Interview With 2016 Toyota Tacoma Designer Kevin Hunter - Truck Trend Network
Kevin Hunter grew up in the Detroit suburb of Livonia, Michigan, in a family of auto engineers, while cultivating loves for art and automobiles. My whole family worked in the car business, so cars were about all we heard about at the dinner table every night. "Sports cars are a blast, but I've always loved trucks and always wanted to design an 18-wheeler. " Hunter also enjoyed an opportunity to work for legendary GM Design Vice President William “Bill” A. Mitchell in a studio that Mitchell established after retiring from General Motors. When he graduated in 1982 with a bachelor of fine arts degree in transportation design, Toyota's Calty Design Research hired him and put him to work on a small Toyota Pickup in Southern California. Since then, he has progressed through a number of jobs and worked on a variety of products from sports and luxury cars to trucks before being named Calty's first American (and first non-Japanese) president in 2007. In that position, he oversees... KH: To look at the big picture—who you're designing the product for, what's going on in the world and where we're moving as a company. For example, we're moving in a much bolder design direction and challenging packaging to create better-proportioned cars, so we're thinking about how those issues relate to our target buyers, what their values are and what our goals are. Source: www.trucktrend.com
