Masters Of Car Design

Author : Larry Edsall
Publisher : White Star Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 8854403377

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Masters of Car Design by Larry Edsall Pdf

Close to 400 photographs in this handsome volume capture the excitement of automotive history, spotlighting the most innovative and important car design and their manufacturers, include many famous American models. Illustrations and words combine to re-create the adventures of designing the legendary cars that evolved into today’s indispensable, stylish, and efficient automobile. From Ghia, Farina, Giugiaro, and Bertone to General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford, Masters of Car Design traces the evolution of car production, while spectacular archival and specially commissioned photographs showcase the cutting-edge designs that have earned these manufacturers a major place in automotive history. A superb gift for automotive enthusiasts, this book brings to life classic car models and their designers with fantastic photographs taken by famous car photographers.

Author : Tony Lewin
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780760362068

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Speed Read Car Design by Tony Lewin Pdf

This beautifully designed and illustrated essential guide to car design from Motorbooks' Speed Read series traces the inspirations of the first car designers and tracks the craft, the art, and the science that have propelled successive generations of designers and shaped the contours of the vehicles we see all around us. Never before has the car-buying public been more aware of how a car's design fits into their everyday lives and what it communicates about the driver behind the wheel. Like all design, car design is complex subject. Every part of a car represents myriad decisions by the design team ruled by engineering, aesthetics, human interface, and emotion. Speed Read Car Design helps the you understand the hows and whys of that design process, offering an engaging review of history, theory, key concepts, and key designers. It’s a book for car enthusiasts, design fans, and anyone with a desire to better understand why our wheeled world looks the way it does. In sections divided by topic, you'll explore the birth of car design, how it evolved over the last century, successes and failures in innovation, the elements that make up a car's style, the engineering behind the design, the creative process and design fads, and finally the road ahead in car design. Each section ends with a glossary of related terms, and informational sidebars provide fun facts, historical tidbits, and mini-bios of key people in car design. Sleek illustrations of the cars give clear design examples throughout. With Motorbooks’ Speed Read series, become an instant expert in a range of fast-moving subjects, from Formula 1 racing to the Tour de France. Accessible language, compartmentalized sections, fact-filled sidebars, glossaries of key terms, and event timelines deliver quick access to insider knowledge. Their brightly colored covers, modern design, pop art–inspired illustrations, and handy size make them perfect on-the-go reads.

Author : Paolo Tumminelli
Publisher : teNeues
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Design
ISBN : 3823845616

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Car Design by Paolo Tumminelli Pdf

With 400 pages, this reference work, published for the first time in this form, offers a comprehensive and informative look at the development of European, American and Japanense car design from 1947 to 2004. Past, present and future design trends are shown with examples of original photos from 370 series of vehicles and concept cars. A biographical overview of leading, international car designers is included. Book jacket.

Author : Bart Lenaerts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9082357216

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Small is Beautiful by Bart Lenaerts Pdf

Author : John A. Torres
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766094208

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Racing Soap Box Derby Stock Cars by John A. Torres Pdf

Can a person race a car without an engine? You sure can. With the help of gravity and unique car design, soap box derby stock car drivers get to experience the thrill of the race. In 1914, Charlie Chaplain's movie "The Kid Auto Races at Venice" exposed Americans to the sport of soap box derby racing. Kids began racing cars whenever they could. When a newspaper photographer organized a race in 1933, the sport really took off. Readers learn about the races, heroes, scandals, and intense competition in this sport for kids and teens. A glossary, color photographs, and fact boxes round out this exciting book.

Author : Jordan Meadows
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781134863822

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Vehicle Design by Jordan Meadows Pdf

Vehicle Design guides readers through the methods and processes designers use to create and develop some of the most stunning vehicles on the road. Written by Jordan Meadows, a designer who worked on the 2015 Ford Mustang, the book contains interviews with design directors at firms including Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Hyundai Motor Group, and Ford Motor Company, amongst other professionals. Case studies from Ford, Mazda, and Jeep illustrate the production process from research to execution with more than 245 color behind-the-scenes images in order to help readers create vehicles drivers will cherish.

Author : Tony Lewin,Ryan Borroff
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780760336953

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How to Design Cars Like a Pro by Tony Lewin,Ryan Borroff Pdf

This comprehensive new edition of How to Design Cars Like a Pro provides an in-depth look at modern automotive design. Interviews with leading automobile designers from Ford, BMW, GM Jaguar, Nissan and others, analyses of past and present trends, studies of individual models and concepts, and much more combine to reveal the fascinating mix of art and science that goes into creating automobiles. This book is a must-have for professional designers, as well as for automotive enthusiasts.

Author : Jonathan Bell
Publisher : Rotovision
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Automobile engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015056911202

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Concept Car Design by Jonathan Bell Pdf

Showing where car designers look for inspiration when envisioning cars of the future, and how they respond to the demands of the market, this title dissects the process of designing these imaginary flights of fancy from idea to realization.

Author : Larry Edsall
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-17
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780760340585

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Ferrari by Larry Edsall Pdf

Ferrari has been producing race and road cars for more than 60 years. In the distinctive “Ferrari Red,” legendary cars with names like Monza, Testa Rossa, and Daytona turn heads from Monaco to Japan and around the world.In Ferrari, 60 milestone vehicles from across the company’s history are profiled in detail, with a short history of the car, engine, and team, along with performance specs, trivia, and a detailed photo library. For any fan of Ferrari or performance cars in general, this is an enjoyable read full of valuable information and gorgeous color photos.

