Month: March 2009

2009 Nissan 370Z | Design Dissected

March 13, 2009By D

5 point list for the original Z car

1.) A coupe design for safety and comfort.
2.) A style that would set it apart from other coupes.
3.) A design that allowed part sharing for lower development costs.
4.) An innovative use of design and technology.
5.) It had to be functional and fast.

“The outgoing 350Z was a great attempt to rebirth these original design philosophies… it appears Nissan’s attempted to combat this, shortening the 370Z significantly and returning it to the 99-inch wheelbase, long regarded as the “perfect” sports car wheelbase. This cut in length translates into a lighter, more taught Z; the added horsepower doesn’t hurt either. Katayama would be proud.”

FULL ARTICLE >> 2009 Nissan 370Z Design Dissected

video interview – with canadian car designer, responsible for the actual design of the new 370z – via autonet.ca

corvette stingray is back | aka sideswipe in transformers – revenge of the fallen

March 12, 2009By Mihnea

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For now, it remains in concept-land … Lets hope so GM will go to production with this concept, because this one is definitely a car that deserves attention. With this new design, the GM crew took it back to basics. Heavily inspired on the original, this is one sizzling design.

with this said… on to the pics.

“For now, though, the show car’s purpose in life is to celebrate 100 years of motoring history at GM, and of course, fight evil as “Sideswipe” in Revenge of the Fallen. As always, reception will be an important factor in production consideration.”

Corvette Stingray Concept Revealed

via: leftlanenews

12 Unexpected Examples Of Car Part Prostitution

March 9, 2009By D

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It’s fairly common knowledge that a $100,000 Corvette ZR1 shares much of its steering wheel with a $20,000 Chevy Cobalt. You can also find a VW key fob swabbed with leather when you ignite the W16 in a Bugatti Veyron, but we wanted to know more. Our friends at The Car Lounge helped a great deal by showing us some of the lesser known “common parts” between the cars below and their more exotic and luxurious brethren.

– – – 12 Unexpected Examples Of Car Part Prostitution

via: jalopnik.com

2010 VW Polo Hatchback unveiled in Geneva

March 9, 2009By Mihnea

“Volkswagen has revealed its next-generation Polo hatchback, which will be launched at the Geneva Motor Show this week. The 2010 model will enter production in June, according to the automaker. Earlier this year, Volkswagen America CEO Stefan Jacoby indicated the Polo would be offered in the United States and Canada for the first time ever, starting with the redesigned 2010 model.”

>> link to full LEFT LANE NEWS article

the secret language in product design | gray holland

March 8, 2009By D
a periodic table of form | by gray holand
a periodic table of form

:: the secret language of surface in product design | by gray holland

What Surface Continuity is Quietly Telling Us

“Now here’s the rub: How many of these are appropriately utilizing the form language of utility and how many are not? How many are tangentially sculpted because of the tools of creation (tangent-restricted solid modeling software)? How many are consciously designed to produce a relevant user experience? The DeWalt drill of course is right on the mark, the Emeco Navy Chair absolutely shouts utility, and all of the Dyson vacuums are Tangent porn as far as I can tell–functional engineering taken to a styled perversity–but it is the hoards of cell phones, MP3 players, computers, and multitudes of consumer electronics that lack much distinction or differentiation from each other.”

idgrid server | upgrade

March 7, 2009By D

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Upgrading WordPress to v 2.7.1 …

… Unpacking the core update

… Verifying the unpacked files

… Installing the latest version

… Upgrading database

WordPress upgraded successfully.

idgid v3.0 | new features – part 1

March 6, 2009By D

TAGS

We can tag our posts. This will be very helpful when categorizing links. For general reference on the site. And for people looking for related material. The tag words will appear on the right side on our site.

SCHEDULED PUBLISHING

Also we can now schedule publishing. Lets say… one day you find a couple of cool links, and we want our site to stay fresh. Then you can save your daft and enter a time when those should be published. The server takes care of the rest…

IDGRID is W3C COMPLIANT
idgrid [dot] org passed the W3C Validation Test !
click here for what this means…

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