Book: Learning Curves by Allan Macdonald and Klara Sjölén

Learning Curves is a new book that shows step by step how to draw and make a car project, lots of images of different steps to follow in order to learn and improve our skills.

In 177 pages Scania Trucks senior designer Allan Macdonald and studio engineer Klara Sjölén go through all the aspects involved in design sketching, presenting a rich collection of information, tips and inspiration, alternated with explicative sketches from 60 designers working in different fields, from automotive design to product and fashion design.

Starting from basics of drawing to important tips about complex renderings, great illustrations to demonstrate in a real clear way how to do!

To see this book description with lots of images just click: Learning Curves review

Info via Carbodydesign.com

New Book IDRAWCARS by Marrocco and Hubers

Hi friends, thanks to Marco De Masi blog here a new book just published it is "IDRAWCARS" written by designers Adam Hubers & Matt Marrocco.
In this book you will find all sort of info about how to proportion a side view, how to draw a correct perspective, linework and lots more.

Adam Hubers, a designer at Chrysler and Matt Marrocco, an industrial designer and frequent core77 discussion forum poster, have been developing a book to help us to better understand how to translate these objects of desire onto the page. Contents include global automotive brands, global design schools, global auto show dates and locations, reference materials in both print and web format, commonly used proportions and packages, and 100+ pages of templates to practice with. (via core77)

Check out the book's site and pre-order HERE

Go faster by Sven Voelker

New book just came out it is "Go Faster" it is about graphic design on racing cars and is written by Sven Voelker.
This is an good book to have about a subject, car graphics, that is becoming very popular.

"DRIVE" - a book by Scott Robertson

Concept designer Scott Robertson has announced his upcoming book titled "DRIVE", featuring his latest vehicle designs and artworks. It will include more than 300 illustrations and will be published by Design Studio Press in November 2010.

Check out some of internal illustrated pages it is really a great book! Click: DRIVE illustrations. 




 

How to illustrate and design concept cars

This book written by Adrian Dewey is now available on Amazon.com.
This book provides an easy to follow guide on how to draw cars like the professional design studios.
Watch the video to discover the potential of this book and how it could be usefull to you. The book is perfect also for design school libraries.

Books: How to illustrate and Design concept cars

This book written by Adrian Dewey is now available on Amazon.com.
This book provides an easy to follow guide on how to draw cars like the professional design studios. Covers materials used from pencils to markers, airbrushes to computer generated drawings. The book features clear and concise step-by-step guides to drawing all external components of a car, and teaches how to render them in order to bring them to life. It also showcases work that demonstrates how these techniques produce great car art and design.

Design Sketching a book to have

This is a sketch technique book that has become a highly regarded resource for designers, students and Universities throughout the world.
Twenty-four talented students from the Umeå Institute of Design, one of Europe’s best design schools, have contributed to the diverse material in the book.
It is a unique collection of sketches representing a large number of different product designs.

The authors of the book are: Erik Olofsson and Klara Sjölen graduated in 2005 from the Institute of Design in Umeå in Sweden.

To buy the book please click Design Sketching

Source www.designsketching.com

Hot Rod Design by Future Elements

This beautiful monochromatic sketch has been done by celeb Future Elements, this art work is part of a book dedicated to Hot Rod Design. Its title is "The Hot Rod Art Book". For more info click Hot Rod Art Book

The car design book to have: H-Point

"H-Point - The Fundamentals of Car Design & Packaging" is a reference guide recently released by Curb Industries in cooperation with Design Studio Press and Art Center College of Design,... Very important for all transportation Design students!
I suggest you to buy it because the authors come from one of the best car design school on planet. This book shoud be also in any design school library.

Book: How to illustrate and design Concept Cars

This book written by Adrian Dewey is soon to come.

This book provides an easy to follow guide on how to draw cars like the professional design studios. Covers materials used from pencils to markers, airbrushes to computer generated drawings. The book features clear and concise step-by-step guides to drawing all external components of a car, and teaches how to render them in order to bring them to life. It also showcases work that demonstrates how these techniques produce great car art and design.

For more info visit "Veloce Publishing"

Source Veloce Publishing

H-Point: an automotive design reference guide

"H-Point - The Fundamentals of Car Design & Packaging" is a reference guide recently released by Curb Industries in cooperation with Design Studio Press and Art Center College of Design,... Very important for all transportation Design students!

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Project management in 12 steps a great book to read

HI friends,

today I would like to tell you about this book Project Management in 12 steps to which I gave a small contribution talking about opportunities to optimize a work planning in a car design project (page 143).

This book is well written and of easy understanding, it is a sort of manual for any type of manager and very appropiate to Design activities control, too.

It is full of real examples (like mine).
At the moment it is only in Italian language but soon it will be translated and published in English.

Where to buy it?

You can get it on-line or at bookstores in Italy, here a link with a "discount offer": http://www.lametodologiadei12step.com/

About the author

Based in Washington, DC, Antonello Bove is a Consultant for the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), the private investment arm of the Inter-American Development Bank. At IIC, Antonello is the leader of the Italian Development Program, a program designed to strengthen European ties with Latin America and the Caribbean; He spends his time between Italy, Latin America and the USA. The program is creating a network of enterprises and organizations that are involved in import, export, and FDI with the focus on providing finance for medium and long term investments. The program also helps develop strategic alliances with European organization such as Chambers of Commerce, Industrial Associations, International Organizations and Financial Institutions.

Antonello was previously CEO of Robur Corporation in Indiana, USA, a manufacturer and marketer of gas absorption air-conditioning technology for residential, commercial and industrial markets. At Robur he was CEO & General Manger (1997 - 2002), Executive VP & General Manager (1996 - 1997), Board Member & VP Financial Restructuring (1995). From 1990 to 1995, he was a Partner at Proginvest s.r.l. in Rome, Italy, an advisory firm providing financial planning services to the healthcare and manufacturing industries. During 1988 - 1990, he was a Business development & government affairs manager at Iniziativa S.p.A, (Milan-Rome, Italy) today Ernst & Young

Info Via: http://www.pmforum.org/


I suggest to buy it, naturally fot italians and those that read and speak the italian language.

I'll let you know as soon as it will be delivered in English.