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Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2007) | J Mays (born October 15, 1954 in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, U.S.) is currently the Group Vice President of Global Design and Chief Creative Officer at Ford Motor Company. His name is simply "J", named after his grandfather S J Mays. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...
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J Mays is a car designer who is linked to many revolutionary and game-changing products around the globe. His name, of course, would be included on a list of the most influential automobile designers of the modern era.
As the designer of Concept One, the concept precursor to Volkswagen's new Beetle, Mays is responsible for helping to revive Volkswagen's presence in North America. Mays is known for his evolutionary designs that reinvent timeless classics like the Volkswagen Beetle, the Ford Mustang and the Ford Thunderbird. The New Beetle and Mustang proved to be enormous successes, as have his other works such as the Ford Flex and Jaguar XF. This article is about the original Volkswagen Beetle. ...
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Background Mays' love of cars began nearly at birth. Born in rural Oklahoma, Mays started working at his family's auto-parts store at an early age. After school, one could find a junior J Mays dusting, sweeping and straightening the shelves. If not racing cars on the go-cart track behind the shop, Mays was drawing cars. As early as first and second grade, Mays' drwaing prowess was evident in the precise gradiations, shadows and geometric shapes he created.
While attending Maysville High School in Maysville, Oklahoma, Mays enrolled in an occupational drafting program at Mid-America Technology Center in Wayne, with aspirations of architecture. After high school, he studied commercial art at the University of Oklahoma before briefly switching to journalism. It was design, however, that would resurface as his life-long ambition. Mays graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science degree in transportation design. As such, many of Mays' designs have been influenced by his experiences in Southern California. Maysville is a town located in Garvin County, Oklahoma. ...
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Automotive design
 Mays worked on the Audi 100 design team. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1642x1015, 271 KB) This picture may have usage restrictions - Audi 100 Source: Own picture File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Drag coefficient Audi 100 J Mays ...
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The Audi 100 was a mid-sized automobile from Audi, made between 1968 and 1994. ...
Volkswagen AG Mays was scouted heavily upon his Art Center graduation, and began his career at Audi AG, a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG, in Ingolstadt, Germany. Mays' selection was based on the company's emphasis on aerodymanics and its reputation as a maker of technically superior automobile. Mays began as an exterior designer and joined the team working on the Audi 100, Volkswagen Golf, Volkswagen Polo, and the Audi Cabriolet. After a brief stint at BMW in Munich where he worked on designs for the 5 Series and 8 Series cars, he returned to Audi the following year as head designer. Audi AG, more commonly known as Audi, is a premium German automobile manufacturer and one of the worlds leading performance-luxury marques, with headquarters in Ingolstadt, Bavaria. ...
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Ingolstadt (Austro-Bavarian: Inglstådt) is a city in the Free State of Bavaria, Germany. ...
The Audi 100 was a mid-sized automobile from Audi, made between 1968 and 1994. ...
The Volkswagen Golf (Mk1 and Mk5 badged as Volkswagen Rabbit in the United States and Canada, Mk1 badged as Volkswagen Caribe in Mexico) is a compact car/small family car manufactured by Volkswagen. ...
Volkswagen Derby The Volkswagen Polo is a supermini manufactured by Volkswagen of Germany. ...
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In 1991, the Mays-designed Audi Avus Quattro concept car was unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show and caused quite a sensation. The Avus, named for the 1930s grand-prix racetrack in Berlin, has gull-wing doors, a body of polished aluminum, and a snug cockpit handcrafted in red leather and gray suade. Its sleek, sensual shape immediately evokes the design of the great German speed-record cars and gran turismo roadsters of the 1930s. The Avus proved to be significant for both Audi and Mays. The form of the Avus led to the development of Audi's TT, designed by Mays' Art Center colleague and head of Ford Strategic Design Freeman Thomas. For Mays, the Avus put him on the global map as an accomplished and provocative designer. It also created the Mays' hallmark of explicitly referencing vehicles from important historical periods in his designs.
A year prior to Avus' reveal in Tokyo, Mays was asked by Volkswagen-Audi to relocate to Southern California to open a design studio for the company. Because of his California background, he was specifically tasked to define "California trends" and incorporate them into the design of a German automobile. There, he began a revolutionary formula that integrated the marketing disciplines of branding, identity, and advertising with design. This work in set him apart as a new breed in automotive design. 2000 Volkswagen Beetle. ...
