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Design & Desire by Keith Helfet
Keith Helfet
Éditeur : Porter Press
Référence : LN05766After studying at London's prestigious Royal College of Art, the South-African born youngster secured a job at Jaguar, where he would meet his mentor – marque founder Sir William Lyons. Thanks to his encouragement and guidance, Helfet would go on to create a number of iconic designs such as the XJ220 supercar, the XK180 and the beautiful F-type concept created in 2000.
When Keith Helfet embarked upon an ambitious project to create a new body shape for a secondhand Triumph Spitfire using little more than foam offcuts and plaster of Paris, a life as one of the world's most successful automotive designers seemed like an impossible dream. And yet that's precisely what he would become.
After studying at London's prestigious Royal College of Art, the South-African born youngster secured a job at Jaguar, where he would meet his mentor – marque founder Sir William Lyons. Thanks to his encouragement and guidance, Helfet would go on to create a number of iconic designs such as the XJ220 supercar, the XK180 and the beautiful F-type concept created in 2000.
With diversions into medical imaging, product design, power-assisted bicycles and electric vehicles, Design & Desire offers a personal insight into a unique and varied career that has spanned more than four decades – and counting…
Fiche technique
- Auteur
- Keith Helfet
- Éditeur
- Porter Press
- Date de parution
- 2023
- Format
- 24 x 28 cm
- ISBN
- 9781913089016
- Illustration
- 160
- Nombre de pages
- 128
- Langue
- Anglais
- Etat
- Neuf
- Reliure
- Couverture rigide
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