Ralph Gilles: How to Create Cool Cars
Automotive Design & Production › Vol. 118 Nbr. 7, July 2006
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Ralph Gilles, an executive VP of Jeep/Truck and Component Design for Chrysler Group, has been with the company since 1992 when he joined the Design Office as a designer, the year he received a BSc from the Center of Creative Studies in Detroit. One of the things that Gilles emphasizes about the way work is done at Chrysler is that it is not the individual, but the team that matters. A beautiful part about Chrysler is the culture. Since this company has been around it has been a bit of an underdog culture, a scrappy, risk-taking culture. There is also an awareness of what it takes to be competitive in a market where there are a seemingly neverending flow of new products to market: Everyone does a decent product.
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Ralph Gilles: How to Create Cool Cars
"So, how does it feel to be a suit?"
And with that question, Ralph Gilles, the man who is undoubtedly the reigning rock star of U.S. car designers, a man who is lauded far and wide for his design of the breakthrough Chrysler 300, stares back with incredulity, arrayed as he is in something of a designer'...See the full content of this document
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