Scott Robertson, How to Draw Cars the Hot Wheels™ Way
www.DrawThrough.com

Scott Robertson was born in Oregon and grew up in the country. As a child his artist father, Richard, taught him how to draw and design the toys he played with. Fascinated by speed, he and his father designed and built soapbox derby cars. At the age of 14, Scott finished sixth in the world at the annual race in Akron, Ohio. In 1984 he attended Oregon State University, where he studied all that he could while rowing on the crew team in the bow position.

After two and a half years at Oregon State, Scott transferred to Art Center College of Design, where his father had attended before him. After many all-nighters and skin-thickening critiques he graduated with honors with a B.S. degree in Transportation Design in April 1990.

The day after graduation, Scott opened a product design consulting firm in San Francisco with friend Neville Page. Soon they were designing a variety of consumer products, the majority being durable medical goods and sporting goods. Clients included Everest-Jennings, Kestrel, Giro Sport Design, Nissan, Volvo, Yamaha, Scott USA, Schwinn, and Medical Composite Technology.

In 1995 both Scott and Neville relocated to Vevey, Switzerland to teach drawing and industrial design at Art Center, Europe. Upon the sad closing of ACE in the middle of 1996 they relocated to Los Angeles. Scott continues to share a studio with Neville where they do consulting work for a wide range of clients. Over the last seven years since returning from Europe, Scott’s clients have included BMW subsidiary Design-works/USA, Bell Sports, Raleigh Bicycles, Mattel Toys, Patagonia, Scifi Lab, 3DO, “Minority Report” feature film, Nike, Troxel, Rock Shox, Universal Studios, OVO, Black Diamond, Angel Studios and Fiat, to name a few.

Scott is married to film editor Melissa Kent and they live in Santa Monica.

Having designed a wide variety of wheelchairs, bicycles and helmets, it’s hard to walk down the street without seeing some of the products Scott has designed zooming by. He continues to teach at Art Center College of Design, and at Otis College of Art and Design. In addition to working as a design consultant for the entertainment industry, sporting goods industry, and transportation industry; his recent projects include launching a small publishing company, Design Studio Press, co-authoring Concept Design, writing How to Draw Vehicles, teaching private drawing classes and corporate workshops, designing vehicles for the video game, Spy Hunter, and designing bike helmets. In his free time he likes to...hey, what free time!