Back in Art School, Al McNae was my Color & Composition teacher. His skills with gouache and a sable brush were honed over decades as a designer at Ford and later Boeing. Al loved to tell stories of his days back at Ford, and the hijinks the designers would get up to—like the time a fellow designer just wouldn't shut up about his preordered Volkswagen Beetle, spewing predictions of the high gas mileage its air-cooled powertrain would achieve. — Read the rest