Interview: Take Five, And Living Large With Clay Dean
Editor – John Grafman
Clay Dean, Design Dir
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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!
Inspired Design – Art Center Car Classic 2012
Those who are frequent guests to this annual event at the Art Center College of Design have to laugh at the weather on this October morning. We typically have to brave one of two types of days for the gathering high a top the Pasadena hills. It’s either blistering hot - just a few degrees cooler than the surface of the sun, or rain.
Tesla Model X Reveal
Generally if someone asks me to spend an evening in Hawthorne I kindly pass on the opportunity. However, as this is the home of Tesla Motors design studio, and on this particular evening the new Model X is being unveiled, I rethink my standard answer. While the point is to unveil the new Model X, the entire Tesla model line-up, new and old, is shining brightly. And one has to look past the reveal of the Model X to see what this night is all about.
Fortune Brainstorm Green 2011
Reporting – John Graf
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The Rebirth of McLaren
The slippery styling does seem to recall a certain Italian brand. Could this be because McLaren has lured away designer Frank Stephenson of Ferrari fame? In any event, the two-seater has a greenhouse that does hint at the McLaren F1. The rest comes from a fresh sheet of paper.
Four-ward: Syd Mead Interview
interview by John
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A Nine-Drive: Freeman Thomas Interview
Great things are done with small teams, a skunkworks. I’ve always worked in a small team from my times working at Porsche and then Volkswagen / Audi - always small teams. So, what I think it does is it pares down all the fat. Everybody becomes accountable.