TransA sketches

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Dacia

More coming soon ...

SF

Here's the brief if you got inspired and wish to participate in LM's San Francisco Shooting-Brake Competition.

TransAmerica

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It is summer time!

Dear friends,

it is time to take a couple of weeks off. It is time to relax after another year of work (Renault) design schools cooperation (IAAD Turin) writing articles (VirtualCar.it and Carbodydesign.com) and naturally feeding this blog.

Thank you for following me, you are always more and more. I wish you a great vacation, relax and have fun because from september many of you will start school...Ciao!

See you 1st of september.

Luciano

Marker sketch tutorial by Spencer Nugent

Hi friends, we always talk about car sketching and tutorials and it is normal because it is our main topic. However today I'll show you a very sane marker sketch tutorial realized by Spencer Nugent. The luggage color marker sketch. Spencer , on his site IDSketching.com, makes severa lwell organized tutorials for ID designers. I have chosen "the luggage marker sketch" because you can see all the steps without any problems of understandings, you will find an easy written description and also nice big color photos of the demo. So click Spencer Nugent and enjoy this tutorial!

More Frisco

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Renault

Less polished sketches of a Renault inspired by the R4.

Automotive Clay Model 1:1 scale

By Kolb Technology

Special Edition

Czech magazine Auto Design & Styling published an article about my success on this year's Auto Zeitung Design Trophy. You can read the story here.

Little preview:

"My next generation VW Touareg was done for the Auto Zeitung Design Trophy 2009. After reading the brief my first step was to take a look at the actual face-lifted Touareg. I tried to understand VW’s design language. Their proportions are always balanced, body is divided nicely and everything feels right. Some of their models (the first Touareg for instance) seem to be too neutral though, lack passion and expression. They are too diplomatic to me. I think that even in the business class there are some key elements that can be expressed through an automobile. So in the long run the Touareg was just too soft and way too sophisticated for me.

I started sketching ..."

The magazine is also hosting an international design contest called Allivision09 open to designers under 35.

LM TransAmerica

Ideation sketches for the upcoming LM San Francisco Competition.