Day 2 for the Ford Community Influencers was entitled the ‘Design Fantasy Camp’. We were promised a peak inside the design process for a modern automobile. The itinerary included a blend of the old (clay modeling) and the new (virtual design, CG rendering) and how modern testing is done when actually building a full scale prototype is prohibitively expensive.
I joined up with a group of randomly sorted folks given white wristbands with orange dots, and was bussed over to the Ford Product Design Center. I don’t live that far from here, and I’ve driven by these buildings before, it was a bit odd to be actually let inside… I was hoping for Oompa Loompas and a host clad entirely in purple velvet… I was let down on those points, but overall pleased with what I saw.