Category Archives: Design

The beautifully handwritten, meticulously illustrated notebooks of author, artist and former aeronautical engineer José Naranja.

The mixed media journals, incorporating labels and postage stamps, document his ongoing, enviable globetrotting – each page themed around an experience or a thought he had while travelling through the area featured.

Isn’t it well for some?

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Behold: the Vision S Sedan – the first car from Sony. The Sony DriveMan, if you will.

Due to debut this week at CES2020 in Las Vegas, the all electric vehicle has (as you’d expect from the electronics giant) all manner of integrated tech including radar, LIDAR, ultrasonic sensors and a slew of entertainment systems.

Price as yet unannounced.

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Behold: the 1995 Ferrari F50 Berlinetta Prototipo – successor to the F40 and the showpiece of Ferrari’s F1 know-how in street legal form.

Twenty five years ago, this windswept, carbon fibre, 500bhp, 4.7-litre, V12 racer had a top speed of 325km/h, accelerating from 0-100km/h in 3.9 seconds.

349 were made but this was the first.

Fully documented and road tested by a succession of Ferrari drivers including Niki Lauda, it’s up for auction next month.

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Consider this moving shape created by game developer and artist Frank Force: winner of the 2019 contest for Best Illusion Of The Year.

Does it rotate around the vertical axis or the horizontal axis? Is it spinning clockwise or anticlockwise? What do you think?

No, you’re wrong. The answer, of course, is witchcraft. And that is why Frank must be burned at the stake without delay.

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Behold: the 1948 Ford Super Deluxe – the ‘woodie’ station wagon forerunner to the modern SUV.

The Super Deluxe was a 4-wheel drive update of the 1941 Ford made at Ford’s Iron Mountain plant in Michigan’s Upper Penninsula, then converted at the Indianapolis plant of the Marmon-Herrington company where it was retrimmed, braced and fitted with a four speed transmission.

This one, restored to Concours condition in 2016, is currently up for auction.

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Bassins de Lumières – a 13,000-square metre former German and Italian WW2 submarine base at Bordeaux – soon to be the world’s largest digital art centre.

In April 2020, French art events management company Culturespaces will open the huge facility to the public, hosting immersive exhibitions of classical and contemporary art on the walls and beneath the surface of four water filled basins.

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