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Batmobile Design Competition: WINNER!
Congratulations to Paul Denton for winning the Batmobile Design Competition! Paul's rendering, seen above, captures that "bad ass" feel of the Dark Knight: it's moody, menacing, and full of drama. ...
CDF's Batmobile Design Contest
CarDesignFetish knows that you like cool cars. We also know that you like to sketch cool cars. What happens when you put the two together? A really cool design contest, that's what!
We're...
Dwayne Vance: Design and Render Vehicles Online Course...
Superstar Designer/Artist (and friend of CDF) Dwayne Vance is hosting an online class for rendering vehicles in Photoshop and Painter. This Thursday, March 3rd at 2PM EST (11PST) Dwayne will be hosting...
Sketch P*rn: February Edition
February is over, and that means more awesome sketches were released in the month. Point your eyeballs here for great digital work from Volkswagen, pencil sketches from Renault, sketches over photos...
How to Make Cute Cars
Cars that share the general traits of a baby’s face trigger the ‘Isn’t it cute’ response in consumers.
The Fiat 500 is the latest in a long line of "cute cars." So what is it about cars...
Fancy yourself a Jaguar connosuier? Want to know why the XJ has the design cues it does? Sky Motoring have taken it upon themselves to ask the head honcho himself, Ian Callum, about certain design decisions. What’s up with the C-pillar? What about the rear haunches and detail lines? Sky asks away, and Ian delivers.
It’s always interesting to hear what the Design Chiefs say about the vehicles they represent, whether they actually do any of the designing or not.
Follow the link here for the vid.
Category : Design
Cupholders. The bane of most designers. No matter what we try, there really is no way to do right to the beverage-stabilizer that American buyers NEED in their vehicles. How else are we going to keep our Big Gulps from spilling into our lap when we’re playing Peggle (and driving)?
From experience I can say that designing a good cupholder is far, far more impossible than designing a better mousetrap.
Core77 is linking to a great article from The Big Money’s Matthew Debord in which he speaks about the shift from exterior automotive design to interior, and what consumers demand to go with it.
Check out Core77′s article here, and then follow along to the full write-up on The Big Money.
Category : Podcasts
Episode 14 of the CDF podcast in which we welcome Joe Simpson and Stephen Donald in an epic podcast to talk about car design, design education, and the perception of American automobiles from across the Atlantic.
Hosts:
Dali Dimovski
Dustin Shedlarski
Arvind Ramkrishna
Special Guests:
Joe Simpson
Stephen Donald
For more information:
CarDeisgnFetish.com
Twitter.com/JoeSimpson
Twitter.com/StephenJDonald