Author : Julian Happian-Smith
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780080523040

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Introduction to Modern Vehicle Design by Julian Happian-Smith Pdf

An Introduction to Modern Vehicle Design provides a thorough introduction to the many aspects of passenger car design in one volume. Starting with basic principles, the author builds up analysis procedures for all major aspects of vehicle and component design. Subjects of current interest to the motor industry, such as failure prevention, designing with modern materials, ergonomics and control systems are covered in detail, and the author concludes with a discussion on the future trends in automobile design. With contributions from both academics lecturing in motor vehicle engineering and those working in the industry, "An Introduction to Modern Vehicle Design" provides students with an excellent overview and background in the design of vehicles before they move on to specialised areas. Filling the niche between the more descriptive low level books and books which focus on specific areas of the design process, this unique volume is essential for all students of automotive engineering. Only book to cover the broad range of topics for automobile design and analysis procedures Each topic written by an expert with many years experience of the automotive industry

Author : Antonio Amado
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262015363

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Voiture Minimum by Antonio Amado Pdf

A colorful account of Le Corbusier's love affair with the automobile, his vision of the ideal vehicle, and his tireless promotion of a design that industry never embraced. Le Corbusier, who famously called a house “a machine for living,” was fascinated—even obsessed—by another kind of machine, the automobile. His writings were strewn with references to autos: “If houses were built industrially, mass-produced like chassis, an aesthetic would be formed with surprising precision,” he wrote in Toward an Architecture (1923). In his “white phase” of the twenties and thirties, he insisted that his buildings photographed with a modern automobile in the foreground. Le Corbusier moved beyond the theoretical in 1936, entering (with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret) an automobile design competition, submitting plans for “a minimalist vehicle for maximum functionality,” the Voiture Minimum. Despite Le Corbusier's energetic promotion of his design to several important automakers, the Voiture Minimum was never mass-produced. This book is the first to tell the full and true story of Le Corbusier's adventure in automobile design. Architect Antonio Amado describes the project in detail, linking it to Le Corbusier's architectural work, to Modernist utopian urban visions, and to the automobile design projects of other architects including Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright. He provides abundant images, including many pages of Le Corbusier's sketches and plans for the Voiture Minimum, and reprints Le Corbusier's letters seeking a manufacturer. Le Corbusier's design is often said to have been the inspiration for Volkswagen's enduringly popular Beetle; the architect himself implied as much, claiming that his design for the 1936 competition originated in 1928, before the Beetle. Amado Lorenzo, after extensive examination of archival and source materials, disproves this; the influence may have gone the other way. Although many critics considered the Voiture Minimum a footnote in Le Corbusier's career, Le Corbusier did not. This book, lavishly illustrated and exhaustively documented, restores Le Corbusier's automobile to the main text.

Author : Len Terry,Alan Baker
Publisher : Bentley Pub
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0837600804

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Racing Car Design and Development by Len Terry,Alan Baker Pdf

Dialogue between one of the world's most experienced racing car designers and a technical author-graduate engineer on the theory and technique of racing car design and development. Contents include: The anatomy of a racing car designer; biography of Len Terry; description of nearly 30 Terry designs from clubman's sports car to Indianapolis winner; a blank sheet of paper; handling characteristics; the theoretical aspects; oversteer and understeer; practical implications; structural considerations; space-frames and monocoques; the cockpit area; the structural engine; progress and legislation; suspension; changing needs and layouts; the torsion bar; self-levelling systems; anti-dive and anti-squat; progressive-rate springing; stiffness/weight ratio; brakes, wheels and tires; influence of smaller wheels; twin-disc brake systems; attention to details; low-profile tire phenomena; aerodynamics; wings and things; intake ram effect; ground effect vehicles; the cooling system; radiator location; cooling the oil; safety and comfort; primary and secondary safety; driver comfort; materials; components-ball joints, batteries, brakes, clutches, dampers, drive-shafts, electrics, flexible bearings, flexible fuel cells, gearshift linkages, instruments, non-return valves, non-spill fuel fillers, oil and fuel pipes, Perspex mouldings, radiators, springs and steering gear; design versus development; the competition-nine other racing car designers discussed; future developments.

Author : Brooke Hodge,Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Design
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023740199

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Retrofuturism by Brooke Hodge,Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) Pdf

The concept originator behind the New Beetle, J Mays is among the most influential designers in the history of the automobile. Mays's approach has revolutionized the industry by integrating branding and identity with the design process. Also at the foundation of his philosophy is a belief that the innovations of the past should inform future solutions. His cars intrigue us like no others because they respond to underlying emotional and cultural associations. This first book on Mays's work tracks his meteoric career from his start at Volkswagen-Audi to his current tenure at Ford, where he designs for eight lines (Ford, Mercury, Lincoln, Mazda, Volvo, Land Rover, Jaguar, and Aston Martin). Illustrated with more than eighty-five photographs, freehand sketches, and computer renderings, "Retrofuturism" reveals new ways of thinknig about design that have the potential to greatly change the way we live in the twenty-first century.

Author : C. Edson Armi
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : UOM:39076002370513

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American Car Design Now by C. Edson Armi Pdf

Looks at the creative process behind the design of more than thirty contemporary automobiles.

Author : Jan P. Norbye
Publisher : TAB/Electronics
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : PSU:000016649217

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Car Design by Jan P. Norbye Pdf