An extreme example of this is the new Lexus LF-NX Hybrid. Too much car design today is visually noisy not only on the outside but on the inside too.
This is best showcased in the Volvo YCC, a concept car that debuted at the Geneva Motor Show in 2004. The car interiors I have designed are influenced by my Scandinavian aesthetic calm, clean lines with honest materials. You can never go wrong if you go with what you feel is right. Push the boundaries, create, experiment, question and be passionate about what you do. Like a couturier, the more you know about your field the more you are able to maintain a consistency of quality and detail and, like an architect, understand the sensual effects of light and texture.īelieving in oneself, as a designer, is key to a successful career as I tell my students at the Royal College of Art. One of the most wonderful aspects of working in the field of automotive design is to be able to take an ugly bare chassis and clad it in the fine clothes that make it aesthetically appealing. It helps inform your opinions of shape, proportion, innovation, interesting use of light, materials and aesthetics. What made you a designer in the first place, that passion, continues to influence you throughout your life. Early in my career, I designed both exteriors and interiors but came to specialize in interior design, most likely due to my love of furniture design, love of materials and pushing the boundaries of engineering for the sake of design.Īs I learned only recently during a lecture by the eminent designer Ross Lovegrove, the early influences that shape you as a designer never really leave you, you simply perfect your technique and your visual aesthetic through the years. My father was, and still is, my main inspiration as he is an engineer, craftsman and lover of British cars. Designing on paper and then making models out of card or wood, taking mechanical devices apart to understand the workings, painting and drawing comprised my early life.
The early influence of my childhood in Denmark brought about a love of nature, Lego and Scandinavian design. For the past 3 years she has been working at the Royal College of Art in London as a Vehicle Design Tutor. After a few years with Daewoo, she returned to Saab and designed the Saab 9.3 cabriolet interior, moving on to Volvo Cars for the YCC (Your Concept Car) and Volvo Trucks. Returning to Sweden in 1981, she worked at Volvo for a year, then went to Saab and subsequently joined a British design consultancy, IAD (International Automotive Design). C ynthia Charwick-Bland was born in Baltimore, USA and spent her childhood in Denmark, returning to the US for high school education and university to study Industrial Design.
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