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The World's Top Online Course for Aspiring Car Designers
Updated on Sep, 2026
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Automotive Design is one of the top creative careers in the world. Car designers are responsible for creating the exterior and interior designs for all the automobiles produced. While it is an extremely rewarding career, it is one of the most difficult fields to break into and become successful in. It all starts with your passion for cars and design. This course is designed to introduce you to the basic skills required to begin your creative journey in automotive design. By taking this course, aspiring car designers will learn the basic skills they need to take their automotive designs and drawings to the next level. The course will show you the most important drawing technique used by professional car designers so you can radically improve your sketches. You’ll learn how to draw wheels faster, better and more accurately and the importance of speed forms for developing your original design vocabulary and drawing technique. We’ll cover what materials are best for sketching your ideas and how to maximise them. You'll learn the techniques for laying out a great side-view sketch, including proportion and where professional car designs get their inspiration from, and how you can get inspired too! As a special bonus lecture, you'll learn the vocabulary of automotive design so you'll know what you're talking about. If you have a burning passion for cars and love design, are looking to improve your skills or dream of being a professional car designer and are looking for a place to start, this course is for you!
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Born in New York City, Mr. Santoro attended the High School of Art & Design where he was a member of the first ever, industrial design high school program in the United States. After graduating from Pratt Institute with a bachelor degree in Industrial Design, Mr. Santoro was accepted as the first ever, post-graduate design intern at Chrysler Corporation where, upon completion, he received an offer to join the staff.
Mr. Santoro spent 6 years as an automotive designer at Chrysler where he created the ground breaking, cab-forward exterior design for the 1995 Car of the Year, the first generation Chrysler Cirrus and it's sister vehicle, the Dodge Stratus. Before leaving Chrysler, Mr. Santoro penned the 1996-2006 Jeep Wrangler, returning the vehicle visually to its iconic roots while pushing it forward into the new century.
Returning to New York City, Mr. Santoro spent two years as a consulting designer for Walter Dorwin Teague, America's oldest design consultancy. There he worked on numerous programs including creating conceptual design interiors for Boeing Aerospace and the production interior for the Gulfstream G5 aircraft.
Mr. Santoro retuned to automotive design work as a consultant working on the Vector M12 production supercar and Vector M12 "American Anthem" North American International Auto Show show car. Additional projects including the Lamborghini Jota show car followed.
In 1999, Mr. Santoro created the Apple-specific case market with the launch of his company, MacCase.
Mr. Santoro has been featured in several articles for his design innovations at Chrysler including “Passage by Design” (AutoWeek, January 9, 1995), “The Designers Who Saved Chrysler” (The New York Times, January 30, 1994) and his work at MacCase “Flexible Pens ( Car & Drvier, September 2013). Additional articles about Mr. Santoro and his work have appeared in Automobile, Road & Track, The Detroit Free Press and Car Styling.
He has been a part of student design reviews at College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California as well taught Transportation Design at Pratt Institute in New York City.
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