Ian Callum
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Ian Callum in November 2013
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30 July 1954 Dumfries, Scotland, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Royal College of Art |
| Occupation | Car designer |
| Employer | Jaguar Cars |
| Website | www |
Ian Callum is a British car designer who has worked for Ford, TWR, Aston Martin, and in 1999 became the Director of Design for Jaguar Cars. His younger brother Moray Callum is Vice President, Design, Ford Motor Company.
Callum was born in Dumfries, Scotland, in 1954. In 1968 (at the age of 14) he submitted a car design to Jaguar in the hope of landing a job. Callum studied at Lanchester Polytechnic's (now Coventry University) School of Transportation Design in Coventry, Aberdeen Art College and the Glasgow School of Art, where he graduated with a degree in Industrial Design. He subsequently graduated from the Royal College of Art in London with a post-graduate master's degree in Vehicle Design.
From 1979 to 1990 he was employed by Ford, working between Dunton, Japan, Italy and Australia, mainly on "bits of cars, mostly steering wheels". As well as working on bread-and-butter Fiestas and Mondeos, he contributed to image builders such as the RS200 and Escort RS Cosworth, the last of which he is especially proud of and with which he collaborated with fellow RCA graduate Peter Horbury. He 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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