SKYLARK in Munich

It finally happend! MY Buick is registrated in Munich now.

My friend Ernest Tsarukyan has taken some amazing pictures yesterday, while we went for a ride trough the city and stoped at some toy shops.

Some of the snapshots above.

Many Thanks Ernie!

LAMBORGHINI

Graffiti to Design - Transportation for a Rebel

LM-CM (Lamborghini Colourmachine) is aimed at revitalising the Lamborghini brand with

a more rebellious character, and to express this in a concept vehicle. A fictional scenario and

character was developed as the basis for the concept. The LM-CM should bring colour back

into the greyness of everyday life and symbolise the urge to find new paths_ "

sketch

Here are some of the few sketches I have done at the beginning of my diploma,

for design-direction_
My overall aim was to achieve the feeling of Graffitis DNA:

comic - kalligraphie - abstract painting.

The first sketches here are just a selection of thumbnails I have created.

Actually I think they are way more interesting then the final design and modell.

It will be a challenge for me to get this emotion, a rough sketch like this has to me, into

modell or final product one day_ if this is possible at all.

The image below is already to tight for my taste. To defined at beeing undefined at the same time. I see it more as an graphical surface composition.

Actually quite untipicall for my photoshop style to take a white background. But for these thumbnails it helps a lot to melt the object with the background and create a mix of 2D and 3D appearance. Quite fun these doodels, BUT ME LAZY!! :(

Finding the right mood for the car, I waslooking to develope for Lamborghini, this 30min thumbnail helped me a lot. I know still a lot of time for a thumbnail in this rough quality, but I have to say, I´m really having a hard time on these paintings. I´m just not doing my homework enough - lazy boy!

The "S" helped me trying to analyse the character I was trying to aim. Dynamic, with complex elements seen as protection(left). Not overloaded(right), totally protected and armed,with no space showing character - personality. After the mood was created it was somehow quite easy to continue.

Above a sketch wich had the expression I somehow wanted to carry into the final modell.

Below is an thumbnail sketch of the plain I actually wanted to build, next to the LM-CM.

The whole story around was quite exiting for me and at the same time frustrateing. I think I was just too much into the thought process and story of everything to the last bit, that time for design had to run out. BUT, for me it will continue and I will keep working on the iedations to finish it oneday.

The ideation besides the story was to create a design that should later inspire the language of the Lamborghini "artcars", or so called COLOUR-MACHINES.

More organic and positive in it`s appearance and behaviour then today_

still letting Lamborghini be a real BAD-BOYS brand!

CAMOUFLAGED COLOUR MANIAC

yes.

This was the first thing I did at the beginning of my diploma.

I sculpted the CCM (1:4) out of clay. The fotos below show the figure without the Colour Machine, where I`ve painted the clay white.Too bad I lost the expressive moment of the figure_

it was standing around for the weeks after and I felt like playing with it. Damn.

I badly feel like doing more!

RESEARCH AIR-RACE

WOW_

I actually planed so many things for my diploma and really packed these 12 weeks full of events.

In the beginning a friend of mine, Daniel Grund, invited me to join him to Abu Dhabi for three days. The redBull Air Race season `08 had it`s first race there.

My idea was to talk to some pilots to research soem things for my current degreeproject.
I had the chance to have a chat with some guys beside Mike Mangold_ thanks again for your opinions and input on my thoughts!

Too bad that...

In the end time ran away to finish what I have started_ while the Lamborghini LM-CM 1:4 scale modell took more time then I wanted and actually would have needed.

I guess my attitude during the whole diploma was way to chilled!!

As seen in the pic below to the right, watching the race on the beach.

Just way to much fun just enjoying life and what it brings on_

Anyway, in the end I had some great job oppertunities and are safe now!

So, maybe the whole diploma up and down was just a nother lesson for me _

JUST TAKE IT EASY!

Thanks again Daniel!

Here some pics I have promised before_

Design Miami/Basel

Just in the last days before I have my diploma presentation... FINALLY**

Last week I had the oppertunity to go to Basel(Switzerland) for three days.
No, not for the EU soccer Cup _ for the Design Miami/Basel where Audi is the main sponsor.

There is a viedocast you can view here or in english here.
It tell you, it`s not funny to see yourself in avideo like this! strange feeling_
(I badly need to get out and do some sports!)

Thereis also a podcast about the Design-Miami/Basel in generell on the audi website/ audi tv.

hope you enjoy_


stay tuned_ I will post my Lamborghini project soon*

HELLO SPRING*

PUH! I will have an hour less for my diploma now!
summer time .)

well still freezing here in munich somehow.
no tim for boarding.
Diploma is on _ till middle of June.
I have updated some older post here, so it might be worth looking trough.
Ok_
I´ll be back soon!
(probably will upload some pics from my 3day trip to abu dhabi next week .)

STAY TUNED.

audi.QUATTROSTACK

Above some detail images done for the A.QS _ Quattrostack.
The other post below shows actually the whole Interior in a cut out.
This project was in the end so rich of concept, nothing was done without a reason.
Sorry that I´m a bit lazy to explain here _ maybe after my diplom I actually should be working
on right now...
But hey, I´m stuck!
Well, what kind of Lamborghini would you do??

AUDI INTERIOR (7th term)

FINALLY DONE! Well, almost. some little preperations for the final Show and then I´ll head towards Munich to start my Diploma project.
Closer informations on this project you`ll receive in person on 8/9th February at the show
in Pforzheim. Here some fotos of the 95% finished 1:4(125cm length) foam scale modell.

to get an impression of the scale_ here a shot while painting the details

HNY*

Well,
dont know how the winter really is _ as munich is grey not white as usual.
Grey, also the only color I see since a week, giving my 7th term project a
sandpaper massage over the filler.
Below a tiny-tiny sneak in topview _ of the Audi-sponsored Interieur Term.

Public presentation will be the 8/9th February ( as I got friendly advised) in Pforzheim,
YOUR WELCOME!