All articles by Karl Smith – Page 7
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ArticleDesign interview: Sharon Gauci, GM
“In its purest form, design should be a sensory journey of discovery,” says GM’s executive director of industrial design
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Quasar Khanh’s Unipower City Car
The Unipower City Car, a tiny rolling glass box, was introduced in the 1960s, and designed by an unlikely engineer-turned-car and furniture designer, Quasar Khanh
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ArticleArtCenter Spring Degree Show 2019
The latest envelope-pushing projects from California’s prestigious car design course
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ArticleAndreas Thurner named Vice President at Karma Automotive
Having been instrumental in the SC1, Thurner will lead the creation of a luxury EV line-up as VP Global Design and Architecture
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ArticleConcept Car of the Month: VW Futura (1989)
The once and future Golf? The Volkswagen Futura, introduced at IAA Frankfurt in 1989, was once considered the future of the German marque
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ArticleKarma Automotive launches ‘New Dawn’ product showcase
Californian brand shows us how they are moving beyond a revived Fisker sedan
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ArticleCCotW: BMW Vision EfficientDynamics (2009)
A study in aero, packaging and fuel saving that still looks futuristic
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Lincoln Futura (1955)
The Lincoln Futura concept car is most widely known in its later incarnation as the Batmobile in the 1960s television series Batman. But that is just one part of its long life, and the car is proof that some concept cars can lead interesting lives far beyond the motor show circuit
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ArticleDave Marek draws Acura’s future design language
We get an impromptu design primer during a recent studio visit in LA
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ArticleCCotW: Ford MA (2002)
In 2002 Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art celebrated the work of automotive designer J Mays with an exhibition called Retrofuturism: The Work of J Mays. It was a retrospective of his work which included the Audi Avus, the Volkswagen Concept One and Ford New Thunderbird, among others.
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Linea Diamante (1953)
Arguably Italy’s greatest modernist architect, Gio Ponti also had a whirl at car design with the Linea Diamante
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ArticleGeneva 2019: Abarth’s 70th-anniversary exhibition
The storied racecar maker’s classics are on display at Geneva
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ArticleGeneva 2019: Honda e Prototype
Honda’s evolved EV spearheads a serious push for electrification