Ian Callum sits down with us to talk about the future of automotive design, electric vehicles, and his vision of the new Jaguar I-PACE.

Jaguar Director of Design Ian Callum wants you to know the best days of automotive design are not yet behind us, fading fast in the rearview mirror. In fact, the 63 years young Callum is convincingly enthused about the possibilities fomenting across the automotive industry as it switches gears toward an era of electrification, heralding the Jaguar I-PACE, the brand?s first all-electric production vehicle as an example of the exciting things yet to come.
Ian Callum, Jaguar Design Director, speaking at Watts Next…Design Challenges of the Electric Car behind the new Jaguar I-PACE.
Fending off the effects of a red-eye flight into Jacksonville, Florida, Jaguar?s Callum is here to attend Amelia Island Concours ? the pleasantly genteel and relaxed East Coast brethren of Pebble Beach ? joining his brother, Moray Callum, Ford’s VP of Design, to speak at “Watts Next…Design Challenges of the Electric Car”. Sitting alongside the Brothers Callum are General Motors’ Michael Simcoe, Porsche’s Grant Larson, and Nissan?s Alfonso Albaisa, rounding out a rare congregation of some of the industry?s most influential creative minds. The panel moderated by Stewart Reed, Chairman of Transportation Design at Art Center College of Design, is advertised as an exploration of the challenges posed by the paradigm sh...