Automobile is Art by Chris Bangle

Some time ago Chris Bangle, ex BMW Design director, gave a conference about car design philosophy and the Art of automobile world.
Follow this video because it helps to understand one of the few ways to treat the car design philosophy subject.

Via TED

How to draw with good proportions

How to draw with good proportions a car? Many times I write about drawing with good proportions because it is the first thing to have on a car sketch or illustration. When we see our favourites car designs (it does not matter if sports or city utilitarian cars) we like how their volume stands on the four wheels (how the car sits on wheels). We like their proportions first. Ferrari, Lamborghinis , Fiat 500, BMW series 3 or 5 at so on have great proportions and this comes from our ability in drawing and sketching correctly, it is mainly part of our inner talent that makes us feel the good proportions by looking at our sketch and correcting it if necessary. Girogetto Giugiaro the famous italian car designer father of most successful designs of 80s and 90s is known as the father of good proportions on cars (check the first VW Golf, the Fiat Panda...).
Today I have chosen this great figure drawing done my Guno Park to tell you that when we go to design school (like Art Center College in Pasadena or AFAD University in Bratislava...) we start from art classes like figure drawing or life drawing tu study body proportions which is the most complex shape and volume to draw.
It is a matter of excercise, structural drawing and hand/arm movement. The same thing when we follow a Typeface lettering class (which is mainly for Graphic Design courses), reproducing perfectly free hand a type face or creating a new one is a proportions work very hard to accomplish. We play with positive and negative spaces to get good proportions, the figure drawing and the type face lettering interact with space and relate to it. We, reproducing them, do the same thing on a white paper giving balance to all this.

A car shape and volume is exactly the same thing, the size of the wheels and the wheelbase will give us the feeling for a good front and rear over-hang and also how high the car should be. We do this just with a simple linework to see and judge the proportions we are giving to our car sketch. After, as second step, we start giving shadows to draw volumes and body sections modeling the sketch to our taste. The third step is about detailing and decoration (without doing it too much).

So my final suggestion for you is to explore (for those that at design school do not follow this method) other drawing domains such as life drawing, figure drawing , Grapgic Design to learn about proportions and improuve on your car sketching.

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City transportation by David Day Lee

David Day Lee is a transportation design student at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena USA.

I checked out his personal blog David Day Lee Design and I discovered a strong talent in creativity as well as in techniques, here two examples of David's design proposal for next city transportation systems.

Here, instead, one of his illustrations just to give you an idea of his skills and talent. Go visit his blog and see more.

How to get an internship in car design

Hi friends,

yesterday I have got an email from a design student asking me to write about how to get an internship in Car design.

It is a cool question to which it is not easy to answear, I'll try anyway according to my daily experience. Lets start saying that every car company has a method in selecting young talents, so what I am going to tell you is not a sort of universal way to do it. In general, where I work, we do receive by email or by traditional mail service portfolios and CVs with a presentation letter.
Those are the 3 important elements to have at a very high level, if I receive an internship request and the CV or motivation letter or (worst) the portfolio is not so good...well that is it, I stop having no interest to go on.

The CV
The CV must be good, very professional, precise without lies (we see them right away). The CV can have a nice editorial graphic same as your business card. The CV does not have to have your photo! For more info about CV read my article "To get a job start from a good CV"

The motivation or cover letter
The motivation letter is very important for some companies like french and american ones, it is a letter in which the candidate presents ...continue reading here

Car sketch side view tutorial by Jamie Seymour

Carbodydesign showed an image of a side view tutorial made by Jamie Seymour, I went to check the link and I found a very good side view sketch tutorial. Here two images to show you some steps followed by Jamie to explaine how to draw a good side view sketch of a car.

To discover the finished drawing click Jamie Seymour you will see all the steps to follow with a simple and well written explanation.

Do not miss it!

Via Carbodydesign a friend site

Citycar by Fabien Delval

Fabien Delval is a professional car designer and manager in automotive industry based in Lyon France. He has a blog full of his works and I decided to publish this citycar project proposal because it is very professionally done: good drawing basics like perspective - line work-proportions-body riflections-good details-great focal point on front left light area-cool design-credible creativity-good control of digital technique with no excess-good form language.

This is Fabien's description of his proposal "(2008) Just a little car to make a kind of blend between freshly introduced Tata Nano and Apple's simplicity values. In fact, this apparently inoffensive car hides a certain innovative potential, but this is another story... "

Check his portfolio clicking Waldezign's Area

EcoDesign ring by Linda Schailon

Linda Schailon designed this "eco ring" made of recyclable plastic straws, this is a brilliant idea because changing type of straws we can get millions of color and style combinations.
It is possible to buy this eco ring visiting the site www.lindaschailon.com/flow where you will find seven types of ring collections.

Designer Linda Schailon 2009 project Milan, Italy

Source Youngdesigner.it