Biomimicry & Mobility 2025: 2013 Design Challenge
Each year for the past 10 years, the Design Challenge theme is chosen by the DesignLA Board of Directors. The board is made up of a dozen design studio executives. Automotive design studios from around the world are invited to participate and this year, studios from Germany, Japan and the U.S. will compete to design “Biomimicry & Mobility 2025: Nature’s Answer to Human Challenges.” With biological knowledge doubling every five years, designers now have the instruments and the capacity to mimic nature like never before. Nature is becoming one of the best R&D labs we know.
Modernism And McGovern
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Interview: Take Five, And Living Large With Clay Dean
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Every Picture Tells A Story – Art Center Car Classic 2013
One of the most awaited car events of the year. Pebble Beach might have a golf course and the Pacific Ocean, but this has everything else you could ever want nestled within the foothills of Pasadena, CA.
EcoMotors: Changing Design from the Inside Out
To spur car companies into action, EcoMotors is showcasing how this can impact and revolutionize styling. To this extent a design competition, EcoMotors Design Challenge: Reshaping the Future, with students from Art Center and CCS is exemplifying just what could be possible. Judging by the results I would say anything and everything!
