Ian Callum, Director of Design, Jaguar wins Interior Designer of the Year Award

Ian Callum, Director of Design, Jaguar, has been declared Interior Designer of the Year in the Automotive Interiors Expo Awards. The Automotive Interiors Expo Awards celebrate the world’s finest designers, innovations and products in the automotive interiors field.

Ian studied Industrial Design at Glasgow School of Art and tailored his talents with a two-year course in Automobile Design at the Royal College of Art.

The first car Ian Callum designed fully was the Aston Martin DB7. He was working for Ford at the time, and he was quite literally thrown into the deep end. He was simply asked to design a brand new Aston Martin and left to his own devices. But Ian Callum isn’t one to look back, or the kind to sit on his laurels.

Ian joined Jaguar in 1999 and under his direction, Jaguar Design have taken the brand into an exciting new era. Following concepts including the R-Coupe, RD-6 and Advanced Lightweight Coupe, within the space of just three years the Jaguar production range changed completely.

Speaking on the occasion, Callum said, “The interiors of Jaguars have always been very special places for me personally, and so it has been essential to create new, fresh ideas, while maintaining the warmth and fun that is true to the brand. We set out to create interior environments that not only work well, but create a sense of theatre and occasion.”