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His work led him to the strong emotional customers had for the original Beetle, sold in the United States in 1949. Mays was convinced that a new Beetle could help Volkswagen recapture the popularity and commercial success it had enjoyed. Mays and his team, including Thomas, developed a form language for the new concept tht included words like "simple," "honest," and "reliable." Armed with a collection of words, the team began sketching, with Mays' original drawing of three, truncated, intersection circles with a large circle in the center and two smaller ones of equal size flanking it. This diagram became the side view of Concept One.
Concept One was first shown at the 1994 North American International Auto Show. Since the release of the new Bettle, the company's profits have increased by fifty percent.
He returned to Germany in 1993 as Audi’s design director responsible for the company's worldwide design strategy, development and execution.
SHR Perceptual Management Mays became vice president of Design Development for SHR Perceptual Management, an ideation, branding and design consultancy that worked for numerous automotive companies, including Ford. Download high resolution version (1860x955, 218 KB)Recent model Ford Thunderbird, Photo by rmhermen File links The following pages link to this file: Ford Thunderbird Categories: GFDL images | NowCommons ...
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Ford Motor Company Replacing Jack Telnack as global Vice President of Design of the Ford Motor Company in 1997, Mays has worked on the limited production Ford GT, Mustang Bullitt, Super Crew, Escape Hybrid and Edge. Jack Telnack (born as John J. Telnack in 1937) was the former global Vice President of Design of the Ford Motor Company from 1987 to 1997. ...
This page refers to the concept and production cars of 2002 and later; for the mid-1960s race car, see Ford GT40. ...
Mays is responsible for shaping the global design direction of Ford Motor Company’s eight global brands—Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Mazda, Volvo, Land Rover, Jaguar, and Aston Martin. After assuming an expanded role in January 2005, Mays works with individual brands to create and support more long-range strategic design visions. After the sale of Jaguar and Land Rover, Mays' will continue to work on developing a true global design DNA for the Blue Oval.
Mays' design vision for Ford has been demonstrated in his concept cars, the Ford Fairlane, the Shelby GR-1, the 427, the Ford Forty-Nine, the Ford 021C, Jaguar F-Type, Lincoln MKR, and the Volvo Safety Car Concept. In addition, he has been instrumental in the production of several key new production models including the Aston Martin DB9, Land Rover LR3/Discovery, Ford Shelby Cobra GT500, Ford Flex, Ford F-150, Lincoln MKS, Ford Fiesta. 1938 Buick Y-Job, the first Concept car A concept car or show car is a car prototype made to showcase a concept, new styling, technology and more. ...
The Ford 49 The Ford Forty-Nine was a concept car created by the Ford Motor Company. ...
The Lincoln MKR concept car is a premium four-door coupe design, introduced during the 2007 North American International Auto Show. ...
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The Discovery (now known in the United States as the LR3) is a luxury SUV from Fords Land Rover marque. ...
The Ford Flex is a full-size people-mover crossover SUV that replaces the discontinued Freestar and Mercury Monterey minivans. ...
The F-Series is a series of full-size pickup trucks from Ford Motor Company sold for over 5 decades. ...
The Lincoln MKS is luxury sedan announced on August 9, 2006 for production in the 2008 model year. ...
The Ford Fiesta is a mid-class supermini car designed and built by the Ford Motor Company in Europe, and also manufactured in Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, China, India and South Africa. ...
During his tenure with Ford, he received numerous professional awards and recognition for his designs. Mays’ design philosophy and a cross-section of his vehicles were the subject of an exhibition called "Retrofuturism: The Car Design of J Mays" at the Geffen Contemporary of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in November 2002. In addition, he received the Harvard Design School annual Excellence in Design Award in February 2002. In September 2002, he received the Don Kubly Professional Attainment Award from the Art Center. Just disappear from the design There are several museums entitled the Museum of Contemporary Art. They include: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida, USA Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, California USA Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran Museum...
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Resources - Corporate biography, Ford Motor Company's media website [1]
- Hodge, Brooke; Armi, C. Edson (2002). Retrofuturism: The Car Design of J Mays. New York: Universe. ISBN 0-7893-0822-3.
- Review of the MOCA-LA exhibit, by Artfacts.net [2]
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