Auto Design

Once upon a time, at the Geneva Motor Show there was the so called “Arab Quarter” where toner and luxury car-makers used to show shining cars that the rich Arab princes would buy without questioning the price.
That is past history today. The present looks much different and challenging, pointing to a time when car might also be built in the Arabic Peninsula rather than simply bought and driven. Read the rest of this entry »

 It is funny. I have received invitations for two “design” events in the past days. Both were very intriguing and I was positively curious about them. The trouble was that both events would take place on Friday the 12th of December at 6:30 PM in two different locations in Turin. This was a good reason to go back to the town that has been the capital of car design for the past 60 years and this year has played the role of “Turin World Design Capital 2008″. Read the rest of this entry »