The Man Who Designs Icons, Ian Callum CBE | Extraordinary Life Stories

<p>Long before he became one of the world’s most celebrated automotive designers, Ian Callum was a schoolboy in Dumfries with a very simple ambition: to design cars when he grew up. He even told his primary school teacher.</p><p><br></p><p>That childhood ambition went on to become an extraordinary career, producing some of the most recognisable cars of the modern era.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of Extraordinary Life Stories, John Reynolds sits down with Ian Callum CBE to explore the story behind the man who helped redefine British automotive design.</p><p><br></p><p>From the Ford Escort Cosworth to the Aston Martin DB7 and Aston Martin Vanquish, Ian talks about the risks, frustrations and creative decisions behind some of the world&#39;s most iconic cars. His career at Jaguar would go on to produce the XK, XF, XJ, F-TYPE and I-PACE, helping create a new design language for the marque.</p><p><br></p><p>But this is also a conversation about the future of the car.</p><p><br></p><p>Ian gives his perspective on Jaguar&#39;s dramatic recent rebrand and the enormous shift taking place across the automotive industry as designers move from the world of combustion engines towards EVs. </p><p>From a schoolboy&#39;s dream to the drawing board of the Aston Martin DB7, and from Jaguar&#39;s golden era to the future of the electric car, this is the story of a man who turned a childhood obsession into a career designing icons.</p>