Earlier in her career, Rossi was a Professor at Polimoda, a fashion design and marketing institute in Florence, Italy, and at ISIA, an industrial and communication design school. Prior to that, she spent two years in Paris as Chief Concept Designer at ARPE, where she designed interiors for private residences and Japanese hotels. She also co-founded the design consultancy Iavicoli & Rossi in Tokyo, creating furniture and home accessories for manufacturers that included Zeus Noto, Ravarini Castoldi and Anthologie Quartett. Rossi earned her undergraduate degree in Florence, Italy, where her work was featured in Domus magazine, earning her a scholarship to attend the master’s program in Industrial Design at the Domus Academy in Milan.
Paul Snyder Paul and Helen Farago Chair of Transportation Design
Maria Luisa Rossi Chair of MFA Integrated Design A designer and educator with broad experience, Maria Luisa Rossi has taught at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology and Syracuse University, and conducted workshops at Singapore’s Design Center and the Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Appliqué in Geneva, Switzerland.
Automotive designer and alumnus (’87, Transportation Design) Paul Snyder’s experience spans four continents and encompasses both exterior and interior development for a number of automotive brands, including Ford, Lincoln, Renault, Honda and Acura. For Ford Motor Company, he designed exterior and interior solutions for the Taurus/Sable and Explorer production vehicles and later oversaw projects for the Taurus X, Ford Five Hundred, Ranger and Flex production vehicles. Prior to joining CCS, Snyder worked at Honda Research and Development in California where he was Assistant Chief Designer, overseeing production and concept projects for the Civic, Accord, Crosstour, Odyssey, Tokyo Motor Show EV-Ster Concept and Honda AC-X Concept theme vehicles, as well as a 2013 Acura RL vision theme. Snyder previously taught transportation design and visual communications at Pratt Institute as well as a range of undergraduate and graduate courses at Wayne State University and CCS. In addition to his work as a car designer, Snyder is an accomplished figure painter, sculptor and collagist, having earned a Master of Fine Arts degree cum laude in fine art and cultural studies from the New York Academy of Art in New York City, where he has also shown his work.
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