Batmobile Design Competition: WINNER!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. ...

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CDF's Batmobile Design ContestCDF'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...

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Dwayne Vance: Design and Render Vehicles Online Course (March 3)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...

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Sketch P*rn: February EditionSketch 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...

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How to Make Cute CarsHow 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...

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Automoblox 2010 Lineup

Category : Design, Fetishing, Holiday Gift Guide, Production Car

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Automoblox is kicking off the holiday season shopping rush with two new series.  The first is a heavy duty pick up with what looks like chrome rocker panels straight from the nineties.  This is also a new material finish for the Automoblox line.  Next up is a series of Hot Rods.  Hell yeah!!  These cars keep getting more and more detailed with every new model.  These hot rods will make a killer addition to the everyday drivers you already purchased.

If that wasn’t enough they are even going to make a Halo package consisting of the Heavy duty truck towing a new Hot Rod.  Sign me up!

I know my count is up to 6 with a mixture of full size and minis combined into one long ass limo thingy.  These vehicles are a lot of fun for kids and adults.  Be sure to be ready when these get released for the holiday season.

1Thanks to Autoblog for the announcement and a slew of pics.  Check them out !!

CDF Announces Rendered Hope 2010 Charity Calendar

Category : Fetishing, Holiday Gift Guide

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CDF is happy to announce our second annual “Rendered Hope” charity calendar!  If you recall, last year’s calendar was a terrific success (see the images in the PDF below) and featured professional designers from a variety of companies.  CDF worked with HotWheels, Ford, and GM to deliver HotWheels cars as holiday gifts to the kids at Children’s Hospital of Michigan.

This year’s edition will be more of the same, except due to the amount of interest from last’s calendar we are starting early!  From now until October 15th, CDF will be taking submissions of vehicle design sketches for the calendar.  The calendar will be available Nov 1st, just in time for the holidays, with all proceeds going towards once again buying HotWheels for the kids.

Once all the submissions are sent in, we will select 12 of our favorites and include them.  We will also contact those selected to include a short biography and contact info.  This is great for professionals and students alike, as you can see from last year’s calendar.  We’re still working on a thank you beyond inclusion in the calendar, but that will be worked out later.

Rules and information after the break.

Click here to download the 2009 calendar.

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Fetish Book Review: The Hot Rod Art Book

Category : Concept Car, Design, Fetishing, Holiday Gift Guide, Sketch P*rn

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A few months ago my buddy Logar showed me his new Hot Rod Sketch book he received as a gift.  After  a few minutes of flipping through the pages I new I had to get a copy.  Here at the Fetish we are huge fans of automotive art and sketching, hence last years Rendered Hope Charity Calendar we put together.

Since I first viewed the book Twitter has really taken off for CDf and Dwayne Vance began following us.  Little did I realize this was the author of The Hot Rod Art Book I grew a fetish for.  Now CDf  has a copy of this awesome sketch book of Hot Rod Art.

The book consist of artwork from Dwayne Vance as well as tutorials included on a cd.  Dwayne has had a great career in design working for Troy Lee Designs, Hot Wheels and his own company Future Elements.  There are also 12 other top notch Hot Rod Artist and Designers including Larry Wood, Thom Taylor and Max Grundy to name a few.  There is a great variety of work and styles combined into one hell of a coffee table book.

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Hit the jump to view a teaser video and more information….and come back next week for an exclusive interview with Dwayne Vance!

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BMW 5 Series Gran Tourismo Concept

Category : Concept Car, Crit, Fetishing, Holiday Gift Guide, Product Design

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Here we go again.  Another BMW that objects to being put into any class of vehicles.  Is it a sedan, crossover, station wagon, maybe a really long hatchback?  Maybe just a squashed X6.  Pretty soon BMW will be able to offer vehicles in 2 inch increments rather than the amount of doors or ground clearance.

Anyway, here it is, Chris Bangles last touch on BMW.  This lifestyle vehicle know as a PAS (Progressive Activity Sedan) is Bimmers newest attempt at creating a niche vehicle proportion.  The X6 was their first attempt at this and is a pretty impressive vehicle if you actually get a chance to see one on the road (not too many here is the D).  It is great to see energy put into tweaking the norm as we know it and try to create a proportion that although may look awkward at first could become the new standard.  Think of Mercedes CLS “4 door coupe, horrible headroom, ingress, egress for rear passengers, but it is the newest and greatest thing.  Every OEM is coming out with one.

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Christmas Presents!!!!

Category : Concept Car, Design, Holiday Gift Guide, Sketch P*rn

Sure we would all like to wake up Christmas morning to find a car like this waiting for us, but we all know that isn’t going to happen. Especially this year. Luckily CDf has the perfects gifts for every designer or aspiring designer. Maybe you need a little inspiration in these down times or some ideas to put your portfolio together. CDf has everything from books to DVD’s to tools for the trade, our online store has you covered.

Coming soon (like a few days) we are going to launch the first of hopefully many Car Design fetish Charity Calendar. We have begged, borrrowed and stole some sweet sketches coming from designers in the industry that will be put together into one limited run edition calendar. 100% of the proceeds will go toward buying Hot Wheels for the Children’s Hospital of Michigan. So get ready to tear down that “supercar” calendar for a new 12 month collection of automotive Sketch P*rn!

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Today’s the Day!

Category : Holiday Gift Guide

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It’s Christmas! And that means that our Holiday Gift Guide for 2007 comes to a close! And what better way that to get a gift for your favorite person/designer/artist AND to support CDF than to get an Amazon gift card!

Enjoy, and Happy Holidays from all of us at CDF!

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Category : Holiday Gift Guide

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Ah Leatherman… one of the truly great tools that a designer can have.  Need something cut?  Leatherman.  Need a screw loosened?  Leatherman.  Need a Top Ten list?  Letterman (not Leatherman, but close).  The Leatherman Skeletool is the latest piece of tech from the great folks at Leatherman Tools.  Featuring a ton of tools to utilize made out of stainless steel, the Skeletool (and upgrade Skeletool CX) is a great gift for you or any designer on your list.

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Category : Holiday Gift Guide, Product Design

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Today’s mildly frightening gift idea is an electronic coin back that “eats” your quarters.  Yes, it may appear as though it is some by-product from a Peewee’s Playhouse design session, but the Facebank coin back is actually a nice novelty gift idea.

Buy it now for just $30. 

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Category : Holiday Gift Guide

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We all love Do-It-Yourself stuff, so we thought we would add an idea for a gift in that realm.  The DIY Music Box is just what is sounds like: a music box you get to put together with whatever tune you would like.  Great for someone who wants to mimic their favorite ringtones in the old-fashioned way.

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Category : Design, Holiday Gift Guide

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So today I thought I would catch us up on this whole Holiday Shopping Guide thing, considering that we are clock-deprived and a few days behind.  And what a great way to do it than by recommending a wristwatch! (See, we ARE witty!)

The Nike AMP + sports watch is a watch and a remote for the Apple/Nike sports combo, the Nike+ “experience”.   Featuring voice feedback, stats, and more, this watch will help any couch potato-esque designer get up and about… Or so we can wish.  The watch is pretty snazzy in aesthetic, and fits snuggly around your wrist.

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