Remembering GM’s Design Chief, Chuck Jordan: 1927-2010

Charles M. “Chuck” Jordan, retired General Motors Vice President of Design, has died at age 83. A California native, Chuck Jordan won the Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild model car competition, and was awarded a four-year scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a degree in mechanical engineering. He soon joined the GM Styling Staff […]

Hershey 2010: Clay’d out

Could somebody with some design experience help me pinpoint exactly what it is about this clay model I spotted at Hershey that makes me question the owner’s assertion that it emerged from the GM Design studios in the 1950s? There’s something just too modern about the way its curves interact with its knife-edge lines, something […]