Mobility Design Chair
Robert Cumberford, Design Editor, Automobile Magazine

Robert Cumberford has pursued parallel career paths for more than fifty years, first as a car designer, then as a writer specializing in design. The first car made to his sketches — a one-off special body for a Jaguar chassis — was built when he was 15 years old. At 19 he was a designer for General Motors, working chiefly on Chevrolet Corvettes, and had been published in national magazines. From 1958 onward he has been an independent designer, working for major car manufacturers in Europe and the US, and for small-volume specialists. He has taught transportation design at the Art Center College of Design, is the editorialist for Auto & Design magazine and has written a popular column on car design for Automobile Magazine for 20 years.