The Wall Street Journal asks, “Is the day when you might drive a Chevy Camaro or an Audi A6 styled by a Chinese designer almost here?”

Transportation Design student Chen Di

The answer is that this scenario is not too far away, especially when you consider China’s rapidly growing automotive industry, which in 2009 surpassed the U.S. as the world’s biggest auto market.

The Wall Street Journal writes: “Judging from a growing number of students from mainland China, such as Chen Di and Feng Chao, at Art Center College of Design, a premier transportation design school in Pasadena, Calif., the auto industry is poised to see an uptick in the influence of Chinese-born designers – just as Japanese and Korean designers’ influence grew over the past three or four decades coinciding with the rise of Japanese and Korean auto makers over the same period.”

The article also speaks to Transportation Design professor Bumsuk Lim on this “initial wave” of Chinese Transportation Design students who began arriving at the College in the early 2000s.

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