Stewart Reed Design

12/04/2024

The Gearbox by Mobility Outfitters/Stewart Reed Design is currently exhibited at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Beverly Hills, check it out in the Concept Vehicle gallery! It was a trendsetter in 1997, foreshadowing not only today's Overlanding but even the SUV craze itself. The was highly reconfigurable and modular, with solar panels that could remain at at a site, open pickup or van configuration and so many other prescient, clever features. https://www.petersen.org/vehicle-spotlights/1998-mobility-outfitters-gear-box

A visionary designer, who's led the Transportation Design Department for a couple decades at world renowned ArtCenter, Stewart Reed is full of ideas and extremely diverse automotive experience. From low volume, custom/concepts for OEs and Defense 'Primes' to museums and coachbuilding, creative direction for 3-dimensional wisdom.

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08/10/2024

Here's 's timeline for the Monterey car week, beginning with the 'Prehistorics' racing that began for 2024 yesterday at Laguna Seca racetrack, and it seems the beloved Tuesday show in Carmel IS BACK this year! Some terrific panels this year, Packards, Wedge cars - Dad is one of the 4 experts speaking on this panel, racing panels and SO much more! When I see all that's lined up for Wednesday alone, it is way more than one could see on that one day! (without a jet pack anyway)
WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca;

Needless to say, Monterey Car Week 2024 will be jam-packed with all sorts of events. Use this guide to pick the ones you'll attend.

07/23/2024

Love this car! It was first ordered by none other than Bob Gurr of Disney Imagineering, who was buddies with the fellows of the MotorTrend's Car of the Year... and now you know the rest of the story...if you know this Citroën SM was the very first foreign car to win the Car of the Year award from MotorTrend in 1972. Now it belongs to Stewart Reed who treasures the variety of clever, well-designed details! Check it out at the Benedict Castle Virtual Car Show!

All star jury team assembled by MotorTrend included among other the Conference of Automotive Research Specialists (CARS) included racer Phil Hill, racer and automotive safety engineer Bill Milliken, automotive engineer/designer/reporter/author Karl Ludvigsen, automotive designer and Art Center desig...

07/23/2024

06/14/2024

What a wonderful EyesOnDesign this year!!! As theme for the show’s cars, we’re SUPER excited that many of Dad's own designs will be assembled at the show, together at the this weekend. The all the way from LA to Detroit, and his own example of a Meyers Manx are coming - all the way across the country, from CA to MI! Perhaps his favorite done for Bob Lutz & Cunningham Motors, is with Jack Roush's Collection in Detroit - so it’s probably the closest to the show!

has contributed greatly to the C7 Dad designed for Cunningham Motors shown at the 2001 or the full scale model is in the near the Ford Estate. Looking forward to Dr. Phillip Hessburg's wonderful EyesOnDesign for DIO!

06/13/2024

This year EyesOnDesign Car gathering honoring Gordon Murray of GMA or for his Lifetime Achievements in automotive design. My Dad enjoys sharing that his design inspired Gordon's door design for the McLaren ... Fortunately, there will be a Toyota Sera at the for DIO in Detroit area this weekend!

As theme for the show’s cars, they’re also honoring past recipients, including my Dad, Stewart Reed who received the award in 2016 as or CDN explained:
https://www.cardesignnews.com/news/stewart-reed-to-receive-2016-eyeson-design-lifetime-achievement-award/28616.article

We’re very excited that many of Dad's favorite car designs will be assembled at the show, either as full scale concepts or production models, at the this weekend, the and his own example of a Meyers Manx are coming all the way from California to Michigan! One of his best designs is stored in the Jack Roush Collection in Detroit - so it’s probably the closest to the show!

Art Center College of Design chair of Transportation Design to join list of design greats

04/10/2024

I found this photo and cannot recall in what edition this "Back of the Napkin" column by MotorTrend's Ed Loh was published, anyone recall? What a cool column! I have a file of designer's napkin sketches myself, mostly Dad's!

03/01/2024

Wish the Mullin Automotive Museum were timeless, but its time here has closed. Here's a wonderful review of a high point there, the Art of the Bugatti exhibit included a wonderful work commissioned by Peter Mullin with Stewart Reed Design. SRD designed and fabricated vehicles for an extremely unique automotive cross section; from Lockheed Martin's JLTV proposal at AUSA 2007, to highly advanced concepts for Ford, Cunningham Motors/BobLutz, Mobility Outfitters "Gearbox" and design activities for Michelin and Louis Vuitton, after decades with Art Center, Prince/JCI, Toyota and Chrysler...

This is terrific review of the Mullin Automotive Museum's exhibit which featured the Type 64 and its mahogany body buck, as would've been done in period, circa 1939, yet informed by today's perspective. A wonderfully inspiring exhibit for the restoration expertise!

Jim Palam brings us highlights of the Mullin Museum’s incredible Bugatti show in Oxnard, CA, open until March 31, 2015 and not to be missed. According to many in the automotive world the ‘37 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic  is one of the greatest cars of all time. The magnificent ‘39 Bugatti Type ...