The ultimate reference guide for car designers and automotive engineers! H-Point was written by the pioneer of the Vehicle Architecture course at Art Center College of Design, Stuart Macey along with the Director of Advanced Mobility Research, Geoff Wardle. Currently used as the educational handout for the transportation design students at Art Center, it will now be available to aspiring car creators everywhere, clearly organizing the packaging standards that apply to car and truck design; along with insightful graphic explanations, this book demystifies the automotive design process and allows designers access to an illustrious careers worth of knowledge.
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Stuart Macey currently works for Curb Industries in Southern California, providing vehicle packaging services to automotive design studios. He also teaches the vehicle architecture class at Art Center College of Design. Geoff Wardle has worked as a professional vehicle designer and is currently the Director of Advanced Mobility at Art Center.
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This is a great reference book. But so as to not cause any confusion, this is NOT an instructional guide on how to draw and design cars. It is rather a reference guide filled with info and facts that you should keep in mind when designing cars. If you are looking for a book that has step by step instructions on how to draw cars and perspective, this is not the book you are looking for. If you are already a car designer or a car design student, and want a handy and well thought out reference guide, this is the book for you.
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A great all-round image of automotive design,
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This book could be named "automotive design 101": it obviously is a textbook from the Transportation Design undergraduate course at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
It does lack some edge on the imagery (and must be corrected with updated EC regulations), but does provide an invaluable insight on the automotive design industry. This is definitely a "how did I live without it" item, and every designer should have it on their bookshelf!
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I'm a graphic and industrail designer in Hong Kong
thank you art center, there is lack of information about car design in the world the book data is extreme professional if the book include a DVD of digital H point data and image, it must be much better, I don't mind to pay more i hope car design 101 will be released soon, I',m looking forward
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max torque, occupant package, curb attitude, tire envelopes, final drive system, rear occupants, breathing apertures, crush space, tire profile, bumper beam, front occupants, camber change, transverse engine, vision angle, initial package, functional objectives, towing capacity, cargo storage, shoulder room Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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max torque, occupant package, curb attitude, tire envelopes, final drive system, rear occupants, breathing apertures, crush space, tire profile, bumper beam, front occupants, camber change, transverse engine, vision angle, initial package, functional objectives, towing capacity, cargo storage, shoulder room Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Engine Size, Seating Reference Point, Front Longitudinal Engine, Longitudinal Engine, Front Spindle Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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