Patrick Lund
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EyesOn Design 2008
The highlight of the weekend is always the Sunday outdoor automotive design show, with this year's event featuring beautiful vehicles divided into 16 different categories, including 'American Classics from the 20's and 30's'; the 'Decade of Muscle'; 'Iconic European Design'; 'Windshield Wrapture' and 'Innovative Technology and Design'.
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EyesOn Design 2008
If seeing is believing, then the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology (DIO) does their share of making new believers annually, including those who are visually impaired. Originally founded in 1972 by Dr. Philip Hessburg and his associates in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, out of a genuine appreciation for fine automobiles, the DIO ...
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Design Review: Dodge Challenger
Gale was quick to divert our attention to such details as the chrome filler cap that the showcar did not have: "We took another look at the original and decided the production car just needed it". During the 21 months from the 2006 concept to final production, the designers ...
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Design Review: Dodge Challenger
The year is 1970. The first Earth Day is celebrated in the U.S. and it was the "dawning of the age of Aquarius", according to The 5th Dimension. On December of that same year, the North Tower of the World Trade Center was topped out at 1368 feet, making ...
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Interview: Syd Mead, visual futurist and conceptual designer
What are the biggest challenges an automotive designer faces today?
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Interview: Syd Mead, visual futurist and conceptual designer
Without a doubt, no other designer has had such a profound effect on industrial designers over the past century as the legendary futurist Syd Mead. According to former Head of GM Design, Chuck Jordan, "Syd's influence cannot be measured". And he's right. How do you measure his experience and the ...
