PPG Presents CCS Students With Auto Glass Design Awards
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DETROIT--Jan. 8, 2003--In a competition sponsored by glassmaker PPG Industries, winning designs by students of Detroit's College for Creative Studies (CCS) show how glass can provide differentiation while adding utility, style, luxury, comfort and convenience for a 2008 vehicle.
PPG's Ernest Hahn, vice president, automotive glass, presented the PPG Design Challenge Awards, for 2002, to these CCS transportation design sophomores:
| -- | First place: Shane Lindsay, 24, New Lenox, Ill. |
| -- | Second place: Takahiko Suginoshita, 22, Tokyo. |
| -- | Third place: Daniel Bohman, 24, Fairfax, Va. |
Hahn presented the awards in the third annual auto glass design competition during ceremonies at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The students received scholarships of $1,500 for first place, $1,000 for second place and $500 for third place.
First place
Lindsay's first-place design uses glass for enhanced visibility and aesthetics to create an innovative enclosed luxury pickup truck.
An expansive windshield affords the driver and front-seat passenger an unobstructed view of the road. The glass starts flush at the roofline, then bends down and covers the headlights, unifying the prominent front end with the rest of the vehicle while keeping the headlights unapparent when not lighted. Front-door side glass is "exaggerated," according to Lindsay, dropping down to about waist-high on a seated passenger for better visibility and a brighter interior space.
Two glass sunroofs run the length of the roof, sandwiching an exposed frame, and retract toward the center into the middle of the roof panel for an unencumbered open feel.
Lindsay uses stacked organic light emitting devices on the back and rear side-door windows. Since his theoretical vehicle owner has a construction company, the back window can display electronic images such as blueprints, while the side windows can exhibit a company logo during work hours, but can be turned to clear for evening.
Second place
Suginoshita's second-place design for a crossover vehicle combines features of a minivan, coupe and sport-utility.
The roof has a center bar between two rows of panels that incorporate "new glass technology" of high polymer crystal between two layers of glass. The glazing can function in three ways:
1. In daytime, the glass is frosted to afford moderate interior brightness while blocking visibility.
2. Electric current can be applied to the glazing, resulting in the high polymer crystals lining up so that the glass becomes transparent.
3. The glass panels can be moved along the center bar and stacked into storage space at the rear of the vehicle to create the open-air, outdoor feel of a convertible.
An unusually shaped bubble windshield affords maximum visibility and interior brightness while adding aesthetic interest and providing vehicle differentiation.
Third place
Bohman's third-place design for a sport utility-station wagon crossover vehicle uses glass to add elegance and aesthetics. Two triangular-shaped glass sunroofs above the driver and front-seat passenger and one at the rear of the roof add light and dramatic interest. "Let's change the way we think of a sunroof," Bohman says. "Instead of a rectangular element over the front two seats, why not a sleekly shaped window over each...and one for the rear? The glass can slide to the middle for an open-air feeling."
Bohman describes the sunroof glazing as "museum quality," with "Old World sophistication, very elegant and airy feeling." The varied-color glass with custom etching is like art glass, he says, and allows passengers to see a pattern above them.
Back-window glazing has an embedded liquid crystal display that enables it to become opaque at the touch of a button. Seats can be turned to face the back window and glass tables pulled out of the center console to create a mobile conference room, with the back window becoming opaque for showing visuals during a presentation. Glass accents outside and inside "visually lighten the mass" or provide lighting opportunities.
Judges for the PPG competition, all CCS alumni, were Mark Allen, manager, Jeep Studio, DaimlerChrysler; Jim Fleming, senior creative designer, Truck Brand Character Center, General Motors, and Lorene Boettcher, global manager, design and color marketing, automotive coatings, PPG.
Fifteen transportation design sophomores submitted concepts. To prepare the students for the contest, PPG glass experts provided information about auto glass manufacturing, design and development. The students also heard from Amy McFarren, senior manager, and Kelly Petrous, consultant, J.D. Power and Associates.
Designs were judged on appropriateness and creativity, the students' sketch work and idea generation, and professionalism of the students' presentations before the judges.
Concepts were based on a targeted consumer defined by J.D. Power: Charles, an affluent white-collar worker, 45 to 49 years old, a husband and father, living in Thousand Oaks, Calif., who needs flexibility in a vehicle for use in business development and entertaining clients as well as hauling materials.
PPG Industries
PPG is the only manufacturer supplying glass, coatings, fiber glass and chemicals to the global automotive market, and is North America's largest manufacturer of automotive glass as well as the world's leading maker of transportation coatings. The Pittsburgh-based company has been an official sponsor of the North American International Auto Show for nine years. Sales in 2001 were US $8.2 billion.
The College for Creative Studies
CCS is one of the world's leading arts education institutions, and is credited with having one of the world's most recognized programs in transportation design and for placing more graduates in automotive design than any other school. CCS is located in Detroit's Cultural Center, where it provides a dynamic learning environment in which students explore issues of art and design, and the culture in which they exist, while preparing for careers.
J.D. Power and Associates
J. D. Power, headquartered in Agoura Hills, Calif., is a global marketing information services firm operating in key business sectors including market research, forecasting, consulting, training and customer satisfaction. Its annual quality and satisfaction measurements are based on responses from millions of consumers.
PPG Industries: www.ppgglass.com
College for Creative Studies: www.ccscad.edu
J.D. Power and Associates: www.jdpa.com
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