Check out this cool retrofitted steampunk style monitor and keyboard by Dave Veloz (via Steampunk Workshop.) It’s a glorious paean to retro-futurism incorporating wood, granite, brass and leather materials.
By Noah Mallin Former Head BMW designer and VW/Audi designer Claus Luthe has died at age 75. His single most classic design is the NSU Ro80 from 1967, a radical rotary-engined aerodynamic sedan that became a touchstone for many automotive designs of the 1980s and 90s including much of the Ford lineup and Audi’s 100/5000.The [...]
Nouvel’s proposal for a tower in New York on 53rd Street has been approved by the Museum of Modern Art, which jointly controls the use of the property. By Noah Mallin French Architect Jean Nouvel has bagged this year’s Pritzker Prize, given out annually by a special jury to a living architect. Though he is [...]
An Appreciation by Noah Mallin Chrysler designer John Herlitz started with the company in 1964, just in time to experience the end of the Elwood Engel era and retired in 2000, just as the Tom Gale era was coming to a close. Though he didn’t extend a reach as deeply and publicly known as the [...]
Report by Noah Mallin Mercedes-Benz Head of Design Peter Pfeiffer will retire this year, after having been head of design since 1978. During that time he has overseen a huge expansion in Mercedes model line-up, from the tiny A-Class on the small end to the sport utilities, crossovers, and minivans on the larger scale. Through [...]
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