All articles by Karl Smith – Page 23
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Design Essay: Prospect and Refuge - a design principle for a new age of automotive design?
In 1975, English geographer, Jay Appleton, published a book called the Experience of Landscape. Within its pages he advanced an aesthetic theory, originally applied to landscape paintings, that has been embraced and debated in art and architectural circles for decades.
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Marsala is the Pantone 2015 Color of the Year
For the past 15 years, Pantone, considered the color authority, has released its ‘Color of the Year', and this year the color is Marsala (Pantone 18-1438), a red named after the wine of the same name.
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Connected Car Expo 2014 explores the opportunities and perils of increasingly networked vehicles
Last year's guest star of the Expo was the cell phone, and that theme was once again dominant. In the short time since the introduction of the iPhone, this has become a defining influence on the design ethos of the modern car; its ease of use, advanced technology, and rapid ...
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Connected Car Expo 2014 explores the opportunities and perils of increasingly networked vehicles
After two days and some 17 sessions of lectures and discussion panels, the second annual Connected Car Expo yielded some interesting and relevant takeaways for car designers. Our key observations are summarized here, followed by a more detailed analysis of themes that emerged over the event's two days:
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Kenji Ekuan, 1929-2015: a life devoted to finding salvation in objects
When Kenji Ekuan, principal of GK Designs, died last week, he left the world a uniquely broad body of work. A remarkably prolific industrial designer whose career spanned six decades, Ekuan's portfolio stretched from domestic products to Yamaha motorcycles and the Komachi bullet train.
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Design Essay: Automobile as Media Landscape
The use of a pattern of dots, combined with a sculptural form, to enhance a striking form is something we've seen in the world of architecture. Frank Gehry's IAC headquarters in New York is enhanced by a frit-dot pattern, designed in such a way as to accentuate lines and, when ...
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Toyota car design contest for kids makes us smile and wonder 'what if'
Toyota has held its eighth annual dream car art contest, inviting entries from children aged 15 or younger from all around the world to imagine their dream car. Entries have poured in, all on paper as digital methods aren't allowed. However, Toyota has turned the work of the 90 finalists ...
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College Exhibition: Art Center graduate show Fall/Winter 2014
Pasadena's Art Center College of Design operates on a trimester system and graduates three classes a year. Car Design News headed north of LA to attend the Fall/Winter undergraduate degree show.
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College Exhibition: Art Center graduate show Fall/Winter 2014
Pasadena's Art Center College of Design operates on a trimester system and graduates three classes a year. Car Design News headed north of LA to attend the Fall/Winter undergraduate degree show.
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College Exhibition: Art Center graduate show Fall/Winter 2014
Pasadena's Art Center College of Design operates on a trimester system and graduates three classes a year. Car Design News headed north of LA to attend the Fall/Winter undergraduate degree show.
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College Exhibition: Art Center graduate show Fall/Winter 2014
Pasadena's Art Center College of Design operates on a trimester system and graduates three classes a year. Car Design News headed north of LA to attend the Fall/Winter undergraduate degree show.
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The Apple Car and the conflict of two civilizations
The rumor that Apple is working on a car, codenamed Project Titan, has been prominent across news feeds, both online and in print. What started as a low-level buzz among Apple fanatic websites blew into a major story when the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times each published a story ...
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Book review: Giorgetto Giugiaro - Genius of Design
Author Giuliano MolineriPublisher Rizzoli PublicationsISBN 978-0-8478-4531-6Price £60/$95Available from http://www.rizzoliusa.com/
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Design Challenge, Design Opportunity: Motion Sickness in Autonomous Cars
The University of Michigan's Transport Research Institute recently released a report, authored by Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle, outlining the possibilities of increased motion sickness in autonomous cars.
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Will the autonomous car revive the monovolume?
The monovolume body package has a long and storied history in the annals of automotive design. First emerging in the streamlined era of the 1930s, the monovolume reappears every decade or so, from microcars like the Isetta to MPV-like vehicles, as in the Volkswagen Type 2. The radical Italian showcars ...
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Does this chart predict the future of the automobile industry, and why should we care?
Adam Jonas, an automotive analyst for Morgan Stanley, this week published a chart outlining his vision of the future of the automotive industry. The chart is laid out in the form of a four-quadrant grid, with each quadrant representing a stage in the automotive industry's development over the next ten ...
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What is the design language of the autonomous car? Google votes for cute
As we return from our festive holidays and sift through the news we've missed, it's the release of the latest version of Google's autonomous car that stands out.
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How will you get to work in the year 2030?
Imagine a future where New Jersey adopts mass public transit and on-demand jitneys; Boston becomes hyper-dense and walking becomes the primary means of transport; Atlanta disperses even further and relies on solar power, electric cars and Google connected technologies to manage mobility; and Los Angeles tries autonomous cars, but finds ...
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College Exhibition: Art Center College of Design Summer 2014
Sung Hoon (Sam) LeeDucati "Spirito" Electric MotorcycleIn our conversation with Sam Lee, he pointed out that in the developing world, the motorcycle is the family car, and that an automobile is still an aspirational product, one that is still just out of reach. Sam's portfolio is full of motorcycles, and ...
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College Exhibition: Art Center College of Design Summer 2014
Art Center in Pasadena operates on a trimester system and graduates three classes a year. Car Design News headed into the hills north of LA to attend the Summer Degree Show.