Maybe he has run out of novel ideas or maybe this is a novel idea to get new perspectives on what the future would look like, either way legendary former BMW chief designer, Chris Bangle has come up with a novel, in three parts about the future of car designs.
I remember him explaining that we would only understand the new BMW design after we have seen all the vehicles he had in mind and it certainly took that long for many people to understand his style. In the end he did not stick around in Munich.
This novel is part of his work at Chris Bangle Associates, a design firm based in Italy and you can download the text of the novel at www.chrisbangleassociates.com.
In the novel, Bangle highlighted certain future transportation concepts and he asks design students to come up with illustrations to accompany the descriptions in the novel and the winning designs will be featured in an e-book he plans to publish.
The concepts are interesting on their own, for example;
Cvar- a combination of the words car and avatar and it is essentially a sort of transport butler that puts together temporary vehicles for the owner's use, for example if you need to get to a meeting then the cvar would put together a sort of taxicube (another concept) with the necessary power source or wheelbats ( a self-powered wheel concept that bolts onto vehicle bodies, or something like that), if you need to move heavy items from the DIY shop then the Cvar would put together a pick-up type of vehicle and work out how much power is needed to move everything home.
The winner will also get to visit CBA in Italy.
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