As the Roaring Twenties tripped over their own excesses and landed face-first in the Great Depression, car designers turned to Mae West for inspiration
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Automotive Design I: The Dawn of Mass Production One cannot think of antisemitism[1] mass production without thinking of Henry Ford. His introduction of the moving assembly line for the Model T in 1913 had a deep and everlasting impact on automotive design. Craftsmanship and customisation were shown the door to make room for a new age of
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Horseless Carriages? Electric Cars? The Early Days of Automobiles In days of old, when knights were bold… OK, that’s quite enough schoolboy humour for one day, but the point is we’re going back in time. Back to the days before constraints of mass production and standardised forms, back to the very first cars, the horseless
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The Power of Love: Why is Automotive Design so Interesting? Automotive design is more than the creation of a static piece of art, it’s more than the creation of a purely utilitarian device for moving people from place a to place b, it reflects culture, technology, politics, and aspirations. Let’s begin by looking at the
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Car Design: An Introduction “Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel!” My very first car related memory is perhaps less than auspicious. As a young boy, I loved the thrill of driving, the speed, the racing lines, and the cardboard box in which I would
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