Special Edition

Czech magazine Auto Design & Styling published an article about my success on this year's Auto Zeitung Design Trophy. You can read the story here.

Little preview:

"My next generation VW Touareg was done for the Auto Zeitung Design Trophy 2009. After reading the brief my first step was to take a look at the actual face-lifted Touareg. I tried to understand VW’s design language. Their proportions are always balanced, body is divided nicely and everything feels right. Some of their models (the first Touareg for instance) seem to be too neutral though, lack passion and expression. They are too diplomatic to me. I think that even in the business class there are some key elements that can be expressed through an automobile. So in the long run the Touareg was just too soft and way too sophisticated for me.

I started sketching ..."

The magazine is also hosting an international design contest called Allivision09 open to designers under 35.

VW

Just a break ...

VW Golf

The new SketchBook Pro is awesome. It has some great new features like symmetry axis, blur, sharpen, more flexible brush creation and the most important, rotate canvas. Unfortunately the latter one doesn't work for me.

Next Touareg

Got a second place with this one. Check out the top3 here.

Got a third place with the Trabant in the electric city car category.

BTW: Where have I been in the past few weeks? I started to rebuild my car, an old beemer. Okay, Im only in the disassemble stage, but it was a lot of fun getting my hands dirty and to detach myself from the desk. Will show a few shots later ...

VW Touareg

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VW Golf

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