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John Anthony Sahs has been an automotive designer for over 20 years. But he’s also an artist, graphic designer and vintage car owner. In the video above, he gives us a look into his life, and how Jennifer Lopez influenced the design of the third-generation Nissan Cube. An alumni of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, John Sahs started his career working on the advanced design team at Mercedes-Benz in Japan (he did the interior of the 1997 Maybach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[71,69],"tags":[862,1605,72],"yoast_head":"\n
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