today and tomorrow

Photography by Philippe Jarrigeon.

Damn, my soapbox cars didn’t look like this Bentley, mine weren’t even electric powered. Back then gravity did the job, but this one will race in the “Greenpower” series. It was build by a team of youngsters with the help of some professionals of course. In the current Bentley line-up, the smallest engine has a 5998cc capacity … just trying to be ‘green’ huh.
More info here.

Normally I’m more into Italian car design … but this BMW M1 Hommage just look like a mean lean racing machine. BMW presented this study last weekend the Concorso d’Eleganza at Villa d’Este to celebrate the thirtieth birthday of the BMW M1, a true classic. Actually, they only did the body design, it doesn’t have an interior or even a motor. If you want to see more angles and details, check you this gallery.

This is the ‘Slow Car’ by Jurgen Bey, it is part of the Vitra Editions 2007. The first Vitra Edition was in 1987, it was a laboratory that provides architects and designers with the freedom to create experimental furniture objects and interior installations. Twenty years later, the second Edition came out. The ‘Slow Car’ is part of a series of rethought infrastructures that speculate about the way we make places work.
The 2007 Edition is now on display in Milan.
By the way, Vitra finally has a new website, their old website was a living fossil.
photo by designboom

This is the dashboard of the Lamborghini Reventón, the 20 owners of this car can also switch the dashboard screen to a more classic layout. I would go stealth all the time.

When your girlfriend says that you’ll have to let go your old toys … ‘Slot Car Wall Sculpture‘.

Visvim, a Japanese high grade streetwear brand, was asked by Intersection Magazine to design a car cover. The result is this checkered GORE-TEX design, that’s just the right material for the Alfa Romeo Brera.
5 others designers (Bless, Maison Martin Margiela, …) did one too. You can check them all out here.

Rodolphe Dogniaux has this refreshing approach to designing a car. Cut-up some existing cars, reassemble the pieces and colorise.
You don’t have to reinvent the wheel!
He did something with shoes too.

Bring on the horse’s head! Truth in Engineering.

Masaru Tatsuki published a book on Decotora, short for decorated truck and it’s mostly a Japanese thing. You can read an interview with him and see some more pictures at PingMag.