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Interview with an automotive designer

Interview with an automotive designer

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Interview with an automotive designer

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- [Instructor] We're at Nissan Design America here in San Diego and with me is Brenda Parkin. Brenda is a color specialist and she's a color specialist in the automotive field and today we're going to talk to her about how the automotive field looks at materials and how they transition into the vehicles we all know and love today. So please welcome Brenda with me and so, Brenda, what is a color specialist? - An automotive color specialist works in every material. I think the think that comes to people most often is body color, which we do select but we also select everything, all the way down to the smallest of grain in a knob in the interior so, everything you see, touch and experience on a car interior and exterior a color designer had to specify. - [Instructor] Inside and out? - In and out. - Okay. So, where do we get started? I mean, how do we get this thing started? I see you brought us some examples here. - Typically, well, you must start with collaborating with product…

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