PAUL SNYDER STUDIOS

Automotive designer and Chair of Transportation Design at College for Creative Studies, Paul Snyder’s experience spans four decades, 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 the faculty at CCS in 2015, 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 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

In 2022 Paul launched Paul Snyder Studios L.L.C. in response to a request from a potential industry sponsor who wanted to work with CCS students but keep the intellectual property. Since then he’s been offering students with important experiential learning opportunities while providing world class industrial design services to clients through his mentorship and guidance.

The vision of Paul Snyder Studios L.L.C. is to design products and experiences for businesses and ventures seeking a fresh new approach. We bring emerging perspectives and imagination together with many years of design, concept and production experience to your team. We thrive by making the world a better place through creativity and by design.