Showing posts with label Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Design. Show all posts
Park your car like James Bond
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
For some people parking their car is a big issue. Some of them want to keep them inside their garage, some of them park them far away from their house just to feel safe. And some of them do not wish to show their car to others! Lastly, if you have limited area in your house, car is consuming unnecessary place. Or some people want to park their car in a style. Parking a car in stylish way??!! It does sound weird but it is now possible by German company Wörth!Imagine you have just bought your Aston Martin DBS and would you park like a Honda Civic, leave it next to side walk, of course not, when you are driving the same with James Bond! If you could afford to buy DBS, it is quite clear that you would have a very nice house. So, the problem is how park your DBS like James Bond.
As you could see from the picture, there is no car. Actually, there are plenty of cars parked in this area but we cannot see them! No, they don't have any military style camouflage. The surface this area is the top of the parking place. The cars are parked under the surface of this place and there is no visible entrance. Actually the whole area is equipped with invisible garages.
When you arrive to your house or this house, you just get out from your car and push the button to raise the parking place. Then drive through the parking place and push the button to disappear the parking space. It is a basic elevator for parking your car. Very effective, smart design and does not ruin the view or you suffer to park your car ;)There is no stylish way to park your car :)
For more detail please click to this link. Invisible GaragePictures are from;
Aston Martin
Wörth
Chau Har Lee, worth to look !
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Every month I am reading many different magazines to find subject to relate with car :) It is sometimes quite hard but sometimes happens suddenly! This month's Wallpaper magazine had something very interesting. Wallpaper is a design magazine, in some issues BMW was starring with Bangle's interestingly designed car! Prize winner of Manolo Blahnik Competition by Chau Har Lee. When I saw her exquisite design of high heels, I wanted to check her website to see her other projects. I was trying to find something to relate with car :) However, what I have found was very interesting shoes design. As a car addicted person, it remained me something very unusual! Front of the shoes look very familiar to radiator grills. I am pretty sure that, except me nobody has ever thought like this. Just show me the only the front of this shoes and don't mention about anything, I would guess it is a contemporary design concept may be influence by radiator grills.
Of course, my perception to design is not very good. Focusing on cars for long years, made me to perceive every kind of object like a part of a car! From ladies approach, Chau's design will be loved! It is very obvious that, they would not associate shoes and car radiator like me but if Chau's design caught a man's attention and pursued to look for her other designs. Ladies would run after ;) Porsche Design is offering driver shoes for men, I think Chau can offer driver shoes for women ! Ladies are not driving addictive but there are many of them are driving ;)
iF Design Awards. Hoppss that's BMW X3 !?!
Thursday, January 7, 2010
iF Design is located in Hanover, Germany. And every year in different categories they give award to product's design. This award is an important advertisement tool to increase competition among your competitors. And also it is a respected award. In general, if you receive this award, you product and your brand shifts to a different level. Being awared by iF is proof of your quality in design, production and quality; those are the most important thing for a brand.However, there are some interesting awards which caught my attention and I would like to share with you.
Let's start from 2009;
"The side wall is because of its serrated surface and the big smooth lettering best possible readable. In a “service-label” all important informations, like tire size, segment and application icon, are combined."
From 2008;
BW 154 AP Heavy tandem roller, I have never heard for this brand but we all know this machine. And I am pretty sure that, none of us had emerged emotional relationship with this thing :) I really don't know what is different from other heavy tandem rollers but gave award :)
And let's jump to 2004;
They have awared BMW X3. Yes, X3 you didn't read wrong or there is no typing miskake! iF is awarding to really nicely designed products. The previous ones, I mentioned even though they are interesting products I am pretty sure that, there is significant design difference to be awarded. But come on! This is X3, the car nobody likes it, even the owners don't like it. They bought it because it was BMW. Also we could see that, iF wrote lots of comments about every product but they did not write anything. No comment !The Highest Lamborghini
I am sure that some of you think that, this article is about Lamborghini's new SUV or it is about the first sport SUV LM002. As the LM002 is the first sport SUV, Lamborghini likes to introduce new products to market. And until now, LM002 was the tallest Lamborghini ;)
Today while I was searching for Porsche Design shoes, I found out something very interesting! Lamborghini High Heels with carbon fibre heels. These shoes look like, Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera is exposed to radiation and turned into shoes. As you could see from the picture, they look same as Gallardo. And hopefully they are concept, this means you cannot buy them from stores. I am pretty sure that some ladies are sad with this news :)From a different perspective; these shoes are reflecting Lamborghini design very accurately. But, from the other perspective (womens' side), I have never met a woman who want to buy a Lamborghini High Heels! Properly there is no women exist who want to buy them. If they produce these shoes, most probably it will cost fortune and ladies could find better brands with better looking shoes with less handling :)
So, we could say that if you want to design a product to women; try to avoid carbon fibre and cars ;)
Superleggera means, super light. I am pretty sure that shoes are very light with their carbon fibre heels!
