MARINA DEL REY, CA – February 1st, 2002: Nick Pugh
is a leading designer for the Hollywood animation and effects
studio Rhythm + Hues, where his work is seen on large and
small screens worldwide by millions of people.
But it's what Nick Pugh has been building in his spare time
over the past decade, with the support of his employers, that
puts him in a class all by himself. Nick Pugh is considered
by some to be one of the leading innovators in automotive
fabrication, or, as Mark Christenson calls him in his book
Build the Perfect Beast, (St. Martin's Press), "America's
best young car designer."
Pugh is a product of the Automotive Design program at Pasadena's
Art Center College of Design, the leading hotbed of new talent
feeding the automotive industry. But instead of taking the
traditional path followed by many Detroit designers before
him, Pugh has become a trailblazer in his field by making
it his personal mission over the past decade to create and
build a personal concept car, a unique car for every unique
individual.
The result is Pugh's Xeno III, a fully functioning concept
car of his own design, with a patented chassis. It is the
culmination of years of work in advanced vehicular design,
engineering, and construction, in which Pugh successfully
bridged the gap between the world of exotic artistic design
and that of the hands-on production engineer. The car incorporates
Pugh's patented fuel storage chassis which increases the range
of natural gas powered vehicles.
From the Publishers Weekly review of "Build the Perfect
Beast":
"Pugh quickly emerges as the book's dominant character:
intense and uncompromising, he is a bizarre hybrid of Picasso,
Eminem and Ayn Rand's Howard Roark. It's largely Pugh's
vision that keeps the quest alive through years of frustration,
fund-raising and fantastical detours (including an ill-fated
attempt to power the car using a secret hydrogen-compound
formula). After nearly a decade, the trio finally succeeds
in building a shocking, mobile work of art called the Xeno
III."
The debut of the Xeno III before a live audience on January
27th, 2002, at the Art Center College of Design drew an enthusiastic
crowd, along with a wide spectrum of representatives from
broadcast and print media outlets. Although mainstream audiences
are just beginning to discover his work, Pugh has already
been a featured guest on the recent TV show "Weird Wheels,"
and featured along with the Xeno III in Wired, Omni, Metropolis
and numerous other periodicals.
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Scot Byrd <scotb@rhythm.com>
310-448-7477 direct / 310-448-7600 fax
Carole Myers <carole@envisionpr.com>
Envision PR
310-440-0184
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