10 of the best Ian Callum cars - Malay Mail Online
LONDON, May 2 — To mark Jaguar’s Director of Design’s being named the most influential individual in UK design and scooping the 2015 Designer of the Year Award from The Drum , here’s a look back at some of the most exciting, ground-breaking and... Born in Dumfries, Scotland in 1945, Ian Callum studied vehicular and industrial design as well as fine art before joining Ford as a designer in 1979. There he worked on a number of concept cars for Italian coachbuilder and design studio Ghia as... He took up his current role at Jaguar in 1999. Of his approach to the creative process, Callum says, “Design creates order out of chaos, but chaos is often required simply to be creative. Proving how far ahead of the curve Jaguar was, the C-X75 concept failed the feasibility study back in 2010. Five years ago, there wasn’t sufficient demand for a hybrid eclectic-petrol-powered 200mph+ all aluminium hypercar. Over the past 12 months, three new Callum-designed Jaguars, including the F-Type coupe, the XE and XF, have been unveiled, but so has this ‘restomod’ based on the classic Mark II from the 1950s. Originally conceived as a one-off for the man... Source: www.themalaymailonline.com
