Transportation Design

As car companies transition into mobility companies, Detroit and CCS offer THE best educational options for learning the art of transportation design. Students from all over the world come to CCS's MFA and BFA Transportation Design programs to broaden their horizons for entering the world of mobility design through cross-disciplinary projects and working directly with the rapidly growing mobility industry.

The design brief, developed by WardsAuto, challenges students to understand a brand’s interior design vocabulary and then transform it into something that is different but still recognizable. We also want students to learn about the importance of fine materials and craftsmanship in all design.

Darby Barber, a College for Creative Studies/ Transportation Design alumna and creative designer at General Motors, was recently interviewed by Jalopnik. Check it out!

In 2016, an interdisciplinary team of students and faculty from the College for Creative Studies led by Associate Professor and Chair of Transportation Design (BFA/MFA) Paul Snyder were invited by the Seoul Design Foundation to participate in a project rethinking mobility in this megacity. Snyder presented the team’s “Double Street” concept at the Seoul Smart Mobility International Conference/Exhibition in September.

In 2016, an interdisciplinary team of students and faculty from the College for Creative Studies led by Associate Professor and Chair of Transportation Design (BFA/MFA) Paul Snyder were invited by the Seoul Design Foundation to participate in a project rethinking mobility in this megacity. Snyder presented the team’s “Double Street” concept at the Seoul Smart Mobility International Conference/Exhibition in September.

"Designing for the seams: rethinking the value of seamless to create better physical and digital in-betweens in transportation"

Paul Snyder, chair of College for Creative Studies/ Transportation Design programs, talks about building virtual reality into CCS's curriculum and the future of transportation design through VR.

Each year, students in the College for Creative Studies’ four MFA programs — Color & Materials, Integrated Design, Interactive Design and Transportation Design — can look forward to securing post-graduate jobs with top employers around the world.

Kettering Provost James Zhang kicked off the inaugural Kettering University/College for Creative Studies symposium quoting the 2014 Sony Walkman commercial, this past week. The symposium was developed to solidify the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration between Kettering University (KU) and CCS, as it is becoming crucial to have both technology and design to drive creative synergy.

CCS Chair of Transportation Design Paul Snyder talked about the future of automotive design at the Autoblog Upshift event.