Top U.S. Auto Design Schools Go Head-to-Head in Detroit Competition

    Industry Leaders Award Student Winners and Showcase Model Designs
                       at DIA on Tuesday, March 23

WHAT: Students from two of the nation's premier auto design schools -- Detroit's College for Creative Studies (CCS) and California's Pasadena Art Center College of Design -- recently competed in the first-ever Automotive Aluminum Design Challenge. An all-star panel of highly respected industry experts will unveil the winners at a reception and press event at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA).

  WHO:  Sponsor:      The Aluminum Association, Inc.

        Competitors:  Detroit's College for Creative Studies
                      Pasadena Art Center College of Design

        Judges:       Anne Anensio, Executive Director of Design, Advanced
                       Design, General Motors Design Center
                      Robert Boniface, Chief Designer, Advanced Product
                       Design, DaimlerChrysler
                      J Mays, Vice President Design, Ford Motor Company
                      Csaba Csere, Editor-in-Chief, Car and Driver
                      Paul Eisenstein, Publisher, CarConnection.com
                      Dutch Mandel, Associate Publisher, Auto Week

  WHERE:  Rivera Court, Detroit Institute of Art (DIA)

  WHEN:   Tuesday, March 23, 2004
          5 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (cocktail and hors d'oeuvres reception)
          5:45 p.m. Award's Ceremony -- Winners Announcement
          (Students, school representatives and industry leaders available
          for interviews before and after official Award's Ceremony)