BMW M1 Hommage

April 29th, 2008

BMW M1 Hommage

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.

BMW M1 Hommage

Slow Car

April 19th, 2008

Slow Car by Jurgen Bey

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

Reventón

March 28th, 2008

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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.

Slot Car Wall Sculpture

March 7th, 2008

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

Visvim Car Cover

February 27th, 2008

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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.

Attempt to design a car

February 21st, 2008

cardesign.jpgRodolphe 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.

Old Luxury just got put on notice

February 4th, 2008

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

Decotora

February 1st, 2008

decotora.jpgMasaru 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.

Virtual Cable

January 16th, 2008

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Virtual Cable could become one of the best implementations of augmented reality. It’s a car navigation system that projects a true 3D line on your windscreen. Very smart!

Drastic Makeup

December 18th, 2007

Drastic Makeup‘ by Sylvie Fleury.