Posted in auto, car, car design, design, design process on June 22, 2007 | No Comments »
No doubt you might have heard about the London 2012 Olympics logo outrage (£450K, caused epileptics to have fits while watching the commercials - allegedly). Can’t say I’m down ‘wid the kids’ about the current fascination with lairy graphics, 80’s-retro flourescent colours and fakey punk stuff…but whatever, the real crazy thing is that by the [...]
Posted in auto, car, design, design process on June 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Some more pics from the RCA show;
The inspiration for the form language on this car came from rainforest-inhabiting frogs, with their padded ‘fingers’ referenced by the wheel supports.
This grew on me - in profile the funky sneaker shape is appealing, the window cutouts are novel, and despite the colour scheme it manages to look organic [...]
Posted in auto, car, design, design process on June 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Anyone who went to last year’s show was aware that things were a little ‘tight’, space-wise, in the exhibition. This year they’ve expanded into Hyde Park across the road with a wooden tent structure full of product, textile, and automotive design projects.
Automotive projects included this beautifully finished interior, complete with brass fittings;
A Star-Wars inspired cyber [...]
Posted in auto, car, car design, design, design process on June 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Coy’s are holding an auction at Blenheim Palace on July14th, where, amongst the Porsches and the Rolls, this beast will be for sale;
Expected to raise £75 -90K ($145K+)….
The man who designed and built this work of art is Jay Ohrberg who had an illustrious career making cars for films and tv. I would officially like [...]
Posted in auto, car, car design, design, design process on June 12, 2007 | No Comments »
This truck is part of ‘The Jaga Experience’, designed to showcase radiators around europe….yeah I don’t get it either, but it’s the coolest truck. There’s been a number of concept cars that show patterned and adjustable glazing, through various methods. Whether the technique will ever get beyond the concept stage, as always, will [...]
