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06/29/2015 at 14:04 • Filed to: sketch, design, bryon fitzpatick
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Bryon Fitzpatrick is an awesome dude. He was chair of the transportation design program for the second half of my time at CCS, and I only really got to talk to him during my last year there, and most of that time consisted of elevator rides (we lived in the same building).
I don’t know whether he ever did drawing demos at CCS, but here’s some proof that he can practice what he preaches.
That should give a little sense of scale.
In addition to CCS, he taught at Art Center (both the Switzerland and Pasadena campuses) and RISD in the States, and three Australian design schools. He founded a design consultancy and still does consulting work, worked for Ford in England and Germany, and designed motorcycles at Ogle in the UK (Triumph and BSA).
Always liked him, and enjoyed his sense of humor. So here’s a little post about a car designer you’ve probably never heard of, who’s influenced a couple generations of young designers.
Milky
> phenotyp
06/29/2015 at 14:55 |
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Great guy, CCS actually brought him back for the last couple of years incase you didn’t know. Sadly I really didn’t talk to him much either because I was in trans. But just to point out how influential the guy is one of my roommates named his cat Bryon …. Bryon FitzCATrick.
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phenotyp
> Milky
06/29/2015 at 15:07 |
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Hahahaha, nice. I didn’t know he’d come back, I hadn’t heard much about him since Imre died, other than he’d gone back to Australia. He’s a really smart, and very funny guy.
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> phenotyp
06/30/2015 at 10:49 |
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Beautiful work. Thanks.
TylerLinner
> phenotyp
07/30/2015 at 12:45 |
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Nice video. I was in CCS under Larry Erickson (graduated in ‘12) so I don’t think I met Fitzpatrick, but man. Those older guys can sure draw. It’s kind of a shame that designers don’t really do this anymore, because there is a huge amount of manual drawing skill out there that may just disappear within 50 years or so. Illustration’s just not the same, you know?
It’s awesome that you were able to get together with him and capture some of the techniques on video. I remember going through my parents’ architecture school boxes and asking what all the doodads were for. You know, eraser shields and stuff. They don’t use that anymore because of AutoCad and whatnot. We’ve got to preserve the tradition somehow, or the knowledge will be gone.
Sorry, didn’t mean to be a Debbie Downer, but it’s great to see old design stuff around. Did you get a chance to check out the American Dreaming exhibit at Lawrence Tech this spring?
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phenotyp
> TylerLinner
07/30/2015 at 12:58 |
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Yeah, I lament the loss of drawing skills every day (both mine and others’). I didn’t do the video (his son, Leon, made it), though. I haven’t been back to Detroit in a looooooong time, sadly. I’ve been following the American Dreaming exhibits for years, but missed it when it was in Houston. Hoping they raise all the funding they need to finish the documentary.
CCS went through some big changes while I was there, with Carl Olsen leaving, then a long gap before Bryon and Imre came on board. It was kinda chaotic.
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TylerLinner
> phenotyp
07/30/2015 at 13:19 |
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Ah, gotcha. Haha, my drawing skills have dropped a bit after college too, but I’m still in the design game so that’s fun. I don’t know when you were here, but if you come back you’ll be seeing a whole different downtown Detroit. There have been lots of changes even in just the past five years- not just CCS, but the whole city! And FWIW, management seemed chaotic when I was there too.
Yes, I’m hoping they can make the documentary. It’s so hard to find good information on the “ole days” that the documentary could easily become the definitive voice on the subject for many years.
orcim
> phenotyp
09/29/2015 at 02:48 |
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Thanks for this. Didn’t know the person or his work before.
I’m always in awe of vision people that can transmit what *they* see so that *I* can see it. (This is a rare talent in my experience.) And he has something going for him that is more rare - his sense of perspective is almost perfect. Even just drawn, it’s real.
Love it.