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Name and location of repository
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Department (fonds)
Title
Transportation Design Department
Date(s)
- 1948-2014 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
Biographical history
Originally a part of the Industrial Design Department, the Transportation Design Department was established in 1991.
The Transportation Design Department, along with its corporate sponsors, provides students the opportunity to design automobiles, motorcycles, marine and aircraft, commercial transport, personal mobility and public transit.
List of department chairs:
George Jergenson, 1947-1969 (Chair of ID)
Keith Teter, 1969-1985 (Chair of ID)
Ronald C. Hill, 1987-2000 (Chair of ID, then Chair of TRAN in 1991)
Ken Okuyama, 2001-2004
Geoffrey Wardle, 2004-2005, Acting Chair (Associate Chair)
Stewart Reed, February 2005 - present
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Scope and content
The Transportation Design Department fonds is a top level archival unit that encompasses everything in the Archives created by the Transportation Design department. Under the fonds-level are the following collections: Transportation Design Department collection of documents, Photograph collection, and Video collection.
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Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright held by Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, Calif.)
Digital materials and catalog records are made available for educational and research purposes only and cannot be reproduced, distributed, or published without written permission from Art Center College of Design.
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Name access points
- Hill, Ronald (Subject)
- Jergenson, George (Subject)
- MacMinn, Strother (Subject)
- Okuyama, Ken K. (Subject)
- Reed, Stewart (Subject)
- Teter, Keith (Subject)
- Wardle, Geoffrey (Subject)