Did Automobility LA / LA Auto Show 2025 live up to expectation set by years past? LAAS 2025 still showcased enough product and various display to keep it interesting. Those that came to play did rule the day. Think of it as one part auto show, and one part county fair.
Over the decades, the LA area has been a leader in trends, and autos are no exception. This is the reason that nearly every significant car company has a design studio in California. The 2025 LA Auto Show provides a showcase for designs of every shape and style, good or bad.
The annual ArtCenter Design Invitational (formerly the Car Classic) is truly an important event. This is a homecoming of wonderful cars that are the by-products of the school, and the creative, alumni minds. Mere mortals get to honor those that have made our lives worth living.
Tom Matano was more than a designer and educator, he was a true icon and a warm, approachable individual whose passion for creating vehicles that inspire joy, and connection fundamentally shaped the design philosophy at Mazda, and beyond.
Like engineering, visuals can carry-over into production cars, and street cars can also influence the racers. AutoDesignO connects the dots at the 2024 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach with Acura’s designers and more, detailing the ARX-06 development.
With the passing of design legend and visual futurist Syd Mead, AutoDesignO is honoring him by sharing his interview from the summer 2010. Enjoy Syd's creative take on visual futurism, design, and engineering.
The 2019 Los Angeles Auto Show has a bit of everything. But, the emphasis is clearly shifting to new technology. Can the designs keep pace and fairly represent these new advances? Or, is the industry happy with the way things are?
ArtCenter College of Design is a hub, focal point, gathering place, and launchpad for those in the creative fields. Arguably, the school is the global birthplace for the majority of car designers. Annually, the college pays homage to those with the ArtCenter Car Classic 2019.
ArtCenter’s annual Car Classic features unique, custom, specially built vehicles that will include early coachbuilt cars, custom hot rods and motorcycles, concept cars, bespoke supercars, and specially modified vehicles from all eras—classic to modern to concept.
This year the ArtCenter Car Classic is dubbed 70 years of Iconic Design. AutoDesignO wrangled some of the extraordinary talent to provide some definition to the word “icons”. Interviews with Erik Goplen, Fireball Tim Lawrence, Jay Leno, Frank Saucedo, Larry Wood, and Roger Zrimec.