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In early June 2019, Callum announced that he was stepping down from Jaguar but would continue with the company as a design consultant. "Designing Jaguar cars was a lifelong dream for me, and I’m delighted to remain involved as a consultant for the brand", he said in an interview. Shortly afterwards,
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in 2010, when asked how much of the DB9 and V8 Vantage were designed under his watch, Callum replies "The DB9, I’d say pretty much 100 percent, including the interior. Maybe not color and trim and wood finishes, but certainly the surfaces of the car. And the V-8, I would say a good 80 percent. In
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Some of my colleagues came to see me from Ford, and I’d walked away from this giant studio at Dunton, the corporation, all that stuff, into this little tin shed in Kidlington. They thought I was utterly mad. But I was as happy as could be, I was doing something I wanted to
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With the next generation of Jaguar models Callum took Jaguar away from the Lawson-era retroism, which produced the more traditional-looking X-Type, S-Type, and XJ, towards a new style. This began with the second generation, 2006
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From 1979 to 1990 Callum designed for Ford, working between Dunton, Japan, Italy and Australia, mainly on "bits of cars, mostly steering wheels". As well as working on bread-and-butter
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According to Callum, ‘Jaguars should be perceived as cool cars and cool cars attract interesting, edgy people.’ The quality of Callum's work at Jaguar has been acknowledged by twice
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and was joint recipient with his brother, Moray Callum, of the Jim Clark Memorial Trophy, awarded annually to Scots who have made a major contribution to the world of motoring.
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fact, we started the V-8 first and then shelved it while we did the DB9—that’s why they’re quite similar". At Jaguar, since the Lawson designed 2001
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In 1991 he was appointed Chief Designer and General Manager of TWR Design. During this period he was partially responsible for designing the
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as previewed by the concept C-XF, which Callum describes as the 'next significant step forward' in Jaguar's design direction, and the 2010
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Memorial Award in 1995 in recognition of his styling work on the DB7. In 1996, he designed the
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were well advanced his influence was initially felt through a series of concepts, the 2001
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concept car, the 2012 refresh of the Jaguar XF and introduction of Sportbrake, the 2013
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After eleven years in a corporate environment, Callum left Ford in 1990 to join
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In 2016 he was invited to deliver the MacMillan Memorial Lecture to the
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in London with a post-graduate master's degree in Vehicle Design.
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In 2019, Callum founded his own eponymously named automotive and
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and specialising in bespoke and limited-edition products.
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Brothers Make Their Mark on International Car Design,
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Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland
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Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland
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Dumfries
Royal College of Art
Car designer
Jaguar Land Rover
www.iancallum.com
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Ford
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Aston Martin
Jaguar Cars
Jaguar Land Rover
product design
Dumfries
Scotland
Jaguar
Lanchester Polytechnic
Coventry University
Aberdeen Art College
Glasgow School of Art
Royal College of Art
Moray
Ford
Fiestas
Mondeos

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