Going to the AutoWeek Design Forum at the NAIS tomorrow...

[Delia]

I'm one of those designers (almost 40 years,) who has always wanted to design cars, but, well, circumstance never favored my getting into this elite groups of egomaniacs...

I've been to this event twice and got to meet Carl Cameron, the designer of the 1960's Dodge Challenger and Kip, the head of Cadillac's Design Team, and responsible for all those new styled knife-edged STS's and the Speevision Challenge racecars.

It's an all day-event and includes meals and a pass to the NAIS show. The later evening speaker is Guigaro fro Ital Design.

Anyone from here gonna be there??? Look for me and say "hi." I'm tall (5'10) and blonde.

Delia

...driving my E30 325is

[SteveJ]

I'd be curious to see what other designers have to say about the Bangle bimmers.

My theory is that he came up with these gawdawful designs after a heavy night of drinking with the design team. The underlying theme was, "Let's see all those Japanese designers copy 'this' crap!"

That way, once everybody else is tooled up to once again copy the BMW design, BMW will buck the trend and go in a totally different direction, as in designs we like again. By that time, all the other companies will be too deep into the design to make any changes, and after all their sales fall off because of crappy looking cars (that also handle like crap), they will be a little gun shy to once again copy BMW designs, thus leaving BMW free to design and build cars that their core base of enthusiast owners can be enthusiastic about.

Either that, or Bangle "likes" the designs.

[DavinSF]

Have a blast Delia.

I did a year of transportation design before switching back to Industrial and Graphic. Making a living drawing cars was such an outside shot that I gave up after just a short time. Gotta have dreams right..?

Have you seen those guys who are doing a new Lancia Stratos, by the way?

[f1reverb]

and just the stealth-fighter look from 1983 (yes, actual operations for the stealth wasn't until Panama in 1989 so at the minimum seventeen years old).

[auggiemize]

Wow...what fun. Guigaro.Really? I'm envious. I wrote a letter (with sketches, of course) to Enzo Ferrari when I was 12; 1967. I probably would have had better luck with Santa Claus. Never heard a thing. After three months, I decided that he was a jerk, and my then- favorite car in the whole world, the 330GTC, was placed in limbo, until I saw my first BMW 2800cs. Almost the same rear 1/3 as the GTC. Love recaptured. My first 2002 in '72. Second in 73. After 26 years absence, finally another 2002 last fall. And a 3.0cs last spring. Take that Enzo...

I now quietly, without much ego, design furniture. I think that Bangle, like many others is spending too much time looking at athletic shoes. There is a parallel...

[Delia]

See? It's not so bad designing furniture Auggie.

I teach Design Drawing here in Grand Rapids Michigan at the local Design School. They USED TO build furniture here, but now it's all down in your neck of the woods.

I just finished a narrow sofa table for a client- 15" x 91" x 2" -a solid flatsawn board - American Walnut. In order to preserve the board (i. e. no drilling, cleats or routing), I made a trestle base from 1" x 2" box steel tubing and 3" flat stock - powdercoated in multifleck. The walnut top rests comfortably in a cradle on top.

I gotta leave now.

Delia

and Orange Julius

'73 tii Inka

#2762756

BMW CCA #1974

2002 driver since 1972

[auggiemize]

Really...I went to Kendall (I assume thats the local school that you mean) back before its College statis. Did alot of research at the Eastown saloon, Yesterdog, etc. Are they still around? Other research included going to Grand Haven to watch the waterspouts come ashore during storm season,and going to the end of the runway at the airport to watch the Northern Lights (closest dark place with out city lights). And, of course, the noble sport of smelt "fishing". Presently sitting in a Herman Miller chair. Ah, the beautiful black soil of Zeeland.

My only current wood working project is trying to vacuum bag veneer new French walnut on the interior trim/dash of the 3.0cs, using a FoodSaver machine that I bought at WallyWorld.

Time to go back to the drawing board (literally). Have fun at the symposium, and tell the G-man howdy from Dave V.

76 taiga 2002

74 polaris 3.0cs

2X 72 chamonix 3.0cs rust ho's