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February 2012, 05







every sunday we choose a topic from the vast archive of designboom,
today: automotive curiosity
superbowl commercial for chevy sonic
published 02.04.12

OK Go, champion skateboarder rob dyrdek, and millions of online watchers interact with the 'chevy sonic'
in this year's superbowl commercial, which documents the car's first skydive, first music video, first kickflip, and first bungee jump.

jenny db
hiriko collapsible electric city car
published 01.26.12

'hiriko', the commercial version of MIT media lab's 'citycar' concept, features no doors and a distributed engine system that together permit the already compact vehicle to fold up when parked.

jenny db
volkswagen parking lot towers at autostadt
published 01.24.12

take a look inside the two towering silos at volkswagen's autostadt production and touring facility in germany, each housing hundreds of cars waiting to be picked up by customers.

jenny db
dock + go concept for electric cars
published 12.08.11

designed by rinspeed, the 'dock+go' concept is a detachable third axel that offers additional, task-specific storage space for small electric vehicles: a heated food delivery pack, toolbox component, or additional energy reserves.

jenny db
2013 ford mustang features projection lamp
published 12.08.11

activated by unlocking the car, a small lamp embedded under the vehicle's side mirror projects the image of a galloping horse onto the ground below.

jenny db
tokyo motor show - kobot mini-cars
published 12.02.11

kowa tmsuk exhibits three ultra-compact electric vehicle concepts for cities, featuring extremely tight turning radii and a telescoping design that saves even more space when the devices are parked.

jenny db
tokyo motor show - toyota fun-vii concept
published 11.29.11

described by toyota as 'a smartphone on wheels', the concept vehicle features an exterior and interior composed almost entirely of touchscreens, offering realtime customization of the car's appearance as well as an interface for data access and display.

jenny db
fanwagen facebook car by volkswagen
published 11.23.11

volkswagen the netherlands converts the iconic 'T1' bus into a one-off facebook-themed vehicle, complete with 'wall', 'poke' button, and 'relationship status', as well as a realtime news feed printer.

jenny db
LA auto show - hollywood movie car design challenge
published 11.08.11

honda, mercedes-benz, smart car, subaru, hyundai, and maybach car companies design concept vehicles and film plots to compete for the title of 'hollywood's hottest new movie car'.

jenny db
kenneth cobonpue: phoenix bamboo concept car
published 10.19.11

organic materials such as bamboo and rattan are handwoven into a modern, yet natural automobile. 
bora db
electric dolorean goes back to the future
published 10.18.11

an all-electric version of the iconic vehicle is planned for commerical production in 2013.

jenny db
luigi colani: aerodynamic race cars
published 10.03.11

the conceptual and realized car designs of the swiss-italian '3D philospher and scientific reality artist', are presented in a 1,500m² outdoor space at the triennale bovisa, milan.

anita db
olaf mooij: braincar
published 08.10.11

by day, the 'braincar' captures and stores images and video as it drives, while by night, the footage is projected from within the brain sculpture into remixed videos, as though they were the vehicle's dreams about its day.

jenny db
ferrari factory tour: design
published 08.09.11

designboom tours the ferrari car factories in maranello italy, giving you an inside look at the facilities where every ferrari in the world is hand-assembled. the last of three, this article looks at the design process of each custom vehicle.
anita db
ferrari factory tour: mechanical workshop
published 08.05.11

designboom tours the ferrari car factories in maranello italy, giving you in this article an inside look at the mechanical workshop where motor components are produced.

anita db
ferrari factory tour: assembly line
published 08.01.11

designboom tours the ferrari car factories in maranello italy, giving you an inside look at the facilities where every ferrari in the world is hand-assembled. the first of three, this article looks at the 'new assembly line'.

anita db
custom art cars: art in the streets at MOCA, los angeles
published 07.07.11

the LA MOCA's current street art exhibition features several customized cars as sculpture: kenny scharf, keith haring and mister cartoon contribute different takes on the concept of the classic street art car.

joyce db
hoverbike prototype
published 06.10.11

the prototype vehicle operates like a motorcycle but is predicted to be able to fly up to 10,000 feet in the air and travel at speeds up to 150 knots (173mph, or 278km/h).

jenny db
floating ice cream truck
published 06.02.11

the 'HMS flake 99', the world's first land-and-water ice cream truck, begins touring the UK in celebration of national ice cream week and to revitalize the tradition of ice cream vans.

jenny db
stphane couturier: melting point
published 05.02.11

at once wildly energetic and turbulent, the series consists of large-scale multiply-exposed colour negatives that were taken in a high-tech toyota factory in france.

erica db
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