates?

Tom_I · « **Reply #54 on:** August 14, 2015, 10:59:03 AM »

Quote from: oko94 on August 14, 2015, 10:36:02 AM

Was this designer part of Raymond Loewy's team at some point of his career ?

No.

Quote from: Carnut on August 14, 2015, 10:44:36 AM

Del Coates?

Not Del Coates.

oko94 · « **Reply #55 on:** August 14, 2015, 11:04:29 AM »

Has this designer ever been part of the design studio of one of the Big Three ?

Tom_I · « **Reply #56 on:** August 14, 2015, 11:29:56 AM »

He worked briefly for one of them, but most of his subsequent design work was not done for the motor industry.

richard cuyler · « **Reply #57 on:** August 15, 2015, 09:00:20 AM »

Did this designer have anything to do with the rather attractive 1957 Buick?

Tom_I · « **Reply #58 on:** August 15, 2015, 12:32:26 PM »

No, he didn't.

richard cuyler · « **Reply #59 on:** August 15, 2015, 07:05:57 PM »

Larry Shinoda?

richard cuyler · « **Reply #60 on:** August 15, 2015, 07:06:35 PM »

Bill Mitchell?

Tom_I · « **Reply #61 on:** August 16, 2015, 05:35:27 AM »

Neither Shinoda nor Mitchell.

Reply #56 should perhaps lead you away from the more mainstream car designers.

pnegyesi · « **Reply #62 on:** August 16, 2015, 05:42:34 AM »

did he work in non-vehicle industry?

Tom_I · « **Reply #63 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:29:11 AM »

It's tricky to answer that without being misleading. Much of his work was done in what most people would think of as "non-vehicle industry", but as part of that, he did design vehicles of sorts.

pnegyesi · « **Reply #64 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:57:11 AM »

but it was a type of industry, right?

Tom_I · « **Reply #65 on:** August 16, 2015, 07:29:32 AM »

Another tricky question. It depends on how you define "industry". From the Oxford English Dictionary:

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industry: economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories.

- to which the answer is "no".

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industry: a particular branch of economic or commercial activity.

- to which the answer is "yes".

So it's not a manufacturing industry.

Djetset · « **Reply #66 on:** August 18, 2015, 03:55:28 PM »

Hawley Bowlus?

Tom_I · « **Reply #67 on:** August 18, 2015, 06:00:06 PM »

Not Hawley Bowlus, but if you are thinking of his recreational vehicles, you are starting to move in the right sort of direction. The designer we are looking for was not involved with trailers/caravans, as far as I know.

WayneB · « **Reply #68 on:** September 05, 2015, 09:59:40 PM »

Alex Tremulis

Tom_I · « **Reply #69 on:** September 06, 2015, 06:10:15 AM »

No. As already hinted, to find this designer you need to move away from the mainstream motor industry.

oko94 · « **Reply #70 on:** October 16, 2015, 11:26:52 AM »

Was this guy a boat designer ?

Tom_I · « **Reply #71 on:** October 16, 2015, 11:58:48 AM »

No, though during the course of his career he did design one or two waterborne vessels.

oko94 · « **Reply #72 on:** October 16, 2015, 12:15:00 PM »

Was he an architect ?

Tom_I · « **Reply #73 on:** October 16, 2015, 12:21:04 PM »

oko94 · « **Reply #74 on:** October 16, 2015, 01:23:46 PM »

Was he usually designing static objects (appliances, furniture, graphics...) or rather moving ones (any kind of transportation means) ?

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