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Ian and Moray Callum have more than their jobs in common
Ian Callum calls it "one of those defining moments" - that day his grandfather took him to the Jaguar garage in Edinburgh, Scotland. Callum's grandfather was a minister who liked cars and used to talk about them with his oldest grandson, who still was a pre-schooler when he decided he would be a car designer.
Not that Callum ever had any doubts about his career choice. But he was certain that he'd mac the right decision the day his grandfather took him to the Jaguar garage.
"I saw my first E-type," Callum remembers with a tone of awe in his voice.
Callum, 47, did grow up to be a car designer, and, in 1999, he succeeded the late and legendary Geoff Lawson to become the design director at Jaguar, a job he calls the best in the business.
He is not the only Callum in the profession. His younger brother, Moray, became an auto designer. In early September, at 43, Moray was appointed design director at Mazda Motor Corp. Tom Matano had been acting head of design.
"I don't think I would have become a designer if Ian hadn't followed that route," says Moray Callum. "He declared at 3 or 4 years of age that he wanted to be a car designer. I grew up watching his progress, but probably was in denial; I thought I should do something different, so I started studying architecture, and then went into general product design. But I realized, 'this is silly,' and I should do what I want to do, and that is car design."
If Ian thinks he has the best design job, he thinks Moray's is "one of...