“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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This is gonna start off all esoterically autobiographical, here, so bear with me.

In May 1998, in a bookstore in Maryland, the day before a 128-mile bike ride, I started reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.  Which was, as it turned out, a pretty big deal for me.

What does this have to do with car design?

Well, this.

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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… [..]

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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