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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...
Category : Fetishing
It’s been over 5 years, but it’s time to say “Good Bye”.
Our time at CDF has been incredible, but the busy lifestyles we lead as husbands, fathers, and designers has us re-prioritizing… in a good way.
Please keep up to date with us, as we always have new projects going.
Dali: http://www.twitter.com/kewlrats
Dustin: http://www.twitter.com/shedski
Jason: http://www.oldschoolviscom.com
Arvind: http://www.twitter.com/drivenmavens
Good Bye!
Our friends over at AutoLine have Ford’s Joel Piaskowski, head of Design, on their After Hours show tonight.
Autoline’s John McElroy will be joined by Piaskowski, Autoextremist Peter De Lorenzo, as well as Mark Phelan of the Detroit Free Press.
Need we say more?
Autoline After Hours
Got questions for Rapid Fire? Put “AAH Question” in the subject line and e-mail it to viewermail@autolinedetroit.tv
Or, leave them a message by calling 1-620-288-6546 or by clicking below!
Friend of CarDesignFetish, Dwayne Vance, is running a Kickstarter campaign to get is latest book published. Dwayne’s hoping to have The Hot Rod Art Book: Volume 2 out this Summer, and to do so he has a goal of raising just $5000 more by May 28th.
The book is a collection of work from concept artists and designers all taking a crack at creating some incredible hot rods. A look at a few of the images has classic and modern hot rods, hot rods battling robots, and even motorcycles and graphic designs. Some SERIOUSLY cool stuff!
Dwayne has several levels of pledges, including getting a copy of the book, t-shirts, personalized artwork and more. Have a look, and pass the word along!
The Hot Rod Art book: Masters of Chicken Scratch Vol 2
Category : Fetishing
Our sister site, SideQuesting.com, is hosting a great Light Cycle design contest! Sketch a cool light cycle! Go on over there and enter for your chance to win some cool prizes!
Category : Competitions, Crit, Fetishing
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 hosting our first ever sketch contest on CDF, and it centers around a classic vehicle: the Batmobile. Gotham’s masked detective has one of most iconic rides around, filled with gadgets, weapons, and style. The goal is for you to create/sketch a Batmobile concept, but to do so in 2 hours or less and send them over to us. Pencil sketches, Photoshop, Painter… whatever you want to use to create it is up to you. We just want to see a great idea (or two).
The focus is to be creative, but not over-render an image. Just an hour or two will suffice to get a cool sketch or rendering out there.
We’ll feature each concept on our site and select a winner. The winner will get copies of pivotal Batman graphic novels Cacophany penned by Kevin Smith and Year One by Frank Miller. The contest begins TODAY, March 4th, and lasts until Monday, March 14th. We’re lucky to have Dwayne Vance be a guest judge, as well as Team CDF, as we select the best from the bunch. Submit as many as you’d like (per the rules below).
Each entry will be evaluated on merits of cool design and sketching basics, so perspective and proportion will be important. Will it be a classic 60′s Batmobile, a newer Tumbler-style? Will you take a crack at Tim Burton’s Batmobile, or something completely different?
Good Luck, and have fun!
If you grew up in a rural area like I did then arguments over the best truck brand happened daily. Well with the new Ferd F-Teenthousand you will crush every other truck brand out there. Why, because it is better than any truck out there. Take a look at this parody of a truck advertisement. This should be in the Superbowl.
[Source: Autoblog]
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 that make them cute? Mostly proportions control the feeling of a car. Most cute cars are compact cars that are a little taller than wider with softer graphic forms. The VW Beetle and Mini are other great examples of cute cars. If you are a people / car watcher then check out the guys that drive these vehicles. I bet the color of the car is darker, the rims a little bigger, the sills a bit lower. All of these attributes help disguise the cuteness and catch you off guard. I fall victim to this driving a VW GTI. I don’t think a GTI is a cute car but a base level Golf is a cute car to me. It is an interesting phenomena and as more cars get smaller you we see more attempts at the costumes to through off the cuteness. Who said cute cars are bad anyway?
Check out the article after the jump which talks about the psychology of car features and how they play tricks on us.
The video above is of The Daily, the new iPad/tablet magazine app from News Corp. Why are we posting about a digital magazine on a car design blog? Hearken back to this video from IDEO that we posted back in September on their vision of the future of the book. In short, it’s a more personalized, yet wildly social experience.
Flash forward to this week in which News Corp and Apple unveiled their own vision of the future of digital reading. In this case, news topics take center stage, and yet the content is again more social yet personalized. The Daily allows for news to be delivered throughout the day to the iPad. The articles are divided into pages, like the Wired app and many web pages before it, with interactive elements, videos, and feedback.
Where The Daily pushes the medium is in its personalization and ability to actively engage in the conversation. Sports scores and news are relative to the user’s preferences, time-wasting games like Sudoku and Crosswords are scored and kept alive on Gamecenter leaderboards, articles can be read or viewed through summary videos, and news can be shared with friends through Twitter or Facebook, with a live stream of comments.
Add in an intuitive multi-touch mechanic and a beautiful presentation, and the evolution of IDEO’s vision is apparent.
So again, why does appear on a car design website? Considering how companies like Apple and Google influence technology within vehicles, with an app like The Daily becoming a personalizable news source, so too will the automotive user experience. This is a clear vision of the future of how we consume content, react to it, and spit it back out. Where we once listened to the radio for our news, we will eventually be interacting and replying to it through audio and video, through our cars reporting live weather and traffic conditions, and through our own experiences. This is the consumable user interface that will (eventually) become a part of our every day experiences.
The Daily is available now for free in the iTunes App Store for the iPad, and will carry a $.99 weekly fee beginning in two weeks.
Category : Design, Fetishing, Product Design
Chip Foose manages to get into everything it seems. He is a true designer being able to use his talents wherever requested while pulling off great work. Check out his latest endeavor with Oakley. With shoes and watches being, dare I say every designers fetish, Foose can knock this one off his list. I appreciate the fact that he always includes artwork in his projects. Maybe not here in his actual shoes but the packaging is exploding with a composition of shoe sketches inter mingled with of course a hot rod and palm trees.
Hit the jump for more images….
Category : Crit, education, Fetishing, Holiday Gift Guide, tools
The iPad is an incredibly versatile tool. For Designers, it can become essential, though sifting through the ocean of apps may be daunting. As many a Designer received an iPad this holiday season, I felt it apt time to compile a list of apps (and tools) to turn the iPad into the perfect portable Industrial Design, with an exhaustive software suite and few extras thrown in for fun.
Load up iTunes, get the gift cards ready, and begin downloading… NOW.