LeBaron Chrysler Newport Phaeton concept car, 1940
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I am consistently fascinated by designers and businesspeople who think outside the box, artists who see the world just a little differently, and the tools they use in their work. What does that have to do with this blog? We'll see.
Masters of the Cutaway Part 3: Yoshihiro Inomoto
via core77.com If you’re also a fan of this fascinating form of technical drawing, check out this series at Core77.
Infamous 1953 Austin-Healey “100” sells for world record £843,000
An Austin-Healey racing car in pristine condition at a pre-race scrutineering soon before it was involved in a historic crash during a race in Le Mans, France, 1955. The disaster at the Le Mans 24-hour race resulted in 84 people being killed after…
Colin Chapman, Lotus Cars, On Design
“To add speed, add lightness.” “Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere.”
1957 Grosser Preis von Deutschland
The Nürburgring – 4 August 1957 Juan Manuel Fangio was forty-six years old and a four-time World Driving Champion when he arrived at the Nürburgring in August for the 1957 Grosser Preis von Deutschland. He had already won the season opening race i…
Streets of New York, 1950s, by Vivian Maier
‘Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) was an American amateur street photographer who worked for about forty years as a nanny in Chicago. During those years she took about 100,000 photographs, primarily of people and cityscapes most often in Chicago, althou…
Cultural Identity Through Design
Martin Szekely (French, b. 1956), Chaise lounge, Pi, 1984. Galerie Néotù (Paris), producer. Steel, aluminum paint, leather, foam. via artdaily.org Elegant Simplicity.
William Gibson – The Art of Fiction
INTERVIEWER How do you begin a novel? GIBSON I have to write an opening sentence. I think with one exception I’ve never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed. INTERVIEWER You won’t have planned beyond that one sentence? GIBSON No….
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