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The work of legendary GM design chief Harley Earl will be on display at the upcoming Detroit Concours d’Elegance automotive event set to take place later this week, including the iconic 1938 ...
Harley J. Earl joined GM in 1928 and became head of the General Motors Design team, retiring in 1958. His designs in the ’50s at the Motorama tours are what brought the Corvette to the attention ...
Ross worked alongside Bill Mitchell during the design process of the first-generation Cadillac Series 62, who was recruited by Earl to work for GM’s Art and Color studio in 1935.
GM design posted five images from Earl’s scrapbook, and there’s a good range of differing art styles. There are renderings on a white background like the one above, and at least one other done ...
American car design owes its due to Harley Earl. Earl left Stanford University in the early 1920s to study design at his father's custom coach-building shop. It catered to Hollywood ...
The sale of the fabulous 1954 Oldsmobile F-88 GM Concept Car was a revelation in a number of ways in that not only did it harken back to a golden age of automotive design, it was also a new ...
A one-off Corvette convertible built as a gift for legendary General Motors design boss Harley Earl is headed to auction. Scheduled to cross the auction block on Jan. 12 at a Mecum auction in ...
Harley Earl, recently retired head of GM styling, called upon experience gained from designing futuristic Motorama Show cars for his own convertible-hardtop roadster. See All 9 Photos Bob McLean ...
Earl said his Cyclone's design was largely inspired by aviation and rocket designs of the 1950s, and it was marked with the logo of the General Motors Air Transport Section (GMATS).
Harley J. Earl, General Motors designer and the man responsible for the first Chevrolet Corvette, received a one-of-a-kind 1963 Sting Ray for his work with the company.
Poster design by J. Howard Miller for Westinghouse, 1943. Wikimedia Commons. All this is documented in ‘Women in Design’ – a fascinating new book on the female voice in the history of design.