Transportation Design Department collection

WL, 2010
Art Center College of Design Archives 2014-01-21


Title: Transportation Design Department collection
Identifier/Call Number: RG 32
Date: 1949-2014
Physical Description: .75 linear foot (2 boxes)
Contributing Institution: Art Center College of Design Archives

Biography/Organization History

Note

Originally a part of the Industrial Design Department, the Transportation Design Department was established in 1991.

The Transportation Design Department, along with its corporate sponsors, provides students the opportunity to design automobiles, motorcycles, marine and aircraft, commercial transport, personal mobility and public transit.

List of department chairs:

George Jergenson, 1948-1969 (Chair of ID)

Keith Teter, 1969-1985 (Chair of ID)

Ronald C. Hill, 1987-2000 (Chair of ID, then Chair of TRAN in 1991)

Ken Okuyama, 2001-2004

Geoffrey Wardle, 2004-2005, Acting Chair (Associate Chair)

Stewart Reed, February 2005 - present
Creator/Collector:
Transportation Design Department
1948-

Scope and Content Note

The bulk of the collection came from Department Chair, Ron Hill's office.

This collection consists of 3 series.

Corporate sponsored project files form Series 1. The majority of the work here pertains to corporate sponsored automobile design projects. Included are scope of the projects, letters of intent, class schedules, lists of students assigned to projects, and various memos and faxes pertaining to the funding, time requirements, and/or timing of the specified project. These files are arranged by year, term and corporate sponsor.

Series 2 (Syllabi) contain course syllabi, 1992, 1997, 2009 -

Series 3 (Printed Material) contains brochures, event programs, and design contest. Box 2, Folder 15 contains a hand written obituary by Don Kubly on the death of Strother MacMinn.

Arrangement

Series 1: Sponsored Projects

Series 2: Syllabi

Series 3: Printed material

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Transportation Design Department
Hill, Ronald
Kubly, Donald
MacMinn, Strother
Okuyama, Ken K.
Sponsored projects
Student works
Transportation design
Transportation Design Department--Sponsored projects
Transportation Design Department--Student works
2005.4;

Related Material

RG 7.05 Development: Corporate Giving

Conditions of Use

Copyright held by Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, Calif.). No restrictions. Collection is open for research by appointment.