Top Gear did a fitting tribute to Saab’s demise, complete with VHS footage, Clarkson’s huge hair, and music they apologized for.

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Image credits: Wallace Kirkland, Time Life

Life Magazine’s online photo collections frequently turn up forgotten gems.  Images that are as informative as they are engaging.  Here are some amazing renderings from an industrial design show in 1944.  You can almost hear the hiss of the airbrush… [..]

“I wanted to get below the surface and demythologize the process.”

-Bill Porter, on the touring show he helped curate and oraganize, called Designing an Icon, Creativity and the American Automobile.
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With Chrysler returning the Dart name to production on the Alfa-based 2013 Dodge compact sedan, I started to wonder where the Dart name originated. What I found is nothing short of a rare peek into interesting local, retro designer folklore. [..]