Chris Emmerson Collection

Collection of archival material relating to the working life of automotive designer/illustrator. Chris Emmerson including documents, such as photographs, illustrations, brochures and booklets, GMH colour charts, magazines, and artefacts, such as car badges and key rings.  
Chris Emmerson arrived in Australia from England in 1950 and settled with his family in North Queensland, where he was educated. Always passionate about cars he sketched the new models at the local Holden dealership in Townsville and, learning about the Technical Centre, determined to find a position there. In 1968 he moved to Melbourne, and after demonstrating his skills as an automotive illustrator, joined GMH, working alongside Phillip Zmood, Peter Nankervis, Ken Foletta and Paul Beranger. Here Emmerson created memorable images of new models, such as the Kingswood, Statesman, Caprice and Camira using pen, ink wash, poster colour and pastel on paper. He worked closely with clay modelers, engineers and the fabrication department for 13 years. In 1981 he left Holden to launch his own consultancy business, Emmerson Design, and then later worked with Millard Design (1986-2008) on various projects, including cutaway car illustrations for Toyota. Emmerson also had an influential career as a teacher at RMIT University. In 1985 his work was featured in Design World and this prompted RMIT to invite him to teach in their Industrial Design program where, from 1986 until 1995 he taught students the techniques of rendering and illustration. He retired in 2008. 
There are 12 boxes of materials, arranged largely by material type in chronological order.  Box 1 has photographs of GMH Holden models, Boxes 2 to 6 hold GMH brochures c1950s to 2003, and also media clippings, copies of Modern Motor, and a small number of brochures relating to Ford, Mazda and GMC Chevrolet. Boxes 7 and 8 hold styling drawings by Emmerson, Box 9 car badges, Box 10 GMH colour charts, and Boxes 11 and 12 art work, including a railway interior.

本数据集为汽车设计师/插画师克里斯·埃默森（Chris Emmerson）职业生涯相关的档案资料合集，涵盖各类文件与实物藏品：文件包括照片、插画、宣传册、小册子、GMH色卡与杂志等；实物藏品则包含汽车徽章与钥匙扣等。
克里斯·埃默森于1950年从英国移民澳大利亚，随家人定居昆士兰州北部并在此完成学业。他自幼热爱汽车，曾在汤斯维尔当地的霍顿经销商处手绘新款车型草图；在了解到GMH技术中心后，他决心入职该机构。1968年他移居墨尔本，凭借自身汽车插画技能获得认可后加入GMH，与菲利普·兹穆德（Phillip Zmood）、彼得·南克维斯（Peter Nankervis）、肯·福莱塔（Ken Foletta）以及保罗·贝朗热（Paul Beranger）共事。在此期间，埃默森以钢笔、墨水淡彩、海报颜料与粉彩在纸上创作了多款经典车型的宣传插画，包括Kingswood、Statesman、Caprice以及Camira等霍顿车型。他与黏土模型师、工程师及制造部门紧密协作，任职时长长达13年。1981年，他离开霍顿创立个人咨询公司埃默森设计（Emmerson Design），后续又于1986年至2008年间任职于米勒德设计（Millard Design），参与包括丰田汽车解剖插画在内的多个项目。此外，埃默森还拥有一段颇具影响力的高校执教生涯：1985年，他的作品登上《设计世界》（Design World）杂志，这一经历促使皇家墨尔本理工大学（RMIT）邀请他加入工业设计项目组，1986年至1995年间，他在此教授手绘渲染与插画创作技法，并于2008年正式退休。
该数据集共包含12箱档案资料，整体主要按资料类型与时间顺序进行编排。第1箱收纳GMH霍顿车型照片；第2至6箱收纳1950年代至2003年间的GMH宣传册，同时包含媒体剪报、《现代汽车》（Modern Motor）杂志副本，以及少量福特、马自达与GMC雪佛兰相关宣传册；第7、8箱为埃默森的造型设计手绘稿；第9箱为汽车徽章藏品；第10箱为GMH色卡；第11与12箱为艺术作品，其中包含一份铁路内饰设计稿。