Important notice: My friend Gulgun liked this shoes and she told that "she could buy them". So there is a demand Lamborghin, go produce it :)
Pictures are from;
Lamborghini Website
Luxist.com
Wikipedia.org
Wikipedia.org
Contemporary art in navigation holder design: Fiat Punto EVO
Monday, December 28, 2009Nowadays we read lots of news from Italy and we watch MediaSet. However there are some other thing happened!
Fiat Punto EVO is the new product in Fiat range. I didn't have the chance to try the new multi air engine or experience with its driving characteristics. However one caught my attention, the TOMTOM navigation on the centre. I don't have any problem with TOMTOM, I also own one. But this one inside the EVO is piece of art.
As you could see the picture below, one Italian designer forget that, there would be navigation inside the car. And as soon as he may be she remembered this, immediately put the navigation with the worst design elegance. What is the column under the navigation? You are Italian car company, not Asian. You suppose design every bit with passion. However they ran out of passion as you can see. If the rest of the car was rubbish, I wouldn't mind to write here. The rest is great, navigation is piece of art. I am pretty sure, that upcoming navigation will disappear and they will find a different way to put navigation with more style.
And here is the impression when they realized it;
"quello che è successo alla navigazione"
VW Touareg did something similar to this. When they first revealed the Touareg, the place to put your mobile was ten centimetres away from your eyes. They vergessen sorry forget to find a place for mobile and they just put it on somewhere. Later, they marvellous mobile phone holder disappeared.
And what is that picture in aircraft carrier with helicopter? You are not selling Hummer! The impression, when you buy Fiat Punto EVO, you will feel like in aircraft carrier?! Take pictures in Como Lake with girls from MediaSet ;)
Today, Tomorrow, Cheaper, Toyota
Wednesday, December 23, 2009I am not a great fan of Toyota, actually I would never buy one but their cars reliable, problem free and doesn't have soul. Design and interior quality of Toyota is always problem, their design has never been competitive like European brands and their ergonomic, plastic quality is always lower than Germans. Therefore I could not like any Toyota.
Now they have announced that, Toyota is pressing suppliers to reduce their prices up to %30. Guess, what would happen? The quality which I don't like in Toyotas will be worse. Toyota must increase the interior quality, they don't have problem with reliability but they should not sacrifices any other quality. Okay, they could not make profit after 60 years, just couple of years bear the loss and increase quality.
Unless, Toyota will never be a real competitors of Germans and customers of German brands will not prefer Toyota.
Porsche Design Kitchen P7340
Tuesday, December 22, 2009Exactly true, Porsche Design offers a full kitchen which you could find it with this model number P7340.
As you know that; Porsche Design offers different types of goods which are reflecting Porsche Design culture and all of them are piece of art.
But this kitchen won't end up very nicely at home. P7340 will be the number married couples won't ever forget it !!! Husband orders a P7340 and forgets to ask his wife about this decision (I don't think this is possible) and when the P7340 arrives at home his wife's expression will be more unexpected than the kitchen. Probably, P7340 might cause some "small" problems which could forward a married couple to lawyer for divorce. This is the worst scenario! I hope it will never happen.
However if you wish to have something with Porsche Design label, just buy Porsche Design kettle. It will be less painful :)
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