Design for Life: The T-Shirt Collection by Gordon Murray

Gordon Murray’s T-Shirt Collection offers unique access to one of the most distinctive personal archives in Formula 1 and automotive design.

Professor Gordon Murray CBE is renowned not only for the speed and ingenuity of his racing cars, but also for the extraordinary T-shirts he wore throughout his career. This first title in the Design for Life series opens up Murray’s famous personal collection of more than 1000 shirts, celebrating a lighter, highly personal side of one of the world’s greatest automotive and motorsport engineers.

• The first book in the Design for Life series by Professor Gordon Murray CBE
• Unique access to Gordon Murray’s personal collection of more than 1000 T-shirts
• A fascinating insight into the personality, style and design culture behind one of motorsport’s greatest engineers
• Covers a distinctive part of Murray’s Formula 1, McLaren and automotive design story
• Large-format hardback with over 400 images
• Published by Porter Press International

Beautifully produced by Porter Press International, this large-format hardback brings together design, personality, Formula 1 history and Murray’s unmistakable sense of style.

• ISBN: 978-1-913089-19-1
• Publisher: Porter Press International
• Print run: 1500 copies
• Format: 293 x 293mm PPC hardback
• 348 pages
• Over 400 images

Professor Gordon Murray CBE is one of the world’s most celebrated automotive and motorsport design engineers. During 20 years in Formula 1, his cars won multiple races and world championships with Brabham and McLaren. He later founded McLaren Cars to create the legendary McLaren F1 road car, before establishing his own company in 2007. In 2019, he was appointed CBE for services to motorsport and the automotive industry.

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