1. Ian Stuart Callum was born on 30 July 1954 and is a British car designer who has worked for Ford, TWR, and Aston Martin.
15 Facts About Ian Callum
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In 2019, Callum founded his own automotive and product design company, named Callum.
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Ian Callum studied at Lanchester Polytechnic's School of Transportation Design in Coventry, Aberdeen Art College and the Glasgow School of Art, where he graduated with a degree in Industrial Design.
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Ian Callum subsequently graduated from the Royal College of Art in London with a post-graduate master's degree in Vehicle Design.
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From 1979 to 1990 Ian Callum designed for Ford, working between Dunton, Japan, Italy and Australia, mainly on "bits of cars, mostly steering wheels".
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Ian Callum was then appointed Design Manager responsible for the Ghia Design Studio in Turin, where he worked on the Via, Zig and Zag show car concepts.
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Ian Callum designed the Aston Martin Vanquish, the V12-powered DB7 Vantage and Aston Martin's Project Vantage concept car as well as taking responsibility for a wide range of design programs for other TWR clients, including Volvo, Mazda and HSV.
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Ian Callum was awarded the Jim Clark Memorial Award in 1995 in recognition of his styling work on the DB7.
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In 1999, on the death of Geoff Lawson, Ian Callum was appointed to succeed him at Jaguar, which was a Ford Motor Company subsidiary at the time.
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Ian Callum has claimed that during this time he was responsible for the majority of the design of the DB9 and V8 Vantage, despite both designs officially being attributed to Henrik Fisker, the subsequent director of design at Aston Martin, upon their introduction.
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Ian Callum oversaw the design for the 2010 C-X75 concept car, the 2012 refresh of the Jaguar XF and introduction of Sportbrake, the 2013 F-Type, the 2015 Jaguar XE, 2015 second generation Jaguar XF, the 2016 Jaguar F-Pace, and the 2018 Jaguar I-Pace.
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In early June 2019, Ian Callum announced that he was stepping down from Jaguar but would continue with the company as a design consultant.
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Shortly afterwards, he founded an independent automotive and product design agency, named simply Ian Callum, based in Warwick and specialising in bespoke and limited-edition products.
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Ian Callum was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to the British car industry.
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Ian Callum chose the subject "Car Design in the 21st Century".