Friday 13th September 2002

Design Students - all mad?

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[danger mouse]

I was going to read the article, but I'm a v.busy mouse, what with skirting boards and telephone cables to chow-down on.

So instead uninformed comment will have to be the way forward.

As I am not a design student...anymore...so I couldn't vouch for the current level of saninty amongst the current student population, but this looks about on-par with the stuff the high concept guys were churning out in the last couple of years, What d'you reckon prelude4ws?

As a form its pretty slick,sexy even. Don't like the forward leaning 'prow', could be nasty in collision with a pedestrian (sadly this is the way see things...), and I'd put money on the guy not having any idea what suspension the thing runs or whether the driver would be able to see traffic lights on an over head gantrey.

Wet blanket I know and sweepingly generalisational(?), but real design has to live in the REAL world.

Mouse.

>>> Edited by danger mouse on Friday 13th September 14:37

[tekta]

Yes, it should live in the real world, but as the brief said it is for the year 2050, so the guy can say stuff like 'the metal will just float over bumps'! Problem solved, simple as that! Must be a BA..

Would make a nice boat though.

[shadowninja]

good grief... another naff car design

irrespective of whether it would work in the real world or not it looks daft! I rarely seem to see cars designed by students that actually look nice. *sigh*

as tekta said... looks like a boat. and not even a nice boat. a messy random assortment of long and short lines.

i admit i'm no designer but I know I can spot something that looks good... or bad. and besides when it comes down to it, a designer should be designing something that people want to buy. i wouldn't buy that thing.

[Size Nine Elm]

Looks like a cross between a PT Cruiser and Pepe Le Pieu.

[danger mouse]

Tekta.
Good point well presented, as I said before, uniformed.

...just one thing though, its just a guess, but if the metals flows around the pedestrian, what happens when he/she meets the passengers.

Ouch, stinger!

[tekta]

Can you see me? How do you know I'm wearing a uniform?!?

[Beast]

Isn't that Bangle's latest Z-something rendition - available from a weeping BMW-sales desk mid 2003 ?

If not, then someone's copying the ar$e.

[danger mouse]

Really is time TED got some kind'a spellchekcer on this forum!

Aren't you more worried that I knew you just taken it off?

[Captain muppet]

quote:
...the brief said it is for the year 2050...

So why does it still have wheels?

[Venom]

Not being a car designer either, but if you took the wheels off wouldn't that make it a boat, especially given the design

In fact, from where i'm sitting, it reminds me of those WW2 road/aquatic people carriers (somebody help me out and remind me of the correct name please?)

[kevinday]

quote:
Not being a car designer either, but if you took the wheels off wouldn't that make it a boat, especially given the design

In fact, from where i'm sitting, it reminds me of those WW2 road/aquatic people carriers (somebody help me out and remind me of the correct name please?)

American one was a DUKW, German one was a 'pre-production' VW Beetle

[danger mouse]

...a pre-porduction beetle, designed an engineered by a certain Dr Porsche (just like the VW, as I'm sure all will know) and a notable Dr Piech.

It was called the Iltis and had a full time 4x4 drivetrain using concentric driveshafts, that was evolved very little (except that it was rotated through 180 degrees along the length of the car) when Dr Piech bolted it under the floor of the Audi 90, to produce the first of the legendary quattro liniage.

Thank you Venom, you may not be, but I am


Mouse.