Tag: jaguar
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#DesignTop5 4-door saloons
Thanks to a car designer named Matteo Licata I wanted to expand on another Twitter discussion. At this link Matteo complied a nice write up of his Top 5 saloon cars (with 4 doors). Since the first day I saw the Rover SD1 that my father bought from our neighbour (in 1987?) I have always preferred…
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CX-5 + 12 = C-X17 (pt2)
Rear view… comparison of Jaguar and Mazda design language for their crossover vehicle designs. Both look great, but so similar…
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CX-5 + 12 = C-X17
Comparison of just how close the Jaguar and Mazda design language has become recently… (both look great in my opinion).
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the car industries coolest brand…?
I received this email from our co-blogger here, regarding a design talk given some months ago by current head of Advanced Design at Jaguar, Julian Thompson. It relates to the CX-17 crossover concept, and also gives us clues to the deep rooted changes in Jaguar management that have enabled the design-led (Apple like?!) resurgence of…
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throw away your sketches
Great video here of Jaguar designer Wayne Burgess showing how much designers “store” that image of the car they’ve just spent 2 or 3 years designing! The lesson here my friends comes at the end of the video (no spoilers!). Learn not to be precious about your work… something young artists find hard at first.…
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right, wrong and french- the future of the electric car
A glimpse of the future right now in 2011, are the new wave of electric or hybrid cars. Like the late great Steve Jobs achieved with the iPad, the car manufacturers of this world are attempting to move our vehicles from one age to the next. Where Jobs has moved us from the PC age,…
thoughts on automotive design 