CCS students asked to design a 21st century Model T

Design students at the College for Creative Studies were asked to design a Model T for the 21st century. A car modeled after what the T was - affordable, usable, and socially impacting. The New York Times features these students' creations.

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The student projects make us all students. Because the concepts analyze and focus on specific qualities of the Model T, each teaches us something about the car’s importance. They remind us that the Model T was not just the first people’s car, not just an exemplar of innovation in marketing and manufacturing, but that it had a huge impact on society.

People’s cars have traditionally been for country people and country terrain. The T “got the farmer out of the mud,” Henry Ford bragged.

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