Top 10 Wild and Wonderful European Cars We Want in the US
Ah yes, the eternal favorite: cars we long for, but are kept from the U.S. market by bureaucrats, executives, or marketing people. A lot of models, unfortunately, simply don't resonate here in the States; they include expensive minicars, sleek station-wagons and, that darling of auto journalists, so many torque-rich diesels.
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Why You Need Design
“Design is the rendering of intent.” When the intent isn’t clear, the project stakeholders can’t agree on goals, or two founders veer in two directions to take their company, no amount of design can solve that situation. Design doesn’t work if you don’t know your intent. Otherwise, you’ll find yourself in the land of mullets, half-cafs, cran-grape drinks, platypuses and El Caminos. (Granted, platypuses are pretty cool. But they’re filled with poison.)
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Tony Hawk Tests the Limit of Paper
with a Cardboard
Skateboard
It’s no secret that cardboard is among one of the most effective materials for building prototypes, yet the material rarely ever moves past prototyping stage for obvious reasons. Ernest Packaging, a nationwide custom packaging solution company that was started out of a Los Angeles garage in 1946, has been spending the past year pushing the limits of what’s possible with cardboard as a part of their Cardboard Chaos series.
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Why Cars Went from Boxy to Curvy
This under-appreciated transformation is probably the most distinct design change to come to cars over the past half-century, and for most US cars, it happened within just a few years, starting in 1986. You can even pinpoint the exact year curves arrived for some models.
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6 Predictions That Will Change Design As We Know It
As companies and organizations around the world look for ways to solve a seemingly endless number of problems, we’re seeing unprecedented attention to design, and to designers, to provide solutions. Creative techniques in design thinking are being adopted by people in fields that never previously considered design or creative thinking.