Whatever is innovative, makes a product useful, aesthetic, makes a product understandable, unobtrusive, honest, long lasting, thorough down to the last detail, environmentally friendly, as little design as possible ….that is GOOD design. — Dieter Ram’s 10 principles The designs of cars tell us much, about the designer, the market, the culture, the aspirations of… Read more

Defending an icon ? What do we see in the new LandRover Defender? Lot’s of trademark McG-isms …random grilles; chunky metallic-look front and rear vallance plates; even bigger pens used to define edges; headlights that look like they can see round corners from their massive chamfers. And a few new touches like that blanked-out side… Read more