Designers are naturally inquisitive," says Trevor Creed, senior vice president of Design for DaimlerChrysler.
Their designs can be influenced by just about anything from architecture to furniture design, bicycles to clothing to graphic arts. They subscribe to many magazines and attend such events as the color marketing seminar (held each year in California) and the High Point furniture show.
All of these inspirations go into designing automobiles that will appeal to a certain customer segment, build some kind of emotional attachment that makes them desire that particular vehicle.
But what inspires those who design the things that inspire auto designers? We asked a few of them and found that, in many ways, they mirror their auto designing counterparts.