Art Center president controversy: game over!

Richard Koshalek is not longer the Art Center College of Design President, he steps down after the long and stressing controversy he faced up with the school students and part of school stuff and faculty.

Press Release
September 2008

Richard Koshalek has stepped down as president of Art Center College of Design, where he became a lame duck in June after trustees of the elite Pasadena school refused his request for a four-year contract extension. They also suspended fundraising and development for an expansion program Koshalek had championed, including a $50-million Frank Gehry-designed high-tech design center and library.

Art Center's board announced that it had reached an agreement with Koshalek to let him depart now instead of ...please click the link below to continue reading full Press Release.

http://www.designtaxi.com/news.jsp?id=21196

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Photoshop quick car sketch tutorial by Giacomo Barbero

This tutorial shows a technique for creating a sketch in Photoshop very quickly (max 15 minutes) and includes some general tips about digital sketching in Photoshop. The author is Giangiacomo Barbero, an Italian designer graduated at...continue clicking at:
http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Quick-car-sketch-tutorial/16201 and discover all the tutorial steps.

Info and images via: www.carbodydesign.com and www.tutorialized.com

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I did this quick sketch when I was still hoping that I will have time to realize an entry for the London Bus Competition ...

Design freelancing and client portfolio

Some days ago I received an email from a freelance designer who contacted me for some advices concerning the hard economical period in Italy. His problem is loss of income due to poor client demand. This is a classic when the economy goes bad, all small business soffer because their clients start saving money cutting their budgets.

In Design it is the same thing, who has a freelance job has to be prepared to these periods of hard time and it comes with experience, but how?

The answear is : diversify your client portfolio, just like the funny drawing here at our left.

I tried to help the freelance designer, that wrote to me, trying to explaine the importance of diversification, the concept is: if I loose here I can still gain there", my income is more protected and I can be more flexible, too.

In conclusion I would like also to keep your attention on networking, it is very important for everybody to have a good professional network. For a freelance designer it is vital! It is the combination of diversified client portfolio and networking that can help a lot who is going through a difficult time.

Good luck!

Image Via: www.cartoonstock.com

Rally Fighter GT

Classic FR proportions this time ...

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Design Tunes Up Altec Lansing

Darrin Caddes has his work cut out for him. In the dimly lit backroom of a ritzy Manhattan hotel, a dozen or so gadget bloggers and technology writers have gathered to meet with Caddes, vice-president for corporate design at headset maker Plantronics (PLT).

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News and photo Via: www.Businessweek.com

BMW E21 Cartoon

First series with chrome mirrors and thick green tinted windows. Notice the yellow headlights, its a french model. 2007.

BMW M10

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MINI Crossover Concept sketches

At the next Paris Auto-show you will see the MINI Crossover Concept model, in this post I do not want to talk about its Design simply because I am more interested in its color sketches techniques used with great talent by MINI designers.

So look carefully how the talented and professional MINI designer used his ability in preparing the work to obtain such high quality result.

I would like to signal to you 3 key elements that contribute to this quality, and they are:

1. the perfect control of perspective

2. the good balance of gray scale applied colors with the warm and cool sides

3. the dramatic effect given by the use of "chiaro/scuro" technique, the depth of the sketches is given by the balance between the clear and dark areas

Naturally I could add other stuff like: the good outline work, the depth of the outline, the detailing, the good use of composition on page at so on...but we will do this together next time.

Now for those that want to reach this quality just try to copy those sketches! Try untill you get tired, you'll see the difference later...

Good luck!

Images via: www.carbodydesign.com

LM Rally Fighter

I wanted to do a sketchover for the LM process since a while, just been busy with school and stuff, but now with some + motivation I took my time ... Feedback welcomed as always.

Car rendering tutorial example in Photoshop

This tutorial shows how to quickly render a car in Photoshop with a marker rendering style. The author is Pankaj Dhamane, Senior Designer at Maruti Suzuki India. Click and watch!

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Tutorial Via: www.carbodydesign.com

Lada

I did this for a friend of mine. He has a drift spec Lada 2107 and wants some kind of body kit for it. So this is my first go.

Wired magazine photographic contest results.

These great photos are two of eleven pictures that won a photographic contest on Wired magazine.



"Pay phones Red wall" by Kevin B.

"Eye of a Tokay Gecko" by Alain M.

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A new direction ...

This blog in a special post!

Hi friends,

looking around on the net I discovered that Victor Uribe on his blog dedicated a very special post on this blog.

I thank Uribe a lot and invite you to check out his blog where you will find the post dedicated to my blog. http://victoruribedesign.blogspot.com/2008/09/my-friend-luciano.html

Ciao Uribe and keep up the good work!

Photo Via www.victoruribedesign.blogspot.com

To get a job start from a good CV

Hi friends, today I would like to write a small note about C.V. and its organization. Recently I have received some CVs via mail at work and I could not resist to their poor quality. So I decided to write few things in order to explaine the importance of a CV.

First of all the CV is a part of you going outside of your room, home, office...so it is very important to do it well respecting few simple rules.

1. Use a simple editorial design , in other words make it look simple

2. Do not use your photo, if you are looking for a designer job position you do not need to send us a photo because we are not a model agency and those photos never look good anyway.

3. Organize well the type of infos and their order like: personal, education, work experience, awards, particular skills list, annexes (certificates, toeic test ...)

4. Look at the dates putting always "from - to"

5. Check out spelling and grammar mistakes (always!)Now if you follow these simple rules you should have done correctly already 80% of the job.

Remember that when we receive your CV we want to know: who you are, your age, your most recent school and type of diploma, how many laguages you speak, stage internships done, know if you use computer and digital materials other then just sketching and illustrations.

That is it! Alé go to work now...

Image Via www.recruteuretcandidat.log.rhonealpesjob.com

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The exterior design - GM TV

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Car Design process from sketches to production.

Hi friends,

in this video a good example of what is a car design processus.